Future waste water treatment plant of Tomorrow -a production facility

Important results from the project

"The waste water teatment plant of tomorrow” has aimed to develop a production facility where the wastewater is regarded as a resource. During step 3, we conducted a full-scale demonstration on how to treat the effluent from Simrishamn´s wastewater treatment plant with an extended treatment based on ozonation and final polishing with activated carbon. The water quality has been carefully evaluated to be returned to the cycle via infiltration to the groundwater in a future extension. The results show that the system solution gives a very good result.

Expected long term effects

The project has clearly increased the ability to innovation processes for participating parties. New ways and opportunities to strengthen Swedish competitiveness and the ability to find solutions to important societal challenges have been identified. The belief in validation of demonstration-scale systems has been strengthened. Participants have received funding from international initiatives through links to the project and the project partners have begun to utilize the results of marketing efforts in China and India in favor of Swedish growth in the area of sustainability.

Approach and implementation

The construction and evaluation of the demonstration of the treatment plant for pharmaceutical residues shows that the system works well on a full-scale scale. This has been demonstrated in several sampling campaigns. The results mean that there is now a validation system solution for cost-effective separation of drug residues. We believe that the water will also be recoverable through infiltration to the groundwater. If this will be confirmed, a very cost and energy efficient system has been developed and validated during the UDI project which is ripe for a commercial launch.