The Institut de Robòtica i TIC (Robotics Institute and ICT) of the Universitat de València coordinates the European project Hydrobionets, which is a pioneer project in the world and has a budget of 3,5 million Euros. This new technology will allow to save a 45% of the desalinated water costs and it will reduce a 74% the energy consumption in the purification facilities.
Researchers in the Universitat are designing intelligent networks intended for optimizing the operation of sewage treatment plants and water desalination plants. The Grup de Sistemes d’Informació i Comunicacions (Group of Information and Communication Systems, GSIC), belonging to the Robotics Institute, coordinates this European project, which has a budget of 3,5 million Euros for three years, with the goal of developing, for the first time in the world, an intelligent interconnected wireless network of biosensors able to control bacterial activity, to determine the ideal biocides injection, and thus to increase the efficiency of these facilities.
The research platform, which has been working from autumn, is made up of an international multidisciplinary team. Participating in the team are, apart from Universitat de València, the Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica from the Superior Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), several Swedish, Hungarian, Greek and British research centres, and the company Acciona Agua.
The Vice-Principal for Research and Scienctific Policy, Pedro Carrasco, presented this project on December the 27th, along with the technical director of the Oficina de Projectes Europeus (European Research Projects Office, OPER), Àngels Sanchis, and Hydrogionets coordinator, Baltasar Berefull. Carrasco stressed that the research is ‘not only pioneering but another sample of knowledge transfer from the Universitat to society, in this case, through improvements in economy and sustainability areas.’
The GSIC director and coordinator of Hydrobionets, Baltasar Berefull, explained that the main goal of this initiative is to ‘fundamentally increase the plants productivity and reduce its costs. This would be done thanks to a higher durability of osmosis’ membranes –in the case of the desalination- and a higher durability of bioreactors in the sewage treatment plants, on the one hand, and thanks to a more accurate use of chemical products.’ A better management of the facilites will be possible for it will allow to access and visualize the different processes more efficiently, Berefull added.
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Presentation of the project at the Universitat de València
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Researchers in the Universitat are designing intelligent networks intended for optimizing the operation of sewage treatment plants and water desalination plants. The Grup de Sistemes d’Informació i Comunicacions (Group of Information and Communication Systems, GSIC), belonging to the Robotics Institute, coordinates this European project, which has a budget of 3,5 million Euros for three years, with the goal of developing, for the first time in the world, an intelligent interconnected wireless network of biosensors able to control bacterial activity, to determine the ideal biocides injection, and thus to increase the efficiency of these facilities.
The research platform, which has been working from autumn, is made up of an international multidisciplinary team. Participating in the team are, apart from Universitat de València, the Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica from the Superior Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), several Swedish, Hungarian, Greek and British research centres, and the company Acciona Agua.
The Vice-Principal for Research and Scienctific Policy, Pedro Carrasco, presented this project on December the 27th, along with the technical director of the Oficina de Projectes Europeus (European Research Projects Office, OPER), Àngels Sanchis, and Hydrogionets coordinator, Baltasar Berefull. Carrasco stressed that the research is ‘not only pioneering but another sample of knowledge transfer from the Universitat to society, in this case, through improvements in economy and sustainability areas.’
The GSIC director and coordinator of Hydrobionets, Baltasar Berefull, explained that the main goal of this initiative is to ‘fundamentally increase the plants productivity and reduce its costs. This would be done thanks to a higher durability of osmosis’ membranes –in the case of the desalination- and a higher durability of bioreactors in the sewage treatment plants, on the one hand, and thanks to a more accurate use of chemical products.’ A better management of the facilites will be possible for it will allow to access and visualize the different processes more efficiently, Berefull added.
Contacts and sources:
Asociación RUVID
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