SGER: Development of a Novel Membrane Process for the Immediate Production of Drinking Water from Varying Quality Aqueous Sources

灾后提供安全饮用水对受灾人口的生命保障至关重要。最近，卡特里娜飓风使路易斯安那州的新奥尔良、密西西比州的比洛克西和其他几个墨西哥湾沿岸城市没有饮用水。有必要开发易于调动的方法，并能持续生产安全和美观上可接受的饮用水。虽然有几种方法用于生产饮用水，但膜法能够普遍去除比任何其他方法更多的物理、生物和化学污染物，但极易受到污染，这将使其无法用于紧急饮用水供应。该提案将解决基于纳米颗粒的污染控制集成到移动集成膜系统中，该系统将大大减少或消除污染，从而提供可靠的移动手段，持续提供安全且美观可接受的饮用水，以应对紧急情况。

0552438 Seal Supply of safe drinking water following disasters is essential for life support of the affected population. Recently, hurricane Katrina left New Orleans Louisiana, Biloxi Mississippi and several other Gulf Coast Cities without drinking water. There is a need to develop methods that can be easily mobilized and will consistently produce safe and aesthetically acceptable drinking water. Although there are several processes that are used to produce drinking water, membrane process are capable of universally removing more physical, biological and chemical contaminants that any other process, but are highly susceptible to fouling, which would render them useless for emergency drinking water supply. This proposal will address the integration of fouling control based on nanoparticles into a mobile integrated membrane system that would greatly diminish or eliminate fouling and thereby provide a reliable and mobile means of consistently supplying safe and aesthetically acceptable drinking water for emergency response.