Title: Trends in the Application of Solar Energy for Wastewater Treatment
Abstract:
Biotic and abiotic processes determine the fate of organic pollutants in the aquatic environment. For each pollutant, abiotic processes in surface waters include hydrolysis and photolysis. Most organic pollutants show stability to hydrolysis, so direct and indirect photolysis are the main pathways for their abiotic transformation. Presently, most solar water treatment processes are still undeveloped, with limited applications. The efficiency of direct photolysis is usually improved by strong oxidant H2O2, which yields •OH-radicals. In that case, we are talking about indirect photolysis, one of the efficient advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). Different AOPs decompose organic pollutants with radiation and with or without catalysts. AOPs are particularly important for treating wastewater containing highly toxic organic compounds for which biological treatment processes are not applicable. Degradation of organic compounds using AOPs usually leads to complete mineralization of pollutants, unlike methods that only convert them into other forms. The commercialization of some processes depends on their sustainability and economic viability. The application of solar energy for water treatment, in combination with AOPs, is one of the sustainable solutions for challenges related to water pollution.
Biography:
Sanja Armaković is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection. She has been the mentor on one Master and five Diploma works until now. She is the supervisor at three PhD theses. Also, Dr. Armaković is Vice President of the Board of Association – AIDASCO (www.aidasco.org). She was Secretary of the Section for Analytical Chemistry of the Serbian Chemical Society – Chemical Society of Vojvodina (2016-2020) and member of committees: (I) 5. International Conference on Energy Conservation and Efficiency, Pakistan (2022), (II) The 2nd international conference of chemistry and oxidation technologies, Hainan (2018), (III) The 3rd international conference on advance materials research and application and The international conference of chemistry and oxidation technologies, Guangzhou (2016), and (IV) 52. Serbian Chemical Society Symposium, Novi Sad (2015). She is verified reviewer at Publons (https://publons.com/author/836249/dr-sanja-armakovic#profile). Dr. Armaković was rewarded for: (I) Scientific excellence in the area of natural sciences and mathematics (2021), (II) HOT Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Articles (https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CP04534A, in 2019), (III) Runner-up paper in Excellence in Materials Science Applications Publication Contest, Schrödinger (2016), (IV) Poster presentation at YUCOMAT 2015, Materials Research Society of Serbia (2015), (V) Special Reward of Serbian Chemical Society (2010), (VI) First prize of Nenad Kostic Fund for Chemical Sciences (2009), (VII) Rewards of the University of Novi Sad for outstanding success during studies (in 2009, 2008, and 2006). According to Google Scholar, she was cited more than 2600 times, and her h-index is 30.