IRES: U.S.-Germany Collaborative Research and Education on Riverbank Filtration Systems for Drinking Water Supply

IRES：美德合作研究和教育河岸饮用水供应过滤系统

• 批准号: 0825501
• 负责人: Chittaranjan Ray
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0825501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; U.S.; Germany; Collaborative; Research

This International Research Experience for Students (IRES) proposal from PI Chittaranjan Ray of the University of Georgia will support U.S. students' participation in hypothesis-driven research centered on successful operation of riverbank filtration (RBF) systems for water supply. RBF has been practiced for over a century in Europe, and it is being used more often in the U.S. as cities use RBF to receive filtration credits for pathogen removal under EPA regulations. The U.S. students will collaborate with German teams led by Thomas Grischek of the University of Applied Sciences in Dresden and Paul Eckert of the Düsseldorf Waterworks. In each year over a three year period, four American students, working with German researchers and students, will learn about riverbank filtration (RBF) through an eight-week summer education and research activity in Germany where RBF is used for water supply. The key focus of the study will be on gaining an understanding of the processes involved in RBF and how river dynamics (scouring and clogging) and water temperature changes can affect the quality and quantity of water pumped. Recruitment efforts will be made to recruit female students and under-represented minority students from key collaborating institutions as well as from the University of Georgia.

格鲁吉亚大学的PI奇塔兰詹·雷提出的学生国际研究经验（IRES）提案将支持美国学生参与以成功运行河岸过滤（RBF）供水系统为中心的假设驱动的研究。 RBF在欧洲已经实践了世纪，并且在美国更经常使用，因为城市使用RBF来获得EPA法规下的病原体去除的过滤信用。 美国学生将与德累斯顿应用科学大学的托马斯·格里谢克（Thomas Grischek）和杜塞尔多夫自来水厂的保罗·埃克特（Paul Eckert）领导的德国团队合作。 在三年的时间里，每年四名美国学生将与德国研究人员和学生一起，通过为期八周的夏季教育和研究活动，在德国学习河岸过滤（RBF），其中RBF用于供水。该研究的重点将是了解RBF所涉及的过程，以及河流动力学（冲刷和堵塞）和水温变化如何影响抽水的质量和数量。 将努力从主要合作机构和格鲁吉亚大学招收女生和人数不足的少数民族学生。