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Project coordinator: NTNU, Dep. Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering.
Consortium partners:
CU - Cranfield University, The School of Water Sciences, UK
RWTH - Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
IBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal
INSA-Toulouse (LIPE), France
UM II - University of Montpellier II, (LGEB), France
DUT - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
EAWAG - Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Switzerland
UNITN - Università degli Studi di Trento, Civil and Environmental Engineering - Laboratory of Sanitary Engineering, Italy.
UTS - University of Technology Sydney, Australia
UKZN - University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
POLYMEM S.A., France
KMS - KOCH Membrane Systems GmbH, Germany
FlowConcept GmbH, Germany
MILL – Milleniumpore Limited, UK
WHD - Water Authority of Hollandse Delta, Netherlands
EV – Erftverband, Germany
UNESCO-IHE - Institute for Water Education, Netherlands
Type of project: STREP subsidized by the European Commission in the frame of the 6th Framework Program (priority "Global Change and Ecosystems")
Project volume: Ca. 5.1 Mio € (3 Mio € EC subventions)
Project start: 01.10.2005
Duration: 36 months
Description:
The World is running out of clean, safe, fresh water. By 2025 one third of humanity – almost three billion people – will face severe water scarcity. This has been described as the “single greatest threat to health, the environment and global food security”. Water is essential and preservation of its safety in quantity and in quality is critical to the sustainable development of any society. The goal of this project is to make a contribution to meet this challenge.
The protection of water in the European Union has been further encouraged through the establishment of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/CE (WFD). The intention of the WFD is to protect the water resources in terms of the water quality and quantity through an integrated water resource management policy. In this respect wastewater treatment is an important aspect of water management. Efficient but cost effective treatment processes are therefore needed for transforming wastewater into water that is free from contamination and which can be returned to the hydrological cycle without detrimental effects. The development and application membrane bioreactor for full scale municipal wastewater treatment is the most important recent technical advance in terms of biological wastewater upgrading. It represents a decisive step further concerning effluent quality by delivering a hygienically pure effluent and by exhibiting a very high operational reliability.
The overall objective of EUROMBRA is to develop a cost-effective and sustainable solution for new, efficient and cost-effective advanced municipal wastewater treatment technologies based on the membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology. This will be achieved through a multi-faceted, concerted and cohesive research programme which explicitly links key limiting phenomena, such as fouling and clogging, observed and quantified on the micro-scale with those on the meso and mega scale. Key to the success of the programme is the harnessing specialist knowledge, conducting of dedicated yet interlinked experiments and incorporating key aspects of both system design and operational facets, the latter encompassing hydrodynamics and mass transfer, foulant speciation and dynamic impacts.
The EUROMBRA project will be performed in close liaison with a second 6th FP project dedicated to MBR development: the AMEDEUS project.
More information: download of press-release.
Contact: TorOve Leiknes (NTNU)
torove.leiknes@ntnu.no
Financed by the European Commission, with contribution of all partners.
University of Technology Sydney benefits from a DEST grant offered by the Australian government.
University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa benefits from a grant from WRC, South Africa |
