Maria Almató

TL;DR: In this article, the water management in the batch process industries has been optimized considering the reuse of water effluents in the same plant through storage tanks, and the connections between the available tanks and the water streams have been determined targeting different aspects: freshwater demand, water cost, utility demand of water streams and water reuse network costs.

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology is presented which identifies the in-plant water reuse opportunities, resulting in significant freshwater consumption reductions, illustrated with a case study based on the food industry.

TL;DR: Almato et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a methodology for water use minimization in batch process industries, where not only the freshwater demand associated to a given production plan is calculated, but also the different costs involved in the water re-use system are optimised leading to the best design water reuse network that includes the best utilisation and assignment of tanks to store spent water.

TL;DR: In this paper, a methodology for minimizing the costs associated to water management in batch process industries is presented, based on a previous methodology for freshwater demand minimization, which has been extended to the economical aspects of water management: cost associated to freshwater supply and conditioning, wastewater treatment and disposal, as well as water reuse network investment and operation costs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a methodological framework for wastewater reduction in batch processes, derives a formal mathematical model of the combined water reuse and energy recovery system in time-dependent processes, describes the model approach and optimization strategy, and applies the method proposed to industrial cases.