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Title: Liquid Metal Discovery Makes Toxic Water Safe
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URL Source: http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13970704000284
Published: Sep 28, 2018
Author: staff
Post Date: 2018-09-28 22:51:41 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: None
Views: 279
Comments: 5

TEHRAN (FNA)

UNSW and RMIT researchers have discovered a revolutionary and cheap way to make filters that can turn water contaminated with heavy metals into safe drinking water in a matter of minutes.

Recent UNSW SHARP hire Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh and his former colleagues at RMIT showed that nano-filters made of aluminium oxide could be cheaply produced using virtually no energy from a fixed amount of liquid metal gallium.

In a paper published in Advanced Functional Materials, lead author Dr Ali Zavabeti (RMIT) and Professor Kalantar-zadeh explained that when a chunk of aluminium is added to the core of liquid gallium at room temperature, layers of aluminium oxide are quickly produced at the surface of the gallium.

The authors discovered that these aluminium oxide nano-sheets were highly porous and went on to prove they were suitable for filtering both heavy metal ions and oil contamination at unprecedented, ultra-fast rates.

Professor Kalantar-zadeh, who was recently awarded an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship soon after joining UNSW's School of Chemical Engineering, said that low cost and portable filters produced by this new liquid metal based manufacturing process could be used by people without access to clean drinking water to remove substances like lead and other toxic metals in a matter of minutes.

"Because it's super porous, water passes through very rapidly," Professor Kalantar-zadeh said.

"Lead and other heavy metals have a very high affinity to aluminium oxide. As the water passes through billions of layers, each one of these lead ions get attracted to one of these aluminium oxide sheets.

"But at the same time, it's very safe because with repeated use, the water flow cannot detach the heavy metal ions from the aluminium oxide."

Professor Kalantar-zadeh believes the technology could be put to good use in Africa and Asia in places where heavy metal ions in the water are at levels well beyond safe human consumption. It is estimated that 790 million people, or one in 10 of the Earth's population, do not have access to clean water.

"If you've got bad quality water, you just take a gadget with one of these filters with you," he said.

"You pour the contaminated water in the top of a flask with the aluminium oxide filter. Wait two minutes and the water that passes through the filter is now very clean water, completely drinkable.

"And the good thing is, this filter is cheap."

There are portable filtration products available that do remove heavy metals from water, but they are comparatively expensive, often costing more than $100.

By contrast, aluminium oxide filters produced from liquid gallium could be produced for as little as 10 cents, making them attractive to prospective manufacturers.

"Up until now, to produce aluminium oxide, you need to process aluminium at above 1000 degrees or use other energy intensive processes," Professor Kalantar-zadeh said.

"It would normally consume so much energy to make anything like this filter, making it hugely expensive.

"Now we're talking about something you can do even under the sun in summer at 35 degrees."

While aluminium is a plentiful and cheap metal, gallium is relatively expensive. But what makes gallium the hero in the process is the fact that it remains pure and unchanged after each production of aluminium oxide.

"You just add aluminium to the gallium and out comes aluminium oxide when its surface is exposed to water. You can use gallium again and again. Gallium never participates in the reaction," Professor Kalanter-zadeh said.

Professor Kalantar-zadeh said the manufacture process is so cheap and requiring such low expenditure of energy, these filters could even be made out of a kitchen.

"We are publishing this concept and releasing it to the public domain, so people around the world can use the idea for free and implement it for enhancing the quality of their lives," he said.

"This is all about a new paradigm. We haven't even begun to explore how we can use liquid metals as a base for manufacturing things that are cheap, green and safe for humans."

The work led by Professor Kalantar-zadeh and Dr Zavabeti was funded by The ARC Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET).

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0) (Edited)

Lead and other heavy metals

When I work for State of Illinois, a guy from the Village was coming in and taking water samples from the cooler. We ask him one time why he was doing that. He told us the chlorine in the water was leaching Lead from the solder in the cooling coil.

I would say it could not have been healthy to drink any of that water, but I imagine you would have to drink a lot of it before you got Lead poisoning. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-10-01   17:26:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: BTP Holdings (#1)

Neighbor has water filter at fridge; filter cartridge costs $50. That's better than filter setup at house inlet as some water purifiers propose.

To avoid/minimize lead poisoning from soldered Cu pipes might be best to have continuous Cu pipe or plastic to where drinking water is dispensed.

Had house water tested but didn't get results because Google had "lost' my email cookies.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2018-10-02   4:24:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Tatarewicz (#2)

Neighbor has water filter at fridge; filter cartridge costs $50. That's better than filter setup at house inlet as some water purifiers propose.

To avoid/minimize lead poisoning from soldered Cu pipes might be best to have continuous Cu pipe or plastic to where drinking water is dispensed.

Had house water tested but didn't get results because Google had "lost' my email cookies.

That water cooler was beyond our control since it was in the workplace.

I do not have a water filter on my place now, so I use Brita filters.

Google lost my old Gmail and refuses to return it since they say I cannot prove I am the owner. What in bloody hell do I need to prove I own the email? Dumb asses. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-10-02   6:53:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: BTP Holdings (#3)

Looks to me like Google is faking lost email cookies, etc., to get more people to use Chrome instead of other browsers.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2018-10-03   5:58:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Tatarewicz (#4)

to get more people to use Chrome instead of other browsers.

They offer me Chrome and I turned it down. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-10-03   6:02:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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