Finalist award: £47,790
Winner award: £449,518
Led by: Lancaster University
This solution addresses an increasingly urgent industry need: the removal of steeply increasing concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from peatland-fed raw waters, currently incurring the largest raw water treatment costs in the UK.
Our transformative solution is a new, uniquely effective, sustainable technology for DOC removal. We will use continuous oscillatory baffle flow processes both to manufacture innovative nanomagneto-composites (NMCs), and to provide an innovative, pre-treatment step; blending, with unprecedented control and effectiveness, raw waters with the NMCs, which act as highly effective, re-usable DOC sorbents. Our new, continuous process is planned to be integrated within WTW sites.
Lancaster University was announced as one of 10 winners in the Water Discovery Challenge on 20 February 2024 – read more in the announcement blog.
