@conference{
author = "Matović, Ljiljana and Egerić, Marija and Kolarić, Ljubiša and Petrović, Dimitrije and Savić-Biserčić, Marjetka and Stanković, Srboljub and Vujasin, Radojka",
year = "2023",
abstract = "Worldwide water bodies have been affected by toxic effluents of industries, such as organic compounds, and are continuously deteriorating the environment as industrialization coupled with urbanization has caused the excess release of wastewater. Finding a proper wastewater treatment is of the greatest importance. Gamma irradiation technique, as one of the advanced oxidation techniques, has been widely investigated as a technique for degradation of organic molecules. It has been shown that this method has the potential to be effectively applied for degradation of toxic colorants which show high persistence to degradation. Although the literature abounds with degradation studies of different organic molecules using a wide range of irradiation dozes and doze rates, according to available data, no such irradiation facility exists, mostly due to high doses and expensive equipment needed to be installed. A mechanism of degradation was proposed: generated reactive species non-specifically react with organic compounds leading to their partial or complete degradation. In recent advances, gamma irradiation was coupled with other wastewater treatment technologies to reduce needed doses. Coupling of gamma irradiation was achieved with addition of oxidants which resulted in increased number of reactive species, then coupling with solid matrices, biological treatment, which all lead to additional destabilization of organic molecules. This way, combining different methods of wastewater purification opens new possibilities and may enable the design of a new modular, or even mobile, plant that will satisfy all the needs for its wide commercial application. As a result, a sustainable development goal can be more easily reachable, i.e., sustainable water resources management in future industrial zones and smart cities may be possible without generation of waste transfer into another media.",
publisher = "Leskovac : Faculty of Technology, University of Niš",
journal = "15th International symposium „Novel technologies and sustainable development" : Book of Abstracts",
title = "Degradation of Organic Pollutants by Gamma Irradiation: Future Perspective",
pages = "116-116",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_vinar_12253"
}