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## The REMEB project concludes with the successful validation of its sustainable wastewater treatment system

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REMEB is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, which covers areas related to climate action, environment and resources and raw materials efficiency through the promotion of wastewater reuse, wastes valorisation and the development of innovative and sustainable products. It started in 2015 with a budget of €2,361,622 and a funding of €1,909,292 and ended on 31st August 2018, after three years of work, with its purposes fulfilled.

The international consortium of the REMEB project is composed of 11 international partners from 7 countries, led by FACSA, Spanish company devoted to water life cycle management. The rest of the partners are ITC-UJI, the Spanish institute of Ceramic Technology, the French engineering company IMECA PROCESS, the Cypriot consultancy ATLANTIS Consulting Cyprus, the Norwegian engineering BIOWATER Technology, the Valencia Region Council of Chambers of Commerce, the Castellón accredited laboratory for environmental studies IPROMA, the Italian ceramics research centre CENTRO CERAMICO, the Turkish ceramic research centre SAM, the Universidad Antonio Nariño of Colombia and the Wastewater Treatment and Sanitation Entity of the Region of Murcia, ESAMUR.

They can be proud to have developed an advanced sustainable wastewater treatment system: a recycled ceramic membrane bioreactor (MBR) based on wastes from several agro-industrial processes that will regenerate wastewater for agricultural use.  The current ceramic membranes are made from pure ceramic oxides (such as alumina, zirconia or titania), which involve a high cost due to the cost of raw materials and their complex manufacturing process. This fact limits the use of ceramic MBRs despite being one of the most advanced systems in the wastewater treatment sector.

The incorporation of wastes in the composition of the membrane not only reduces the volume of landfill waste, favouring circular economy, but also the price of this technology. The solution provided by REMEB uses wastes such as olive stones, from the production of olive oil; chamotte, a residue from the ceramic tile industry; and marble dust. In its first phase, the membranes were manufactured on a pilot scale in the laboratory of the ITC-UJI. Once their optimum composition was detected, they were manufactured by extrusion at a real-scale in the Castellón ceramic tile company NATUCER, with the constant assistance of the ITC-UJI.

IMECA PROCESS, designed, manufactured and installed the bioreactor in the planned location in close collaboration with FACSA. The ceramics centres of Italy and Turkey, CENTRO CERAMICO and SAM, reproduced the ceramic membranes with local wastes from both countries confirming their international replicability capacity.

With the joint work of FACSA and ESAMUR, the system has been validated in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) located in the municipality of Aledo, in the Region of Murcia, to regenerate wastewater and then reuse it for agriculture. However, the technology is totally translatable to the industrial sector. It is worth noting the suitability of the land chosen for its validation since Murcia, known as the orchard of Europe, is one of the regions with the greatest drought in Spain and a European leader in wastewater treatment and reuse.

ATLANTIS Consulting has carried out the analysis for the replication and exploitation of the results obtained during the project, while BIOWATER Technology has prepared a comprehensive Business Plan for the subsequent commercialisation of the MBR REMEB. Antonio Nariño University, has studied the potential for the implementation of the technology in Colombia and nearby countries.

IPROMA has analysed the water treated with the REMEB MBR system and with the existing membrane system in Aledo WWTP. The different results have determined that the quality of the effluent meets the requirements of the current Spanish regulations regarding the reuse of treated wastewater (R.D. 1620/ 2007). For its part, the Valencia Region Council of Chambers of Commerce has coordinated the project communication and dissemination tasks, promoting its visibility through its different local and international networks.

Throughout these three years, the project has been presented at multiple events in various countries where it has generated great interest: Spain, Brazil, Thailand, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece and Colombia, among others. The project technicians have already expressed their commitment to continue researching in this field, after the completion of the project, to achieve full optimization of the system. With this they aim to ensure their competitiveness against other existing technologies, thus facilitating the market uptake.

Presentation of the project by the researcher Enrique Sánchez Vilches <https://youtu.be/bN6aT--eZJ0>

More information about the REMEB project: [www.remeb-h2020.com](http://www.remeb-h2020.com)

[![REMEB-MBR-Murcia remeb-murcia index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/remeb-murcia/index.jpg)](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/6/remeb-murcia/)

[Industrial technologies](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/6/remeb-murcia/)

FACSA, ESAMUR, ITC-UJI, the Valencia Region Council of Chambers of Commerce and IPROMA organise a conference in Murcia to present the REMEB project.

[![REMEB noruega-remeb index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/noruega-remeb/index.jpg)](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/6/noruega-remeb/)

[Ceramic membrane bioreactor](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/6/noruega-remeb/)

The consortium, in which ITC-UJI is participating, has managed to develop and validate a ceramic membrane bioreactor for wastewater reuse in the urban and industrial fields.

[![Remeb remeb index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/remeb/index.JPG)](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/3/remeb/)

[Euromembrane 2018](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/3/remeb/)

The initiative aims to develop and validate a ceramic membrane bioreactor (MBR) for wastewater reuse in urban and industrial areas.

[![REMEB meeting Murcia remeb-murcia-1 index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/remeb-murcia-1/index.JPG)](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2017/11/remeb-murcia-1/)

[Bioreactor of membranes](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2017/11/remeb-murcia-1/)

The consortium visits the bioreactor of membranes REMEB in the station debugger of residual waters of Aledo, Murcia.

[![Image resource remeb-euromat index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/remeb-euromat/index.jpg)](/com/noticies/2017/09/2q/remeb-euromat/)

[REMEB in Euromat](/com/noticies/2017/09/2q/remeb-euromat/)

The lecturer Enrique Sánchez of ITC-UJI represents this consortium of REMEB in this international event that takes place every two years since 1989.

[![Image resource remeb-brusseles index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/remeb-brusseles/index.jpg)](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2017/6/remeb-brusseles/)

[The REMEB project is presented in Brussels](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2017/6/remeb-brusseles/)

The initiative has the support of Castelló Provincial Government and the Association of European Territorial Cooperation "Partenalia".

[![Image resource remeb-2 index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/remeb-2/index.jpg)](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2017/4/remeb-2/)

[Waste water treatment](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2017/4/remeb-2/)

The company FACSA has started the hydraulic and electrical proofs and will be able to extract soon data about the quality of the water and the costs of operation.

[![Image resource remeb-anual index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/remeb-anual/index.jpg)](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2016/10/remeb-anual/)

[Meeting of REMEB project](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2016/10/remeb-anual/)

The consortium, bringing together eleven entities, is already replicating the membranes at a laboratory scale and preparing its validation at the plant.

[![Image resource remeb-1 index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/remeb-1/index.jpg)](/com/noticies/2016/03/1q/remeb-1/)

[REMEB meeting](/com/noticies/2016/03/1q/remeb-1/)

This project main objectives are the implementation and validation of a low-cost ceramic membrane bioreactor (MBR) in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).

[![Image resource remeb-infoday index](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2018/8/remeb/remeb-infoday/index.jpg)](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2015/11/remeb-infoday/)

[REMEB at the Infoday Regional H2020](/com/investigacio/arxiu/noticies/2015/11/remeb-infoday/)

The unique peculiarities of the REMEB European project have been presented at the conference Infoday Regional H2020 on Climate.

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