Objective
Large amounts of sludge results from wastewater treatments, becoming the disposal of these sledges one of the major problems that the wastewater treatment plants have to deal. The amount of water present on the sludge requires higher areas for its disposal, which in many cases are not available. The transport of the sludge, with high content of water, to facilities where its possible to disposal or to treat, increases the treatment costs. The transport, disposal and treatment costs would be reduced significantly if the water content of the sludge has been reduced previously. Although the existent processes allow the removal of the free water that is present in the sludge, the "dried" sludge still remains with 15 to 20% of the water that is linked to the solid materials. The break of the cellular tissues is a pre-requisite to facilitate the removal of this interstitial water. Enzymatic technologies, through the use of specific/selected enzymes, can be applied to promote the rupture of the cell tissues. The objective of this project is to define and selected appropriates enzymes and to establish an optimised process for its application in wastewater treatment plants.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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Coordinator
4100 PORTO
Portugal
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