| To provide safe drinking water to small communities in Puerto Rico, this project evaluates the performance and reliability of a small-scale, advanced oxidation processes (AOP) package plant for water treatment. Specifically, this project investigates the performance of ozone and UV combination technologies in the destruction of the gasoline additive Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE). The project uses groundwater collected from a rural community in Anasco, PR and transported to the laboratory, where it was used for the plant evaluation. This project involved water quality characterization, and a physical and chemical evaluation of the AOP unit performance. From the physical evaluation (operation and maintenance) it was shown that, the plant is not a viable and reliable technology to being used on small communities in PR, even though the chemical evaluation (efficiency to remove contaminants from water) consents it as an alternative. |
