Participants
- Functional Unit “Water Regeneration”
Contacts
- E. Gualda Alonso (elizabeth.gualda@ual.es)
Funds:
Universidad de Almería. Plan Propio de Investigación y Transferencia 2024-2025.
Current Situation:
In progress
Summary
The solar chlor-photo-Fenton process (SCPF) has recently been proposed as an innovative alternative within advanced oxidation technologies, as it combines the strong germicidal capacity of sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) with the efficiency of the solar photo-Fenton process for the removal of microcontaminants present in treated wastewater. This combination makes it possible to achieve simultaneously both treatment objectives in shorter times, producing reclaimed water for agricultural use without disinfection by-products (DBPs).
To foster its commercial implementation, it is essential to assess the feasibility of the process in continuous reactors and, in particular, to develop control and optimization systems capable of dynamically adjusting the operating conditions.
To enable commercial application, it is essential to assess the feasibility of the process in continuous reactors and to develop control and optimization systems able to dynamically adapt operating conditions.
In this context, the overall goal of the RECORAWA project is the implementation and evaluation of a model-based control and optimization system for the automated continuous-flow operation of raceway pond reactors at pilot scale, with the aim of simultaneously removing pathogens and microcontaminants present of wastewater secondary effluents from microalgae-based secondary treatments. To achieve this, the following specific objectives are defined:
- To adapt a previously developed model capable of reproducing the process performance based on environmental and operational conditions.
- To design and evaluate a control and optimization approach for the continuous-flow operation of the CFFS process.