AccelWater EU Project

AccelWater is an EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Programme (Grant Agreement No. 958266).

The main objective of the AccelWater project is to optimize freshwater water consumption in the food and beverage industry under a water-waste-energy nexus by introducing beyond state-of-the-art water reclaiming, reusing and Artificial Intelligence enabled monitoring and control technologies that will permit the use of reclaimed water in the manufacturing processes of food and beverages. At the same time, it will allow waste and energy reclamation, optimization and management, and consequently will result to environmental sustainability, cost savings and the development of added value products and value chains through material recovery.

The duration of the project is 48 months (starting from November 1st 2020), and the consortium comprises eighteen partners from five EU countries.