EYDAP won a golden award at the 2018 Environmental Awards for the SMART-Plant Project

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EYDAP won a golden award at the 2018 Environmental Awards for the SMART-Plant Project

EYDAP was honored by a gold award for its contribution to environmental protection and sustainability at the 2018 Environmental Awards held on Tuesday, July 10th, 2018 in Athens (Greece).

More specifically, EYDAP won the gold award in the category Water Stewardship/Water Management and Conservation / Wastewater Treatment for the project “Innovative Phosphorus and Nitrogen Removal Process from Wastewater Treatment Plant effluents” under the European research project “SMART-Plant”.

The prize was received by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of EYDAP, Mr. Konstantinos Papadopoulos.

More about the event here (in greek)

This award was disseminated by several greek e-news sites:
Naftemporiki.gr, protothema.gr, eleftherostypos.gr, tvxs.gr, newsbomb.gr, newsbeast.gr, greenagenda.gr, news247.gr , euro2day.gr, marketnews.gr, xrimaonline.gr, analitis.gr, liberal.gr, mikrometoxos.gr, and more sites in palo.gr.

It was also presented in the printed version of the “Plant” magazine (issue 26; October 2018).

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SMART-Plant scales-up in real environment eco-innovative and energy-efficient solutions to renovate existing wastewater treatment plants and close the circular value chain by applying low-carbon techniques to recover materials that are otherwise lost.

Seven plus two (7+2) pilot systems were optimized for more than two years in real environment in five municipal water treatment plants, including also two post-processing facilities. The systems were automatized with the aim of optimizing wastewater treatment, resource recovery, energy-efficiency and reduction of greenhouse emissions. A comprehensive SMART portfolio comprising biopolymers, cellulose, fertilizers and intermediates were recovered and processed up to the final commercializable end-products.

Dynamic modeling and superstructure framework for decision support was developed and validated to identify the optimum SMART-Plant system integration options for recovered resources and technologies.

The integration of resource recovery assets to system wide asset management programs were evaluated in each site following the resource recovery paradigm for the wastewater treatment plant of the future, enabled through SMART-Plant solutions. The project proved the feasibility of circular management of urban wastewater and environmental sustainability of the systems, through Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing approaches as well as the global benefit of the scaled-up water solutions.

Global market deployment was achieved as right fit solution for water utilities and relevant industrial stakeholders, considering the strategic implications of the resource recovery paradigm in case of both public and private water management. New public-private partnership models were also explored connecting the water sector to the chemical industry and its downstream segments such as the construction and agricultural sector, thus generating new opportunities for funding and potential public-private competition.