Objetivo
The World is running out of clean, safe, fresh water. By 2025 one third of humanity (ca. 3 billion people) will face severe water scarcity. This has been described as the "single greatest threat to health, the environment and global food security". Water is essential and preservation of its safety in quantity and in quality is critical to the sustainable development of any society. The goal of this project is to make a contribution to meet this challenge. The protection of water in the European Union has been encouraged through the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The intention of WFD is to protect water resources (quality and quantity) through an integrated water resource management policy. Wastewater treatment is an important aspect of water management. Efficient, cost effective treatment processes are needed for transforming wastewater into water free from contamination, which can be returned to the hydrological cycle without detrimental effects. The development and application of MBR for full-scale municipal wastewater treatment is the most important recent technical advance in terms of biological wastewater treatment. It represents a decisive step further concerning effluent quality by delivering a hygienically pure effluent and by exhibiting a very high operational reliability. The overall objective of EUROMBRA is to develop a cost-effective, sustainable solution for new, efficient and advanced municipal wastewater treatment based on MBR technology. This will be achieved through a multi-faceted, concerted and cohesive research programme explicitly linking key limiting phenomena (fouling, clogging) observed and quantified on the micro-, meso-. and macro-scale. Key to the success of the programme is the harnessing specialist knowledge, conducting of dedicated yet interlinked experiments and incorporating key aspects of both system design and operational facets, the latter encompassing hydrodynamics and mass transfer, foulant speciation and dynamic impacts.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactors
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management
Convocatoria de propuestas
FP6-2004-GLOBAL-3
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Régimen de financiación
STREP - Specific Targeted Research ProjectCoordinador
TRONDHEIM
Noruega
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Participantes (17)
BEDFORDSHIRE
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DUEBENDORF
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BERGHEIM / ERFT
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HANNOVER
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TOULOUSE
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OEIRAS
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AACHEN
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WASHINGTON, TYNE & WEAR
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TOULOUSE
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AACHEN
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DELFT
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DELFT
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TRENTO
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MONTPELLIER
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WESTVILLE
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SYDNEY
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DORDRECHT
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