Project description
Innovative water aeration solution
The water aeration process is instrumental in improving water quality in artificial environments. However, existing aeration technology is slow, inefficient, power-consuming, and smell-generating. The UK-based company Nanogentech has developed a time-effective technology that processes organic waste up to nine times faster than traditional aeration methods. The solution will reduce costs by over 80 % and achieve an oxygen transfer rate beyond 90 %. The EU-funded UFine project will perform the feasibility assessment, define a minimum viable product and create a marketisation strategy and a supply chain. The project will optimise the ultra-fine bubble nozzle to allow a scale-up of the solution and complete a successful demonstration in the UK.
Objective
One of the key processes for improving water quality is aeration. When waste water is cleansed in sewage farms, water aeration is required to enable the bacteria which consume the particles in suspension to thrive. Current aeration technology is slow, inefficient, very power consuming and smell generating. Electricity is a critical input for delivering municipal wastewater services, and today about 1% of the EU electricity demand is consumed by wastewater treatment plants. Electricity costs are usually between 5% to 30% of total operating costs among wastewater utilities worldwide. Nanogentech offers UFine, a time effective technology, consuming organic waste up to 9 times faster than traditional aeration methods and allowing cost reduction of over 80%. UFine also achieves a remarkable oxygen transfer rate of beyond 90%. UFine will target industrial wastewater treatment plants which treat only 60% of industrial wastewater before discharge. In the UK, there are many Wastewater Treatment Utilities that serve populations of over 2,000 people, above which the Directive’s secondary treatment standards applies.
During the feasibility assessment, a minimum viable product will be defined, a go-to-market strategy and a supply chain will be established, as well as further development plan will be drafted. Within the overall project Nanogentech aims to optimize the ultra-fine bubble nozzle to enable a perfect scale-up of the solution from small wastewater utilities to greater agglomeration’s discharges and complete a successful demonstration with a wastewater company in the UK.
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
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologybacteriology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
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Funding Scheme
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
EC3V 0HR London
United Kingdom
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.