Objective
Taking into account the current global water scarcity and the expensive operation and maintenance cost of wastewater treatment, INCOVER concept has been designed to move wastewater treatment from being primarily a sanitation technology towards a bio-product recovery industry and a recycled water supplier. A wastewater specific Decision Support System methodology will be tailored to the INCOVER technologies and provide data and selection criteria for a holistic wastewater management approach
Three added-value plants treating wastewater from three case-studies (municipalities, farms and food and beverage industries) will be implemented, assessed and optimised concurrently. INCOVER plants will be implemented at demonstration scale in order to achieve Technology Readiness Level(TRL) of 7-8 to ensure straightforward up scaling to 100,000 population equivalents (PE). INCOVER added-value plants will generate benefits from wastewater offering three recovery solutions: 1) Chemical recovery (bio-plastic and organic acids) via algae/bacteria and yeast biotechnology; 2) Near-zero-energy plant providing upgraded bio-methane via pre-treatment and anaerobic co-digestion systems; 3) Bio-production and reclaimed water via adsorption, biotechnology based on wetlands systems and hydrothermal carbonisation. To improve added-value production efficiency, INCOVER solutions will include monitoring and control via optical sensing and soft-sensors
INCOVER solutions will reduce at least a 50% overall operation and maintenance cost of wastewater treatment through the use of wastewater as a source for energy demand and added-value production to follow UE circular economy strategy. In addition, strategies to facilitate the market uptake of INCOVER innovations will be carried out in order to close the gap between demonstration and end-users
An estimated turnover of 188 million€ for INCOVER lead-users is expected after the initial exploitation strategy of 5 years implementing 27 INCOVER solutions
Field of science
- /natural sciences/chemical sciences/organic chemistry/organic acids
- /natural sciences/chemical sciences/electrochemistry/electrolysis
- /engineering and technology/civil engineering/water engineering/irrigation
- /natural sciences/biological sciences/microbiology/phycology
- /humanities/arts/modern and contemporary art/film
- /agricultural sciences/agricultural biotechnology/biomass
- /natural sciences/biological sciences/microbiology/bacteriology
- /agricultural sciences/agriculture, forestry, and fisheries/agriculture/grains and oilseeds/oilseed
- /social sciences/economics and business/economics/production economics
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/water treatment processes/wastewater treatment processes
- /engineering and technology/industrial biotechnology/biomaterials/bioplastics
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
36410 Porrino
Spain
Participants (17)
28016 Madrid
8000 Aarhus C
08034 Barcelona
04318 Leipzig
15341 Athina
6870 Olgod
4000 486 Porto
47002 Valladolid
79108 Freiburg Im Breisgau
2630 Taastrup
34117 Kassel
2781-901 Oeiras
97631 Bad Konigshofen
3060-197 Cantanhede
75008 Paris
KT18 5UJ Epsom
79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau