The AFTERLIFE project proposes a flexible, cost- and resource-efficient process for recovering and valorising the relevant fractions from wastewater. It will represent an advance on existing approaches to wastewater treatment, which rely on physic-chemical and biological methods.
The AFTERLIFE process will separate the different components of value using a series of membrane filtration units that will separate all the solids in the wastewater. These will then treated to obtain high-pure extracts and metabolites or to be converted into value-added biopolymers; polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs).
In addition to the value extracted from the solids, the remaining outflow of the water will be ultrapure and ready for re-use.