Project description
Turning liquid waste into renewable energy
Modern society produces ever-greater volumes of liquid waste which are inefficiently treated and contribute negatively to the planet's pollution. The EU-funded KATEDRAL project is the first step towards the TreaTech mission of bringing to market an innovative technology for the valorisation of liquid waste. The process transforms a wide range of liquid wastes from different industries (i.e. chemical, food and beverage, municipal, livestock) into local, pollutants-free and methane-rich renewable gas. The technology can recover valuable finite minerals (i.e. phosphorus) as well as water contained in waste, which is clean after the process. As countries strive for energy independence, the technology could contribute by generating a sustainable supply of gas.
Objective
TreaTech, a young clean-tech Swiss company, has developed an innovative technology that will revolutionise the waste management of sewage sludge by turning it into valuable by-products and energy such as biogas, clean water and natural fertilizers that would otherwise be lost during disposal process.
Contrary to other solutions that rely on incineration or landfilling, which are expensive for companies and harmful for the environment, TreaTech has developed a treatment unit KATEDRAL that can operate with the vast majority of liquid waste streams, and contribute to provide a cost-efficient, ecological and reliable disposal solution. Our mobile unit KATEDRAL will offer a solution 40% cheaper than incineration since it does not require transport of the material nor fossil energy for incineration and will reduce more than 60% of today’s GHG emissions since organic compounds present in the sludge are not burnt anymore, but transformed into valuable renewable energy (biogas).
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistry
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energy
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Funding Scheme
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
1027 LONAY
Switzerland
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.