OPERATION SWAT
High algal recovery using a Salsnes Water to Algae Treatment (SWAT) filter technology
| Coordinatore | SALSNES FILTER AS
Organization address
address: VERFTSGT 11 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Norway [NO] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.swattechnology.no |
| Totale costo | 1˙345˙061 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙060˙478 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2011 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-11-01 - 2013-10-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SALSNES FILTER AS
Organization address
address: VERFTSGT 11 contact info |
NO (NAMSOS) | coordinator | 657˙359.00 |
| 2 |
ASIO spol. s r.o.
Organization address
address: JIRIKOVICE 83 contact info |
CZ (JIRIKOVICE) | participant | 218˙827.00 |
| 3 |
INWATEC SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA
Organization address
address: ULICA PASTEWNA 25 contact info |
PL (WARSAWA) | participant | 104˙106.00 |
| 4 |
Aquateam - Norwegian Water Technology Centre AS
Organization address
address: Hasleveien 10 contact info |
NO (Oslo) | participant | 31˙489.00 |
| 5 |
THE UK HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Organization address
address: PERA BUSINESS PARK, NOTTINGHAM ROAD contact info |
UK (MELTON MOWBRAY) | participant | 28˙132.00 |
| 6 |
IGV INSTITUT FUR GETREIDEVERARBEITUNG GMBH
Organization address
address: Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 40-41 contact info |
DE (Nuthetal) | participant | 10˙365.00 |
| 7 |
AQUALIA GESTION INTEGRAL DEL AGUA SA
Organization address
address: FEDERICO SALMON 13 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 10˙200.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Microalgae has been researched and cultivated commercially for human and animal nutrition, for cosmetics and pharmaceutical applications, for biofuels and biomass production, for wastewater treatment and to some extent for greenhouse gas abatement. The production for the microalgal biomass market today alone generates a turnover of 1.25 billion US$ per year (0.94 billion €/yr) while the total algal world market is about 7-7.5 billion US$ per year (5.2-5.7 billion €/yr) and is growing, with European Union being home to 30% of this world’s algae market activity.
The most critical challenge faced by all algae growers is harvesting. Harvesting is expensive and energy intensive. A group of European SMEs (Salsnes, Asio and Inwatec) has decided to work together to capture a part of the global algae harvesting equipment market. The objective is to develop a universal algae harvesting technology by building on their experiences gained from removing particles from wastewater and by modifying wastewater treatment technologies to harvest algae. Salsnes Water to Algae Treatment (SWAT) technology will use a flocculator followed by a Salsnes Filter to harvest algae. Two RTDs (Aquateam and HERI) will carry out research and development to achieve the objective. Two test sites have been chosen (IGV in Germany and Aqualia in Spain) to test the SWAT technology.
The SWAT technology will result in 95% algae recovery, 40% lower costs than the best state of the art technologies (Centrifuge and Dissolved Air Flotation) and energy consumption < 0.08 kWh/m3 of algae. The consortium will explore the SWAT technology in the growing biofuel market (which has a projection of 1.6 billion US$ or 1.2 billion Euros by 2015) and then in other algae markets.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Commercial cultivation of microalgae is a rapidly growing industry in Europe and worldwide. A consortium of small companies has created a method for harvesting microalgae that greatly reduces related material and energy costs.