GRANT AGREEMENT: 689785 PROGRAMME 2020-WATER-1b-2015
SaltGae
will develop and demonstrate a techno-economically
viable solution for the treatment of saline
wastewater from Food & Beverage industry.
SaltGae will be a case study to overcome
the cross-cutting barriers to innovation
identified in the EIP Water.
CONTEXT
The treatment of saline wastewater in presence
of organic content represents a challenge
for many industrial sectors, such as food
processing, leather, and land-based aquaculture
industries. Saline wastewater is extremely
difficult and expensive to treat, and its
discharge represents a major threat to the
environment, due to the presence of organic
content suspended solids, nutrients (mainly
nitrogen and phosphorus) and salt (concentrations
up to 15%). Conventional wastewater treatments
have proven ineffective for this kind of
wastewater, as the bacterial processes typically
used for the elimination of organic matter
and nutrients are inhibited under high salinity
contents. Therefore, generally combinations
of biological and physicochemical methods
are used which greatly increase the costs
of the treatment, making it unaffordable
for SMEs, who voluntarily decide not to
comply with EU directives and discharge
without prior treatment, causing severe
damage to the environment.
OBJECTIVES
SaltGae project aims to develop and demonstrate:
- a techno-economically viable solution
for the treatment of saline wastewaters,
by establishing three DEMO sites for the
real scale demonstration of the the sustainable
and eco-innovative modular-based technology
platform.
DEMOs will take place in Slovenia (treatment
of tannery WW) Italy (whey WW) and Israel
(aquaculture WW).
- an innovation framework
for the mobilization and networking of
stakeholders from all the different sectors
related to wastewater. It will provide
a platform for their communication and
for the dissemination of results.
EXPECTED IMPACTS
- Contribution to the implementation
of the EIP Water across a number of key
areas:
- Water and wastewater treatment, including
recovery of resources enabling a reduction
in treatment costs
- Water Reuse and Recycling as SaltGae
process implies wastewater desalination
- Water Energy Nexus recovering energy
from the wastewater enabling reuse onsite
to off-set the system energy demand
- Cross Cutting Challenges Creation of
new market opportunities, based on the
valorisation of sludge, effluents and
biomass.
- Resource efficiency and environmental
performance.
- Development and uptake of water efficiency
standards and promotion of interoperability
between water information systems.
Support to the EU Environmental Technology
Verification Pilot (ETV) programme.
DOCUMENTS
SaltGae flyer
Demonstration project - D1.1 Growth protocol of algae strain in saline wastewater
Demonstration project - D7.1 System settings and model
Demonstration project - D7.2 Progress Report on Techno-economic
Demonstration project - D8.1 Technology Innovation System Analysis
Demonstration project - D8.2 Technology innovation system strategy and roadmap
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