Project

Second life of sewage as a matrix for dilution of organic waste streams - Sewage Plus

Acronym

180B12A7

Code

180B12B7

Duration

01 November 2007 → 31 January 2010

Funding

Regional and community funding: various

Promotor

Willy Verstraete

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Microbiology
- Systems biology
Medical and health sciences
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Laboratory medicine
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
Engineering and technology
- Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
- Chemical product design and formulation
- General chemical and biochemical engineering
- Process engineering
- Separation and membrane technologies
- Transport phenomena
- Other (bio)chemical engineering
Agricultural and food sciences
- Agriculture, land and farm management
- Biotechnology for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and allied sciences
- Fisheries sciences

Keywords

anaerobic digestion green energy and recovery

Project description

Almost every production process is confronted with wastestreams. This organic wastestreams can be valorised in the form of energy and fertilizers. Together with sewage as a dilution matrix, a reliable treatment scheme can be constructed. The focus is on the production of energy, recovery of nutrient and production of tap water from a non-traditional source.