Das Projekt "Technology for treatment and recycling of the water used to wash olives" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von ARGUS - Umweltbiotechnologie GmbH durchgeführt. The present project aims to create an affordable and compact system capable of recovering and recycling the majority of the drinkable water used in the washing of the olives. The proposed treatment for recycling the most part of the water will follow three basic steps: 1) Preliminary aerobic treatment: the treatment will be conveniently implemented before the ultrafiltration unit (or integrated with the ultrafiltration unit in the same apparatus), in order to reduce the content of the organic compounds. 2) Ultrafiltration: this stage purifies the waste stream from all of the suspended solids. A factor of volumetric concentration of 10 is foreseen; removal of 100percent of the suspended solids and colloids, of 33percent of COD, of 50percent of the fatty substances. Turbidity of the filtrated liquid smaller 1 NTU is also expected. 3) Reverse Osmosis: for the concentration of saline and organic components that were passed into the permeate in first stage and that are found in solution. The total treatment will allow for the procurement of: - Drinkable water, to be used again for the washing of olives in loco (more than 90percent of the residual is expected to be recycled); - A relatively small amount of a polluting solution (i.e. with high concentration of pollutants and with the characteristics of vegetation water), to be sent to disposal mixed with vegetation water. The UDOR project will be structured in 4 phases: 1) Identification of requirements and definition of specifications, determined by the end-users, by analysing the generic EU producers situation and by characterising samples from different production sites. 2) Laboratory work on the aerobic treatment, the ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis operations: the three principal steps will be studied in the lab to determine the process to be applied, the equipment to be used and the most favourable operative conditions to reach the foreseen specifications. 3) Design and development of the pilot plant: the pilot plant will be designed and developed on the basis of the results of lab tests performed. 4) Installation and Field tests: the plant will be installed in an oil mill, in order to be tested in site and to evaluate the results of the technology with regard to a real production streams. The UDOR system, if applied to all EU oil production sites, is projected to save about 4 billions of litres of drinkable water per year. The system would clearly have a significant impact in Europe, especially in Mediterranean countries. The significant advantages for oil producers will be: - Reduction of costs, by reducing the amount of water to be disposed and reducing the cost of disposal. - Compliance with new regulations in waste water treatment to be applied in agriculture.
Das Projekt "Technologie fuer die Behandlung und das Recycling des zum Waschen von Oliven verwendeten Wassers" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von ARGUS - Umweltbiotechnologie GmbH durchgeführt. The first operation in olive oil production is the washing of the olives, which is needed to eliminate all the impurities - The water used in this process must be drinkable, for reasons of food hygiene, and about 30 to 50 litres are required for each quintal of olives. Nowadays, this water in order to avoid the high costs for the disposal is used for irrigation or simply sent to sewage. Hence such process causes a great consumption of drinkable water. Moreover, the high level of toxicity of this waste causes a strong environmental impact being the water acid (pH is between 3 and 5) and with strong organic carbon content. The aim of the project is to develop a system, based on ultra or micro filtration and reverse osmosis, capable of recycling the 90Prozent of the water used, and producing, as waste, a small amount of polluting solution, to be sent to disposal together with other waste streams. The system will be specifically designed for SMEs, being low cost and small dimensions two guidelines.
Das Projekt "Health Impact of Airborne Allergen Information Network (HIALINE)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München - Zentrum für Allergie und Umwelt München durchgeführt. Einfluss von Klimawandel auf den Allergengehalt von Pollen. Pollen von Gras, Birke, Olive wurden gesammelt (High Volume Cascade Impactor) und mittels ELISH auf Allergene Phl p 5, Bet v1, und Ole e1 analysiert. Vorhersage mittels Rechenmodel.
Das Projekt "Integrierter Ansatz zur nachhaltigen Produktion von Olivenöl und Oliven (INASOOP)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Hochschule Bremerhaven, Technologietransferzentrum, Umweltinstitut durchgeführt. In INASOOP arbeitet das TTZ mit 4 weiteren Forschungspartnern aus Spanien, Italien und Griechenland zusammen. Des Weiteren besteht das Konsortium in diesem EU geförderten 'Collective Research' Projekt aus 8 Verbänden und 8 Unternehmen aus insgesamt 5 verschiedenen europäischen Ländern. Wissenschaftlich-technologische Hauptzielsetzung in PURATREAT: - Entwicklung eines Information Pakets mit einer Kompilierung von Produktionsprozessen, Prozessabfall Behandlungen und verfügbare Behandlungsinfrastrukturen. - Entwicklung eines Umweltqualitätstandards (EQS) und Vermittlung von einem Expertensystem das fähig ist eine spezialisierte Anleitung der Standards der Betreiber zu erfüllen.