Electrochemical water treatment using expanded graphite

该项目将支持开发用于农业和工业水处理的新型水处理技术。该技术可以通过简单的流动操作有效、安全地对水进行消毒。此外，有机污染物可以通过氧化去除和破坏。该工艺利用电能驱动电化学反应，以达到预期的处理目标。该项目将研究其电化学机理，为该技术的优化、设计和规模化提供重要数据。研究的重点将是提高处理溶解有机污染物的工艺性能，用于工业和油砂水处理应用。这些发现将被行业合作伙伴使用，为原型和中试规模处理装置的设计提供信息，因为他们正在开发农业、工业和石油生产行业的商业应用技术。该技术为节水和高成本工业用水问题提供了创新和可持续的解决方案，因为它是一个功能强大、安全且成本有效的水处理平台。消毒通常是通过添加氯来实现的，但这可能导致有害的消毒副产物，对水质产生不利影响。能够以低运行成本和提高水质实现消毒的新技术将对农业和肉类加工业产生重大效益。将该技术应用于工业废水和油砂处理水中的有机物净化，将提高水循环利用率，降低运营成本，降低对环境的影响。我们的初步研究显示了影响氧化性能的反应器设计的关键特征。本项目将扩展研究范围，以确定反应器中的主要能量损失，以及限制氧化性能的因素。

This project will support the development of a novel water treatment technology for agricultural and industrialwater treatment. The technology can effectively and safely disinfect water using a simple flow-throughoperation. In addition organic contaminants can be removed and destroyed by oxidation. The process useselectrical energy to drive electrochemical reactions to achieve the desired treatment objectives. This projectwill investigate the electrochemical mechanisms, providing important data for the optimization, design, andscale up of the technology. The focus of the research will be to enhance the performance of the process for thetreatment of dissolved organic contaminants, for industrial and oil sands water treatment applications. Thefindings will be used by the industry partner, informing the design of prototype and pilot scale treatment units,as they develop the technology for commercial applications in the agricultural, industrial and oil productionindustries.This technology offers an innovative and sustainable solution to problems of water conservation and high costof industrial water use because it is an extremely powerful, safe, and cost effective water treatment platform.Disinfection is conventionally achieved by chlorine addition, but this can lead to harmful disinfectionby-products that adversely effect the water quality. New technologies that can achieve disinfection with lowoperating cost and increased water quality will be of significant benefit to the agricultural and meat processingindustries. The extension of the application of the technology to the decontamination of organics in industrialwastewater and oil sands process water will enable increased water recycle, reduced operating costs and lowerenvironmental impact. Our initial research has shown the key characteristics of the reactor design that influenceoxidation performance. This project will extend the research to determine the main energy losses in thereactor, and the factors limiting the oxidation performance.