Mat4Treat projectEnhancing water quality by developing

novel materials for organic pollutants

removal in tertiary water treatments.

Torino, 11 July 2016

The Mat4treat consortiumfor innovative integrated water tertiary treatments (i) graphene-based and other carbon-related materials, (ii) polymeric materials, (iii) oxidic ceramic materials, (iv) hybrid materials

Participant

numberPartnership

Member

Legal Entity Short

Name

Academic

(Y/N) Country

BENEFICIARIES

1 Università degli studi di

Torino

UNITO

(Giuliana Magnacca)Y ITALY

2 Politecnico di TorinoPOLITO

(Marco Sangermano)Y ITALY

3 Universitat Politecnica de

Valencia

UPV

(Antonio Arques)Y SPAIN

4 University of IoanninaUOI

(Vasilios Sakkas)Y GREECE

5 Aalborg UniversitetAAU

(Vittorio Boffa)Y DENMARK

6 Liqtech International A/SLQT

(Haris Kadrispahic)N DENMARK

7 ACEA Pinerolese Industriale

S.p.A.

ACEA

(Davide Mainero)N ITALY

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS

8 McGill UniversityMcGILL

(Marta Cerruti)Y CANADA

9 La Plata UniversityUNLP

(Luciano Carlos)Y ARGENTINA

10 Stellenbosch UniversitySU

(Peter E. Mallon)Y SOUTH AFRICA

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.

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, POLYMAT, 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 perm-

selectivity 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 micro-

pollutants

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.

WP WP Title Activity Type Person-

months

Start

Month

End

Month

1 Development of

graphene and other

carbon-related materials

research 5 1 36

2 Development of

polymeric materials

research 3 1 36

3 Development of oxidic

ceramic materials

research 10 1 36

4 Development of hybrid

materials

research 37 1 36

5 Assessment of the of the

pollutants removal by the

synthesized materials

research 28 7 48

6 Integration of approachesresearch 8 24 48

7 Chemometric studies research 6 7 48

8 Life Cycle

Assessment (LCA)

research 9 24 48

9 Transfer of knowledge

and training programme

Training,

dissemination,

communication

23 1 48

10 Dissemination and

communication activity

Dissemination,

communication

13 1 48

11 Management Management - 1 48

Status of the work

ACTUAL STATUS OF THE WORK

STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE 3

and biocatalysis