Public Health
Water management of the future
Technologies to ensure a sustainable supply of clean water are relevant to society as a whole. They contribute to the preservation of natural resources, ensure economic performance and reduce the risk of social conflicts over resources.
As a winner of the BMBF Clusters4Future initiative, the Thuringian Water Innovation Cluster ThWIC develops and commercializes solutions for the sustainable use of water. Energy-efficient solutions for the analysis and treatment of water as well as technologies for closing water cycles and activities to expand social water knowledge contribute to sustainable development and climate protection. With technologies for eliminating (micro)-pollutants from drinking water or for generating health-relevant water data, contributions are made to the future topic of public health.
Projects for the digitalization and networking of water systems touch equally on the future topics of security (water systems as critical infrastructures) and Economy 4.0 in terms of smart, data-driven resource management. On display are systems that eliminate highly diluted, dissolved chemical particles from human use of water - such as glyphosate, bisphenol A, drug and cosmetic residues - from the water. The ThWIC systems use combinations of state-of-the-art photonic technologies (UV diodes) and cellular functional ceramics from Fraunhofer IKTS for innovative reactors. These enable - for example in wastewater treatment plants - the removal of micropollutants with low energy input. A game changer in wastewater technology is the innovative digital sensor from FSU Jena. It measures the amount of chemically degradable pollutants contained in industrial and municipal wastewater online and in real time within minutes.
Hanover Fair, Hall 3, Stand H26
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