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Early warning system with innovative FingerPrint technology to ensure safe water
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Early warning system with innovative FingerPrint technology to ensure safe water
Around 10,000 new substances are constantly being released into the environment. To ensure the quality of the water distributed, we need to intercept potentially polluting substances contained in the raw water we take from the source, and prevent them from entering our drinking water systems.
How? Through an early warning system which, thanks to the use of innovative tools, makes it possible to develop preventive control of the quality of water in the network, and to anticipate critical issues and management problems.
Early warning: how does it work?
Water can be identified by creating a typical digital imprint, the FingerPrint, built on a specific template.
Basically, UV-visible spectrophotometric analysis technology is used to make a “scan” of water, i.e. a kind of characteristic digital image, creating a spectrum associated with various organic substances.
The model acquires the “fingerprint” of the monitored water and uniquely identifies it. When the water taken from the source has a “fingerprint” that is not recognised, the system triggers an alarm and further checks are carried out.
This technology is particularly fast, allowing a water scan in less than two minutes.
In addition, the system is very useful because it allows us to interrupt the withdrawal of water resources until the pollution has “passed”, or the reliability of the reported alert has been verified, thus guaranteeing high levels of safety of the water within the network.
This innovative monitoring system was first applied in Bubano, near Imola, and later at the Val di Setta drinking water treatment plant in Bologna, which draws water from surface springs of the Reno and Setta rivers.
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