New Project „SEWAT“ has started in April
“SEWAT - Real-time parameters for microbiological and chemo-physical water quality monitoring in mobile drinking water treatment systems” is a cooperative project funded by the FFG as part of the KIRAS Security Research Call 2022.
On 13 April 2023, two weeks after the official start of the project, the kick-off meeting for the new FFG project SEWAT (Save and Efficient WAter Treatment) took place under the leadership of Georg Reischer at the Technische Universität Wien. During the one-day meeting, 19 representatives of the consortium consisting of stakeholders, university partners, social science partners and company partners took the first concrete steps towards realising the common project goals.
In the course of the project, ICC Water & Health researchers from the Technische Universität Wien, the Medical University of Vienna and the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems will use equipment from bNovate Technologies, s::can and Vienna Water Monitoring Solutions to test modern real-time methods for assessing treatment efficiency in deployable systems for drinking water treatment for military and civilian crisis and disaster operations.
Automated flow cytometry, spectrometric methods for online detection of chemical contaminants, enzyme activity-based detection of bacterial activity, and rapid molecular diagnostic tests for bacterial faecal indicators and pathogens will be used. The essential users for these applications are the NBC Defence Centre of the Austrian Armed Forces, the Austrian Red Cross and the Defence Science Institute for Protection Technologies of the German Federal Ministry of Defence.
We are looking forward to an exciting cooperation!
More information about the project and the partners can be found here:
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