Project description
Centrifuge camera for advanced wastewater sludge treatment
The EU generates over 45 000 tonnes of wastewater sludge daily. Depending on the effectiveness of treatment plants in removing water, this sludge can either become a valuable resource or pose environmental challenges. Current methods are outdated, resulting in inefficiencies and negative environmental impacts. The ERC-funded SludgeCam project aims to develop an innovative smart-camera centrifuge equipped with advanced software, hardware, and sensing capabilities. This technology will enable plant operators to adjust treatment process parameters, select suitable flocculant polymers, and set standards for various types of sludge based on reliable, reproducible data. The project aims to promote environmentally friendly water treatment operations while significantly reducing energy consumption linked to sludge incineration.
Objective
The EU produces more than 45000 tons of waste-water sludge per day as byproduct of municipal and industrial water purification activities. This enormous amount can become a gold mine for materials recovery, or an environmental burden, depending on how well waste-treatment plants can remove water from these sludges. Today sludge treatment processes are based on unoptimized methods, which rely on operator experience and low-tech equipment, and are not able to deal with the fast-changing sludge type evolution, resulting in loss of time, energy and money, as well as a negative environmental impact.
The SludgeCam project will deliver an innovative smart camera centrifuge, having advanced software, hardware and sensing features, which will enable plant operators to consciously adapt treatment process parameters, select flocculant polymers and set standards for different sludge types, based on solid, reproducible data, so that more environmentally-friendly water treatment operations and drastically reduced energy consumption for sludge incineration will be achieved.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2022-POC2
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