Within HYDROPTICS a range of photonic technologies will be developed and combined for realizing advanced sensing strategies for on-line detection of relevant impurities in process water streams such as residual oil content and particles. HYDROPTICS also puts emphasize to relate the results provided by the on-line analyzer to available process data of the industrial cooperation partners at their pilot sites to gain an in-depth understanding of the processes, mainly water purification processes, under investigation. Based on this understanding improvements to the overall process shall be suggested. Likewise, chemical engineering know-how will also be used to optimize sample preparation as required in the on-line analyzer platforms.
By means of the research effort within HYDROPTICS the quality of process water shall be improved by optimization of the overall process in the water treatment plants, with focus on key processing steps.
This deliverable breaks down the planned research into its core developments. These will occur at different TRLs and consist in envisioned advances regarding photonic components, modules, subsystems and use of the combined on-line data of oil-in-water and particle type and content in the context of process optimization. D3.1. also details the different methodologies required, the respective expectation regarding possible results and metric put in place to judge the progress in the respective developments.
If possible, reference will be made to existing standards, test methods and norms.