Smart passive sampling of heavy metals in aquatic systems

对水生系统中的重金属进行智能被动采样。该项目旨在构建具有萃取聚合物膜的智能设备，用于先进的重金属离子被动采样。这些设备应克服采样过程中水温、成分和流速变化的影响，从而改进对重金属等污染物的被动采样，因为水温、成分和流速的变化大大降低了分析数据的可靠性。预计这些设备将可靠地识别城市城市废水和暴雨中的重金属污染源，而不需要劳动密集型的监测操作，从而为澳大利亚水务行业节省了大量的时间和费用。

Smart passive sampling of heavy metals in aquatic systems. This project aims to construct smart devices with extracting polymeric membranes for advanced passive sampling of heavy metal ions. These devices should improve the passive sampling of pollutants such as heavy metals by overcoming the effect of the variability of water temperature, composition and velocity during sampling, which substantially reduces the reliability of analytical data. These devices are expected to reliably identify sources of heavy metal pollution in urban municipal wastewaters and stormwaters without the need for labour intensive monitoring operations, thus saving considerable time and expense to the Australian water industry.