SGER: Development of a Novel Membrane Process for the Immediate Production of Drinking Water from Varying Quality Aqueous Sources

灾后安全饮用水的供应对于受灾人口的生命维持至关重要。最近，卡特里娜飓风导致路易斯安那州新奥尔良、密西西比州比洛西和其他几个墨西哥湾沿岸城市没有饮用水。有必要开发易于动员的方法，并持续生产安全和美观的饮用水。虽然有几种工艺用于生产饮用水，但膜工艺能够普遍去除更多的物理，生物和化学污染物，但非常容易污染，这将使它们无法用于紧急饮用水供应。该提案将解决基于纳米颗粒的污染控制集成到移动的集成膜系统中，该集成膜系统将大大减少或消除污染，从而提供可靠且移动的手段，以持续地供应安全且美学上可接受的饮用水用于应急响应。

0552438 Seal Supply of safe drinking water following disasters is essential for life support of the affected population. Recently, hurricane Katrina left New Orleans Louisiana, Biloxi Mississippi and several other Gulf Coast Cities without drinking water. There is a need to develop methods that can be easily mobilized and will consistently produce safe and aesthetically acceptable drinking water. Although there are several processes that are used to produce drinking water, membrane process are capable of universally removing more physical, biological and chemical contaminants that any other process, but are highly susceptible to fouling, which would render them useless for emergency drinking water supply. This proposal will address the integration of fouling control based on nanoparticles into a mobile integrated membrane system that would greatly diminish or eliminate fouling and thereby provide a reliable and mobile means of consistently supplying safe and aesthetically acceptable drinking water for emergency response.