Drinking Water Quality and Treatment
Vanessa Pereira, Microbiology of Man-Made Environments
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09 Jun, 2010
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12:00 pm to 01:00 pm |
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| Where | Auditorium |
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SCAN Seminar
Title: Drinking Water Quality and Treatment
Speaker: Vanessa Jorge Pereira
Affiliation: Microbiology of Man-Made Environments
Abstract:
The problem of water availability and quality is often considered as a fundamental issue that will dominate the 21st century. Less than 0.01% of the planet's fixed amount of water is easily available freshwater and the pollution of this precious resource makes it even less available to the global population. Taking into account that water supply can be considered as a carrier for contaminants to human beings and thus a direct threat to human health, production and distribution of drinking water with high chemical and microbiological quality is of utterly importance.
Our research interests involve developing integrated nanofiltration and disinfection techniques (ultraviolet radiation, ozonation, advanced oxidation processes and chlorination) for drinking water treatment in order to guarantee effective microbial inactivation in terms of bacteria, filamentous fungi, and yeasts, as well as removal of xenobiotics (pharmaceutically active compounds, endocrine disrupting compounds, pesticides, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) while minimizing production of disinfection by-products.
