Final results demonstrate the excellent performance of the SERPIC technology

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The SERPIC prototype plant reached 11 of the 12 project targets to reduce contaminants of emerging concern.

SERPIC projekt removal rates: SERPIC technology achieved almost all targets for the reduction of micropollutants and pathogens; VNLX: venlafaxine, DIC: diclofenac, SMX: sulfamethoxazole, IOP: iopromide, E. coli: Escherichia coli, sul1: antibiotic resistance gene, TC: total coliform.
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SERPIC technology achieved almost all targets for the reduction of micropollutants and pathogens; VNLX: venlafaxine, DIC: diclofenac, SMX: sulfamethoxazole, IOP: iopromide, E. coli: Escherichia coli, sul1: antibiotic resistance gene, TC: total coliform.

For most of the CECs analysed, the reduction rates achieved the set goals of the SERPIC project. Route A (water for irrigation of crops) has an average reduction of more than 90 % in all organic and microbial CECs. For Route B (water for discharge into environment), diclofenac (drug), sulfamethoxazole (drug), and iopromide (contrast agent) showed an average reduction of more than 95 %; coliform bacteria were completely removed. The reduction of venlafaxine in Route B is below the 90 % limit set for drugs. In addition, sul1 reached the 99 % threshold for ARGs.