On-line monitoring, control and mitigation of greenhouse gases emissions in WWTPs
| Main Authors: | Baeza, Gabriel, Guisasola, Lafuente, Katsou, Massara, Noutsopoulos, Antoniou, Andreadakis, Mamais, Koumaki, Gioldasi, Prado, Colón, Rosso, Krieg, Malamis |
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| Format: | Proceeding |
| Terbitan: |
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3379834 |
Daftar Isi:
- This work aims at developing a new software tool for the monitoring, control and mitigation of the carbon footprint of WWTPs, called C-FOOT-CTRL. GHG emissions are emitted from various stages of treatment in a WWTP. Currently, in developed countries the energy required for wastewater treatment accounts for approximately 3% of the total electricity load. Also, WWTPs are the biggest single energy consumers of municipalities with a share of 20% of the total energy consumption. Various GHG emissions are associated with the construction and operation of WWTPs. These include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O). CH4 and N2O are respectively 25 and 265 times harmer than CO2 in a 100-year period (IPCC, 2013). The development of a tool that will be able to accurately record and predict the various GHG emissions in the different treatment processes of WWTPs is important in order to (i) track the emissions (ii) apply measures to reduce GHG contaminants and to (iii) link the GHG emission with a particular activity in the plant. The envisaged tool will be an innovative, low cost and flexible system that will constitute of a database for the storing and recording of data, a model for the estimation of direct and indirect GHG emissions and online sensors for recording GHG emissions in WWTPs.