General Objective: Evaluate the use of ceramic membranes coated with photocatalytic nanostructures of bismuth oxyiodide (BixOyIz) as a tertiary treatment process for the removal and degradation of emerging contaminants present in the effluents of wastewater treatment plants.
Specific objectives
- Synthesize 6 different BixOyIz nanostructures by standardizing protocols based on the solvothermal method.
- Physicochemically characterize the BixOyIz nanostructures using instrumental analysis techniques.
- Determine the BixOyIz nanostructure with the best photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation by batch assays and using Bisphenol A as a model contaminant.
- Establish the optimal deposition parameters of the BixOyIz nanostructure with better photocatalytic activity on ceramic membranes using the layer by layer (LbL) method.
- Physicochemically characterize the photocatalytic ceramic membranes resulting from the deposition tests.
- To build an automated PMR for the controlled evaluation of the ceramic membrane with deposits of BixOyIz nanostructures.
- Quantify the removal and degradation of BPA as a model contaminant by the photocatalytic membrane under visible light irradiation by testing at different pressures and flow in the PMR.
- Estimate the application of the technology developed in conditions similar to the real ones through the treatment of synthetic wastewater composed of at least three CPEs.
Participating Institutions:
IKIAM, ESPE, ESPOL, Higher Technical Central University Institute.
Participants:
Project manager Zulay Marina Niño Ruiz.
- Miguel Herrera Robledo
- Luis Miguel Quishpe Quishpe
- Andrea Belen Salgado Revelo
- Carlos Arroyo Rodriguez
- Peter Darwin Iza Toapanta
- David Trajano Basantes Moreno
- Nestor Xavier Maya Izurieta
- Daniel Isaías Barzallo Núñez
Awarded budget: $29750,00
Project status: In progress.
