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The main aim is to improve the autosuficiencia energetic of a debugger of urban residual water from the slimes that generates

Pilot plant in the debugger of Castellón for maximizar the obtaining of power from slimes

Editorial Interempresas27/06/2013

The pilot plant Sludge4power, that is co-funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Bottom of Regional Development (Feder) through the project Innpacto IPT-2011-1669-920000, combines synergistic processes of oxidation and digestion like new technological solution to increase the production of biogás, diminish the concentration of substances prioritarias, optimise the higienización of the fangos treaties, and diminish the production of the same.

To achieve the aim proposed by the consortium Facsa-Ainia, the pilot plant Sludge4power combines the processes of digestion in phases of temperature and the ozonización like pretratamiento and post-treatment to the digestion. This plant, has built and installed taking into account the EDAR where later wants to apply said technology (Castellón of the Flat).

Pilot plant Sludge4power.

The Technological Centre Ainia has been the manager of the first phase of the project of experimentation to scale of laboratory and of the advice in the design of the pilot plant to scale pre-industrial, in addition to the advice and follow-up of the realisation of the essays in this pilot plant. Facsa Has been the manager of the manufacture of the pilot plant to scale pre-industrial and of the follow-up and execution of the essays that will realise in the same.

The pilot plant states mainly of a system of ozonización, which works with fango biological thickened by flotation, so that the current ozonizada mixes with a proportion of fango primary to generate a fango mixed susceptible to be treated by the unit of digestion anaerobia, which states mainly of two digesters that work to different temperatures, mesophilous (35°C) and thermophilous (55-70°C).

In the actuality, the pilot plant to scale pre-industrial is totally built and in brief will begin the pilotage of the same, so that they will be able to validate the results that go obtaining to scale laboratory.

The pilot plant states mainly of a system of ozonización.

Sludge4power

Sludge4power will contribute the development of an integral process of treatment of slimes of purification in situ by means of three stages with the aim to increase the production of biogás, and with this the production of power, as well as reduce the quantity of final slime generated with regard to the current systems.

As it aims Carlos Ferrer, Director of R&D of Facsa “this technological innovation will help to improve the sustainability of the process of purification, allowing the generation of power from renewable sources and avoiding with this the consumption of fuels fossils and the broadcasts of CO2 associated his employment. The slimes, obtained after the application of this new process, will improve notably his hygienic characteristics optimising with this the valorisation agronómica of the same”.