Project description
A holistic water management solution
Industrial water management faces critical challenges, including solute contamination and energy wastage. With rising water scarcity and environmental concerns, efficient water reclamation is imperative. In this context, the EU-funded R3VOLUTION project addresses not only water but also solutes and energy recovery hurdles. With a focus on sustainability, it aims for over 90 % water reuse and significant solute and heat reclamation. Through tailored membrane treatments and configurations coupled to digital process assistance, the project aims to optimise solutions for diverse industries, from petrochemicals and bio-based chemicals to steel, and pulp and paper. Led by expert partners, the project promises real-world impact, with demo cases across key sectors and evaluation in mining. R3VOLUTION’s multidisciplinary consortium will ensure a holistic approach to industrial water management.
Objective
R3VOLUTION (R3V) project will revolutionize industrial water management in the EU, providing key innovations that can enable economically, environmentally and operationally water reclamation projects (by addressing solutes and energy recovery challenges), and generate significant impact for the EU in the next decade.
To pave the way towards sustainable and efficient water and resource consumption, R3V takes on the challenge of developing and demonstrating a resource recovery solution that will enable >90% water reuse across most intensive water industries, applicable upstream and downstream, whilst recovering >45% effluents solutes, >50% waste heat reuse and eliminate 100% of hazardous substances. R3V will investigate, develop and demonstrate tailored membrane-based treatment trains coupled with waste heat, and a digital process assistant (DPA) to support the design phase to achieve optimal configuration for different industrial settings, minimising risks in implementation and provide critical support in operation.
With the aim to demonstrate R3V solution capabilities and replicability potential across varied process industries, the project includes 4 physical demo cases at pilot scale targeting several up- and down- streams in a variety of industries with high water discharges and complex effluents: petrochemical, bio-based chemical, pulp & paper and steel, each led by renowned technological partners. The project will also assess the transferability of the results by evaluating one additional industry (mining in Chile), and its replicability in 3 additional streams, via the DPA tool developed within the project.
The consortium perfectly maps the triangle of competences required to develop R3V solution: membrane technologies and design of treatment trains, energy recovery and digitalisation, considering also transversal competences such as economic, environmental and social assessment, together with the exploitation plan of the developments.
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08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT BARCELONA
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75008 Paris
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80686 Munchen
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49086 Osnabruck
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49086 Osnabruck
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08034 Barcelona
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08755 Castellbisbal Barcelona
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2400 Mol
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28045 Madrid
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28045 Madrid
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02150 Espoo
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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41300 LA RINCONADA SEVILLA
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7465 Trondheim
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45476 Mulheim An Der Ruhr
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08020 Barcelona
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1723 Marly
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HA4 7TU Ruislip
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SW7 2AZ LONDON
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