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T1 Viral RNA reduction from wastewaters using microalgae-based treatments: Elucidating the effect of light and zero-valent iron nanoparticles
A1 Torres Franco, Andrés Felipe
A1 Leroy Freitas, Deborah
A1 García Encina, Pedro Antonio
A1 Muñoz Torre, Raúl
K1 E. coli
K1 Microalgae-based wastewater treatment
K1 Viral RNA reduction
K1 Zero-valent iron nanoparticles
K1 3108.09 Virus
K1 31 Ciencias Agrarias
AB Microalgae-based systems can potentially inactivate E. coli and viruses. In this work, batch algal-bacterialphotobioreactors were operated to elucidate the effect of zero-valent iron (ZVI) nanoparticles and light in-tensity on the reduction of viral RNA (MS2, Phi6 and Bovine coronavirus, BCoV) and uidA gene (E. coli) duringsecondary wastewater treatment. Biodegradation and abiotic control photoreactors were operated at high lightintensity (1100 μE m 2 s 1), with and without ZVI-nanoparticles addition (HLNP and HL) and low light intensity(450 μE m 2 s 1), without nanoparticles (LL). After 72 h, HLNP matched or increased the reductions of at least99.9 % for viruses and 99 % for uidA achieved within 192 h in HL and LL. Oxidative reactions in the presence ofZVI-nanoparticles seemed to mediate the decay of viral RNA and uidA. This work demonstrated for the first timethe potential for enhanced reduction of viral RNA and E. coli by ZVI-nanoparticles during microalgae-basedwastewater treatment.
PB Elsevier
SN 0960-8524
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76291
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76291
LA eng
NO Bioresource Technology, 2025, vol.427, p. 132389
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 16-jul-2025