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Project description
Project description
DRopH2O aims to be a catalyst to preserve water quality, discouraging bottled water consumption and protecting human health. The project is led by the R&D unit Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering-Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials (LSRE-LCM), Associate Laboratory in Chemical Engineering (ALiCE), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP). The partner institutions are the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (FFUP) and the One Health Toxicology Research Unit (1H-TOXRUN), University Institute of Health Sciences, CESPU. Moreover, the project counts with the support from a collaborative institution, Aquapor Serviços S.A.
The first goal of the DRopH2O project is to empower the water industry with routine and straightforward analytical methodologies to analyse organic micropollutants and by-products that can be originated from disinfection, and taste and odour substances, aiming to signalise problems as early as possible, to intercede by applying mitigation actions in the whole drinking water. As a second goal, DRopH2O proposes to develop a simple and low-cost point-of-use tap-water device to remove micropollutants and by-products that can be originated from disinfection.
Activities
Activities
Task 1. Development of eco-friendly analytical methods that can be routinely implemented to control a wide range of organic compounds in every stage of drinking water treatment plants, distribution networks and consumers’ tap
Task 2. Development of a monitoring programme of both raw and treated water at each stage of sourcing, treatment, and distribution in Porto city as an urban model and to identify the most relevant compounds of each class to be used as indicators of treatment efficiency and to be proposed for prioritisation
Task 3. Tailoring the surface chemistry and texture of materials that can be used as cost-effective sorbents for the removal of these specific pollutants from tap water
Task 4. Development of a low-cost device as an efficient option to be implemented at consumers’ tap for removal of potential byproducts that can be originated in the chlorination step needed for drinking water disinfection
Task 5. Industrial and societal engagement
Task 6. Dissemination, networking and management
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