Descrizione del progetto
Strumenti innovativi per il trattamento del deflusso urbano
L’efficacia delle infrastrutture per il trattamento delle acque reflue urbane ai fini della salvaguardia delle acque dolci in Europa è compromessa dagli straripamenti delle acque meteoriche, compresi i deflussi superficiali urbani e gli straripamenti delle fognature, che apportano carichi inquinanti significativi nell’ambiente acquatico. Sono necessari nuovi modi per mitigare efficacemente l’inquinamento derivante dal deflusso urbano e dagli scarichi fognari. Il progetto StopUP, finanziato dall’UE, definirà i percorsi dell’inquinamento nei bacini urbani per proporre interventi mirati. Il progetto prevede l’applicazione di concetti di monitoraggio avanzati, sensori online, elaborazione e analisi dei dati per aumentare le conoscenze sugli inquinanti. Inoltre, svilupperà e testerà tecnologie innovative per la prevenzione dell’inquinamento e fornirà strumenti a supporto della selezione e dell’attuazione di misure di mitigazione degli agenti inquinanti.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
52062 Aachen
Germania