The non-thermal plasma (NTP) treatment of food products as an alternative for thermal processing has been investigated over the last few years. This quasi-neutral gas contains a wide variety of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS), which could be lethal for bacterial cells present in the product. However, apart from only targeting bacteria, ...
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Estimating the impact of climate change and emission scenarios on air pollution can be done using regional climate models (RCMs). Climate uncertainties are commonly estimated using RCM ensembles such as provided by EURO-CORDEX. Despite the strong relations between the weather and air pollutants, interactions are usually complex and require meteorol...
Phosphonate contamination of water resources has drawn much attention. Advanced oxidation combined with phosphorus recovery is considered as a promising solution, but the development of a cost-efficient process remains challenging. This work demonstrates an effective two-step process including a plasma-based oxidation of phosphonate, followed by ph...
Within Flanders, there is an increasing trend to let children sleep outdoors while in daycare. However, within an urban environment, the densely spread emission sources might affect the air quality and possibly limit the areas where outdoor sleeping is favourable. Nevertheless, there is a lack of data regarding the atmospheric pollution levels in a...
BACKGROUND: The aetiology of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is multifactorial with a complex interplay between environmental, microbial endogenous and genetic factors. The impact of outdoor air pollution on prevalence or severity of CRS remains largely unknown. METHODS: Real-life geolocation data (2017-2018, Belgium) from 278 CRS patients (2576 healt...
Hydroxyl radical-dominated oxidation in catalytic ozonation is, in particular, important in water treatment scenarios for removing organic contaminants, but the mechanism about ozone-based radical oxidation processes is still unclear. Here, we prepared a series of transitional metal (Co, Mn, Ni) single-atom catalysts (SACs) anchored on graphitic ca...
Hydroxyl radical-dominated oxidation in catalytic ozonation is, in particular, important in water treatment scenarios for removing organic contaminants, but the mechanism about ozone-based radical oxidation processes is still unclear. Here, we prepared a series of transitional metal (Co, Mn, Ni) single-atom catalysts (SACs) anchored on graphitic ca...
This study estimated long-term average ambient NO2 concentrations using TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) tropospheric NO2 data and land use information at the spatial resolution of 500 m in California for the years 2018-2019. Our satellite-land use regression model demonstrated reasonably high predictive power with cross-validation (CV)...
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