New green business

Based on an innovative wastewater system which combines electrochemical techniques with UV irradiation for the treatment of dyeing textile wastewaters and the reuse of the treated effluents

Quantified environmental impacts

Saving 70-100% dyeing water.
Saving 60-15% dyeing electrolyte.
Lower effluent salinity which also reduces the cost of the effluents discharge.

The viability of market replication

The possibility of selling the ECUVal system as an independent module which can be used in other industrial sectors.

Economical advantage

The ECUVal cell has some advantages with respect to other technologies such as water and salts reuse which implies reduction costs in:

water
salts and
discharge taxes.

Carbon footprint

The ECUVal system is greener because it allows to reduce the carbon footprint by reusing the treated effluent.

The ECUVal project is a green business based on an innovative wastewater system which combines electrochemical techniques with UV irradiation for the treatment of dyeing textile wastewaters and the reuse of the treated effluents.

The textile dyeing and finishing industry produces large volumes of coloured wastewater. An important problem arises in reactive dyes processes as they are non biodegradable and require high amounts of salt. ECUVal is mainly addressed to them. The current policies concerning water and energy consumption conduce to the recycling and reuse.

Video ECUVal

The ECUVal project is described in the video “ECUVal: Water, treat to reuse”.

Funded by the European Commission

This project is co-funded by the European Union within the CIP Eco-Innovation initiative of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, CIP.