Aqualia Shows In The H2Orizon Hall Its Advances In Technology And R + D

The event, of national scope and celebrated in Seville during three days, has been focused in the innovation applied to the management of the urban water and also of the agricultural irrigated land

Aqualia, a company specializing in the management of Municipal Water Services with a presence in 1,100 municipalities, has participated in the H2Orizon Innovation and Water Technology Exhibition, which, from September 19 to 21, has brought together more than 500 professionals and public administrations both from Spain and Portugal, guest country, around the theme "Efficient water management in the digital world".

Within this framework, Aqualia has had an active participation, both in the expository part and in the technical program.

The company has had a striking stand of 24 m2 in which the many Spanish and Portuguese authorities who opened the room stopped to be interested in the activity of the company.

And within the technical program, on the one hand, Javier Rubio, head of Aqualia Networks in the Municipal Water Service of Almeria, has given a conference in which he has exposed the evolution of the service since 1993, the date on which the concession, to this day, highlighting the important role played by the new technologies that Aqualia has applied to improve the efficiency of the drinking water supply network. Javier Rubio has shown the operation of the intelligent network management system that the company has in Almeria and the benefits that a program of this type contributes to the daily management of those responsible in terms of agility and input of data that help the decision making process. decisions.

On the other hand, Frank Rogalla, director of R & D of the company, has exposed the progress made in the attainment, from wastewater, of new ways of obtaining reuse water suitable for agriculture or municipal irrigation, as well as as projects that Aqualia develops in Chiclana (All-Gas) or Jerez (Smart Green Gas) in which it has managed to produce vehicular biofuel with which compressed natural gas (CNG) cars already operate. "We are changing the traditional paradigm in which wastewater treatment plants are big consumers of energy, to a new scenario in which we transform them into producers of bioenergy".

In this way, the company highlights its involvement in the application of the latest technologies to improve efficiency, and with it the service provided to citizens, as well as the search for new ways of generating high value resources through environmentally sustainable formulas.