Descripción del proyecto
Herramientas innovadoras para tratar las escorrentías urbanas
La eficacia de las infraestructuras de tratamiento de aguas residuales urbanas en la protección de las aguas dulces europeas se ve socavada por los desbordamientos de las aguas pluviales, como las escorrentías superficiales urbanas y los desbordamientos del desagüe colectivo, los cuales introducen cantidades significativas de polutantes en el medio acuático. Se necesitan nuevos métodos para mitigar de forma eficaz la contaminación causada por las escorrentías urbanas y los desbordamientos del desagüe. En el proyecto StopUP, financiado con fondos europeos, se definirán las vías de contaminación de las cuencas urbanas para proponer intervenciones dirigidas. El equipo del proyecto aplicará conceptos de vigilancia avanzada, sensores en línea, así como procesos de análisis y tratamiento de datos, a fin de comprender mejor los polutantes. Además, desarrollará y probará tecnologías innovadoras para evitar la contaminación y proporcionará herramientas para permitir la selección y aplicación de medidas de mitigación de los polutantes.
Objetivo
Major progress has been achieved in protecting European freshwaters through the successful implementation of urban wastewater treatment infrastructures but significant pressures still pose threats to the quality of the receiving water bodies. The recent evaluation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive underlined that, in particular stormwater overflows including urban surface run-off and combined sewer overflows bring relevant pollutant loads into the aquatic environment. The pressure on water resources from those kinds of emissions is expected to aggravate through the impacts of global climate change with more frequent intense precipitation as well as more pronounced drought conditions. To address those challenges new ways in effectively mitigating pollution arising from urban run-off and sewer overflows are needed, providing effective load reduction, in a way affordable as well as acceptable to end-users and the society. The StopUP project will elucidate pollution pathways in urban catchments to enable targeted interventions through measures at source, retention and treatment. It will foster knowledge about emissions incl. pollutant release, transport and receiving water bodies through advanced monitoring concepts, online sensors and data processing and analysis. In the context of different case studies, innovative technologies for pollution prevention such as advanced retention soil filters for combined sewer overflow treatment which can be integrated better in urban areas will be further developed and tested. The tests will demonstrate integrated solutions including monitoring, treatment and control of diffusive pollution in different contexts concerning geographic, climatic and hydrological as well as socio-economic settings. Based on the findings, tools to support selection, implementation and operation of pollutant mitigation measures for end-users including environmental authorities, water boards/utilities, consultancies will be derived.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
HORIZON-CL6-2021-ZEROPOLLUTION-01
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
52062 Aachen
Alemania