Objective Objectives and content:Industrial companies producing wastewater are under increasing pressure to reduce the polluting load of their waste and to monitor the wastewater they discharge to sewer or direct to the environment. This activity is predominantly carried out using sampling and laboratory analysis, which is labour intensive, may miss damaging peak loads and is too slow to allow any preventive action to be taken. The industrial objective of the LOADMON project is, on exploitation, to provide pollution load monitoring equipment, which is economical and reliable to meet this industrial need and reduce operating costs. The equipment will also assist wastewater treatment plant operators, by providing reliable affordable equipment to monitor and control the process, particularly the treatment load within the upstream wastewater networks. Another objective is to provide reliable equipment for environmental monitoring, especially for intermittent and variable discharges, which are presently poorly served. LOADMON will also support the move towards pollution control over large regions, where obtaining good quality data is currently very expensive. The wastewater measurement environment is very hostile for instrumentation, and the concentration of pollutants at present can only be monitored continuously by using expensive sample preparation and automatic chemical analysis equipment, which both require frequent maintenance. The LOADMON project will develop equipment using non-contact techniques to measure suspended solids, organic load as Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), nitrate, phosphate, ammonia and flow. The final hardware deliverable will be an optical prototype system with sophisticated data processing, capable of safe use in a hazardous atmosphere. The total avoidance of direct contact will result in: much better reliability than current technologies; operating costs down by an estimated factor of 5; no sample preparation equipment hence useful power savings. Due to this major advance, LOADMON technology will enable a number of new pollution monitoring applications both in industrial and municipal wastewater processing, for example the real time control of the input load to treatment plants using monitors and flow control within the wastewater network. It is also expected that LOADMON technology will have applications in other industries where turbid liquids are processed, such as brewing, bio gas plants, paper-making and food processing. The consortium consists of an instrument manufacturer, a university, a research company, an optical engineering company, a hazardous area equipment specialist and four end users to provide a range of situations and sample types. BRITE-EURAM areas covered are 1.2.1.M 1.2.3.M 1.2.2.S 1.4.4.M. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesnatural sciencesphysical sciencesclassical mechanicsfluid mechanicsfluid dynamicsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0102 - Development of clean production technologies Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator WRC plc Address Frankland road SN5 8YF Swindon United Kingdom See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AQUAFIN N.V. Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address 8,dijkstraat 8 2630 Aartselaar See on map ASM Brescia SpA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address 230,via lamarmora 230 25124 Brescia See on map Dublin City University Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Glasnevin 9 Dublin See on map GLI International Ltd. United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Eastman way HP2 7HB Hemel - hempstead See on map Gunter Kamper VDI - Ing-Buro für Explosionsschutz Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 10,birkenstrasse 10 44579 Castrop - rauxel See on map Interenge Ltd. - Intercâmbio de Engenharia Tecnologia Lda Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address 69,rua d. maria das dores payzinho 69 2775 Paredes See on map Mejoras Energeticas de Recursos e Investigacion S.A. Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address 11 c,avenida osa mayor 11 c 28023 Madrid See on map Opdix Optoelectronic GmbH Beratung - Entwicklung - Vertrieb Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 9,wöhlerweg 9 82538 Geretsried See on map
