Objective
In Europe rural and remote areas, the problems of drinking water quality are st ill existing. It is possible to estimate that many thousands of sites are conce rned; most of them are in southerr Europe (a thousand in Italy, several hundred s in France, several thousands in Spain...) but other countries are involved ( Ireland, Finland...). Many hundreds thousand of permanent residents are concern ed, as well as an important seasonal population. The world-wide need is much la rger (more than 1 billion people have not access to the drinking water, almost 2 billion people are no connected to an electric grid). The development of l ow electricity consumption water purification plants using renewable energie. a nd UV processing is a solution adapted to this context in rural and stand-alone sites. The sterilization by UV treatment presents different advantages with re gard to the other treatmen processes: - a drinking water without taste of chem ical products, as solicited by the customers; - a drinking water without by-pr oducts, potentially harmful for the users health; - the extreme simplicity of the technique, with reduced maintenance and low exploitation costs. This res earch programme will allow to decrease the UV treatment energy consumption, in order to adapt the processing to renewable energies. The principal aims are to improve higher outflov disinfection systems and to optimize continuous control of all parameters related to the UV sterilizing devices efficacy. As part of a European Joule programme, the integration of the renewable energies in UV wa te processing will be studied in two ways: - development of pico-hydroelectric system adapted to UV treatment - development of a stand-alone PV-UV plant. To reach these objectives, different work packages have been defined: developm ent of a lov energy consumption UV-purifier, design of a PV system for the UV p urifier, design of Picohydroelectric system for the UV-purifier and realization and tests of prototype systems. To perform this project, six proposers and two RTD performers will collaborate, each one specialized in a specific subject and working in the different concerned activities sectors.
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.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes drinking water treatment processes
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences hydrology
- engineering and technology chemical engineering separation technologies desalination reverse osmosis
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy solar energy photovoltaic
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04250 Clamensane
France
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