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Identifying best available technologies for decentralized wastewater treatment and resource recovery for India

Descrizione del progetto

Trattare le acque reflue quando e dove necessario

Il trattamento delle acque reflue urbane è fondamentale per garantire la salute pubblica e la protezione ambientale. I trattamenti idrici decentralizzati e delle acque reflue sono alternative flessibili, nonché sostenibili ai grandi impianti di trattamento. Essi possono contribuire a risolvere le sfide relative a scarsità idrica e resilienza climatica. Ciò implica localizzare gli impianti di trattamento delle acque e delle acque reflue nel sito della fornitura idrica, della richiesta o di entrambe. Il progetto SARASWATI 2.0 finanziato dall’UE, identificherà le tecnologie disponibili migliori e più convenienti. Come prosecuzione del precedente progetto SARASWATI (che prende il nome dalla divinità indù della conoscenza, della musica, della arti e della scienza ed è il nome del fiume sacro scomparso in India), verranno condotti progetti pilota in India, che non dispone di un livello adeguato di trattamento delle acque reflue.

Obiettivo

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.

Invito a presentare proposte

H2020-SC5-2018-2019-2020

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Bando secondario

H2020-SC5-2018-1

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinatore

UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 532 500,00
Indirizzo
GREGOR MENDEL STRASSE 33
1180 Wien
Austria

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Regione
Ostösterreich Wien Wien
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 532 500,00

Partecipanti (16)