- Start: 01/02/2019
- End: 31/01/2023
Main objective: The main aim of this project is to validate, deploy and develop cost-effective & sustainable solutions to tackle water challenges and ensure the provision of safe water reuse, rejuvenate water quality of rivers, and restore ecosystems in India.
This will be achieved by deploying & developing water / wastewater technologies, and use of sensors for emerging and conventional contaminants. Further, it also aims to develop new management & planning strategies and enable better monitoring of pollution levels in real-time modes.
Expected results: This will be achieved by deploying & developing water/wastewater technologies, and use of sensors for emerging and traditional contaminants. It also aims to develop new management & planning strategies and enable better monitoring of pollution levels in real-time modes. Beside the technical aspects, research will also cover financial, environmental and institutional sustainability of those systems in order to develop and bring to the market a cost-efficient multi-barrier water management approach by building capacity.
Role of AIMEN:
- Development and implementation of a low-cost spectral photodetector for the quantification of organic compounds (as volatile fatty acids -VFA-) for insitu monitoring/control of anaerobic digestion (AD) reactors.
- Development and implementation of a cost-effective sensor for real time pathogen/microorganism detection and quantification in water samples.
- Optimization of anaerobic digestion reactors so as to increase their organic and hydraulic loading rates.
- Design and optimization of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment.
- Leader of the Public-private working group: platform together with the 4 Indian hosts, that will organize meetings every 6 months to learn among each other and advance in knowledge.
- Sectors: agricultural, environment, Environmental engineering, Rural development, Water industry
- 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
- Contributors: AARHUS UNIVERSITY, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), All India Institute of Local Self Government (AIILSG), AUTARCON, BioAzul S.L., BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Ecosan Services Foundation (ESF), Engineering and Environmental Solutions (E&E), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITK), Indian School of Mine (ISM), IRIDRA S.R.L., Kre_Ta - Rainwater use & Landscape design, Lars Enviro Pvt. Ltd (LEPL), Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV), National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri), National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Pessl Instruments, Seecon International Gmbh, Symbiosis International (SIU), THE HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, TTZ Bremerhaven, UrbanPlan Consulting & Engineering Pvt. Ltd. (UPPL)
- Acronym: PAVITR
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://www.pavitr.net/
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