Advanced cold plasma technology for the removal of persistent organic pollutants from fresh water

该项目有助于联合国可持续发展议程，特别是旨在普及清洁水和卫生设施的可持续发展目标6，这将影响所有发援会国家的贫困，健康和经济增长。该项目的重点是拥有4200万人口的乌克兰，其中30%的人生活在农村环境中，无法获得优质的饮用水。该项目旨在证明一种新颖的原始水处理技术的可行性，并为没有集中供水系统的社区提供清洁的水。由于没有严格的污染控制，作为饮用水主要来源的河流地表水受到危险有机化学品和其他污染物的污染。小社区负担不起城市居民使用的水处理系统，因为安装和运行费用昂贵。他们几乎没有得到政府的支持。由于乌克兰长期缺乏淡水，按人均可再生地表水数量计算，乌克兰在152个国家中排名第111位，这一情况更加严重。拟议的技术是基于物理而不是化学原理;它不需要昂贵的化学品，也不产生废物，对环境无害。该技术中采用的工艺使用集中在小气泡中的能量，其中有机污染物发生完全破坏，使能耗和运行成本低于替代工艺。它的实施将对普通人产生重大的社会经济影响，通过安装负担得起的水处理设备和解决清洁水供应问题，提高他们的生活质量。这对儿童和年轻母亲尤其重要，因为他们是社会中最易受水污染多重负面影响的成员。该小组将在社区传播有关饮用受污染水的危险的信息和知识，并提高决策者和其他利益攸关方对这一问题严重性的认识。我们预计将在第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克工业区的农村社区安装10台机组，即使与该国其他地区相比，第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克地区也严重缺水。它将为学校和医院的至少12，000至13，000人提供清洁用水，我们将在第二阶段结束时将其增加10倍，帮助乌克兰实现联合国可持续发展目标6的目标：到2030年清洁用水和卫生设施。

The project contributes to the UN sustainable development agenda, specifically to the SDG6 that aims at providing universal access to clean water and sanitation, which affects poverty, health and economic growth in all DAC countries. It focuses on Ukraine with its 42-mln population, where 30% of people live in a rural environment and have no access to good quality drinking water.The proposal is aimed at proving the feasibility of a novel and original technology of water treatment and providing clean water to the communities, which have no centralised water supply system. Without strict pollution control, the surface water of the rivers, the main source of drinking water, is polluted with dangerous organic chemicals and other contaminants. Small communities cannot afford the water treatment systems used by urban residents because they are expensive to install and run. They get practically no support from the government. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that Ukraine has chronic fresh water shortage, occupying the 111th place among 152 countries by the amount of renewable surface water per capita. The proposed technology is based on physical rather than chemical principles; it does not need expensive chemicals and does not generate waste being environmentally neutral. The processes employed in this technology use energy concentrated in small air bubbles where the complete destruction of organic contaminants occurs, keeping the energy consumption and running costs lower than in alternative processes. Its implementation will have significant socioeconomic impact on ordinary people improving their quality of life by installing affordable water treatment equipment and solving the problem of clean water supply. This is particularly important for children and young mothers who are the most vulnerable members of the society prone to multiple negative effects of water contamination. The team will spread the information and knowledge in the communities about the dangers of drinking contaminated water and raise awareness of the magnitude of this problem among the decision makers and other stakeholders. We expect to install 10 units as the first batch in rural communities of the industrial Dnipropetrivs'k region, which suffers particularly heavily from the shortage of water even in comparison with the rest of the country. It will secure clean water for at least 12-13,000 people, at schools and hospitals, and we will increase it 10-fold by the end of Phase 2, helping Ukraine to achieve the targets of the UN SDG6: clean water and sanitation by 2030.