Mrs. Pilar Zapata Aranda, Project Manager, Bioazul

1. REcovery and REcycling of nutrients TURNing wasteWATER into added-value products for a circular economy in agriculture (730398)
Overview of the
Water2REturn project
Status May 2019
Pilar Zapata Aranda, BioAzul
Robert Reinhardt, Algen
robert@algen.eu
EUBCE 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
European Innovative Algae Wastewater
Treatment Technology
Hosted by the Saltgae project
Thursday 30 May, 11:00 - 14:00

2. Project summary
• REcovery and REcycling of nutrients TURNing wasteWATER into
added-value products for a circular economy in agriculture
• Call: H2020-IND-CE-2016-17
Type of Action: Innovative Action
GA no: 730398
Duration: 42 months
Start Date: 01 Jul 2017 End date: 31 Dec 2020
Estimated Project Cost: 7,13 M€
Requested EU Contribution: 5,9 M€
Project Coordinator: BioAzul, Spain
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
Innovation Action programme WATER under grant agreement no 730398

3. Water2REturn
• recover and recycle nutrients from slaughterhouse
wastewater in the framework of a Circular Economy model;
• recovered nutrients are turned into value added products for
the agro-chemical industry, for the agricultural sector;
• solve slaughterhouse wastewater management problem
and reduced costs related to water consumption

4. Products
• 3 different raw materials
– nitrate and phosphate concentrate,
– hydrolysed sludge
– algal biomass
• 3 agronomic products:
– organic fertiliser
– Bacillus subtillis based biostimulant
– Algal biomass based biostimulant

5. Consortium

6. Consortium & Activities
Demo design and implementation
slaughterhouse wastewater treatment and reuse
fermentation process
anaerobic digestion and biogas process
algal treatment
monitoring and control tool
Agronomic valorisation
agronomic products manufacturing
agronomic products testing and use
Environmental, economic, social and
risk assessment
Market update
Capacity building and awareness raising

7. Work structure

8. Process

9. Small test installation in Ljubljana

10. Preliminary sprouting tests

11. Pot testing

12. Detailed design

13. Demo site April & May 2019

14. WELCOME TO VISIT THE DEMO IN SEVILLE
OCTOBER 2019
Thank You

15. Process