AquaInSilico, a Frontier IP portfolio company, has launched its first commercial services to help industry and government significantly reduce the environmental impact of their wastewater treatment plants.
Upwater is a next-generation, AI-powered platform that uses predictive modelling and advanced algorithms trained on more than 30 years of real-world data. The tools integrate scientific knowledge of biological, chemical and physical processes with data-driven models to make it much easier to comply with environmental regulations, reduce operational costs and enhance sustainability.
The platform also supports circular economy goals by recommending strategies to maximise the recovery of potentially valuable nutrients, biogas, biopolymers and recycled water. These can then be used in applications such as biofertilisers, bioenergy and bioplastics. If you are involved in wastewater treatment and would like more information, please get in touch here: https://aquainsilico.com/
The digital technology can understand and model the complicated and ever-changing variables that make wastewater plant sustainability difficult. Challenges include ageing infrastructure, fluctuating flows, varying influent pollutant concentrations and complex biological processes.
Upwater supports industries and urban utilities by helping to:
- stay compliant with discharge directives more reliably
- anticipate process disruption before it escalates
- cut energy costs in aeration by up to 70 per cent
- reduce chemical use in the water line by up to 100 per cent and in the sludge line by up to 20 per cent.
- maximise resource recovery of nutrients, biogas, biopolymers and recycled water for use in applications such as biofertilisers, bioenergy and bioplastics
- enhancing overall plant efficiency and sustainability
The tools simulate different operational scenarios and deliver practical, data-driven recommendations tailored to a wastewater treatment plant’s specific conditions.
AquaInSilico was established to commercialise the work of Dr Jorge Santos, Dr Mariana Matos and Professor Maria Ascensão Reis of NOVA University Lisbon, NOVA School of Science and Technology (“FCT NOVA”). Frontier IP holds a 29 per cent equity stake in the company.