About our project: LIFE ECODIGESTION 2.0 is LIFE Programme Project, its main objective is the scale-up of technology in order to produce biogas on demand with WWTP sludge, using agri-food waste and slurry as a co-substrate. The technology is based on the one developed in the previous LIFE ECODIGESTION project LIFE13 ENV/ES/377, which targeted the development, implementation and demonstration on a pilot scale of an innovative technology that worked on the automatized control for the dosage of waste in anaerobic digesters of WWTP and, consequently, maximized biogas production and waste treatment capacity. With the aim of avoid the loss of resources and energy contained in wastes & sludge from WWTP by developing a control, managing and decision-making tool for optimizing the co-digestion of waste in digesters of WWTPs. Environmental and economic benefits will be achieved by greater and better controlled biogas production, as well as optimum waste exploitation.

LIFE ECODIGESTION 2.0 poject objectives are:

I- Valorise agri-food waste as co-substrate and then convert these residues into by-products, accordingly with COM(2014) 398 Final and Directive 2008/98/CE. This objective has been formulated in the framework of the application of waste hierarchy principle (Directive 2008/98/CE).

II- Increase the amount of agri-food waste that can be treated in existing real-scale facilities in WWTPs where currently are doing the co-digestion in about 192% compared to the amount co-digested nowadays, assuring the stability of the reactor and on-demand biogas production.