Project description
Waste activated sludge as a resource
Waste water treatment plants produce large amounts of waste activated sludge (WAS) – an unwanted semi-solid residual. Upgrading waste water processes is a necessary step towards achieving the EU Green Deal goals. Considering WAS as a resource rather than an unwanted by product is crucial in this process. The ERC-funded CAVIPHY project will develop a unique device that exploits cavitation to pretreat industrial or domestic WAS before anaerobic digestion. However, this process needs to be fully modernised and refined to reach its full potential. The project will build on the knowledge gained by the ERC-CoG CABUM project that developed a cost-effective rotating generator for hydrodynamic cavitation that works simultaneously as a cavitation generator and a pump. CAVIPHY will improve WAS treatment while producing methane.
Fields of science
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactors
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG-LS - HORIZON Lump Sum GrantCoordinator
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
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