{"id":41415,"date":"2016-10-03T03:43:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=41415"},"modified":"2016-09-29T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:55:35","slug":"researcher-receives-grant-to-study-removal-of-algal-bloom-toxins-from-drinking-water-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_03_2016\/researcher-receives-grant-to-study-removal-of-algal-bloom-toxins-from-drinking-water-sources","title":{"rendered":"Researcher receives grant to study removal of algal bloom toxins from drinking water sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Science Foundation awarded a civil and environmental engineer at The University of Toledo a $224,937 grant to study a sustainable approach to water treatment and filtering toxins from harmful algal blooms.<\/p>\n

Dr. Youngwoo Seo, associate professor of civil engineering and chemical and environmental engineering, will lead the three-year project titled \u201cEngineering Biofilm Dynamics for Cyanotoxins in Biological Water Treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Seo<\/p><\/div>Seo is seeking to better understand how bacteria works in order to improve the filters that remove harmful toxins from drinking water.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo protect the public from emerging contaminants like cyanotoxins in drinking water sources, various advanced water treatment processes are considered,\u201d Seo said. \u201cHowever, these processes commonly require high-energy demand and operation cost with proper waste management. This project is exploring a sustainable treatment approach using bacterially active filters to remove toxins from harmful algal blooms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere could not be a more timely and more important research project to award than this,\u201d Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur said. \u201cLake Erie is under constant threat of toxic algal blooms, and we need to find a more sustainable way to treat the water.\u00a0Our entire region \u2014 our economic future and our livelihood \u2014 relies on ongoing research such as this at The University of Toledo.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the National Science Foundation grant, \u201cResearch emphasis will be placed on understanding how the bacterial biofilm formation and activity can be enhanced and maintained by engineered approaches such as bioaugmentation and bio-stimulation in order to improve performances of biological filtration systems for cyanotoxin removal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Youngwoo Seo has received a $224,937 National Science Foundation grant to study a sustainable approach to water treatment and filtering toxins from harmful algal blooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41480,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41415\/revisions\/41480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}