Eventos Pasados

On April 9th, LIFE-DRY4GAS will organise the final conference of the project entitled “Alternative to conventional sludge dehydration and management lines in a WWTP, circular economy objective” in the plenary room of the San Javier (Murcia) town hall.

The conference, organised by ESAMUR in collaboration with CIEMAT, will have the participation of all the project partners: CIEMAT, ESAMUR, AITESA, RANK, EHS TECHNIQUES, and CEBAS-CSIC.

The institutional opening of the event will be carried out by José Miguel Luengo, Mayor of San Javier, Mercedes Ballesteros, Director of CIEMAT Energy Department and Sara Rubira, Regional Minister for Water, Agriculture, Farming and Fishing. Next, Federico de Filippi, representative of CINEA assigned to the LIFE-DRY4GAS project, will present the financing for projects in the water sector of LIFE programme. In addition, during the morning, several round tables will be carried out where different aspects of the LIFE-DRY4GAS project will be discussed.

Virginia Pérez, member of the Thermal Conversion Processes Unit and coordinator of the project, will participate in the first round table to give an introduction and description of the project, focusing on the sludge gasification and energy recovery parts. Other members of the project will also participate in the round table, talking about different parts of the prototype (solar drying, combustion of the syngas, organic Rankine system, infrastructures and auxiliary services) in whose dimensioning and assembly they have participated.

This will be followed by a second round table where the main objectives of the project and the replicability of the technology will be addressed. The round table will begin with Felipe Bastida, member of CEBAS-CSIC, who will discuss the agricultural application of sewage sludge and gasification ashes. Next, other interventions will take place on the analysis of the life cycle of the project, replicability, the legal framework of WWTP sludge and the study of different installation sizes.

To conclude the event, there will be a final round table where different R&D projects related to sewage sludge will be presented. Different companies such as ACCIONA AGUA, FACSA, SAV, GLOBAL OMNIUM, DAM and CETENMA will be invited. To end the conference, Raquel Ramos, participant of the project and member of the Thermal Conversion Processes Unit of CEDER-CIEMAT will make a speech entitled "LIFE-DRY4GAS: Confirmation as an alternative to the conventional treatment of WWTP sludge", in which the conclusions of the conference will be presented. 

The afternoon session of the conference of the LIFE-DRY4GAS project will include a visit to the project located at the San Javier WWTP.  Click to see the  Event Agenda.