An Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Sewage Sludge Valorization Unit

Project Information

KATEDRAL

Grant agreement ID: 807723

DOI 10.3030/807723

Project closed

EC signature date 23 February 2018

Start date 1 March 2018

End date 30 June 2018

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost € 71 429,00

EU contribution € 50 000,00

Coordinated by

TREATECH SA
Switzerland

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)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › water treatment processes › wastewater treatment processes
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels › renewable energy
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › organic chemistry
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels › fossil energy

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Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.3.5. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Main Programme
• H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument

Topic(s)

• SMEInst-11-2016-2017 - Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Call for proposal

H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017

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Sub call

H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017

Funding Scheme

SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1

Coordinator

TREATECH SA

• Net EU contribution: € 50 000,00
• Address: CHEMIN DES MOUETTES 1 ; 1027 LONAY ; Switzerland
• SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes:
  Region
  Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera › Région lémanique › Vaud
• Region: Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera › Région lémanique › Vaud
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Total cost: € 71 429,00