Objective
The main objectives are as follows:
* To develop a pilot plan for the decontamination of microbially polluted water by a novel photochemical technique, which is based on the use of visible light (or even sunlight) and porphyrin-type photosensitizers, i.e. a technique requiring a simple and cheap technology and having a low environmental impact.
* To identify porphyrin photosensitizers which exhibit an efficient and non-specific phototoxic action against a broad number of microbial species, including Gram-positive and -negative bacteria, yeasts and mycoplasma.
* To identify an inert water-swollen matrix (e.g. resin or inorganic bead) to which the photosensitizer can be covalently coupled without impairment of its photobiological activity.
* To define a protocol for the efficient photosensitizer inactivation of microbes in waters to be used for aquaculture and irrigation.
Expected Outcome
The final result should be the development and validation of a pilot plant for water photosterilization as well as the mise-au-point of optimal protocols for large scale decontamination of water from aquaculture systems.
The project should identify combinations of photosensitizer-inert support systems which are not noxious for the environment and allow one to achieve an efficient control of the microbial population without causing the selection of photoresistant species.
* Synthesis and photochemical/photobiological characterization of polymer- or inorganic bead-bound porphyrin photosensitizer.
* Development of protocols for large-scale photoinactivation of bacteria and other microbial species.
* Evaluation of the efficiency of a pilot plant for water decontamination, possibly in synergism with mechanical filtration.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
- engineering and technology civil engineering water engineering irrigation
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology bacteriology
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
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35121 Padova
Italy
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