Decontamination

Companies Decontamination

EnviroChemie GmbH, Germany

EnviroChemie is a leading plant engineering company for industrial water treatment, water circulation and wastewater treatment, with headquarters in the Frankfurt region, Germany. Our engineers and scientists consult on, plan, build, and maintain water treatment plants that are tailored to the respe more

Arva Greentech AG, Switzerland

Arva Greentech provides procedures and products for the fast and eco-friendly degradation of hydrocarbons in contaminated soils, sludges, track beds and on surfaces. Most existing remediation methods are insufficient. They are often expensive and produce toxic by-products. Our processes are environ more

News Decontamination

• Removing toxic mercury from contaminated water
  

  Water which has been contaminated with mercury and other toxic heavy metals is a major cause of environmental damage and health problems worldwide. Now, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, present a totally new way to clean contaminated water, through an electrochemical proce more

• Tough aqua material for water purification
  

  Water purification processes usually make use of robust membranes for filtering off contaminants while working at high pressures. Can materials employing water as major component be made strong enough to suit such a demanding application? Israeli scientists now report that a supramolecular aqua mate more

• Breakthrough offers greater understanding of safe radioactive waste disposal
  

  A group of scientists from The University of Manchester, the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and the UK's synchrotron science facility, Diamond Light Source, has completed research into radioactively contaminated material to gain further understanding around the issue, crucial for the safe and mor more

Videos Decontamination

Microbots zoom around water, destroying bacteria

One day, the tiny robot you see here could help clean up contaminated water. In places where potable sources are scarce, they can destroy disease-causing bacteria in its path and unlike conventional disinfectants, the microbots can be removed easily with a magnet. more

Publications Decontamination

• Enhancement of radionuclide bio-decontamination by screening highly efficient microalgae for Sr biomineralization

  In this study, a new strategy for improving the radionuclide bio-decontamination (RBD) activity of microalgae by screening a better strain with high potential of biomineral production has been proposed. A noninvasive dielectrophoresis (DEP)-based microalgae screening microplatform has been used to s more

• Iron-montmorillonite clays as active sorbents for the decontamination of hazardous chemical warfare agents

  A class of heterogeneous catalysts based on commercial bentonite from natural origin, containing at least 80 wt% of montmorillonite clay, was designed to transform selectively and under mild conditions toxic organosulfur and organophosphorus chemical warfare agents into non-noxious products with a r more

• H5PV2Mo10O40 encapsulated in MIL-101(Cr): facile synthesis and characterization of rationally designed composite materials for efficient decontamination of sulfur mustard

  Currently extensive effort is compulsively expended to decontaminate efficiently banned chemical war agents. In this work, H5PV2Mo10O40 molecules have been encapsulated in mesoporous MIL-101(Cr), which features two types of mesoporous cages (internal diameters of 29 Å and 34 Å) and microporous windo more