RAPID-GOALI: Development of a Field-Deployable Net-Zero Water Wash Station for Remote Ebola Decontamination

RAPID-GOALI：开发用于远程埃博拉净化的可现场部署的净零水清洗站

• 批准号: 1519058
• 负责人: James Englehardt
• 金额: $ 17.5万
• 依托单位: University of Miami
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-01 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1519058&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; GOALI; Development; Field; Deployable

1519058EnglehardtTitle: RAPID-GOALI: Development of a Field-Deployable Net-Zero Water Wash Station for Remote Ebola DecontaminationA field-deployable, clean-water wash station emerged as a priority for Ebola response. The PI's group has recently demonstrated low-energy, low-emission, net-zero water reuse, converting comingled black and grey water to drinking water at a university residence hall. While such technology has not been feasible for remote field deployment due to operational complexity and energy demand, the advent of new, energy-efficient, low-maintenance, small, light microplasma ozone generation modules along with the emerging UV-ozone advanced oxidation make such a vision possible. Current advanced oxidation and membrane filtration technologies require chemical dosing or other operationally-intensive procedures, and/or disposal of a concentrate stream, making remote deployment impractical. However, emerging UV-ozone advanced oxidation technology, coupled with new, low-energy, low-maintenance microplasma ozone generation modules, offers promise of clean water production anywhere, at any time. Therefore, design principles for chemical? and maintenance-free remote production of clean water, with annual lamp replacement, occasional rainwater makeup, and no human wastewater contact will be developed. Principles will include the integration and sizing of UV-ozone, microplasma ozone generation, and low-maintenance separations, mixing, and hydraulic technologies. Knowledge of kinetics and mechanisms of UV-ozone soap/foam mineralization, and the critical science of microbial and Ebola viral inactivation, will be advanced. This project, will develop a field-deployable, UV-microplasma-ozone net-zero water wash station (NZWWS) for Ebola decontamination. Tasks include industry-collaborative design and prototype construction using technology and equipment from the PI's current NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation project. Kinetic tests of soap/foam mineralization; and viral inactivation using Bacillus thuringensis spores, MS2 bacteriophage, and Cystoviridae as Ebolavirus surrogates by current EPA collaborators. Spartan Environmental Technologies, LLC expects to be in a position to manufacture units by late 2015. The project will include two industry seminars, and continued scientific training of under-represented populations, part of a team of 70 students to date, including 34 female, 1 African-American, and 14 Hispanic undergraduates and high school interns. Graduate students will supervise 1-4 ten-week high-school internships, over summer 2015. Finally, two students of CAE 542 Environmental Health and two students of CAE 540 Environmental Chemistry will collaborate on a term project involving kinetic testing of the operating prototype.

1519058 Englehardt标题：RAPID-GOALI：开发一个可现场部署的净零水清洗站，用于远程埃博拉消毒一个可现场部署的清洁水清洗站成为埃博拉应对的优先事项。PI的团队最近展示了低能耗，低排放，净零水再利用，将混合的黑色和灰色水转化为大学宿舍的饮用水。虽然由于操作复杂性和能量需求，这种技术对于远程现场部署还不可行，但是新的、节能的、低维护的、小的、轻的微等离子体臭氧发生模块的出现以及新兴的UV臭氧高级氧化沿着使得这种愿景成为可能。目前的高级氧化和膜过滤技术需要化学品投配或其他操作密集型程序，和/或处理浓缩物流，使得远程部署不切实际。然而，新兴的紫外线臭氧高级氧化技术，加上新的，低能耗，低维护的微等离子体臭氧发生模块，提供了在任何地方，任何时间生产清洁水的承诺。因此，化学设计原则？和免维护远程生产清洁水，每年更换灯，偶尔雨水补充，没有人的废水接触将被开发。原则将包括紫外线臭氧，微等离子体臭氧生成，低维护分离，混合和液压技术的整合和规模。紫外线臭氧肥皂/泡沫矿化的动力学和机制的知识，以及微生物和埃博拉病毒灭活的关键科学，将得到推进。该项目将开发一个可现场部署的紫外线微等离子体臭氧净零水清洗站（NZWWS），用于埃博拉病毒去污。任务包括行业合作设计和原型建设使用的技术和设备，从PI的当前NSF新兴前沿的研究和创新项目。 肥皂/泡沫矿化的动力学测试;以及当前EPA合作者使用苏云金芽孢杆菌孢子、MS 2噬菌体和囊病毒科作为埃博拉病毒替代物的病毒灭活。 Spartan Environmental Technologies，LLC预计将在2015年底前生产出这些装置。该项目将包括两个行业研讨会，并继续对代表性不足的人群进行科学培训，这些人群是迄今为止70名学生团队的一部分，其中包括34名女性，1名非洲裔美国人和14名西班牙裔本科生和高中实习生。研究生将在2015年夏季监督1-4个为期十周的高中实习。最后，CAE 542环境健康的两名学生和CAE 540环境化学的两名学生将合作进行一个涉及操作原型动力学测试的学期项目。