Design, Testing, and Deployment of a Mobile Emergency Water Treatment System | NLM

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Design, Testing, and Deployment of a Mobile Emergency Water Treatment System

06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC). Published: 6/2019. The purpose of the study summarized in this 47-page report was to design, build, evaluate, and deploy a mobile emergency water treatment system capable of treating a wide variety of contaminated water following a natural or man-made disaster. Water may be contaminated with chemical, biological, or radionuclide contaminants. Therefore, an emergency water treatment system must be designed and built so the treatment train can be configured on-site to treat a broad spectrum of contaminants without utilizing other unnecessary and costly unit processes and without producing large amounts of contaminated wastes. (PDF)