Descripción del proyecto
Un tratamiento sostenible de las aguas residuales a pequeña escala
La industria de los alimentos y las bebidas es el sector manufacturero más importante de la Unión Europea (UE). Asimismo, se trata de uno de los mayores consumidores de agua y del mayor productor de aguas residuales. Por ello, las tecnologías para tratar los residuos biodegradables y los lodos de aguas residuales son importantes. A pesar de que se suele emplear la digestión anaeróbica, este no es un proceso optimizado para la pequeña escala. El proyecto Multi-AD Feasibility, financiado con fondos europeos, comercializará un digestor anaeróbico a pequeña escala construido para el tratamiento de aguas residuales en pymes del sector de los alimentos y las bebidas. Esta tecnología innovadora puede generar un 80 % de biogás rico en metano, que puede ser reutilizado en parte (el 50 %) para su funcionamiento y, en parte, para otras tareas industriales de gran consumo energético. El equipo del proyecto preparará el producto para su comercialización en diversos países de la UE y América Latina.
Objetivo
Food & Drink (F&D) industry is one of the most water consuming sectors, and is considered one of the largest producers of wastewater, producing roughly 2.17 million m3/day of wastewater in Europe. This is the largest manufacturing sector in EU, composed mainly by SMEs (>99%).
Technically, anaerobic digesters are NOT optimised for small volumes (<1,000 m3). So, most industrial wastewater treatment technologies are optimised for much larger volumes (average: 2,500 m3). Economically, these technologies are very expensive (>1M€). Thus, only big companies implement anaerobic digestors. Until now. In AEMA, we have been able to downscale a disruptive small scale anaerobic digestor for wastewater treatment, addressed to F&D industry: Multi-AD.
Multi-AD is a high performance MULTIphase Anaerobic Digester tailor-made for treating wastewater generated in Food and Drink SMEs. It is fully sensorised, being able to self-regulate basic operational parameters (T, flow…) for its auto-operation depending on the kind of wastewater characteristics it needs to treat. It will generate 80% methane-rich biogas that be partially used -50%- for its operation, and partially used -50%- for other energy-demanding industrial tasks (e.g. heating, at the industry choice), with average economic savings of 15,000€/year (when treating 100 m3/d) and 11% less CO2 emissions.
We will commercialise it in the most important EU28 countries in terms of F&D industry, and as well in some countries in Latin America, being the flagship product for our internationalisation.
We plan to sell in the first five commercialisation years 108 units of the device, what will imply that we will sum up to AEMA’s team 14 persons. The project will have a ROI of 2.82.
This Multi-AD project will contribute to ensure the safe and efficient use of water resources, to have a resource-efficient industrial sector in the whole EU, and ultimately to foster the use of renewable energy in industry.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technology
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
26540 ALFARO
España
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.