Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Koyuncu İ. (Yürütücü), Köse Mutlu B., Zeytuncu Gökoğlu B.
TÜBİTAK Uluslararası Çoklu İşbirliği Projesi , 2020 - 2023
Water is indispensable for human life and therefore needs to be managed in a
sophisticated and smart manner in a sustainable society. More than half of the global
population now live in urbanized areas, and this proportion is expected to increase in
the future. Water management in urbanized areas will become more important in the
future. At the same time, however, we are facing emerging problems such as
deterioration and fluctuation in source water quality that are partly caused by climate
change. It is difficult to cope with those problems with conventional water treatment
technology.
Membrane technology has a great potential for dealing with such problems.
Unfortunately, membrane technology has not gained universal popularity due to its
drawbacks including membrane fouling (permeability decline). Also, control of micropollutants
such as steroid hormones by membranes is difficult unless high-pressure
membranes (nanofiltration (NF) or reverse osmosis (RO)), which are very energy
intensive, are used. Fouling and micropollutants removal remain the major obstacles
for widespread application of membranes. Removal of these obstacles, and
improving operator’s decision tools to easily manage their consequences on water
quality and energy consumption are urgently needed to establish smart water
management based on membrane technology. This project is aimed to make
membrane technology much more feasible by developing efficient decision tools for
membranes’ operators and developing innovative materials/process to make
membranes processes more reliable regarding emerging contaminants.