Market Study of a scalable blackwater treatment process for resource-recovery & risk reduction

加拿大的供水服务基础设施大部分是集中式的，已经达到或正在达到其设计寿命的终点。在考虑替代时，可以通过利用更多分散的、单独的收集和处理来自剩余家庭灰水的黑水（厕所和厨房食物流）来实现经济、环境和社会目标的显著改善。在源分离能量正废水处理系统中有多种好处。 我们最近的研究开发了一种处理黑水的SPRING工艺。该技术是通过更好地了解厌氧消化（AD）过程中的微生物过程及其控制来开发的，以进一步最大化。该系统已经在实验室和微型试验规模上对从各种来源收集的黑水进行了测试。 为了实现这种集成设计的全部潜力，需要在潜在的最终用户现场进行工艺演示和控制优化。 通过此次市场评估，我们将更好地了解和识别该技术的潜在市场机会，并与行业关键意见领袖和利益相关者一起验证价值主张。这将为下一阶段的研究和技术开发提供重要指导，有助于完善和更好地制定商业化战略。

Much of Canada's water service infrastructure is centralized and has reached, or is reaching, the end of its designed life. When considering replacement, significant improvements in economic, environmental and societal goals could be achieved by utilizing more decentralized, separate collection and treatment of blackwater (toilet & kitchen food streams) from the remaining household greywater. There are multiple benefits in source-separated energy positive wastewater treatment systems. Our recent research has developed a SPRING process to treat blackwater. The technology was developed through better understanding of microbial processes during anaerobic digestion (AD) and their control to further maximise. This system has already been tested for blackwater collected from various sources, and at laboratory and micro-pilot scales. To realize the full potential of this integrated design, process demonstration and control optimization at the potential end-user's site are needed. Through this market assessment we will better understand and identify the potential market opportunity for this technology and validate the value proposition with industry key opinion leaders and stakeholders. This will provide critical guidance for the next stages of research and technical development, help to refine and better develop the commercialization strategy.