European Fundend Projects

ID:
projects-610

fiwar:
LIFE14 ENV/ES/000860

Project_Acronym:
LIFE EFFIDRAIN

Project_Name:
Efficient Integrated Real-time Control in Urban Drainage and Wastewater Treatment Plants for Environmental Protection

Funding Authority:
LIFE

Call for proposals:
Environment

Focus Area:
Waste water treatment

Begin Date:
2015-10-01

End Date:
2019-03-29

Status:
Completed

Budget:
€ 002 144 485.00

Description:
The LIFE EFFIDRAIN project would demonstrate an integrated real-time control (RTC) strategy for UDNs and WWTPs to minimise the discharge of pollutants into receiving waters. The strategy would be tested in Bordeaux (France) and Badalona (Spain) and would: Demonstrate integrated RTC management of the waste water systems at the pilot sites during a range of rain events; Assess and quantify the benefits of the proposed solution compared to the control strategies currently in use; and Validate the applicability of the proposed solution in a variety of urban areas. LIFE EFFIDRAIN would install sensors at the pilot sites to generate data that will be used to create a database of environmental scenarios taking into account weather conditions, real control actions and their effects on the different subsystems. It would also provide operational quality forecasts for both pilot sites, covering total suspended solids in sewer systems. Once the capability to monitor and forecast quality parameters in the sewer system and the WWTP is in place, procedures to compute optimal control strategies for water quantity and quality would be developed and tested using a virtual reality based on the UDN and WWTP detailed models.

Resource:
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE14-ENV-ES-000860/efficient-integrated-real-time-control-in-urban-drainage-and-wastewater-treatment-plants-for-environmental-protection

Inland water types:
Urban water'