Sewage waste water treatment plant of tomorrow

Important results from the project

By demonstrating methods and techniques to produce bioenergy, recycle water and nutrients from municipal wastewater has the project results strongly contributed to meet the targets set in the Vinnova UDI programme: 1 Green and socially sustainable growth, 2. Solutions sold on the international market 3. New business opportunities as well as radical cost savings. 4. Sweden strengthens its attractiveness as a research and innovation country. 5. Increased Swedish participation in EU research program Horizon in 2020.

Expected long term effects

The outcome against the expected effects are briefly as follows: 1. Our solutions are integral to conserve our resources. 2. Biogas majority are already marketed now on the China market. We have introduced the concept of water recycling at several conferences in Europe. Chile, India and China. 3. A production of goods gives new revenues from the resale of water, energy and nutrients. 4. Xylem has invested 25 million in R & D at Sjöstadsverket and VTT will carry out experiments at this facility. Anglian Waters has chosen our approach. 5. IVL coordinates the EU project R3Water.

Approach and implementation

The operation of the project has been very good and many important step towards our vision and goals of developing today´s sewage treatment plant to resource-efficient production units for nutrients, bio-energy and recycled water has been taken. This would not have been possible without this project. Cooperation between the Parties have also developed strongly, while each organization´s own expertise has been deepened. The allocation of resources for the project went slowly at first but effective retrieval of the delay was successful.