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Introduction: Elisa Basika, Researcher guest from Uganda

[Translate to English:] Manuel Hahn und Elisa Basika im Labor

Meet Elisa Basika, visiting researcher from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He is here for two months under the auspices of the FAR Institute's very own APPEAR project, Clean and Prosperous Uganda (CPUg). His research entails testing different combinations of fecal sludge and rice husk biomass under varied pyrolysis conditions with the goal of generating nitrogen-doped nanoparticles that can adsorb Clarithromycin from wastewater effluent.

 

Such nanoparticles, if effective, could help Ugandan wastewater treatment plants to more efficiently remove waste pharmaceuticals like Clarithromycin from the effluent before it is released to the environment. This would valorize two viable waste products that can affect water quality, namely fecal sludge and agricultural waste, and utilize them to instead improve water quality. That's taking circularity to a whole new level!