Innovative WAter recoverY Solutions through recycling of heat, materials and water across multiple sectors (iWAYS)

The European Green Deal, an ambitious growth strategy aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), calls for the mobilization of the industry. Indeed, while important steps have been taken in the past, the annual global extraction of materials tripled in the last 50 years and is expected to increase further. The dual transformation, green and digital, place special emphasis on resource and energy intensive sectors. Furthermore, the expected zero pollution action plan for air, water and soil will enforce this transformation. In this changing environment, industry will have to adapt swiftly and decisively but the ease and smoothness of this transition is up for debate. Solutions that increase costs and impede productivity will face substantial resistance. There is a pressing need for new technologies and approaches that complement economic growth and productivity while firstly addressing environmental challenges. iWAYS is a step in this direction, featuring a wide array of technologies that are non-disruptive and applicable in any industry with wastewater and gaseous emissions. While the concept of water and heat recovery have been demonstrated and widely applied, in iWAYS a unique approach is taken, focusing on until now impossible streams to address and building synergies between heat and water reclamation and exploitation. The project also addresses several issues afflicting commercial technologies (such as Reverse Osmosis and Membrane Distillation) through innovative and enabling approaches.

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Akronym: iWAYS

Project ID: 958274

Call for proposal: H2020-LOW-CARBON-CIRCULAR-INDUSTRIES-2020

Total Cost: 12 806 610,25 EUR (allocated to LEI: 454 375,00 EUR)

Coordinator: UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA (UNIMORE), Italy

Partners:

• BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON, United Kingdom
• ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE LASINDUSTRIAS CERAMICAS AICE, Spain
• UNIVERSITAT JAUME I DE CASTELLON, Spain
• SIMAM SPA, Italy
• ECONOTHERM (UK) LIMITED, United Kingdom
• EUROPEAN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE (ESCI) GGMBH, Germany
• WATER EUROPE, Belgium
• INNOVACIO Y CONSULTING TECNOLOGICO DE BARCELONA SL, Spain
• CERAMICHE ATLAS CONCORDE SPA, Italy
• GRUPPO CONCORDE SPA, Italy
• ALUFLUOR AB, Sweden
• FUNDACIO EURECAT, Spain
• ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON, Greece
• LIETUVOS ENERGETIKOS INSTITUTAS, Lithuania
• FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE RECERCA DE L’AIGUA, Spain
• TUBACEX TUBOS INOXIDABLES SA, Spain
• TUBACEX INNOVACION AIE, Spain
• KREAN S.COOP., Spain
• ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION, Greece
• IAMAS TECHNOLOGIES LTD, United Kingdom
• POLITECHNIKA WROCLAWSKA, Poland

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement No. 958274.