COST 624: Optimal Management of Wastewater Systems

COST Action 624 is officially terminated since July 2004.
The website is maintained active for past information retrieval

Further links:

• For benchmarking: http://www.benchmarkWWTP.org/
• For COST 636 (Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle>: http://COST636xenobiotics.er.dtu.dk

The environmental problems of the world are to a large extent global issues and cannot be solved on a national basis. International cooperation and joint efforts are necessary to set up common goals and strategies and to determine how the environmental work should proceed to be most efficient. The spreading of information between different research groups, universities, and companies are of vital importance for this effort. For this reasons an EU research program named COST 624 has been initiated. The Memorandum of Understanding has been signed in Brussels on July 8, 1998.

The COST Action 624 is dedicated to the optimization of the performance and cost-effec tiveness of wastewater management systems by increasing the knowledge of microbial systems and by implementation of integrated plant-wide control based on a description of the entire wastewater system, thereby providing new concepts for dealing with wastewater in a future sustainable society.

The COST Action 682 'Integrated Wastewater Management" (1992-1998) was focused on the biological wastewater treatment processes and the optimization of their design and operation on the basis of process dynamical models.

COST 624 covers all aspects of wastewater management systems (i.e. collection , treatment and disposal) with regard to optimizing the performance of the complete system and also focuses on the development of new sustainable wastewater management strategies.