RT Journal Article
T1 Monitoring and diagnosis of energy consumption in wastewater treatment plants. A state of the art and proposals for improvement
A1 Longo, Stefano
A1 D'Antoni, Benedetto Mirko
A1 Bongards, Michael
A1 Chaparro, Antonio
A1 Cronrath, Andreas
A1 Fatone, Francesco
A1 Lema Rodicio, Juan Manuel
A1 Mauricio Iglesias, Miguel
A1 Soares, Ana
A1 Hospido Quintana, Almudena
K1 Energy Efficiency
K1 Benchmarking
K1 Key Performance Indicator
K1 Ordinary Least Squares
K1 Data Envelopment Analysis
K1 Wastewater Treatment
AB In response to strong growth in energy intensive wastewater treatment, public agencies and industry began to explore and implement measures to ensure achievement of the targets indicated in the 2020 Climate and Energy Package. However, in the absence of fundamental and globally recognized approach evaluating wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) energy performance, these policies could be economically wasteful. This paper gives an overview of the literature of WWTP energy-use performance and of the state of the art methods for energy benchmarking. The literature review revealed three main benchmarking approaches: normalization, statistical techniques and programming techniques, and advantages and disadvantages were identified for each one. While these methods can be used for comparison, the diagnosis of the energy performance remains an unsolved issue. Besides, a large dataset of WWTP energy consumption data, together with the methods for synthesizing the information, are presented and discussed. It was found that no single key performance indicators (KPIs) used to characterize the energy performance could be used universally. The assessment of a large data sample provided some evidence about the effect of the plant size, dilution factor and flowrate. The technology choice, plant layout and country of location were seen as important elements that contributed to the large variability observed
PB Elsevier
SN 0306-2619
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15033
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15033
LA eng
NO Longo,S., d’Antoni, B.M., Bongards, M., Chaparro, A., Cronrath, A., Fatone, F., Lema, J.M., Mauricio-Iglesias, M., Soares, A., Hospido, A. (2016). Monitoring and diagnosis of energy consumption in wastewater treatment plants. A state of the art and proposals for improvement. "Applied Energy" , vol. 179, 1251–1268
NO This project is carried out with financial support from the H2020 Coordinated Support Action ENERWATER (grant agreement number 649819): www.enerwater.eu. Although the project's information is considered accurate, no responsibility will be accepted for any subsequent use thereof. The European Community accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the presented material, and the work hereby presented does not anticipate the Commission's future policy in this area. M.M.I. gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the People Program (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under REA agreement 627475 (GREENCOST). S.L, J.M.L, M.M.I. and A.H. belong to the Galician Competitive Research Group GRC 2013-032, programme co-funded by FEDER, and to the strategic aggregation CRETUS (Centre for Research in Environmental Technologies), AGRUP2015/02
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026