ADVANCED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
After the manufacturing and assembly of the parts into the system by IMECA, everything is ready for its implementation at the wastewater treatment plant in the Murcian municipality of Aledo.
FACSA begins hydraulic and electrical testing for its commissioning and data on water quality and operating costs will soon be available
Castellón, 3/04/2017. The partners of REMEB They have met once again, within their semi-annual meeting program, to report on the latest progress of the project in the different activities they are carrying out.
On this occasion, they met in Montpellier, France, the base of partner IMECA PROCESS, an engineering firm specializing in water filtration systems, which acted as host during March 30 and 31.
REMEB is a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program (GA 641998). Its objective is to develop a low-cost ceramic membrane bioreactor, one of the most advanced wastewater treatment systems, enabling its reuse. REMEB ceramic membranes, an example of the circular economy, have been manufactured using waste from the ceramic and marble industries and olive oil production, and will be capable of filtering wastewater for reuse in urban and industrial settings.
The most noteworthy aspect of the current phase of the project is that IMECA PROCESS has already finished manufacturing the membrane bioreactor and assembled all the system components for its implementation at the Aledo Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Murcia, and that FACSA Hydraulic and electrical testing is already underway for commissioning. Data on water quality and operating costs will soon be available.
In addition, the members of the consortium took advantage of the meeting to present the project to key players for its dissemination, such as the European Institute of Membranes, an international reference laboratory in the field of membrane materials and processes, and SWELIA, an association of water sector professionals from the French region of Occitanie, both organizations based in Montpellier.
The consortium meetings concluded with the planning of the next project objectives and the definition of actions to be implemented to achieve them.
The Remeb project, which will conclude in August 2018 and has the collaboration of the European network of cooperation between local administrations Partenalia and the Castellón Provincial Council, is made up of a total of 11 partners from seven countries: the project leader FACSA, the Institute of Ceramic Technology ITC-UJI, the French engineering company IMECA PROCESS, the Cypriot consultancy ATLANTIS, the Norwegian company BIOWATER, the Council of Chambers of Commerce of the Valencian Community, the Castellón laboratory for environmental research and projects IPROMA, the Italian ceramic center CENTRO CERAMICO, the Turkish ceramic research center SAM, the Antonio Nariño University of Colombia and the Sanitation and Wastewater Treatment Entity of the Region of Murcia, ESAMUR.
More information about the project: www.remeb-h2020.com
