INNOWATECH – Innovative and Integrated Technolo-gies for the Treatment of Industrial Wastewater

Participants:

• CNR - Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque (I)

• Aachen Univ. Technol. (D)

• Tech. Univ. Delft (NL)

• Swedish Env. Res. Inst. Ltd (S)

• Cranfield Univ. (UK)

• EPFL (CH)

• CIEMAT-PSA (E)

• Norw. Inst. Wat. Res. (N)

• SolSep BV (NL)

• Bayer Material Science AG (D)

• ITT Wedeco (D)

• Austep S.r.l. (I)

• Albaida S.A. (E)

• AnoxKaldnes (S)

• Water Innovate Ltd (UK)

• DHV (NL)

• Adv. Wastewater Manag. Centre (AUS)

Contact:

• Antonio López, antonio.lopez@ba.irsa.cnr.it

• Wolfgang Gernjak, wolfgang.gernjak@psa.es

INNOWATECH description of workpackages (WP).

Background:

The EU Environmental Technologies Action Plan supports new concepts and processes in industrial wastewater treatment offering high potential benefits in stable effluent quality, energy and operating cost savings, and protection of the environment. http://www.innowatech.org

Objectives:

• Develop aerobic granulation bioreactors

• couple Advanced Biotreatment and Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs)

• develop new membrane processes

• perform Life Cycle Assessments and estimate Life Cycle Costs.

Achievements in 2006:

Project started in November 2006. References include relevant papers in this area.

Funding:

• EC (FP6): 2,750 k€

Duration:

• November, 2006 - October, 2009

Publications:

• Muñoz I., Peral J., Ayllón J.A., Malato S., Domènech X. (2006) Life cycle assessment of a coupled solar photo-catalytic-biological process for wastewater treatment, Wat. Res. 40, 3533-3540.

• Maldonado M.I., Malato S., Pérez-Estrada L.A., Gernjak W., Oller I., Doménech X., Peral J. (2006) Partial degra-dation of five pesticides and an industrial pollutant by ozonation in a pilot-plant scale reactor, J. Hazar. Mat. B138, 363-369.