Team Leader: Dr. Eng. Gabriela Geanina VASILE
Short description:
The main objective of the project is to investigate the presence of emerging anthropogenic pollutants at the level of treatment plants and their transfer to fresh water ecosystems (natural emissions, underground sources, the Danube River), used as a source of raw water for the production of drinking water.
Thus, the ECOTRANS project will monitor the presence of 5 major classes of emerging anthropogenic pollutants, namely endocrine disruptors (perfluoroalkyl sulfonic acids PFAS), pharmaceuticals (azole fungicides), microplastics, toxic metal species (arsenite, arsenate, methyl-Hg, chromate) and by-products toxic substances resulting from water purification processes (iodo-haloacetic acids, iodo-trihalomethanes and haloacetaldehydes), which will be required for monitoring by the EU Water Framework Directive 2020/2184 starting from 2024 or are recently included in the “Watch List” of the Union European for monitoring. Completion of the project will lead to obtaining 14 sensitive and validated quantitative analytical methods for the determination of emerging compounds in water samples and solid environmental samples, resulting in as many environmental services offered to economic operators in the country; a semi-quantitative method for the identification of microplastics; an experimental model for new carbon-based electrochemical sensors for
Phase 1/2023
The development of new analytical methodologies for the detection and quantification at the ultra-trace level of some pollutants from the category of pharmaceutical residues, some species of toxic metals and products resulting from the water chlorination process:
Phase 2/2023
Development, testing and validation of analytical methodologies for the control of toxic pollutants such as perfluorosulfonic compounds applicable to aqueous matrices:
Phase 3/2024
The development of new analytical methodologies for the control of toxic pollutants such as microplastics, perfluorosulfonic compounds, iodo-trihalomethanes, respectively some metallic species applicable to aqueous matrices:
Phase 3/II/2024
Development of new analytical methodologies for the control of toxic pollutants such as microplastics, perfluorosulfonic compounds, iodo-trihalomethanes, and metallic species applicable to aqueous matrices:
Phase 4/2024
Validation studies of new analytical methodologies for the quantification of persistent pollutants with toxic potential in dehydrated sludge (PFAS, azole fungicides):
Phase 4.II/2024
Validation studies of new analytical methodologies for the quantification of persistent pollutants with toxic potential in dehydrated sludge (PFAS, azole fungicides):
Phase 5.1/2024
Validation of advanced mass spectrometry methods for the quantification of toxic species and by-products from water and sediment matrices (partial):
Phase 5.2/2025
Validation of advanced mass spectrometry methods for the quantification of toxic species and by-products from water and sediment matrices:
Phase 6.1/2025
Evaluation of the degree of contamination with multiple classes of persistent pollutants with toxic potential at the level of wastewater treatment plants (influent, effluent, dehydrated sludge), partially:
Phase 6.2/2025
Evaluation of the degree of contamination with multiple classes of persistent pollutants with toxic potential at the level of wastewater treatment plants (influent, effluent, dehydrated sludge):
