SOLWATER: Cost effective solar photocatalytic technology to water decontamination and disinfection in rural areas of developing countries

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 02.0030

Key words (English)

Coordination; Cooperation; Economic Aspects; Scientific Research

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: ICA4-CT-2002-10001

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 2.3 Developing countries

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

Proposal addressed to the development and on site assessment of a fully autonomous solar reactor system to drinking water purification in remote locations without any chemical addition. Scientific and technological required developments will be base on photocatalytic generation, by using sunlight, of hydroxyl radicals and singlet oxygen species to, respectively, detoxify and disinfect contaminated (at trace level) drinking water. Detoxification system will use TiO2 supported catalyst and disinfection system will be generated by polymer supported sensitizers photoactivated by solar light. Final development system is expected to have remarkable technical features as well as social, development and environmental implications in developing countries.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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Swiss Project-Number: 02.0030