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Development of a bioremediation system for the removal of PFAS from aquatic environments

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dc.contributor.authorPinto, Ana Sofia
dc.contributor.authorNeves, David M. B.
dc.contributor.authorMaia, Tiago
dc.contributor.authorMucha, Ana Paula
dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, C. Marisa R.
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorLanceros-Mendez, Senetxu
dc.contributor.authorAlexandrino, Diogo A. M.
dc.contributor.authorAlexandrino, Diogo
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-05T14:46:12Z
dc.date.available2025-12-05T14:46:12Z
dc.date.issued2023-05
dc.description.abstractAmong the many pollutants that afflict aquatic ecosystems, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) stand out due to their distribution, environmental persistence and ecotoxicity. Currently, there are no suitable remediation technologies capable of mitigating PFAS-related pollution in these ecosystems. Yet, the combination of nanophotocatalysis (NPC) and bioremediation (BRMD) may prove useful in combating PFAS aquatic pollution. NPC has shown promising results for the breakdown of persistent pollutants, while BRMD processes can benefit from the high degree of redundancy and promiscuity of bacterial catabolism to efficiently degrade various pollutants and their sub-products. As such, this work aims to develop an efficient BRMD unit, based on a synthetic bacterial consortium with orthogonal defluorination capacity, and explore its potential to act as a secondary water treatment step in tandem with a TiO2-based NPC treatment, to remove PFAS from aquatic matrices. The first development step, currently ongoing, is set on screening different bacterial strains enriched with fluorinated pollutants, petroleum hydrocarbons or cyanotoxins. This sorting is being achieved by validating the degradative capabilities of the strains based on their bacterial growth and defluorination performances. So far, these preliminary tests led to the selection of two prospective consortium members, Delftia acidovorans MFA5 and Labrys portucalensis F11, based on their capacity to defluorinate 50 mgL-1 of fluoroacetate and fluorobenzene in 8 days, respectively. Once all strains are selected and their co-cultivation dynamics are ascertained, a synthetic bacterial consortium will be assembled and tested as a BRMD step coupled to a primary NPC treatment against two different PFAS in quasi-real aquatic matrices.por
dc.identifier.citationPinto, A. S., Neves, D. M. B., Maia, T., Mucha, A. P., Almeida, C. M. R., Martins, P., Lanceros-Mendez, S., Alexandrino, D. A. M., & Carvalho, M. F. (2023). Development of a bioremediation system for the removal of PFAS from aquatic environments. Livro de Resumos do 16º Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto, 804–805. https://www.up.pt/ijup/wp-content/uploads/sites/892/2023/06/Livro-de-Resumos_final.pdf
dc.identifier.isbn978-989-746-356-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/31113
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherU.Porto
dc.relationUIDB/04423/2020 and UIDP/04423/2020
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://www.up.pt/ijup/wp-content/uploads/sites/892/2023/06/Livro-de-Resumos_final.pdf
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEnvironmental pollution
dc.subjectPFAS
dc.subjectDefluorination
dc.subjectNanophotocatalysis
dc.subjectBioremediation
dc.titleDevelopment of a bioremediation system for the removal of PFAS from aquatic environmentspor
dc.typeconference paper
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oaire.citation.conferencePlacePorto
oaire.citation.endPage805
oaire.citation.startPage804
oaire.citation.titleLivro de Resumos do 16.º Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyNameAlexandrino
person.givenNameDiogo
person.identifier.ciencia-idC413-F50E-C355
person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-9685-3435
person.identifier.scopus-author-id57192893650
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