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Fazakas Albert-Csaba

- UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA

Researcher | Teaching staff

Curriculum Vitae (08/10/2019)

Expertise & keywords

Innovative technologies for advanced recovery of waste materials from IT and telecommunication equipment Call name: P 1 - SP 1.2 - Proiecte complexe realizate in consorții CDI
PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0652 2018 - 2021

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD (RO); UNIVERSITATEA 1 DECEMBRIE 1918 ALBA IULIA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICĂ "GHEORGHE ASACHI" IAŞI (RO); Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Chimie si Petrochimie - ICECHIM Bucuresti (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA (RO)

Project website: https://tradeit.utcluj.ro/

Abstract:

Although in 2016, at global level, the quantity of WEEE was over 45Mt (increasing 3-5% yearly), the estimated recycling rate only reaches 15-20%. Out of the total WEEE quantity, IT and telecommunication equipment waste (WEITT) represents c.a.15%, while printed circuit board waste, albeit only 3-6% of the total DEIT waste, concentrates 40% of the recoverable metals. At international level, the usual industrial technologies are mainly based on physical-mechanical and pyro-metallurgic procedures, but require high energy consumption and generate toxic by-products. At national level, reported research on WEITT processing is limited to the laboratory, while industrial processing agents only collect DEIT for export.

The consortium, composed of the Technical and Babeș-Bolyai universities of Cluj-Napoca, "1 Decembrie 1918" of Alba Iulia, Technical "Gheorghe Asachi" of Iași, INDO-INOE 2000 Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation subsidiary ICIA and the National Institute for Research & Development in Chemistry and Petrochemistry, will elaborate, test and validate a complex of installations and optimised technologies for the integral reclaiming of WEITT materials, based on the following principles: 1) minimal energy consumption and reduced quantities of secondary waste, with reduced environmental impact, 2) smart disassembling and separation (mechanical, electrical and electrochemical) in order to obtain new or recycled materials with high purity and high economical value, 3) valorification of resulted plastic materials through non-polluting chemical technologies and their reintroduction in the production process, 4) development of a platform for monitoring environmental impacts and for learning reclaiming technologies for DEIT material 5) transfer of the developed technologies to companies in the Romanian reclaiming and recycling industry.

Nano-Enabled Optical Fiber Biosensor Device with Smartphone Interface for Fast and Selective Detection of Antibiotics in Water Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Proiect experimental - demonstrativ
PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-0172 2017 - 2018

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE "IULIU HATIEGANU" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA (RO)

Project website: http://bel.utcluj.ro/~galatusr/PED67UEFISCDI.html

Abstract:

The water quality of the water subsystem network is important to be monitored in order to protect the public health and the local ecosystems from the harmful effects of the substances with risks to human and wildlife organisms. The European Union follows the strategic plan implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC. Current EU guidance on the implementation of the Water Supply Regulations for water quality monitoring includes the option for using online instrumentation to gather compliance data, rather than using sampling and laboratory analysis. Efficient tools for rapid detection of antibiotics in water are urgently needed and represents the core of the proposal. In the US alone, every year 3400 tons of antibiotics are used on patients, while 8900 tons are used on animals-2015. Up to 85% unmetabolized antibiotic is excreted in urine/feces by the human body On livestock animals are consumed more than twice the amount of antibiotics than on humans. Evidence of antibiotic resistant microorganisms has been found in surface wastewater, groundwater and drinking water. Based on a 2013 report regarding the sales in the community pharmacies of the systemic antibiotics from J01 class, Romania is the third biggest consumer of antibiotics in the EU. The present proposal aims to develop a water quality sensor system (WQSS) by integrating the facilities of the optical fibers technology and smartphone. The system is based on low-cost fiber optic sensors (FOS), with nanostructured plasmonic area, SPR(gold, Molecularly Imprinted Polymer and graphene). FOS, being intrinsically robust, reliable and immune to electromagnetic interference, are especially suitable for in situ real-time detection, being fully compatible with out-of-lab continuous monitoring. FOS offer strong arguments over traditional methods of sensing. Based on the expertise of two partners, the project will start at TRL2 and will end at TRL4 with SPR sensor integration remote monitoring station(WOSS).

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