Small-scale membrane-based desalinators: developing a viable concept for sustainable arsenic removal from groundwater
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Paper/Presentation Title | Small-scale membrane-based desalinators: developing a viable concept for sustainable arsenic removal from groundwater |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Hoinkis, Jan (Author), Deowan, S. A. (Author), Herrmann, M. (Author), Schmidt, S. (Author), Gukelberger, E. (Author), Fiedler, F. (Author), Grossmann, B. (Author), Ghosh, A. K. (Author), Chatterjee, D. (Author) and Bundschuh, J. (Author) |
Editors | Litter, Marta I., Quici, Natalia and Meichtry, Martin |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (AS 2014) |
Number of Pages | 4 |
Year | 2014 |
Place of Publication | Leiden, Netherlands |
ISBN | 9781138001411 |
9781315778884 | |
Conference/Event | 5th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (AS 2014): One Century of the Discovery of Arsenicosis in Latin America (1914-2014) |
Event Details | 5th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (AS 2014): One Century of the Discovery of Arsenicosis in Latin America (1914-2014) Parent International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (AS) Event Date 11 to end of 16 May 2014 Event Location Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Abstract | Arsenic poisoning in drinking water is a health issue in many countries worldwide including Bangladesh, India, Argentina, China and Vietnam. In areas where the drinking water supply contains unsafe levels of arsenic, technologies to remove arsenic are of prime importance. Many technologies have been developed for the removal of arsenic. Among those, Reverse Osmosis (RO) and NanoFiltration (NF) are very promising techniques because they have the advantage of removing dissolved arsenic along with other dissolved and particulate compounds. So far, however, this kind of membrane filtration has needed bulky and sophisticated units, which are not suitable for application in the rural areas of developing and newly industrializing countries. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to develop and test a simple and viable concept for membrane based arsenic removal in rural areas of developing countries. For this purpose, laboratory work was done at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences and pilot-scale experiments were conducted in rural India. |
Keywords | arsenic; developing countries; groundwater; microfiltration; pollution control; rural areas |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 370799. Hydrology not elsewhere classified |
400411. Water treatment processes | |
370104. Atmospheric composition, chemistry and processes | |
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Byline Affiliations | Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
Anugrah Narayan College, India | |
University of Kalyani, India | |
National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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