Promotion of innovative and sustainable technologies for drinking water treatment (PROAQUA)

Abstract

The activities of the project aimed optimization of drinking water present system optimization in order to be in compliance with national and European norms specially referring to developing/implementation of some efficient and sustainable technologies for water treatment according with specific pollution matrix of raw water. Thus, the followings activities were performed:  Technical analyse of available data on national level regarding the quality of natural sources  Diagnostic analyse by direct control of water quality on treatment flows  Representative case study selected for optimization/upgrading of treatment flows according with pollutant nature/ type /no complying micro pollutants (raw water/drinking water), frequency, toxicity a.s.o.;  Mobil pilot installations, in continuous flow operating system, having new modules, purchased in the frame of PROAQUA project (installation for ClO2 generation-dosage, microfiltration + ultrafiltration installation), used for application on field;  Frame methodology to test the technological options for groundwater and surface water treatment on pilot installations;  Alternative technologies for the treatment of underground and surface water with specific pollution matrix (industrial pilot level, laboratory pilot level): ground water with iron, manganese ± ammonia content (medium/low load); ground water with nitrate content (high load); surface water with THM’s precursors content (including also technical documentation for DWTP); surface water with low turbidity and associated organic/bacterial load.  Frame scheme referring to the management of chemical sludge and washing water from potabilization treatment flows including treatment technological flows for treatment, recovery of useful elements (Al/Fe);  Technological zone network of excellence (www.potabilizare.ro) for N+V, V areas in order to aggregate the competence from environmental field and to transfer the knowledge to sector level.