SBIR Phase I: Inorganic Sorbent Media for Removing a Broad Spectrum of Waterborne Contaminants

SBIR第一阶段项目将开发一种稀土吸附剂介质，能够去除各种污染物，包括重金属，有机污染物，天然有机物和微生物。 第一阶段的工作将集中在确定最小的孔径必须允许去除金属和微生物，使媒体可以开发的使用点/点进入住宅市场。拟议项目的更广泛/商业影响将是一个水处理技术，将能够去除一套污染物。 此外，目标是开发一种可以在使用点/进入点规模（房主的个人井水）实施的技术。虽然目前使用的介质已知可以成功地去除砷，但本项目中开发的介质的商业吸引力潜力将是其去除病毒和微生物以及有机物和无机物的能力。

This SBIR Phase I project will develop a rare earth sorbent media with the ability to remove a broad range of contaminants including heavy metals, organic pollutants, natural organic matter, and microorganisms. The Phase I effort will focus on determining the minimum pore size necessary to allow both removal of metals and microbes, so that the media can be developed for the point of use/point of entry residential market.The broader/commercial impacts of the proposed project will be a water treatment technology that will be capable of removing a suite of contaminants. In addition, the goal is to develop a technology that could be implemented at the point of use/point of entry scale (homeowner's individual well water). While the currently used media is known to successfully remove arsenic, the commercially attractive potential of the media developed in this project will be its ability to remove viruses and microbes in conjunction with organics and inorganics.