I-Corps: Novel Adsorbents for Water Treatment

I-Corps：用于水处理的新型吸附剂

• 批准号: 1439640
• 负责人: Rominder Suri
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Temple University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2015-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1439640&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Novel; Adsorbents; Water; Treatment

The proposed technology was developed in the NSF I/UCRC for Water and Environmental Technology (WET), and involves novel adsorbent material that can be used to efficiently remove organic contaminants and suspended particles from water. After use, it can be regenerated in-situ and its capacity to remove contaminants is recovered. The material can then be reused for water treatment. The proposed work will address the challenges identified for the commercialization of this technology, including a pilot scale demonstration. The proposed technology would provide a cost efficient and environmentally sustainable solution to treat water and wastewater. Unlike other processes, such as activated carbon adsorption and air stripping which are widely used in the industry for water and wastewater treatment, the proposed technology does not create a secondary waste since the adsorbed contaminants are destroyed. The proposed work would be of interest to municipal water and wastewater utilities, manufacturing industry that need to treat their wastewater, companies that market point-of-use water filters and companies that provide water treatment solutions. In addition, the project would advance the state of the art in environmental science and engineering fields by providing a new adsorbent material for the removal of organic contaminants and suspended particles from water. Activated carbon (AC) has been designated as the Best Available Technology (BAT) by the US EPA for the removal of organic contaminants from water, and is very widely used world-wide; hence, there is tremendous market opportunity for the proposed technology as a superior replacement to AC.

所提出的技术是在NSF I/UCRC水与环境技术（WET）中开发的，涉及可用于有效去除水中有机污染物和悬浮颗粒的新型吸附材料。使用后，它可以原位再生，并恢复其去除污染物的能力。然后，该材料可以重新用于水处理。拟议的工作将解决这一技术商业化所面临的挑战，包括一个试点规模的示范。拟议的技术将提供一个具有成本效益和环境可持续性的解决方案来处理水和废水。与工业上广泛用于水和废水处理的活性炭吸附和空气汽提等其他工艺不同，所提出的技术不会产生二次废物，因为吸附的污染物被破坏了。拟议的工作将对市政供水和废水公用事业，需要处理废水的制造业，销售使用点水过滤器的公司以及提供水处理解决方案的公司感兴趣。此外，该项目还将提供一种新的吸附材料，用于去除水中的有机污染物和悬浮颗粒，从而推动环境科学和工程领域的最新技术水平。活性炭（AC）已被美国环保署指定为用于去除水中有机污染物的最佳可用技术（BAT），并且在世界范围内被非常广泛地使用;因此，所提出的技术作为AC的上级替代品存在巨大的市场机会。