Description du projet
Un nouveau système multi-détection de la pollution de l’eau
La pollution environnementale de l’eau constitue un enjeu international de plus en plus important. La présence de contaminants ou de polluants nocifs dans les cours d’eau, les lacs, les océans et les eaux souterraines peut constituer une menace pour l’environnement et la santé publique. Dans ce contexte, le projet IBAIA, financé par l’UE, mettra au point un nouveau système multi-détection capable de surveiller un plus large éventail de paramètres que les solutions existantes, tout en se montrant plus rentable, plus fiable et plus respectueux de l’environnement. Le système reposera sur quatre modules de capteurs innovants qui utilisent des technologies photoniques et électrochimiques complémentaires pour détecter les substances chimiques organiques, les microplastiques, la salinité, les paramètres physicochimiques, les sels nutritifs et les métaux lourds. Le système d’IBAIA offrira une nouvelle option compétitive face aux solutions non-UE et contribuera aux objectifs du pacte vert pour l’Europe.
Objectif
Environmental water pollution is a growing global issue, leading to increasing regulations and concurrent increased demand for improved water quality monitoring solutions to meet the European Green Deal objectives. Real time in situ devices offers the promise of more rapid and efficient monitoring, and numerous such solutions are available from a wide number of primarily non-EU suppliers. However, existing in situ solutions detect very limited parameters, and are restrained by high costs, low reliability, and high energy usage. To better meet end user needs and improve environmental water quality monitoring, novel sensing technology is required. To this end, IBAIA will develop four innovative optimally functionalised sensor modules based on complementary photonics and electrochemical (EC) technologies. Mid-IR will be used to detect organic chemicals, Vis-NIR for microplastics and salinity, Optode technology for physicochemical parameters, and EC technology for nutrient salts and heavy metals. Leveraging consortium expertise in cutting edge material science, microfluidics, data processing and integration/packaging technology, these four sensors will be integrated and packaged into a single advanced multisensing system and validated by end users in real in situ conditions. The IBAIA system will more accurately monitor a wider range of parameters than existing solutions, whilst simultaneously being more cost effective, more reliable, more environmentally friendly to manufacture, and more user friendly to use. These dramatic improvements will manifest in an extremely competitive product that acts as a one-size-fits-all solution for many end users, with a highly EU-centric supply chain, that will supplant a wide number of inferior non-EU alternative solutions.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
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