a partner (for my project)

I am and environmental engineer with more than 20 years of work experience, mostly in in applied R&D and in consulting engineering companies. Concerning the “Water for Circular Economy” call, I have experience in water demand management, integrated biosystems for industrial wastewater treatment, wells, pumping, distribution and collection, pressure pipes and mini hydroelectric projects, anaerobic digestion, upflow anaerobic filters, wwtp operational data analysis, membrane processes, and ultrasound, UV, ion exchange and ozone treatment.
Concerning my proposed project on the call topic "Resource recovery and valorization" I have experience working on integrated biosystems and have made a desktop study, mass balance, and techno-economic evaluation of a new energy positive wastewater treatment plant concept.
My experience ranges from hands-on laboratory and pilot studies to project development, execution, analysis, management, and communication of results.
In 2022 I completed a PhD in information systems. My work consisted in the analysis of operational data collected during pilot studies of an anaerobic digester, a biomass torrefaction plant, and an upflow anaerobic filter with the goal of building predictive models and identifying topics for optimisation. During the proposed project I will use advanced data science methods to analyse pilot plant operational data and contribute to the design of a novel, robust, and efficient wastewater treatment plant.

Topic 1. Enhancement of water circularity in industries
Topic 2. Urban water circularity
Topic 3. Resource recovery and valorization
Topic 4. Economic, environmental and social implications of water reuse and recovered products

A new wastewater treatment plant concept is required to reduce the increasing gap between the amount of sewage produced and the amount of sewage that is effectively treated before discharge into receiving water bodies. The concept should aim for low construction and operating costs, Public Private Partnership, net energy production, material recycling, resource recovery, and process efficiency and robustness. The goals can be achieved by replacing the conventional unit processes with core Anaerobic, Phototrophic and Aerobic processes derived from existing technology and current research and configured in a novel way. Subsidiary processes will be used to extract value from the materials. An energy positive wastewater treatment plant with resource recovery will be designed using machine learning methods and data acquired from a complete pilot system. The replacement of electro-mechanical processes with a system of biological processes will result in > 50% reduction in construction and operating costs.
The partner is not required to make all of the needed contributions to the project. The needed parter contributions are: site for the pilot plant (approximately 2500 m2 land surface near an existing wwtp, 1000 m3/day raw wastewater, 220V/16A electricty, wastewater analysis lab capacity, operating personnel), algae/cyanobacteria pond culture skills, anaerobic digestion/biogas skills, electromechanical skills, civil engineering skills, irrigated agriculture skills.

data science, machine learning, anaerobic digestion, water, wastewater, solid waste, integrated biosystem, anaerobic filter, algae, bacteria.

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