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Contract: EIE/07/032/SI2.466789

Promotion of Sustainable Energy Communitiescontributing collectively to Biomethanisation of Organic

Food Waste as a Decentralised Renewable EnergySource for Europe by exploiting the Existing Built

Environment

Contract number: EIE/07/032/SI2.466789Project duration: November 2007 to April 2010

Slides Created: June 2010

• The RE-WISE Project started on November 2007 and finish ed on April 2010

• The RE-WISE Consortium was managed by the Italian engineering consulting company D’Appolonia S.p.A. , and involved SMEs (Ecofast Italia S.r.l. ), LEs(Acciona, Indesit Company S.p.A.), and Centres of Research (University of Barcelona, Questor Centre - Belfast )

RE-WISE Consortium

RE-WISE Objectives

• RE-WISE objective is the promotion of a new integrated practice for thedecentralized (district) production of electricity and heat from biogas byexploiting the organic food waste source

• Building on the widest adoption of food waste disposers (FWDs) in households and on the use of the sewerage system as means of transports of the ground food waste, it is possible to increase biogas production at district Waste Water Treatment Plants

Benefits from the RE-WISE Model :

• Increase in biogas production

• Reduction in CO 2 emissions related to collection of Municipal Solid Waste

• Cost savings associated with the collection, transportation, source separation, and other waste management practices

• Establishment of a win-win opportunity for citizens , municipalities , and service providers

RE-WISEObjectives

• In particular the main objective of the RE-WISE pro ject was to overcome the non-technological barriers standing against the penetration of the model and to disseminate the model throughout Europe, especially among target SECs (Sustainable Energy Communities) wherever organisational, infrastructural, socio-eco nomic and geographical conditions makes this model more favou rable than other waste management practices

• RE-WISE aimed:– to enable SECs across Europe to properly understand the

advantages of the proposed model– to organize bilateral and technical meetings with i nterested

communities and to support them in the process of planning the adoption of the RE-WISE scheme

– to develop education/dissemination programmes focussed on the barriers removal

RE-WISE Background

• Due to the high organic load and the high water content , organic food waste is the highest putrescible fraction of So lid Waste . The high putrefaction potential of this waste fraction forces organic food waste to be managed carefully (e.g. by providing almost daily collection) in order to avoid the generation of odours and leachate

• On one side organic food waste is a valuable resource for biomethanisation , which is often ‘ wasted’ due to scarce efficiency in collection

• On the other side, the sewerage system appears to be an opportunity for conveying the organic food waste , preliminarily grounded through FWDs to district Waste Water Treatm ent Plants (WWTPs) for anaerobic co-digestion, thereby increasing the production of biogas

RE-WISEBackground

• The RE-WISE model proposes the FWDs use for differen t reasons:

– the FWDs enable to manage OFMSW (Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste) in a way other than the sepa rate waste collection being more eco-friendly, avoiding the wa ste transportation to Waste Water Treatment Plants that sometimes are very far from the cities, and solving the sorting problem encountered by the Waste Municipalities;

– the FWDs thanks to the existing infrastructures (i.e. sewerage network and the WWTPs provided with Anaerobic Digester) can increase the biogas production through anaerobic di gestion of the sludge produced by the wastewater treatment, increa sing the electricity and heat production by co-generation

• The model can be applied both in little rural commu nities, medium urban centres, and metropolitan cities

The RE-WISE Model scheme • The model scheme can be described as follows:

– the kitchen food waste is ground by a FWD ( ��) equipped with a measuring system (��)

– the waste is conveyed to the WWTP through the sewer age system ( ��)– the biogas is produced through anaerobic co-digestion of kitchen food waste in district

WWTPs (��) equipped with a primary clarifier and a sludge digester– the biogas is used for co-generation of electricity and heat ( ��), while the digestate is

exploited as fertilizer ( ��)– the ground food waste is quantified at the source ( ��) by the Si.Q.U.Ro system , so as

to enable indirectly to quantify the increased prod uction of biogas at the WWTP and thus enabling to reward stakeholders (including cit izens) upon their effective contribution to the increased production of bio-ene rgy

“Si.Q.U.Ro Smart FWD

What is it? • It is an algorithm-based non-synchronous motion

detection system developed by Ecofast Italia & partners

• It is covered by patent and confidential know-how

Si.Q.U.Ro System:• allows quantitative detection of food processed by

a FWD• enables a FWD to become an instrument for

source separated collection of food waste

Thanks to the S.I.Q.U.Ro System, local Authorities are able tomeasure waste quantities introduced through FWDsand can apply collection service tariff in accordance with the principle “pay as you throw”

Overview of project results

• During the course of the project a wide dissemination programwas developed

• As result the RE-WISE workgroup has received invitation to publish the most interesting contents in all main media, TV, web, fairs, conferences, newspaper and magazines

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Conferences and Events

Overview of project results

Web-site & Web ToolsMeetings organization

Video presentations

• All the dissemination activities allowed the project to reach two main results:

– to overcome, in different countries, of the non-technological barriers

– to identify a conspicuous number of potentially interested SECs and 3pilot SECs for the implementation at full scale of the model

Case studies

Results achieved• The RE-WISE project has reached its aim to make the innovative

proposed model diffused and known worldwide collecting several expression of interest, participating to several events/conferences/fairs held in India, China, Europe, organizing several meetings, national events and developing a website with a high Google ranking

ConclusionsRE-WISE in numbers

SECs identification

• The graph shows the SECs (Sustainable Energy Communities )identification in national lead markets characterised by the most favourable organisational, infrastructural, social, economic, financial conditions and their geographical distribution

Czech Republic2%

Bulgaria2%

Denmark7%

Finland9%

France3%

Germany9%

Italy17%

Norway4%

Portugal2%

Sweden11%

Spain20%

UK4%

Others10%


• The RE-WISE web-site has been visited by more than 130000 people

• Its Google ranking is very high: by performing a search based on the key word “food waste” we can observe that the website www.re-wise.org is the 6th of more than 30 millions of results

• 2 Web Site tools have been developed in order to disseminate the RE-WISE contents and 106 users were trained by the WEB-TOOLS

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Total # of visits: April 2009- April 2010: 103467


• Two Expert Tools have been developed within the pri vate area of the website:

– The first tool, “SEC Expert Tool”, shows to the user the legal status of the food waste disposer in his Country and the potential amount of biogas produced by anaerobic digestion of kitchen food waste

– The second tool, “SEC Advanced Expert Tool”, shows to the user the benefits , in terms of costs and payoffs, coming from the exploitation ofthe RE-WISE model, in comparison to the separate source collection model. There are three sections, dedicated to the main actors of the model: Families, Municipalities and Investors

• The Expert Tools are instruments also available for the RE-WISE partners that are used during meetings with SECs rep resentatives that can be used independently from having an inter net connection


• RE-WISE participated to 53 international and regiona l events and organized 3 National events in Spain and in Italy

• As we can observe the majority of the events was held in Europe but also India and China showed an interest towards the new innovative scheme for the food waste management proposed by RE-WISE model

RE-WISE Events participation

Regional40%

International60%

Italy20%

Spain39%

UK13%

Belgium8%

China2%

France2%

Denmark2%

Germany4%

India2%

Poland2%

Tunisy2%The Netherlands

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Sweden2%


RE-WISE Events participation

European Construction Technology Platform4th Conference, Brussels, November 24 – 25, 2009

European Construction Technology PlatformEuropean Construction Technology Platform44th th Conference, Brussels, November 24 Conference, Brussels, November 24 –– 2525,, 20092009

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• The RE-WISE concept has been published on a total o f 17 papers, newsletters and proceedings diffused both nationally and internationally and characterized by different languages according to the graphs

papers47%

newsletter41%

proceedings12%

RE-WISE publications

English35%

Italian18%

Spanish47%

regional53%

international47%


RE-WISE publications


RE-WISE Bilateral Meetings

• The graph shows the temporal trend of the bilateral meetings with potential stakeholder and SECs that ar e committed in the adoption of the model

• As we can see there is a very positive trend showing a growing interest towards the project by differentstakeholders

• In particular it’s interesting to highlight that thanks to theproject visibility received by the Web-Site developed during the course of the project , we received theinterest from an important potential stakeholder(Lyonnaise des Eaux, France) that is interested in applying the model in a SEC located in France (Valenciennes)

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• Lyonnes des Eaux expressed interest towards the RE-WISE model which promotes a new powerful scheme to manage the food waste collection and that could be implemented in the municipality of Valenciennes(France) where the Company operates

• Lyonnes des Eaux showed his interest in the project, especially in the aspect involved in the RE-WISE model as a different method to provide a differentiated and selected waste collection

ConclusionsRE-WISE in numbersRE-WISE Bilateral Meeting – Valenciennes case

Project Fact Sheet Updated: April 2010

Promotion of Sustainable Energy Communities contributing collectively to Biomethanisation of Organic Food Waste as a Decentralised Renewable Energy Source for Europe by exploiting the Existing Built Environment

(RE-WISE)

Programme area: ALTENER, Sustainable Energy Communities (SEC) Status: Closed on April 2010

Coordinator: Stefano Carosio D’Appolonia S.p.A., Italy E-m ail: [email protected] Tel: +39 010 3628148

Partners: Ecofast Italia S.r.l. – Tecnologie Ambientali, Italy Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom ACCIONA Infraestructuras SA, Spain Indesit Company S.p.A. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Website: www.re-wise.org

Objective: Promote adoption of food waste disposers in households to boost civil wastewater with organic load

Benefits: To use the sewerage as a transport means thereby increasing biogas production at district WWTPs

Keywords: Food waste disposers, Sustainable Energy Communities, biogas

Duration: November/2007 – April/2010 Budget: € 750.301,00 (EU contribution: 50%) Contract number: EIE/07/032/SI2.466789

Short description The proposed action aims at promoting a new integrated practice for the decentralized (district) production of electricity and heat from biogas, where the biogas is produced through anaerobic co-digestion of organic food waste in district wastewater treatment plants equipped with a primary clarifier and a sludge digestor, and the organic food waste is conveyed to the district wastewater treatment plant through the existing built environment such as the drain and sewerage systems after having been ground through food waste disposers.

The proposed action builds on the conscious adoption of food waste disposers in households for the disposal of the organic food waste, with the objective to build up Sustainable Energy Communities boosting civil wastewater with ready biodegradable organic load, in order to increase the production of biogas in district wastewater treatment facilities, wherever organisational, infrastructural, socio-economic and geographical conditions render this model more favourable than other waste management practices.

Expected and/or achieved results The implementation of the proposed model would lead to:

- An increase in biogas production from anaerobic co-digestion of household organic food waste at WWTPs equipped with primary clarifier, of up to 77% for a penetration rate of domestic food waste disposers of 100%.

- A reduction in CO 2 emissions associated to the reduction from twice-weekly collection and transportation routes of biodegradable Municipal Solid Waste to weekly or bi-weekly routes.

The project has been closed, and some important lessons have been learnt: • The Consortium has achieved to have and published a complete scenario of all the detailed

existing opportunities, related to the legal position of the FWDs, the needs and the policy adopted in potential SECs;

• The model has been widely promoted by the Consortium Partners at European level, in particular

a large number of very interested SECs has been contacted and made aware of the chances given by the model, together with a complete scheme for implementation and timing for being, most of them are taking into account the possibility of implementing Re-Wise;

• A complete business model has been developed, and then included in the Expert Tool, for making

easier the whole economic chain to be understood. Thanks to the high number of contacts with SECs, municipalities and stakeholders, we can say that basically the business model answers to most of the questions or remarks we had in the project period: The business model has resulted as one of the most important argument of discussion during the meetings and often the related Expert Tool acted as a FAQ for stakeholders;

• Among the others, Re-Wise had a great success in the following communities, where it is actually

working: o Stockholm; o Chieri; o Lucca.

• There is still a very important on-going activity with Lyonnaise Des Eaux, for the implementation of

Re-Wise model in Valenciennes (France). The implementation scheme foresees the community as a pilot test, once they’ll get the evidence of benefits, the model will be extended to the whole region;

• Re-Wise has been presented to a large number of potentially interested people, by exploiting all

the possible media, in order to get the widest possible audience: o Newspaper; o Scientific Magazines; o Brochures, Video and other communication material; o Fairs and Exhibitions; o TV; o Public events in the field of “Green Energy”.

• The Website, www.re-wise.org , has been constantly updated and all the sections have been completed. In particular the Re-Wise tools and the Glossary/wiki section have attracted a high number of visitors: Re-Wise.org is now one of the first results on Google for the most relevant keywords (Food Waste, Biogas, FWD….). The very well structured, updated and exploited website allows the model to be now widely known by the internet community, with an average of 700 contacts a day.

• We finally underline the very important need for exploiting Internet, even for any further

improvement or prosecution of the project, since most of the real SECs where the model could be implemented, started the cooperation with the Re-Wise Team by approaching the website.

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- Cost savings associated to collection, transportation, source separation, and other waste management practices such as specifically applied in local administrations.

- The establishment of a win-win opportunity for 1) citizens being appointed as responsible producers of organic food waste, 2) municipalities being rewarded through reductions in costs associated to i) savings in transportation of the biodegradable fraction of Municipal Solid Waste, and ii) savings in Municipal Solid Waste Management practices such as kerbside collection or source-separated collection as far as the biodegradable fraction of Municipal Solid Waste is concerned, as well as 3) service providers in wastewater management being rewarded through financial incomes associated to the increased biogas volumes to be used as Renewable Energy Source.

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