NEPTUNE New sustainable concepts and processes for optimization and upgrading municipal wastewater and sludge treatment

Country: EU Projects
Start Date:   1/11/2006         Duration: 42 months         Project Type: RTD
Contract Number: 036845
Organisation Type:  EC Project
Topics: 
Water and sanitation-->Wastewater
Project objectives:
Due to global demographic trends as well as new legislations the EU project Neptune puts its focus on improved effluent quality, energy reduction and resource 
reuse (water, nutrients and sludge). In the Work Package No. 1 the upgrading of existing municipal infrastructure was investigated with new control strategies
based on online sensors; nitritation/anammox process for nitrogen reduction; micropollutant removal with ozone or activated carbon addition as well as
improved sludge processing and reuse by sludge triage and thermal-hydrolysis of biomass. NEPTUNE will approach these tasks by focusing on technology solutions allowing to meet present and future standards via upgrading of existing municipal
infrastructure (new control strategies with online sensors; effluent upgrading with oxidation, activated carbon or wetland treatment; safe sludge processing
and reuse) as well as via new techniques (fuel cell applications; new oxidation processes; production of polymer and phosphate from sludge). By including
pathogens and ecotoxicity aspects into life cycle assessment studies (LCA), the project is helping to improve the comparability of various technical options
and propose a suitability ranking.
Project Summary:
Due to global demographic trends as well as new legislations the EU project Neptune puts its focus on improved effluent quality, energy reduction and resource 
reuse (water, nutrients and sludge). In the Work Package No. 1 the upgrading of existing municipal infrastructure was investigated with new control strategies
based on online sensors; nitritation/anammox process for nitrogen reduction; micropollutant removal with ozone or activated carbon addition as well as
improved sludge processing and reuse by sludge triage and thermal-hydrolysis of biomass.
Achieved Objectives:
Due to global demographic trends as well as new legislations the EU project Neptune puts its focus on improved effluent quality, energy reduction and resource 
reuse (water, nutrients and sludge). In the Work Package No. 1 the upgrading of existing municipal infrastructure was investigated with new control strategies
based on online sensors; nitritation/anammox process for nitrogen reduction; micropollutant removal with ozone or activated carbon addition as well as
improved sludge processing and reuse by sludge triage and thermal-hydrolysis of biomass.
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Project Resources:
Weblink:
http://www.eu-neptune.org/index_EN
Funding Programme(s): 
EC Framework Programme 6
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Submitted by: EUGRIS Team Professor Paul Bardos  Who does what?  05/05/2010 00:11:00