Edukad projektid

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Identifying best available technologies for decentralized wastewater treatment and resource recovery for India

acronym: Saraswati 2.0
start: 2019-08-01
end: 2023-07-31
 
programme: H2020 - Horisont 2020
sub-programme: ENV - Kliimameetmed, keskkond, ressursitõhusus ja toorained
instrument: RIA
call identifier: H2020-SC5-2018-1
project number: 821427
duration in months: 48
partner count: 17
 
abstract: The aim of SARASWATI 2.0 is to identify best available and affordable technologies for decentralized wastewater treatment with scope of resource/energy recovery and reuse in urban and rural areas. Further, it addresses the challenge of real time monitoring and automation. The previous SARASWATI project has shown that a number of decentralized wastewater treatment plants in India do not perform properly and that there are few plants that would meet the more stringent standards as those proposed by the Indian Government in 2015. Thus, in many cases not even CATNAP (the cheapest available technology narrowly avoiding prosecution) has been applied, leading to high pollution levels. The SARASWATI project therefore proposed to adopt the principle of BAT (best available technologies) in a more flexible way, adapting the definition of BAT to the local context, based on complementing the treatment efficiency with the costs of the treatment technology and affordability, and local context in the location of application. This will allow to identify BATs with more stringent standards if required and suitable for the location. Thereby, ten pilot technologies in 7 Indian States demonstrating enhanced removal of organic pollution (BOD, TSS), nutrients (particularly Nitrogen), organic micro-pollutants and pathogens have been proposed (WP1). Further, all pilots allow for resource recovery contributing to the principles of a circular economy and will undergo a comprehensive performance assessment (WP2) complemented by an extended sustainability assessment informed by recent ISO standards (WP4). This will allow identification of BATs for the Indian context. In addition, suitable automation and control strategies will be tested and recommended, taking into account the presence of operators and their level of knowledge and expertise (WP3). Finally, WP5 is dedicated to dissemination and exploitation of results. The consortium is comprised of a well-balanced EU-Indian team of 17 partners.
partner no and role partner name country contact person web page
1 coordinator UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN AT Markus STARKL www.boku.ac.at
2 partner TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT NL www.tudelft.nl
3 partner FUNDACION CENTRO DE LAS NUEVAS TECNOLOGIAS DEL AGUA ES www.centa.es
4 partner Tartu Ülikool EE http://www.ut.ee
5 partner UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN BE www.uantwerpen.be
6 partner SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE INOVACAO CONSULTADORIA EMPRESARIAL E FOMENTO DA INOVACAO SA PT www.spi.pt
7 partner Zentrum fur Umweltmanagement und Entscheidungstheorie AT www.cemds.org
8 partner BIOKUBE AS DK www.biokube.com
9 partner CAMBI SOLUTIONS AS NO www.cambi.com
10 partner BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV IL www.bgu.ac.il
11 partner INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR IN
12 partner INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE IN
13 partner INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (IITM) IN www.iitm.ac.in
14 partner INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR IN www.iitbbs.ac.in
15 partner NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING IN https://www.nitie.ac.in/
16 partner MALAVIYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JAIPUR IN www.mnit.ac.in
17 partner TERI UNIVERSITY IN