Advanced manufacturing of self-sensing bio-based membranes for environmental detoxification and revalorization

在造成水毒性的无数有毒物质中，采矿产生的重金属即使剂量很低，也会对我们的环境产生巨大影响。与此同时，地雷在我们社会的工业/技术发展中起着关键作用。通常，采矿酸性排水或污染水体伴随着关键原料元素（CRE）。今天被动分散碱性。分散碱性底物反应器（DAS）是阻断这些有毒元素从矿山中逃逸的技术之一。例如，在DAS反应堆运行过程中，重金属和贵重金属（CRE）的浓度不同。因此，从环境和经济的角度来看，设想一种能够通过将采矿水的修复与集中在DAS中的有价值资源的回收相结合来发展采矿水循环经济的技术是非常有吸引力的。SELFAQUASENS项目将欧盟内外的主要学术和非学术参与者聚集在一起，开发一种模块化的自传感过滤器和膜技术，该技术能够：(1)修复采矿水中的重金属和盐度污染，(2)将修复与CRE的回收结合起来，(2)在此过程中感知特定元素或元素群的浓度。SELFAQUASENS在一个由5所大学、2个大型研究机构、2个研究中心和2个中小企业组成的国际研究和培训网络中结合了各种跨学科和跨部门的专业知识。因此，欧洲的R&I系统将通过一个雄心勃勃的交流和培训计划得到加强，该计划涵盖了实现行动目标所需的所有研究学科、部门和国际参与者。该项目将对欧盟的社会、经济和环境产生重大的短期和长期影响，包括：(1)追求无毒河流和海洋的使命，为欧盟经济创造新的CRE来源，并改善欧盟公民的健康和素质。

Among the myriad of toxics that contribute to water toxicity, heavy metals derived from mining have a huge impact in our environment even at very low doses. In parallel, mines play a pivotal role in the industrial/technical development of our societies. Usually, mining acid drainages or polluted waters are accompanied by critical raw elements (CRE). Today passive disperse alkaline. Dispersed Alkaline Substrate (DAS) reactors is one of the technologies (TRL-9) that blocks the scape of these toxic elements from mines. For instance, heavy metals and valuable metals (CRE) are concentrated at different levels of DAS reactors during operation. So, envisioning a technology able to develop a circular economy for mining water by coupling its remediation to the recovery of valuable resources concentrated in DAS is highly appealing from environmental end economic point of views. SELFAQUASENS project brings key academic and non-academic actors within and beyond EU to develop a modular self-sensing filter and membrane technology able to: (I) remediate heavy metals and salinity pollutions in mining water, (II) couple the remediation to the recovery of CRE and (II) sense the concentration of specific elements or groups of elements during the process. SELFAQUASENS joints varied interdisciplinary and intersectoral expertise in an International research and training network formed by 5 universities, 2 large scale research facilities, 2 research centers and 2 SMEs. As a result, the R&I system of Europe will be strengthened by an ambitious exchange and training program that covers all the research disciplines, sectors and international actors needed to achieve the objectives of the action. The project will have significant impacts in the short to long terms into the EU society, economy and environment by: (I) pursuing the mission for toxic-free rivers and oceans, creating new sources of CRE for the EU economy, and improving the health and quality of the EU citizens.