Abstract

In military out of area missions, it may be necessary to produce drinking water even from highly contaminated surface waters. These waters may contain a large number of organic, inorganic, and microbiological contaminants such as pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), pesticides, flame retardants, and heavy metals. The mobile drinking water purification units must be able to remove such contaminants as much as possible to meet the requirements of the maximum tolerance levels for drinking water set by the German and also by the European legislation. In the course of a research project, we investigate two drinking water purification units using the membrane filtration technique. Presently, these units undergo extensive