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The WWTS Control program, tested in the IISIS project,
reduces electricity consumption by 15%
One of the strategic lines of the INNPRONTA
IISIS project is to optimise urban wastewa-
ter treatment plants and to reduce the con-
sumption of energy and reagents, in addition
to related costs with great economic impact,
such as the processing and removal of sludge
generated in the process.
Along these lines, one of the first activities ca-
rried out in IISIS was the implementation and
validation of a control program for optimising
aeration and eliminating the nutrients, projects
developed by two of the entities sub-contrac-
ted by FCC Aqualia in IISIS: The Polytechnic
University of Valencia and the University of
Valencia.
With the support of Zone I with Cándido Martí-
nez as the Technical Commercial Director, and
Marta Casao, as the head of the Wastewater
Treatment Department and in charge of the
participation of Zone I in this R+D project, the
first implementation was at the Medina del
Campo wastewater treatment plant. After se-
veral months of work, the first results available
indicate 15% of average energy cost savings.
The participants at the seminar on wastewater treatment plant modelling organized by the
Corporate Department of Innovation and Technology with the collaboration of the Techni-
cal Department and other branch offices.
The next IISIS implementations will be at the
Reinosa (currently being executed) and the
Benquerencia (in the planning stage) waste
water treatment facilities all of which will help
to determine the returns more precisely.
As part of the control validation process in II-
SIS and given the interest in the control solu-
tion, the Corporate Department of Innovation
and Technology has managed the conditions
for the subsequent deployment of this system
at other wastewater treatment plants of the
company by executing a licensing agreement
with the above-mentioned universities, ma-
king or company the first to be able to offer
this technology in other tender bid processes.
The application of the solution in new treatment
plants and its inclusion in commercial offers
will be managed by Pedro Ruiz, technical
manager and by Fernando del Amo, head of
Wastewater Treatment and the Environment,
with the support of Frank Rogalla, manager of
the Innovation and Technology Department,
and Elena Maneiro, head of the project.
Patricio Hermosilla, plant manager and Julián Martínez, and electro-
mechanic, at the Medina del Campo WWTP, the first to have imple-
mented the control system.
The result is fruit
of the research conducted
by the INNPRONTA IISIS
project at the Medina
del Campo (Valladolid)
wastewater
treatment plant.
Subsequently,
FCC Aqualia will be able
to offer this technology
exclusively to other plants
in new commercial
offerings in the market
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