W.S(Working Section):1Title of Working Section: Literature review, selection of possible chemical compounds to be examined as catalysts: It includes the literature review of micropollutants found in water and urban waste water and of materials used as catalysts for their removal.
The deliverables are:
1.1 Report-literature review of the main micro pollutants found in water and urban wastewater and of the materials used as catalysts in heterogeneous catalytic ozonation. Link
1.2 Critical evaluation report of the catalysts’ performance and selection of these, which will be evaluated in the laboratory in this research project.
W.S(Working Section):2 Title of Working Section: Monitoring of the effluent of the urban wastewater treatment plant for the detection of micropollutants: It includes the monitoring of the effluent of the WWTP Aineias to determine the micropollutants that are not removed or removed partially by the existing conventional technology.
The deliverables are:
2.1 Report with the results of the initial recording of the micropollutants found in the effluent of an urban wastewater treatment plant. link
2.2 Report with the updated results of the micropollutants found in the effluent of the urban wastewater treatment plant. Link
W.S(Working Section):3 Title of Working Section: Design, construction and operation of the pre-industrial unit for the Removal of DOC and Micropollutants: Includes the detailed design, construction and operation of the unit to be used to investigate the removal of DOC and the selected micropollutants on a pre-industrial continuous flow scale.
The deliverables are:
3.1 The detailed design of the pre-industrial unit. link
3.2 Report with the completion of the construction of the original pre-industrial unit. link
3.3.1-4 Periodic reports of the operation of the original pre-industrial unit. Link
W.S(Working Section):4 Title of Working Section : Study for the removal of DOC, as well as selected micropollutants on a laboratory scale (discontinuous experiments): Discontinuous experiments will be carried out to study the removal of micropollutants from aqueous solutions and samples of treated waste water.
The deliverable is:
4.1 Report with the results of discontinuous experiments on a laboratory scale, the determination of the main parameters in the efficiency of the removal of micropollutants and DOC, as well as the determination of the most effective catalysts. Link
W.S(Working Sections):5 Title of Working Section: Control of the most effective catalysts under continuous (laboratory) operating conditions: Includes the design and construction of the appropriate experimental continuous operation device for the control of the most effective catalysts.
The deliverable is:
5.1 Report with the results of the experiments of continuous catalytic ozonation operation on a laboratory scale and determination of the optimal catalyst. Link
W.S(Working Sections):6 Title of Working Section: Removal of DOC and the studied (characteristic) micropollutants on a pre-industrial scale – Optimization of bubble-less ozonation and heterogeneous catalytic ozonation: The removal of DOC and micropollutants from the effluent of the WWTP AINEIAS, as well as the optimization of bubble-less ozonation and heterogeneous catalytic ozonation, will be studied.
The deliverables are:
6.1 Report with the results of the operation of the pre-industrial unit in real conditions (“field”) – treatment of the effluent of an existing urban wastewater treatment plant with bubble-less ozonation. . link
6.2 Report with the results of the operation of the pre-industrial unit in real conditions (“field”) – treatment of the effluent of an existing urban wastewater treatment plant with heterogeneous catalytic ozonation. Link
W.S(Working Sections):7 Title of Working Section: Commercial exploitation plan: Includes a feasibility study to assess the viability of the proposed methodology.
The deliverable is:
7.1 Market research and scale up study of the proposed technology. link