Project description
Innovative solutions for energy recovery from wastewater
The EU Water Framework Directive sets strict regulations on a wide range of contaminants. However, several treatments increase the energy demand of the water cycle. To achieve carbon neutrality, the EU is committed to decrease energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The EU funded REWATERGY project will perform research to increase energy recovery from wastewater streams according to the circular economy concept, improve the energy efficiency of water disinfection and removal of contaminants, and enhance the resilience of distributed household safe drinking water systems. The project will train scientists and engineers to communicate ideas and develop creative solutions for innovative technologies in the market.
Objective
The EU is currently facing the challenge of recycling materials and water of high quality to become carbon neutral by decreasing its energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The current Water Framework Directive has strict regulations on a wide range of contaminants, and most treatments continuously increase the energy demand of the water cycle. Yet, the EU is committed to ambitious targets to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions, including the legally binding 2015 Paris agreement.
These conflicting interests have motivated REWATERGY, a partnership within the water-energy nexus. This integrated network, led by industry in partnership with world leading academic institutions, envisions the scientific and technological opportunities of such challenges with direct economic and social impacts to the EU. Three research objectives set the foundation of this ambitious programme,
i) enhance the energy recovery from waste water streams inspired by the circular economy concept,
ii) improve the energy efficiency of water disinfection and removal of contaminants of emerging concern, and
iii) increase the resilience of distributed household safe drinking water systems addressing potential health and safety challenges.
The programme is particularly designed to cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit by the collaborative design, development and manufacturing of new prototypes aligned with the three research objectives. This training concept will have a long term impact by providing a stream of highly trained innovative scientists and engineers able to communicate ideas and to develop creative solutions for the adoption of novel technologies in the market.
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: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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