RT Conference_Proceedings
T1 Energy efficiency of wastewater treatment plants. Overview of the literature and critical discussion of energy data
A1 Longo, Stefano
A1 D'Antoni, Benedetto Mirko
A1 Bongards, Michael
A1 Cronrath, Andreas
A1 Fatone, Francesco
A1 Lema Rodicio, Juan Manuel
A1 Mauricio Iglesias, Miguel
A1 Soares, Ana
A1 Hospido Quintana, Almudena
K1 Wastewater treatment
K1 Energy efficiency
K1 KPI
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 target indicated in the 2020 Climate and Energy Package. However, in the absence of fundamental and globally recognized approach evaluating wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) energy performance, these policies could be economically wasteful. This paper gives an overview of the literature of WWTPs energy-use performance. Energy key performance indicators (KPIs) found are presented and critically assessed, pointing out the limits to their validity. Data from more than 430 WWTPs, together with the methods for synthesizing the information is presented. 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
YR 2016
FD 2016-06-29
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17835
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17835
LA eng
NO 3rd IWA Specialized International Conference Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment 2016 (ecoSTP16). Cambridge, UK, 27-30 jun 2016
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026