Topic

Wastewater treatment

The engineering of processes that remove contaminants from industrial and municipal water before it is discharged or reused.

Current clusters

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Michigan chemists reduce nitrate to ammonia by copying how plants grip it

By engineering hydrogen-bond donors into the shell around an iron complex, a University of Michigan group forced the stable pollutant to react, using heat to make nitric oxide and light to make ammonia.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence52

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Researchers grew a dye adsorbent inside the polluted water it was meant to clean

Magnetite nanoparticles formed in dye-laden water took up more than 90% of two dyes as they crystallised, and the same loaded particles later captured almost 80% of a third dye in a single-dye test reported in RSC Advances.

Publishers:physicsworld.com

Reality

Evidence57
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives45
Confidence52