Vienna turns wastewater into clean energyAustria's largest wastewater treatment project is harnessing wastewater to generate energy and improve ...
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Austria's largest wastewater treatment project is harnessing wastewater to generate energy and improve Vienna’s climate balance. Operator ebswien kläranlage & tierservice opted for the Simit simulation platform to precisely simulate and modulate the processes in the plant.
Managing wastewater is a vital part of city’s infrastructure; it is also one of the most energy intensive endeavors. In the Austrian capital of Vienna, this "dirty" job falls to operator ebswien kläranlage & tierservice Ges.m.b.H, the company that runs Vienna-Simmering, the country’s largest wastewater treatment plant.
Rising energy costs and Vienna’s plans for carbon neutrality spurred ebswien on to rethink its operations. In 2015, they embarked on the E_OS – Energy_Optimization Sludge Treatment project. “Our goal was to become energy self-sufficient with the renewable energy source sewer gas,” explains Miklos Papp, Head of Technology at ebswien.
E_OS became the largest environmental project of the city of Vienna. ebswien worked with technology partners, including Siemens, to turn this vision of an “eco power plant” into a reality. It is the largest environmental project of the City of Vienna: Since 2021, the sewage treatment plant in Vienna-Simmering – the largest in the whole of Austria – has been self-sufficient in energy supply and has an energy-positive balance with the renewable energy source sewage gas. A real "eco-power plant", in other words.
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- Energy
- Energy Reduction
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy Reclamation