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New anaerobic technologies, exemplary of the efforts made Spanish Climate Change Office
waste recovery and organic by several organisations led by of the Ministry of Agriculture,
wastewater treatment can be Aqualia for recovering Fishing, Food and the
harnessed to produce reuse wastewaters. Environment (MAPAMA) for
water and biomethane for the the use of alternative fuels
transport sector. FP/ All-gas Aqualia has been selected related to the company’s
and LIFE Methamorphosis are in a CLIMA Project of the activity for automobiles.
FP7 All-Gas
Project
The All-Gas Project is a change wastewater is used in the lipidbased products or
in wastewater treatment. A internal needs of the process. biofertilisers. Wastewater is
positive energy balance can be Moreover, all the produced converted into a resource
created without high electricity biomass (over 20 g/m 2t/day) is instead of a burden for the
input because only a small part available for other uses such as public.
of the energy inherent to the fuel for vehicles (biomethane),
€ 11,820,564 € 8,098,099 Aqualia
Total budget Aqualia Leader
Location Participants
Duration
El Torno WWTP, BDI Bio Energy International
Chiclana de la 7 years • Hygear B.V. • University of
Frontera (Cádiz) 1/5/11-9/7/18 Southampton Fraunhofer
GOALS
Sustainable Biofuel
Demonstrate sustainable large-scale biofuel production
based on a low-cost microalgae culture
The European Commissioner
for Climate Action and
Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete,
filling up a car with the
biogas obtained in the
All-Gas project.
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