Innovation and experimentation for the study of sustainable systems for treatment of domestic effluents in height

This proposal is part of an ambitious technological research and development program called "Ucubamba Experimental Station for the research of domestic effluent treatment technologies (EETT)". The program includes the construction of a station where different fundamentally decentralized operation treatment technologies will be reproduced at a pilot scale to study them with scientific rigor under controlled conditions, obtaining kinetic parameters and constant of the main physical, chemical and biological processes that occur. The philosophy that inspires the EETT will be energy and environmental sustainability; Thus, the proposals that will be studied will focus on the reuse of nutrients and the energy recovery of domestic waste; And, in the potential use of wastewater as the main future water source for consumption of the main human activities. The first stage of the EETT, object of this proposal, will be developed in 3 years and will include the implementation, implementation and analysis of artificial wetland cells for fresh wastewater treatment and anaerobic mud, an UASB anaerobic reactor and disinfection units. There will be storage, connections and recirculation for continuous and discontinuous analysis. Doctoral research will be the heart of the EETT. The EETT will have the participation of a consortium formed by the University of Cuenca, stage, the University of Azuay (UDA) and the Salesian Polytechnic University (UPS). The fundamental stage participation includes the land of implementation, water and residual mud, pretreatment, laboratory analysis, etc. both UDA and UPS will contribute with doctoral researchers.

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