Summary:
A Spanish industry working in the management of wastewater treatment plants, sanitation systems and waste valorization centers has the knowledge and facilities to participate in Horizon Europe calls and other collaborative projects related to environment, circular economy and energy, accomplishing the role of validator of the different technologies that will be developed within the projects. A research cooperation agreement with SMEs, corporates, universities or research centres in envisaged.
Description:
Wastewater treatments and water valorization are connected to most of the goals of the European Green Deal, such as sustainable industry, biodiversity and eliminating pollution, and validating the new technologies developed to improve the current systems is relevant for them to be transferred into the market; this should be accomplished by entities with proper expertise and facilities.
A Spanish industry, created as a service company in 1995, manages sewage from a population higher than 9,500,000 inhabitants, with a volume of treated water 817,000,000 m3/year. Their main R&D fields of expertise are: microbiological control, energy-water nexus, nutrient removal, recovery of nutrients and added-value products, sewage sludge valorisation and hygienisation, membrane treatment, codigestion, industrial wastewater treatment and disinfection.
They have led projects in European R&D programmes focused on the production of sustainable fertilising products from local bio-based waste and on high-solids anaerobic sewage sludge treatment, being their current main concerns the products recovery from waste treatments, sustainable water facilities and closing the loop.
They can validate technologies that are close to commercialization but also those that still require some degree of research. They can validate prototypes in different types of WWTP (Wastewater treatment plants) regarding volume of wastewater treated, type of treatment, regions with different climatic conditions and influents, etc. They can provide laboratories and equipment for the studies, WWTP simulation systems and experts on anaerobic digestion, codigestion, recovery of nutrients, emerging contaminants removal, water reuse and waste management.
This industry seeks research cooperation agreements with SMEs, corporates, research centres and universities willing to participate or leading a proposal for the Horizon Europe calls on environment, circular economy and energy.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
Seeking to work with SMEs, corporates, research centres and universities from the water or other sector space that are willing to participate of leading a Horizon Europe proposal on environment, circular economy and/or energy.
Stage of Development:
Available for demonstration
IPR Status:
Secret Know-how
External code:
TOES20201027001
