Objective
The European Community has decided in 1991 to obligue to all EU Member States to be equipped with waswater treatment plants for all cities whose wastewater organic load is greater than 15000 equivalent-inhabitants (to be implemented before 31 December 2000) and 2000 equivalent-inhabitants (to be implemented before 31 December 2005).
Reliable results for determination of trace metals in wastewater are of paramount importance for both checking the performace of wastewater treatment and detecting the possible negative contribution of some industries to the environment through their wastes.
The main objective of this proposal is to improve the state of the art of metal determination in wastewater samples by preparing three wastewater samples as candidate reference materials. Two of them will be obtained at the inlet and outlet of the treatment plants as a way to control the process efficiency and to verify the final quality of the treated water. The third one will be obtained from an indutrial waste. The elements to be analysed will be: As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Se, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn.
In order to fullfill this goal the following aspects will be developed:
1.- Feasibility study on the preparation/stabilization of wastewater samples with different contents of the selected elements.
2.- Evaluation of the homogeneity and stability of the wastewater samples.
3.- Organization of an interlaboratory study with around 15 reconized expert laboratories. The differentanalytical methods used will be validated and the main sources of errors detected.
4.- Organization of a certification campaing to certified the selected analytes in the three wastewater samples. Preparation of a final certification report and a certificate to be submitted to the European Community.
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
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Spain
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