(Tehnologie de decontaminare prin ultrasonare în flux continuu catalizată de nanomateriale avansate pentru distrugerea fără deșeuri a agenților chimici de război și a compozițiilor cu toxicitate ridicată)
Project duration: 11.02.2025 – 31.12.2025
Project budget: 750.000 RON
Co-financing: 75.500 RON
Main domain: Civil security for society
Financier: Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CCCDI – UEFISCDI
Program 5.7 Partnership for Innovation
Subprogram 5.7.1 Partnerships for Competitiveness
Project type: Experimental Demonstrative Project
Contract no: 69PED/2025
Project code: PN-IV-P7-7.1-PED-2024-0980
CONSORTIUM:
Coordinator: Research and Innovation Center for CBRN Defense and Ecology, Ministry of National Defense
Project director: Raluca GINGHINA, PhD (raluca.ginghina@nbce.ro)
Team members: Nicoleta PETREA, PhD; Prof.univ. Tudor Viorel TIGANESCU, Assoc.prof. Gabriela TOADER, PhD; Assoc. prof. Aurel DIACON, PhD; Ovidiu IORGA, PhD; Adriana BRATU, PhD candidate; Panaghia DELIU, Eng; Mihaela LAZAROAIE, Eng; Teodor LIHOR, Eng.
Partner: STIMPEX S.A.
Project Responsible: Prof.univ. Vasile SOMOGHI, PhD (v_somoghi@yahoo.com)
Team members: ISTRATE Marcel, Eng; BICLEA Catalin; MARINESCU Nicolae-Madalin, Eng; PĂUN Ionut-Alexandru, Eng; AUREL Pop, Eng;
PROJECT SUMMARY
The project scope is to design and develop a free-waste technology for decontamination of chemical warfare agents (CWA) and highly toxic military compositions, using sonochemistry as base principle, synergistically catalyzed by advanced nanomaterials, such as nanoparticles and Mxenes. This technology will be able to decontaminate in continuous flow the toxic chemicals, using high-frequency and high-intensity sound waves which facilitate a complete degradation of the chemicals at a higher reaction speed and a higher yield, comparing with classic technologies. The ultrasonic continuous flow decontamination technology will be integrated with a real-time monitoring NMR technique and, the integrated system will be tested and validated as laboratory technology. The target of this innovative technology is to decontaminate faster, greener, waste-free and energetically efficient, the toxic chemicals.
The main objectives of the project are:
- To upgrade the technology concept formulated (TRL2) regarding the sonochemistry used in a completely new and untapped utilization as CWAs decontamination, to the next level of experimental proof of concept (TRL3).
- To develop an experimental laboratory demonstrator (TRL3) for the ultrasonic decontamination technology of CWAs and highly toxic compositions.
- To test and validate in laboratory conditions the decontamination efficiency of several classes of CWAs and toxic compositions using the waste-free new decontamination demonstrator (composed synergistically from a special ultrasonic installation and an ecological decontamination composition catalyzed by advanced nanomaterials).
- To integrate the ultrasonic generator and transducer with a flow reactor, and real-time analysis of decontamination capacity using continuous flow NMR analysis technique.
- To test and validate the real-time analyzing and monitoring functionality of the integrated system for continuous flow ultrasonic decontamination as technology validated in laboratory (TRL4).
2025
STAGE 1/2025 – Development of a technology for sonolytic decontamination of chemical warfare agents and highly toxic military chemical compositions. Development of advanced nanoparticles with a catalytic role in the degradation process of highly toxic substances.
Expected deliverables for 2025:
- Documentary report on advanced decontamination technologies of chemical warfare agents and state-of-the-art sonolytic processes used to degrade organic compounds;
- Experimental report on testing the efficiency of the experimental model for decontamination of toxic substances, using various selected liquid matrices;
- Report on the selection of nanomaterials used, their characterization and the performance of experimental tests on their efficiency for decontamination of toxic agents.
- ISI Open Access publications;
- Presentations at national/international conferences;
2026
STAGE 2/2026 – Testing and validation of continuous flow decontamination technology assisted by ultrasound and catalyzed by advanced nanomaterials.
Expected deliverables for 2026:
- Newly developed decontamination procedure for ultrasonic and advanced nanomaterial catalyzed technology;
- Test plan – evaluation of ultrasonic decontamination technology;
- Test report – evaluation of ultrasonic decontamination technology;
- Ultrasonic decontamination technology integrated with real-time process monitoring, validated in the laboratory;
- ISI Open Access publications;
- Presentations at national/international conferences;
- Workshop on “Integrating emerging technologies in CBRN decontamination”;
- Project e-newsletter;
- Patent application.
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