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LIFE Answer

Location: Guadalajara (Spain) Life Answer consists of a system for treating waste water to
Duration: 01/09/16 – 31/05/2019 recover nutrients with advanced electro-chemical systems
Total budget: €973,408 (electro-coagulation processes and bio electro-chemical reactors)
Aqualia: €265,172 to save energy.
Participants: Mahou San This project allows the assessment of the fluidised bed bio elec-
Miguel (Coordinator), Aqualia, trogenic system developed by Aqualia during the ITACA project,
Recuperaciones Tolón, University of in collaboration with the University of Alcalá and later patented
Alcalá.
with the name “Method for treating waste water in a fluidised bed
bioreactor.”
ANSWER is being undertaken in the Mahou San Miguel brewery in
Guadalajara, the project leader.

Two new projects have been started in the area
of sustainability in the European Horizonte 2020
3
programme , Incover and Sabana, added to two
other projects already active in this same strategic
line: FP7 All-Gas and LIFE Biosolware.

H2020 Incover

Location: El Toyo WWTP (Almería) The objective of the programme is the development of innovative
and El Torno WWTP (Cádiz) ecological technologies to recover resources from waste water.
Duration: 01/06/16 – 31/05/2019 Incover creates synergies with existing installations and the knowle-
Total budget: €8,431,385 dge acquired previously with the FP7 All-Gas project to increase
Aqualia: €878,625 the use of the biomass of algae for products of greater value such
Participants: Asociación de as bio fertilisers and bio plastics, improving the production of water
Investigación Metalúrgica del for re-use.
Noroeste (AIMEN) (Coordinator),
Aqualia, Aarhus Universitet, It is led by the Aimen technology centre and brings together 18
Universitat Politécnica de companies and organisations from seven countries – Spain, France,
Catalunya, Helmholtz-Zentrum fuer Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Greece.
Umweltforschung gmbh
- UFZ, Future intelligence erevna
tilepikinoniakon ke pliroforiakon
systimaton epe, Gregersen Peder
Simbiente, Engenharia e Gestao
Ambiental lda, Universidad de
Valladolid, Solarspring gmbh,
Teknologisk Institut, Autarcon gmbh,
Instituto de Biología Experimental
e Tecnológica, Renergie Systeme
gmbh & Co kg, Biotrend – Inovacao
e Engenharia em Biotecnologia
S.A., Office International de
l’Eau, Isle Utilities Limited, Iclei
European Secretariat gmbh (iclei
europasekretariat gmbh).

2 Previously developed by Aqualia in the IISIS Project, together with Imdea Agua.
3 European Union research and innovation programme (2014-2020.

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