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Mediterranean usage of biotechnological treated effluent water
- Treatment and re-use of wastewater is nowadays a major need all over the
world due to the low availability of water resources, as well as to the
negative impact on environment of industry. This problem is particularly
pressing on the Mediterranean area. Olive oil industry, which is traditional
in all the Mediterranean countries, is responsible for high-contaminated
wastewater containing organic compounds.
- These recalcitrant compounds are difficult to detoxify and those
effluents need a treatment before being discharged in receiving waters.
Conventional physical/chemical methods are time and energy consuming which
made them very expensive.
| Project number | ICA3-CT-1999-00010 | ||
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| Subject(s) | WATER DEMAND , no translation available , no translation available , no translation available , no translation available | ||
| Acronym | MEDUSA-WATER | ||
| Geographical coverage | Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey | ||
| Budget (in €) | 580000 | ||
| Programme | INCO MED (FP5) | ||
| Objectives | This project purposes to apply novel biotechnological processes to treat
effluent waters from olive oil industry and, where possible combine with
urban sewage, and re-using the resulting waters in horticulture. A new
system of Linear Matrix Multicellular Photoreactors (LMMP) using microalgae
cultures for the treatment of the final effluent will be designed,
constructed and tested in situ. - This innovative process intend to achieve an adaptation of the technology to the specific environmental conditions of the regions involved, which will be very low energy consuming and consequently with high economical benefits. |
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| Period | [01/03/2000 - 01/03/2004] | ||
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02/09/2008
