The College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) will conduct a Research Dissemination event under the theme:
Development of Materials for point of use water treatment systems.
Date and Time: Wednesday 29th November 2023 starting at 2:00PM EAT.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers comprised of P. W. Olupot, H. M. Kalibbala, E. Menya, G.M. Wangi, J. Jjagwe, J. Wakatuntu, M. Turyasingura, R. Walozi, C. Kanyesigye and R. N. Kulabako.
The dissemination follows the successful completion of two Makerere University Research and Innovations Fund (Mak-RIF) supported Research projects namely, Development of rice husk based granular activated carbon for point-of-use water treatment systems and Development of zeolite-based nanocomposite filters for drinking water treatment.
The findings therefrom make a contribution towards provision of safe water at points of use. This is premised on the fact that surface and ground water from lakes, swamps, ponds and boreholes, the main water sources in Uganda get contaminated with microbes, nutrients, heavy metals, organic chemicals, oil and sediments that come from human activities such as agriculture, municipal waste, pharmaceuticals and industrialization.
The pollutants cause various water borne diseases. Most of the public conventional water treatment systems are not equipped to remove some of the pollutants such as heavy metals.
The research team set out to develop Point of Use (POU) water filtration systems which are tailored to a wide range of source water quality to empower households to effectively treat water at home using Granular activated carbon (GAC), especially from renewable biomass sources and nanomaterials which are the two common materials championed for POU systems.
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Meeting ID: 948 3093 0941
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