Advanced cold plasma technology for the removal of persistent organic pollutants from fresh water

先进的冷等离子体技术用于去除淡水中的持久性有机污染物

• 批准号: 133965
• 金额: $ 7.64万
• 依托单位: ADVANCED NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS DESIGN AND CONSULTANCY (ANAMAD) LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Knowledge Transfer Network
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=133965
• 关键词: Advanced; cold; plasma; technology; removal

The project contributes to the UN sustainable development agenda, specifically to the SDG6 that aims at providing universal access to clean water and sanitation, which affects poverty, health and economic growth in all DAC countries. It focuses on Ukraine with its 42-mln population, where 30% of people live in a rural environment and have no access to good quality drinking water.The proposal is aimed at proving the feasibility of a novel and original technology of water treatment and providing clean water to the communities, which have no centralised water supply system. Without strict pollution control, the surface water of the rivers, the main source of drinking water, is polluted with dangerous organic chemicals and other contaminants. Small communities cannot afford the water treatment systems used by urban residents because they are expensive to install and run. They get practically no support from the government. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that Ukraine has chronic fresh water shortage, occupying the 111th place among 152 countries by the amount of renewable surface water per capita. The proposed technology is based on physical rather than chemical principles; it does not need expensive chemicals and does not generate waste being environmentally neutral. The processes employed in this technology use energy concentrated in small air bubbles where the complete destruction of organic contaminants occurs, keeping the energy consumption and running costs lower than in alternative processes. Its implementation will have significant socioeconomic impact on ordinary people improving their quality of life by installing affordable water treatment equipment and solving the problem of clean water supply. This is particularly important for children and young mothers who are the most vulnerable members of the society prone to multiple negative effects of water contamination. The team will spread the information and knowledge in the communities about the dangers of drinking contaminated water and raise awareness of the magnitude of this problem among the decision makers and other stakeholders. We expect to install 10 units as the first batch in rural communities of the industrial Dnipropetrivs'k region, which suffers particularly heavily from the shortage of water even in comparison with the rest of the country. It will secure clean water for at least 12-13,000 people, at schools and hospitals, and we will increase it 10-fold by the end of Phase 2, helping Ukraine to achieve the targets of the UN SDG6: clean water and sanitation by 2030.

该项目有助于联合国可持续发展议程，特别是可持续发展目标6，该目标旨在提供普遍获得清洁水和卫生设施的机会，这影响着所有发展援助委员会国家的贫困、健康和经济增长。它重点关注拥有4200万人口的乌克兰，那里30%的人生活在农村环境中，无法获得优质饮用水。该提案旨在证明一种新颖且原创的水处理技术的可行性，并提供为没有集中供水系统的社区提供洁净水。由于缺乏严格的污染控制，作为饮用水主要来源的河流地表水受到危险有机化学物质和其他污染物的污染。小社区无力承担城市居民使用的水处理系统，因为安装和运行费用昂贵。他们几乎没有得到政府的支持。乌克兰长期淡水短缺，人均可再生地表水量在 152 个国家中排名第 111 位，这一事实加剧了这一情况。所提出的技术基于物理原理而非化学原理；它不需要昂贵的化学品，也不产生废物，对环境无害。该技术采用的工艺使用集中在小气泡中的能量，从而完全破坏有机污染物，从而使能耗和运行成本低于替代工艺。它的实施将对普通民众通过安装负担得起的水处理设备和解决清洁水供应问题来提高生活质量产生重大的社会经济影响。这对于儿童和年轻母亲来说尤其重要，他们是社会中最脆弱的成员，容易受到水污染的多重负面影响。该团队将在社区中传播有关饮用受污染水的危险的信息和知识，并提高决策者和其他利益相关者对这一问题严重性的认识。我们预计将在工业第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克地区的农村社区安装第一批 10 台机组，该地区的缺水问题与全国其他地区相比尤其严重。它将确保学校和医院至少 12-13,000 人获得清洁用水，我们将在第二阶段结束时将其增加 10 倍，帮助乌克兰实现联合国可持续发展目标 6 的目标：到 2030 年清洁用水和卫生设施。