Design and Development of Eco-Friendly Filter Media for Safe Drinking Water-SAFEDRINK




The research focuses on developing innovative sorbents and their design to become efficient media in filters for arsenic removal from drinking water. The goal is to synthesize materials that are selective towards target analytes (arsenic) and have high sorption capacity. This innovative approach involves selecting materials that efficiently adsorb arsenic without altering the chemical composition of water. The filter media is designed to be renewable and reusable after recycling while maintaining high adsorption capacity.

The filter media will mainly consist of materials based on iron oxides of various morphological forms and variable chemical composition. The efficiency of arsenic removal from water should be increased by designing new nanocomposite materials, iron oxide-metal organic network. In addition to purifying water from arsenic to the maximum allowed concentration, the medium also contains silver-based materials that exhibit antibacterial properties for biological water treatment.

The innovation also extends to the filter design, ensuring that used materials do not leach into the purified water. The performance of the multilayer filter prototype will be based on efficiency and economic feasibility.

 

Programe: Eureka project

Date of start:  January, 1. 2025.

Date of end. January, 1. 2028.

Team leader for Faculty of Metallurgy nad Techology, University of Montenegro:

Prof. Željko Jaćimović, PhD

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