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The AFTERLIFE project proposes a flexible, cost- and resource-efficient process for recovering and valorizing the relevant fractions from wastewater. It will represent an advance on existing approaches to wastewater treatment, which rely on physic-chemical and biological methods.
The AFTERLIFE process will separate out the different components of value using a series of membrane filtration units that will separate all the solids in the wastewater. These will then treated to obtain high-pure extracts and metabolites or, alternatively, to be converted into value-added biopolymers; polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). In addition to the value extracted from the solids, the remaining outflow of the water will be ultrapure and ready for re-use.
Innoven Srl develops the activities related to the anaerobic digestion of the low value-added organic matter in order to obtain volatile fatty acids (feedstock for the production of PHA) (WP3) and to produce a biofuel (biogas) for the generation of energy within the process (WP4). This way, Innoven Srl has a key contribution in the zero-waste scheme proposed for AFTERLIFE process.
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SMART-Plant, a € 10 million European project aiming to convert urban wastewater treatment plants into circular economy platform by the application of advanced Technologies for the recovery of resources such as Phosphorus, Cellulose and Polyhydoxyalkanoates.
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/02/03/scienza/ambiente/focus/smartplant-dai-rifiuti-la-fabbrica-di-nuova-materia-0cEQ14a7mjsJlyUNR45EaK/pagina.html
