EURECAT's Innovation Services in Water Technologies

Innovation Servies:

• Advanced water laboratory services such as microbiological analysis, microplastics characterization, trace metals, emerging pollutants and virus detection (SARS-COV2).

• Modelling and simulating physical, chemical and thermodynamic processes.

• Defining, optimising and validating physical, chemical and biological treatments in the water cycle: technologies for separation, ion exchange, disinfection. (chlorine, ultraviolet and new disinfectants), sedimentation, precipitation, crystallisation, ultra-filtration, treatment using algae and/or fungi, etc.

• Pilot plants for pre-industrial scale assessment.

• Defining, optimising and validating desalination processes.

• Treating complex effluents and recovering nutrients and value-added compost: brines, leachate, sludge, slurry, etc.

• Water reuse technologies.

• Technologies for producing green hydrogen by electrolysis.

• Assessing the potential to regenerate and reuse membranes.

• Artificial intelligence and optimisation in decision-making: predictive maintenance, water quality forecasting, anomaly detection.

• Water cycle data architecture and interoperability by integrating water information (semantic hub/middleware).

• Smart platforms and digital twins in water and natural resource processes.

• Developing virtual sensors and inexpensive printed sensors to determine complex water cycle parameters (soft sensing).

Cross-Cutting Services

Technological innovation consultancy and sector training

• Technology watch, sector trend antennae and competitive intelligence.

• Innovation strategy: Lean management, Industry 4.0 roadmaps, circular economy roadmap.

• Intellectual/industrial property studies.

• Specialised training: Industry 4.0, circular economy, robotics.

Sustainability assessment and metrics

• Technical, financial and environmental feasibility studies for developing and bringing to market new materials, products and processes.

• Sustainability metrics: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), carbon footprint, water footprint, Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), social and economic analysis.

• Ecodesign of products and processes.

Industrial automation and/or robotisation for inspection

• Autonomous robots and drones for monitoring and inspecting infrastructures: sewage systems, power plants, distribution grids, etc.

• Integration of advanced solutions for industrial task automation: machining, polishing, boring, handling, human-robot collaboration.