Guy, Water Sciences Master's Graduate, Publishes Significant First Article. Congratulations!

Guy Peer's research (under the supervision of Prof. Hassan Azaizeh and Dr. Sara Azzerad) dealt with a process based on turning agricultural waste into biochar, which is a type of charcoal in a pyrolysis process, which is used as an activator for a chemical compound called persulfate and the production of free radicals, which are able to break down various micro-pollutants in water. The biochar was produced by an olive mill waste and the experiments were carried out in natural water and water contaminated with pharmaceutic substances in a continuous and continuous system.

In the experimental systems, various parameters such as residence time and experimental medium were tested on the effectiveness of removing three pollutants which are antibiotic substances that are used in Israel and reach wastewater and can also reach ground water and cause problems.
 The process developed in the research was found to be highly efficient for removing micro-pollutants in water, and it was found that the biochar can be easily cleaned at the end of the continuous experiment so that it can be reused several times and then the cost of the process is low.

The full paper can be seen here.