Mat4Treat project Enhancing water quality by developing novel materials for organic pollutants removal in tertiary water treatments. Torino, 11 July 2016
The Mat4treat consortium for innovative integrated water tertiary treatments (i) graphene-based and other carbon-related materials, (ii) polymeric materials, (iii) oxidic ceramic materials, (iv) hybrid materials Participant number Partnership Member Legal Entity Short Name Academic (/N) Country Main Objectives: The new materials are used as adsorbents, photocatalysts and active layers for the fabrication of membranes, tested for the pollutant removal from model aqueous solutions as well as from real water samples, and organized to achieve hybrid-technology systems for pollutants removal. 1 Università degli studi di Torino 2 Politecnico di Torino 3 Universitat Politecnica de Valencia 4 University of Ioannina 5 Aalborg Universitet 6 Liqtech International A/S 7 ACEA Pinerolese Industriale S.p.A. 8 McGill University 9 La Plata University 10 Stellenbosch University BENEFICIARIES UNITO (Giuliana Magnacca) POLITO (Marco Sangermano) UPV (Antonio Arques) UOI (Vasilios Sakkas) AAU (Vittorio Boffa) LQT (Haris Kadrispahic) ACEA (Davide Mainero) PARTNER ORGANISATIONS McGILL (Marta Cerruti) UNLP (Luciano Carlos) SU (Peter E. Mallon) N N ITAL ITAL SPAIN GREECE DENMARK DENMARK ITAL CANADA ARGENTINA SOUTH AFRICA 146 months of secondments in 4 years
UNITO (Italy) The Department of Chemistry is active in several research fields, e.g. materials science, analytical and environmental chemistry, organic and inorganic syntheses, physico-chemical studies and computational chemistry, industrial chemistry and metallurgy. The Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) interdepartmental centre offers a huge support to researchers for materials synthesis and characterisation.
POLITO (Italy) The DISAT (Department of Applied Science and Technology) focuses on research and education involving the fundamental principles of matter and energy, their transformation and related engineering applications. The research group in polymeric materials, POLMAT, has as main task the use of photopolymerization processes for the development of advanced functional polymeric materials and lithographic applications (direct lithography, soft lithography) or 3D printing.
UPV (Spain) The main role of the UPV in the frame of the MAT4TREAT project is testing photochemical materials and designing combined processes. Tasks are devoted to chemometric studies on Bio-Based-Substances (photophysical characterization) and testing their applications as catalysts. Some parallel work is performed on the application of novel hybrid strategies involving iron-based materials.
AAU (Denmark) The Section of Chemistry at Aalborg University designs and fabricates new silicon carbide and graphene oxide-based membranes for the removal of micropollutants from wastewater. The membranes are applied to real filtration systems and understanding of membrane permselectivity is developed.
UOI (Greece) The research laboratory of environmental and analytical chemistry conducts multidisciplinary research on the analysis and fate of emerging pollutants as well as on the environmental technology. The main research activities are: a) Analytical Separations b) Chemometrics-statistical treatment of data, experimental design c) Environmental Chemistry - Study of the environmental fate (kinetics and mechanisms) of organic contaminants and toxicity assessment d) Environmental Technology and Advanced Water Treatment-Development of Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for the mineralization of organic micropollutants
ACEA (Italy) Acea Pinerolese Industriale SpA is an Italian multi-utility company that manages different services concerning energy (production of biogas), waste treatment and water distribution.
LQT (Denmark) It is leader in the development, manufacturing and supply of revolutionary silicon carbide ceramic technology for the purification of liquids and gases.
McGill (Canada) Research devoted to preparation of advanced graphene-based materials for energy and environmental applications. Support to synthesis of advanced materials for both photocatalysis and pollution absorption.
UNLP (Argentina) INIFTA (Instituto De Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas) of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata is structured around research projects on energy conversion and storage, photochemistry, synthesis of materials, nanotechnology. Roles in Mat4Treat project: synthesis and application of iron-based materials as photocatalysts, study of reaction mechanisms.
SU (South Africa) The Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science plays host to the largest research effort in Polymer Science in South Africa. The group is interested to structure property-relationship in complex polymer materials, in the synthesis of these materials and in the development of novel analytical approaches and techniques to characterize these materials. Electrospinning is the main technique available for Mat4Treat partners.
Status of the work WP WP Title Activity Type Personmonths Start Month End Month 1 Development of graphene and other carbon-related materials research 5 1 36 STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE 3 2 Development of polymeric materials 3 Development of oxidic ceramic materials 4 Development of hybrid materials research 3 1 36 research 10 1 36 research 37 1 36 5 Assessment of the of the research 28 7 48 pollutants removal by the synthesized materials and biocatalysis 6 Integration of approachesresearch 8 24 48 7 Chemometric studies research 6 7 48 ACTUAL STATUS OF THE WORK 8 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) 9 Transfer of knowledge and training programme 10 Dissemination and communication activity research 9 24 48 Training, dissemination, communication Dissemination, communication 23 1 48 13 1 48 11 Management Management - 1 48