📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/09/2023
End Date: 28/02/2027
Total Eligible Budget: 3,034,912 €
EU Contribution: 1,820,947 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
?n recent years, certain evidence indicates that pharmaceuticals, viruses, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and resistance genes (ARB & ARGs) are disseminated in agricultural soils as a result of irrigation with reclaimed wastewater. Moreover, several reports have shown that these chemical and biological contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) are finally transmitted to crops and aquatic environment causing significant threats for the human health and environmental protection. The potential solutions are: a) additional treatment stages in central wastewater treatment facilities, which however have to tackle very low concentrations of CECs and very high daily flow rates, or b) on-site treatment in places such as health service providing units (e.g. hospitals), where CECs are released in large volumes. The main objective of the project is to determine if and how (optimum operating mode), the innovative combined eco-technologies of the HIPPOCRATEs’ system, developed and tested successfully in pilot scale (1,0 m3 / day) for the removal of selected CECs through the on-site treatment of hospital wastewater effluent, are achieving similar high efficiency (removal vs cost) at large demonstration scale (40 m3 / day or 85 % of the daily produced wastewater), before entering the main sewage system, in an all year continues operation, with real hospital effluent and in different geographical areas of Europe (south vs north).
