Tuesday 21 July 2020

Portuguese tech firm secures €60k to commercialise wastewater treatment software

Portuguese tech firm AquaInSilico has been granted €60,000 (£54.6k) to develop a software to optimise wastewater treatment.

The tool will help remove phosphorus from wastewater in a more environmentally friendly way than traditional methods.

The recovered phosphorus can then be sold for use in fertilisers.

The software uses algorithms to control the operations, reducing the use of chemicals, energy and the risk of environmental harm from phosphorus leaching into waterways.

Large water treatment plants face the necessity to recover at least 50% of the phosphorus for use as a bio-fertiliser, as a result of stricter regulations, which have been introduced by many European countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Austria.

Current practices use expensive and unsustainable chemicals, which do not work properly more than 45% of the time, according to reports.

Funding is part of a programme of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology which is a body of the European Union.

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