- Start: 01/06/2016
- End: 31/05/2019
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.
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 codigestion 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.
**This Project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nº 689242. The dissemination of results herein reflects only the author's view and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
- Sectors: Water treatment
- Financing programme: Horizon 2020
- R&D&i: Optical technologies for monitoring and control of natural resources, Urban and industrial wastewater treatment, waste treatment and valorisation
- Partners: AARHUS UNIVERSITY, CENTER FOR RECIRKULERING - RECIRKU, ICLEI, Isle Utilities, OFFICE INTERNATIONAL DE L'EAU (OIEAU), BIOTREND, RENERGIE SYSTEME GMBH & CO. KG (ARTEC BIOTECHNOLOGIE GMBH), IBET, AUTARCON, DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (DTI), SOLARSPRING (SSP), VALLADOLID UNIVERSITY, AQUALIA, THE HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, FUTURE INTELLIGENCE, SIMBIENTE
- Acronym: INCOVER
- Ambit: International
- Web: http://incover-project.eu
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