SBIR Phase II: Evaluating the Feasibility of a fully-automated, on-line, real-time analyzer for simultaneous determination of individual THMs and HAAs

SBIR 第二阶段：评估用于同时测定单个 THM 和 HAA 的全自动在线实时分析仪的可行性

• 批准号: 1556127
• 负责人: Paul Simone
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Foundation Instruments
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1556127&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Evaluating; Feasibility

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is in the ability of the haloacetic acids (HAAs) analyzer proposed here to change how superintendents of drinking water utilities go about understanding their drinking water treatment plants. The HAAs analyzer will allow superintendents to continuously map, monitor and then optimize their drinking water treatment practices using detailed and high quality measurements on the federally-regulated HAAs, which are carcinogens. Optimizing of the water treatment practices using the HAAs analyzer will reduce chemical usage (save money) while simultaneously providing the highest quality drinking water for their customers by minimizing HAAs. The commercial U.S. market for Drinking Water chemicals, contract operations, consulting/engineering, instrument and testing is $19.3 billion. The entire U.S. Water industry market is $86.4 billion. The major target of this proposal is the 28,643 traditional community water systems serving 90 % of the U.S. population. Some water systems struggled to meet Stage 1 Disinfection By-Product (DBP) regulations. Stage 2 of these regulations is stricter. The DBP regulations address long-term (decades' timescale) exposure to HAAs. Superintendents can use the proposed HAAs analyzer to understand hourly, short-term variations in their treatment plants to enhance long-term minimization of HAAs.This project will commercialize the first state-of-the-art instrument for fully automated, on-site process monitoring of the drinking water disinfection by-products known as haloacetic acids (HAAs). The HAAs analyzer proposed here has the potential to significantly reduce the cost of water treatment through reduction of treatment chemical usage at the water treatment plant while simultaneously improving and stabilizing water quality with respect to the carcinogenic and federally regulated HAAs. Currently, most drinking water treatment plants use contract laboratories to determine HAAs concentrations in the distribution system. This approaches can take 2 - 3 weeks to return the results at a significant expense for the equivalent hourly data provided by the proposed HAAs analyzer. The research objectives for this Phase II SBIR proposal are to develop components for the HAAs analyzer to enable long-term, maintenance free operation with minimal operator intervention. Simultaneously, costs will be reduced for both construction and operation of the HAAs analyzer to establish commercial feasibility. The anticipated results will be a HAAs analyzer that will provide water treatment personnel individual and Total HAAs concentrations once per hour, on-site and automatically.

该小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第二阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力在于此处提出的卤乙酸 (HAAs) 分析仪能够改变饮用水公用事业管理者了解其饮用水处理厂的方式。 HAAs 分析仪将允许管理者使用联邦监管的致癌物 HAAs 的详细和高质量测量来连续绘制、监控并优化他们的饮用水处理实践。使用 HAAs 分析仪优化水处理实践将减少化学品的使用（节省资金），同时通过最大限度地减少 HAAs 为客户提供最高质量的饮用水。美国饮用水化学品、合同运营、咨询/工程、仪器和测试的商业市场价值 193 亿美元。整个美国水工业市场价值 864 亿美元。该提案的主要目标是为 90% 的美国人口提供服务的 28,643 个传统社区供水系统。一些水系统难以满足第一阶段消毒副产品 (DBP) 法规的要求。这些规定的第二阶段更加严格。 DBP 法规涉及长期（数十年）暴露于 HAA 的问题。管理者可以使用拟议的 HAAs 分析仪来了解其处理厂每小时的短期变化，以增强 HAAs 的长期最小化。该项目将使第一台用于全自动现场过程的最先进仪器商业化监测饮用水消毒副产物卤乙酸 (HAAs)。这里提出的 HAAs 分析仪有可能通过减少水处理厂的处理化学品使用量来显着降低水处理成本，同时改善和稳定致癌和联邦监管的 HAAs 的水质。目前，大多数饮用水处理厂都使用合同实验室来确定分配系统中 HAA 的浓度。这种方法可能需要 2 - 3 周才能返回结果，对于提议的 HAAs 分析器提供的等效每小时数据而言，费用高昂。该第二阶段 SBIR 提案的研究目标是开发 HAAs 分析仪组件，以实现长期、免维护运行，并最大限度地减少操作员干预。同时，HAAs 分析仪的建造和运行成本也将降低，以建立商业可行性。预期结果将是一个 HAAs 分析仪，它将每小时一次现场自动为水处理人员提供单独和总 HAAs 浓度。