ARBI

Autonomous Reed Bed Installations

Coordinatore	AGRICULTURAL REQUISITES AND MECHANIZATIONS LIMITED    more  Organization address address: "Rydal House, Colton Road" city: RUGELEY postcode: WS15 3HF contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Patrick Cognome: Hawes Email: send email Telefono: +44 01944 738874
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙527˙485 €
EC contributo	1˙188˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2013
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-09-01   -   2015-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	AGRICULTURAL REQUISITES AND MECHANIZATIONS LIMITED  Organization address address: "Rydal House, Colton Road" city: RUGELEY postcode: WS15 3HF contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Patrick Cognome: Hawes Email: send email Telefono: +44 01944 738874	UK (RUGELEY)	coordinator	250˙097.00
2	LAB-TOOLS LIMITED  Organization address address: Canterbury Enterprise Hub - University of Kent city: CANTERBURY postcode: CT2 7NJ contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Beau Cognome: Webber Email: send email Telefono: +44 7805 437 241	UK (CANTERBURY)	participant	283˙430.00
3	OXYGUARD INTERNATIONAL AS  Organization address address: Blokken 59 city: Birkeroed postcode: DK 3460 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Marianne Cognome: Christjansen Email: send email Telefono: +45 45822094	DK (Birkeroed)	participant	218˙554.00
4	LIGHTMAIN COMPAY LIMITED  Organization address address: HIBBARD WORKS STATION ROAD city: WATH UPON DEARNE SOUTH YORKSHIRE postcode: S63 7DG contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Trevor Cognome: Lafferty Email: send email Telefono: +44 1332840248	UK (WATH UPON DEARNE SOUTH YORKSHIRE)	participant	182˙008.00
5	TECHNOSAM SRL  Organization address address: FAGULUI STR 35 city: SATU MARE postcode: 440186 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Markos Cognome: Tiberiu Email: send email Telefono: 40722380382	RO (SATU MARE)	participant	180˙376.00
6	UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA  Organization address address: Jordi Girona 31 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8034 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Mercedes Cognome: Torrellas Email: send email Telefono: +34 93 4017126 Fax: +3493 4017130	ES (BARCELONA)	participant	37˙823.00
7	THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: BURTON STREET city: NOTTINGHAM postcode: NG1 4BU contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Rob Cognome: Morris Email: send email Telefono: +44 1158483123	UK (NOTTINGHAM)	participant	35˙712.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Subsurface-flow constructed wetlands have become a very popular cost effective and green technology for treatment of waste water throughout Europe and the rest of the world. Original predictions over the longevity of constructed wetlands were approximately 50 -100 years (Conley et al 1991). However, it has become disappointingly apparent that these systems are clogging and have on average a lifetime of less than 10 years (Griffin et al 2008). Currently when a wetland becomes clogged, the whole site has to be refurbished and the reeds regrown, which takes several years and has significant economic consequences for the operators.

Our project ARBI aims to develop and trial an Autonomous Reed Bed Installation containing a magnetic resonance probe, can be deployed in several locations within a wetland to give measurements at different depths. By measuring the relaxation times of MR, sufficient information can be obtained to determine the clog state of the gravel bed of a wetland. This would enable the operators to isolate those areas of the bed where the problem resides and make a partial intervention, without the need to remove and re-plant the whole reed bed. When the system is developed, we will have potential for application in other water treatment systems based on subsurface flows like: slow rate sand filters, and river bank filtration.

The project will have major benefits for those organisations who would like to install reedbeds but have resisted doing because of concerns over performance and maintenance costs. These will increase the potential size of the market for reedbed installers and benefit the SMEs in the consortium who currently are operating in a constrained market which has not achieved its true potential.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

A green technology that uses reed beds to treat wastewater is receiving a major boost thanks to an EU initiative extending the system's working life.