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Brief Overview of WaterTOP (2019-2024)

WaterTOP Database and Taste & Odor Wheel

The WaterTOP Database of Water Odorous Compounds and the Taste & Odor Wheel (TOW) translated in several languages are available online and fully functional.

WaterTOP Database: https://fsbi-db.de/waterTop/

WaterTOP TOW: https://fsbi-db.de/waterTop/wheel.php

Published Papers:

Frantisek Kozisek, Ingrid Chorus, Emanuela Testai, Triantafyllos Kaloudis, Reyhan Albay, Meriç Albay, Martin Steinhaus, Magdalena Ujevic Bosnjak, Andreas Dunkel, Anastasia Hiskia, Maura Manganelli, Simona Scardala, David Spiteri, Theodoros Triantis; Incorporating taste and odour problems in water safety plans. J Water Health 2024; jwh2024166. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2024.166

Publication in preparation: Theodoros Triantis et al. “Advanced Oxidation Processes for treatment of water taste & odor”, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, expected September 2024.

Publication in preparation: Andreas Dunkel et al., “The WaterTOP Database of water odorous compounds”, expected December 2024.

Konkel, R.; Cegłowska, M.; Szubert, K.; Wieczerzak, E.; Iliakopoulou, S.; Kaloudis, T.; Mazur-Marzec, H. Structural Diversity and Biological Activity of Cyanopeptolins Produced by Nostoc edaphicum CCNP1411. Mar. Drugs 2023, 21, 508. https://doi.org/10.3390/md21100508

Manganelli, M.; Testai, E.; Tazart, Z.; Scardala, S.; Codd, G.A. Co-Occurrence of Taste and Odor Compounds and Cyanotoxins in Cyanobacterial Blooms: Emerging Risks to Human Health? Microorganisms 2023, 11, 872. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11040872

Reyhan Akcaalan, Ricard Devesa-Garriga, Andrea Dietrich, Martin Steinhaus, Andreas Dunkel, Veronika Mall, Maura Manganelli, Simona Scardala, Emanuela Testai, Geoffrey A. Codd, Frantisek Kozisek, Maria Antonopoulou, Ana Rita Lado Ribeiro, Maria José Sampaio, Anastasia Hiskia, Theodoros M. Triantis, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Gianluca Li Puma, Linda Lawton, Christine Edwards, Henrik Rasmus Andersen, Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Popi Karaolia, Audrey Combès, Kristel Panksep, Sevasti-Kiriaki Zervou, Meriç Albay, Latife Köker, Ekaterina Chernova, Sofia Iliakopoulou, Elisabeth Varga, Petra M. Visser, Angelika Ioanna Gialleli, Zuhal Zengin, Nikos Deftereos, Phani Miskaki, Christophoros Christophoridis, Aikaterina Paraskevopoulou, Tsair-Fuh Lin, Arash Zamyadi, Galina Dimova, Triantafyllos Kaloudis. Water taste and odor (T&O): Challenges, gaps and solutions from a perspective of the WaterTOP network, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, Volume 12, 2022, 100409, ISSN 2666-8211, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2022.100409

Nicolas A. Clercin, Ioanna Koltsidou, Christine J. Picard, Gregory K. Druschel. Prevalence of Actinobacteria in the production of 2-methylisoborneol and geosmin, over Cyanobacteria in a temperate eutrophic reservoir. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, Volume 9, 2022,100226 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2021.100226

Saber Moradinejad, Hana Trigui, Juan Francisco Guerra Maldonado, B. Jesse Shapiro, Yves Terrat, Sébastien Sauvé, Nathalie Fortin, Arash Zamyadi, Sarah Dorner, Michèle Prévost. Metagenomic study to evaluate functional capacity of a cyanobacterial bloom during oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, Volume 8, 2021, 100151, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2021.100151.

C. Christophoridis, C.J. Pestana, T. Kaloudis, L.A. Lawton, T.M. Triantis, A. Hiskia,
Radiolytic degradation of 2-methylisoborneol and geosmin in water: reactive radical species and transformation pathways, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 2021, 100196,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2021.100196.

Kleopatra Miserli, Dimitra Kogola, Irini Paraschoudi, Ioannis Konstantinou. Activation of persulfate by biochar for the degradation of phenolic compounds in aqueous systems. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, Volume 9, 2022, 100201,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2021.100201.

Z. Tunç , R. Akçaalan , L. Köker and M. Albay , “The first report of geosmin and 2-mthylisoborneol producer cyanobacteria from Turkish freshwaters”, Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 163-171, Oct. 2021, https://doi.org/10.23902/trkjnat.884423

Hammoud, N.A.; Zervou, S.-K.; Kaloudis, T.; Christophoridis, C.; Paraskevopoulou, A.; Triantis, T.M.; Slim, K.; Szpunar, J.; Fadel, A.; Lobinski, R.; Hiskia, A. Investigation of the Occurrence of Cyanotoxins in Lake Karaoun (Lebanon) by Mass Spectrometry, Bioassays and Molecular Methods. Toxins 2021, 13, 716. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins13100716

Andrea M. Dietrich, Zhen Pang, Huiming Zheng, Xiaoyan Ma (2021). Mini review: Will artificial sweeteners discharged to the aqueous environment unintentionally “sweeten” the taste of tap water? Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, Vol.6, 100100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2021.100100

Maria Antonopoulou, Nikolaos Ioannidis, Triantafyllos Kaloudis, Theodoros M. Triantis, Anastasia Hiskia (2020). Kinetic and mechanistic investigation of water taste and odor compound 2-isopropyl-3-methoxy pyrazine degradation using UV-A/Chlorine process. Science of The Total Environment 732, 138404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138404.

Standardization of methods for water T&O – current status and future developments

WaterTOP Virtual Conference  “Water taste & odor (T&O) – Challenges and research advances”, 22 Feb 2024.

The Conference was recorded and is available in WaterTOP YouTube.

Conference program, book of abstracts and presentations

Tri Kaloudis (EYDAP SA, Greece). Water Taste & Odor (T&O) – Contributions of the WaterTOP network (CA18225).

Carmen Espinosa (Aigües Vic S.A., Spain) Advancing Geosmin Predictive Models through Continuous Monitoring of the Ter River in Catalonia, Spain.

Klaas Reglitz (Leibniz-LSB@TUM, Germany). Activity-guided identification of compounds causing odor problems – a sensomics approach.

Emanuela Testai (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy). Taste & Odor compounds in drinking water: are they an actual concern for human health?

Maura Manganelli (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy). Co-Occurrence of Taste and Odor Compounds and Cyanotoxins in Cyanobacterial Blooms: Emerging Risks to Human Health?

Tsair-Fuh Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) -Invited Talk. Mass Balance Modelling of 2-Methylisoborneol in Drinking Water Source Channels.

Ricard Devesa-Garriga (Barcelona Water, Spain). Predicting consumer complaints about the flavour of tap water.

Andreas Dunkel (Leibniz-LSB@TUM, Germany). WaterTOP-DB: A novel resource providing comprehensive information about taste- and odor-active compounds in water.

Frantisek Kozisek (National Institute of Public Health, Czech Republic). Looking for the cause of recent heavy taste and odour episode in Prague.

Aurel Nuro (University of Tirana, Albania). A survey of some priority substances in drinking water of Ballshi area.

Christophoros Christophoridis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece). Degradation of 2-Methylisoborneol and Geosmin in Water via Radiolysis: Reactive Radical Species and Pathways of Transformation.

Tugba Ozer (Yildiz Technical University, Türkiye). Nanofabrication of electrochemical sensors for real-time monitoring of water quality from sensory evaluation: Taste Issues.

Andrea M. Dietrich (Virginia Tech, USA)- Invited Talk. A Utility Specific Taste-and-Odor Checklist that Facilitates Effective Response to Consumer Complaints.

Poster credit: Galina Dimova-Boykinova (main concept) and Vladimir Blagoev (graphic design)

Presentations:

Presentations of the “Risk assessment approaches for water T&O” training school, ISS, Rome, 16-18 October 2023:

Emanuela Testai, Maura Manganelli, Simona Scardala – Fundamentals of the risk assessment procedure for single chemicals: hazard identification, dose-response relationship, exposure assessment, risk characterization.

Emanuela Testai – Introduction to risk assessment procedure for combined exposures

Olga Tcheremenskaia – Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs): from research to regulation

Chiara Laura Battistelli – Computational approaches to support chemical hazard identification: application of the QSAR Toolbox software to case studies

Olga Tcheremenskaia – Data Management in the OECD QSAR Toolbox

Tri Kaloudis – Validation of HS-SPME-GC/MS methods for water T&O (Chania, Greece, September 2023).

Martin Steinhaus et al., The Leibniz LSB@TUMOdorant Database (Prague, 19 April 2022)

Presentations of the Training School “Advanced Oxidation Processes for water T&O”, 5-9 September 2022, Athens

Anastasia Hiskia – Welcome presentation – NCSR Demokritos

Theodoros Triantis – Photocatalysis in water treatment

Anastasia Hiskia – Overview of AOPs for treatment of water T&O

Arash Zamyadi – Investigating water advanced treatment processes for removal of taste and odour compounds: Focus algae

Christophoros Christophoridis – Sonolytic treatment of water for removal of pollutants

Maria Antonopoulou – Homogeneous UV-based processes for water treatment

Tri Kaloudis – Radiation chemistry of water as a tool to study AOPs

Tri Kaloudis – Reaction kinetics in AOPs

Anastasia Hiskia – Standard method for testing photocatalytic materials for water treatment

Tri Kaloudis – Introduction to Sensory Analysis of Water

Tri Kaloudis – Flavor Profile Analysis (FPA) and the Taste & Odor Wheel (TOW)

Alina Gialleli – EN 1622: Determination of the threshold odour number (TON) and
threshold flavour number (TFN)

Reyhan Akcaalan, Tri Kaloudis – WaterTOP Overview (October 2021)

Tri Kaloudis – Targeted & Untargeted analysis of volatiles & T&O

Tri Kaloudis – Introduction to GC-MS for water T&O

Alina Gialleli – Solid-phase microextraction (SPME). Theory and applications in water analysis for T&O compounds

Andrea M. Dietrich – Understanding sensory analysis of drinking water: challenges for describing taste and odor. Tartu, 2021.

Nicolas Clercin – Tracking taste & odour producers and potential degraders in a drinking water supply reservoir. Tartu, 2021

Arash Zamyadi – Investigating water treatment processes for removal of taste & odour compounds. Tartu, 2021

Tri Kaloudis – Involving citizens in sensory evaluation of water. Proposal for a pan-European citizen science exercise. Nafplio, 2021.

Anastasia Hiskia – Water treatment for T&O. Challenges, gaps and perspectives. Nafplio, 2021

Ricard Devesa – Role of sulphates and nitrates on the taste on water (Barcelona, March 2020).

Ricard Devesa – Training School on Sensory analysis of water (Barcelona, March 2020)

Tri Kaloudis – Taste & Odor in early diagnosis of source and drinking water problems (WaterTOP). Brussels, 2019