Descripción del proyecto
Depurar aguas residuales en el lugar y el momento necesarios
La depuración de aguas residuales urbanas es esencial para garantizar la salud pública y la protección ambiental. La descentralización en la gestión de aguas y aguas residuales es una alternativa flexible y sostenible a las grandes plantas de depuración. Se trata de un enfoque que puede ayudar a resolver el problema de la escasez de agua y fomentar la resiliencia frente al cambio climático. Consiste en ubicar los centros de tratamiento en el lugar donde se encuentra el suministro de agua, donde se produce la demanda o en ambos lados. El proyecto SARASWATI 2.0 financiado con fondos europeos, identificará cuáles son las mejores tecnologías disponibles y las más asequibles. Este trabajo es una continuación del proyecto anterior, SARASWATI (el nombre de la diosa hindú del conocimiento, la música, el arte y la ciencia, y el nombre del río sagrado perdido en India). Se realizarán pruebas piloto en India, un país con un bajo nivel en materia de depuración de aguas residuales.
Objetivo
The aim of SARASWATI 2.0 is to identify best available and affordable technologies for decentralized wastewater treatment with scope of resource/energy recovery and reuse in urban and rural areas. Further, it addresses the challenge of real time monitoring and automation. The previous SARASWATI project has shown that a number of decentralized wastewater treatment plants in India do not perform properly and that there are few plants that would meet the more stringent standards as those proposed by the Indian Government in 2015. Thus, in many cases not even CATNAP (the cheapest available technology narrowly avoiding prosecution) has been applied, leading to high pollution levels. The SARASWATI project therefore proposed to adopt the principle of BAT (best available technologies) in a more flexible way, adapting the definition of BAT to the local context, based on complementing the treatment efficiency with the costs of the treatment technology and affordability, and local context in the location of application. This will allow to identify BATs with more stringent standards if required and suitable for the location. Thereby, ten pilot technologies in 7 Indian States demonstrating enhanced removal of organic pollution (BOD, TSS), nutrients (particularly Nitrogen), organic micro-pollutants and pathogens have been proposed (WP1). Further, all pilots allow for resource recovery contributing to the principles of a circular economy and will undergo a comprehensive performance assessment (WP2) complemented by an extended sustainability assessment informed by recent ISO standards (WP4). This will allow identification of BATs for the Indian context. In addition, suitable automation and control strategies will be tested and recommended, taking into account the presence of operators and their level of knowledge and expertise (WP3). Finally, WP5 is dedicated to dissemination and exploitation of results. The consortium is comprised of a well-balanced EU-Indian team of 17 partners.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
Palabras clave
Programa(s)
- H2020-EU.3.5. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.5.4. - Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
- H2020-EU.3.5.2.2. - Developing integrated approaches to address water-related challenges and the transition to sustainable management and use of water resources and services
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-SC5-2018-1
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
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