Program at a glance
Funding Agency: H2020
Program Period: 2019-2023
Project Acronym: PANI WATER
Project Name: ‘Photo-irradiation and Adsorption based Novel Innovations for Water treatment’.
Chair of the project: Professor Kevin McGuigan
Dedicated Webpage: NOT YET available.
Abstract
About2.1 billion people live without access to safe water sources. Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides and nanoparticles are increasingly being detected in wastewater and in drinking water around the world, in addition to geogenic pollutants, pathogens, antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes. Water treatment systems that remove CEC and common contaminants from wastewater and drinking water are therefore urgently needed.
PANI WATER will develop, deploy and validate in the field six prototypes for the removal of contaminants, including CEC, from wastewater and drinking water. The prototypes for wastewater treatment will consist in (i) a 20000 L/day multifunctional oxidation reactor (MITO3X), (ii) a 10 L/day photoelectrochemical system (PES), and (iii) a 100 L/day solar photolytic plant (SPP). The prototypes for drinking water treatment will consist in (iv) a 300 L/hour filtration, adsorption and UVC LED system(FAU) (v) a 20 L transparent jerrycan for solar water disinfection (TJC) and (vi) a 2000 L/day electrocoagulation, oxidation and disinfection system (EOD). These prototypes will be deployed in peri-urban and rural areas in India. The consortium will work closely with the communities at the field sites, and carry out water quality analyses, health and social impact assessments, and advocate for safe reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation, and preservation of drinking water sources. PANI technologies can find promising application among the agricultural sector, water-demanding businesses (e.g. textile, pharmaceutical), and the Indian water utilities.
Consortium
Objectives
The overall goal of the action is to increase the availability of safe drinking water to the minimum level recommended by the World Health Organization (at least 7.5 L/person/day) in the target communities, and to obtain total wastewater treatment capacity of at least 10000 L/day, producing irrigation-grade, CEC-free, treated wastewater.
These three technologies will generate irrigation-grade water from contaminated wastewater
These three technologies will generate drinking-grade water from unsafe water sources.
In addition to CEC, they will also remove geogenic pollutants, pathogens, antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs).
The consortium will work in close collaboration the potential end-users in low-income, water stressed, peri-urban and rural areas in India through a carefully planned social science approach. The output technologies are intended to be low-cost, power-efficient, simple to operate and requiring low maintenance, and their successful dissemination and commercialization will contribute providing safe drinking water and irrigation-grade water to businesses, public activities, and households in low-income communities in India, strengthening the local economy and improving public health.