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

• Unité de recherche: PCRD EU
• Numéro de projet: 02.0030
• Titre du projet anglais: SOLWATER: Cost effective solar photocatalytic technology to water decontamination and disinfection in rural areas of developing countries

Mots-clé (Anglais)

Coordination; Cooperation; Economic Aspects; Scientific Research

Autre Numéro de projet (Anglais)

EU project number: ICA4-CT-2002-10001

Programme de recherche (Anglais)

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

Description succincte (Anglais)

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Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

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.

Références bases de données (Anglais)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 02.0030