Partners

BYK Additives Ltd (BYK)

www.byk.com

BYK Additives Limited is a member of Altana a global manufacturer of speciality chemicals. BYK Additives are a global manufacturer of speciality clay materials with a business based upon the physical and chemical modification of clays to develop a range of performance properties. Our R&D laboratory and manufacturing site is located in Widnes.

SCAE srl

www.scaevicenza.it

The experience gained in the design, construction, commissioning of Waste Water Treatment Plants, combined with the desire to embark on a self-employed activity, led Pierpaolo Pozzato Scanni to found the SCAE.

AGROBICS Ltd (AGRB)

www.agrobics.com

AgRobics Ltd. is a start-up that develops a technology for treating wastewater containing high organic loads. AgRobics has completed the incubator phase at L. N. Incubator of Haifa, and has now commenced a joint project with Mekorot's WaTech® - Mekorot Technological Cooperation Center, supported by the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Economy.

Salsnes Filter A.S.

www.salsnes-filter.com

Salsnes Filter AS with head office in Namsos, Norway, was founded in 1991 and is now a major supplier to municipal wastewater treatment plants along the Norwegian coastline, and the market leader in the Norwegian market for primary treatment applications, with more than 100 WWTP’s in operation in Norway.

Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

www.ibet.pt

iBET is an SME created to integrate biological and biochemical knowledge from academic and industrial partners into technology for economic wealth and job creation. The SME iBET is a private non-profit research intensive institution with the mission to integrate and strengthen biological and biochemical knowledge from its academic and industrial partners into technology and transfer it into economic wealth and job creation.

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SMART-Plant scales-up in real environment eco-innovative and energy-efficient solutions to renovate existing wastewater treatment plants and close the circular value chain by applying low-carbon techniques to recover materials that are otherwise lost.

Seven plus two (7+2) pilot systems were optimized for more than two years in real environment in five municipal water treatment plants, including also two post-processing facilities. The systems were automatized with the aim of optimizing wastewater treatment, resource recovery, energy-efficiency and reduction of greenhouse emissions. A comprehensive SMART portfolio comprising biopolymers, cellulose, fertilizers and intermediates were recovered and processed up to the final commercializable end-products.

Dynamic modeling and superstructure framework for decision support was developed and validated to identify the optimum SMART-Plant system integration options for recovered resources and technologies.

The integration of resource recovery assets to system wide asset management programs were evaluated in each site following the resource recovery paradigm for the wastewater treatment plant of the future, enabled through SMART-Plant solutions. The project proved the feasibility of circular management of urban wastewater and environmental sustainability of the systems, through Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing approaches as well as the global benefit of the scaled-up water solutions.

Global market deployment was achieved as right fit solution for water utilities and relevant industrial stakeholders, considering the strategic implications of the resource recovery paradigm in case of both public and private water management. New public-private partnership models were also explored connecting the water sector to the chemical industry and its downstream segments such as the construction and agricultural sector, thus generating new opportunities for funding and potential public-private competition.