HYDROUSA
GA 776643
Regenerative & Nature Based Water Solution
The main ambition of HYDROUSA is to develop a new circular business model, which will be mostly suitable for Mediterranean and other water-scarce regions in Europe and worldwide. HYDROUSA aims to provide innovative solutions for decentralized water scarce areas in terms of water/wastewater treatment and management, which will close the water loops and will also boost their agricultural and energy profile. HYDROUSA goes beyond the current water and wastewater management practices by adopting innovative, nature-based and nature-inspired water management solutions for different types of water characterised by low energy footprint.
http://www.hydrousa.org
LIFE AgRemSO3il
LIFE17 ENV/ES/000203
Agrochemical remediation of farm soils by combining solarization and ozonation techniques.
The pilot project LIFE AgRemSO3il (LIFE17 ENV/ES/000203) aims at developing and tuning at farm scale a new technology and its associated techniques for the agrochemical remediation of farm soils by combining solarization and ozonation in situ. Thus, the innovation involves technological applications (new equipment) and the methods used (advanced oxidation processes as ozonation and H2O2; or solarization). The project will test and demonstrate the technical, economical, and ecological feasibility of the innovation, without any alternative available in the market, through a prototype in commercial farms at real running scale. The project provides a new cost-effective solution for supporting the soil’s functionality as part of the wider ecosystem that includes the impact on food and feed products with their consequent effects on human health. Also, it supports the integration of environmental objectives in the Common Agriculture Policy, promoting the convergence of the EU’s policies related to Agriculture and the Environment. The Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and the economic assessment will be performed according to the project’s aim of reaching a wide implementation of the system, including a governance approach related to legal and financial instruments.
http://agremso3il.eu/
LIFE ULISES
LIFE18 ENV/ES/000165
Upgrading wastewater treatment plants by low cost innovative technologies to reach energy self-sufficiency and full recycling
The main goal of LIFE ULISES Project is to upgrade conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) by different innovative technologies that produce useful resources from wastewater, such as automotive biofuel, biofertilizers and water for reuse. The project aims to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint of WWTPs, increasing their efficiency by the integration of different technologies in each of their lines from the WWTP (water, gas, sludge).
During the project, the next low cost technologies will be implemented in El Bobar WWTP (Almería):
– Biogas up-grading with ABAD Bioenergy® system to produce a renewable biofuel (Aqualia, Energylab)
– Combined PUSH anaerobic pretreatment with advanced aeration control system to half energy demand of wastewater treatment process (Aqualia)
– Solar tertiary treatment based on photo-phenton to produce disinfected for irrigation (CIESOL – UAL)
– Biofertilizer production from sludge by enzymatic hydrolysis treatment (CETIM, Aqualia)
– Struvite recovery system from centrate by direct osmosis technology (CETIM)
All these innovative technologies will let reduce the electric consumption of El Bobar WWTP and then minimize its environmental impact and carbon footprint.
http://ulises.donline.es/en/
LIFE Muti-AD 4 AgroSMEs
LIFE17 ENV/ES/00033
High performance multiphase anaerobic reactor for agroindustrial wastewater treatment
The main objective of the LIFE Multi-AD 4 AgroSMEs project is to develop and industrialize an innovative fully automated system for the treatment of wastewater generated by small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) from the agri-food sector. This technology is based on the design of high-performance anaerobic multiphase reactor patented by AEMA, whose production will be personalized according to the specific needs of each client.
The LIFE Multi-AD 4 AgroSMEs project will reduce both the environmental impact of agri-food industries and the operating costs derived from their wastewater treatment. Moreover, this technology solution produces biogas, a renewable source energy, to contribute to the saving of natural resources and reducing CO2 emissions. Therefore, the project contributes to the development of strategies for resource efficiency within a production model based on a Circular Economy strategy.
http://www.lifemultiad.eu
LIFE ALGACEAN
LIFE16 ENV/ES/000180
Adding sustainability to the fruit and vegetable processing industry through solar-powered algal wastewater treatment
The LIFE ALGAECAN project proposes a sustainable treatment model of fruit and vegetable processing effluents that combines cost-effective heterotrophic microalgae cultivation with spray drying of the collected microalgae to obtain a product of commercial interest as raw material for the production of biofertilisers and animal feed. The energy used in the process is 100% from renewable energy.
http://www.lifealgaecan.eu
LIFE CIRCforBIO
LIFE18 CCM/GR/001180
A circular economy system for multi-source biomass conversion to added value products
The overall aim of the CIRCforBIO project proposal is to achieve high GHG emission savings from the substitution of fossil fuels with advanced biofuels as well as to promote the realization of the circular economy concept for biomass. This will be achieved through (i) the implementation and demonstration of an innovative biorefinery concept for the production of bioethanol, used oil (raw material for biodiesel) and other bioproducts from biomass produced from household, catering and industrial food waste and from agricultural residues and (ii) the creation of an interactive platform for facilitating the realisation of the circular economy concept for 2nd generation biomass in Greece.
http://circforbio.eu/