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Automated waste collecting system
[...] Smarter project in Stockholm, an automated waste collection system has been implemented in an existing neighborhood. The goal is to enable a cost efficient and smart waste solution for residential areas.
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Optical sorting system for smart waste collection
[...] Grow Smarter project, optical sorting technologies have been combined with a smart waste collection system to increase waste recycling rates in multi-family residential areas.
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Waste collection statistics for individual households
[...] Collecting waste statistics is one sub-solution under the Smart Waste Management measure of Grow Smarter project. It is able to provide feedback to end users on their waste segregation habit.
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Intelligent waste management system in Ludwigsburg
[...] the municipality aims at optimizing the waste collection routes in the city. As a pilot project the city has installed cameras with inbuilt sensors in the 15 waste bins across the city.
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Waste heat recovery from sewage water
The projects entails the installation of a heat exchanger and water-to-water heat pumps that will recover the heat from sewage water in order to improve the efficiency of gas fired heaters in schools
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Optimized city cleaning with...
[...] An intelligent waste collection system, based on sensor inputs from the underground waste bins and the shafts, is implemented to optimize waste handling and to improve cleanliness and appearance of the
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Three pipes circular sewer system
[...] sewage pipe was transformed into three sewage pipes in order to separate municipal waste water. One pipe collects food waste, the second black water and the third grey water. Grey water is recovered for cooling
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Open District Heating for...
[...] Heating aims to recover waste heat to the existing DH network by developing an innovative business model for plug and play heat pumps and contracts where the DH provider buys waste heat from local sources
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Smart water utility solution
[...] across data sources in real time which is used to maintain and identify improvements in the water and waste water system.
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Big Belly Bins
[...] The 'Big Belly Bins' are fitted with waste compactors which ensure they need emptied less often than standard designs. The innovative bins have proved to need emptying 7 times less than standard bin designs
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Improvement of work environment...
[...] and wants and creating inventory that is adjusted to these - without impacting the environment with waste or unnecessary mass production of inventory.
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Construction Consolidation Centre...
[...] to material during deliveries and handling, and waste. Most of the inbound deliveries are directed to the Consolidation Centre instead of the Construction site allowing for better control of the inbound [...] doing the delivery of building materials will bring waste from the refurbishment sites back to the Consolidation Centre.The same truck will be handling both new materials and waste, further reducing traffic
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Virtual energy advisor by Barcelona...
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Providing information on real-time energy usage and waste levels to tenants is a key tool to help them see and reduce their own environmental footprint. The Virtual Energy Advisor is being developed within the Barcelona Municipality project ‘Take charge of your energy’ with the aim to reduce household electricity consumption by minimum 10% by encouraging behavioural changes amongst tenants.
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Introduce biogas for heavy-duty...
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On the one hand, Gasum Ltd. invests in two or three biogas trucks and uses them in the company’s own waste and organic fertilizer logistics as an example of short-distance transport, while the City of Turku promotes the biogas use by 2 – 3 delivery vans or similar which operates, e.g., food transport in the City area.
One LBG truck runs between the Turku Waste Water Treatment Plant and Gasum’s biogas production plant transporting sludge that are processed to biogas. The other truck delivers nutrition residue from the biogas plant to local farmers.The trucks are refilled at the local
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Low Temperature District Heating...
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• NCC created an efficient citywide heat network.
• The project enabled Nottingham to cope with climate change and build resilience to external energy prices
• The heat source is Energy from Waste (EfW), which is recovered by the incineration of waste; offsetting approx. 27K tonnes of CO2 emissions per year
• Customers received a far more efficient energy supply than those with gas boiler
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Active House smart home solution
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Real-time information on resource consumption helps tenants see and reduce their environmental footprint. Using this in pricing provides further incentives for residents to cut waste and energy usage.
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Switching from steam based to water...
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Standard & Technical Details: 2.5km of piping, 8.2 MW heat and 1.6 MW of electricity biomass plant.
The solution is changing steam pipes to district heating based on water as energy transmitter. The power is supplied via a biomass power plant owned by the municipality. Pipes can be used with any other water based heat production system. The biomass power plant is fueled by the waste of public green spaces.
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Energy efficient refurbishment of...
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The City of Stockholm has implemented energy retrofitting actions in 2 tertiary buildings. One of the buildings is a cultural centre named Tarmrenseriet, and the second, Kylhuset includes 2 offices complex buildings. Installation of adaptive control system for heating & ventilation, heat recovery in the ventilation system, excess heat from the kitchen to heat hot water, integrated PV in the glass of the skylight with battery storage and smart energy management system, insulation of the roof and a waste heat recovery system from nearby building.
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Renewable refuelling stations for...
[...] The City of Stockholm is trying to find suitable locations for renewable feulling stations. Some of the stations will be completely new stations and some will be adding alternative fuels to existing diesel stations. The land is leased to filling station operators at a standard price, on the condition that at least two of the following alternative fuels are supplied at each station.
Biogas: Methane gas from waste water treatment plants and food wastes in Stockholm. Cleaned and compressed biogas can be used in CNG vehicles.
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Smart local thermal districts
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Ca l’Alier demonstrated the feasibility of a Nearly Zero Site Energy Use through a combination of photovoltaic power (85kWp), a connection to the district heating and cooling (DHC) network that recovers heat from urban solid waste treatment plant, and the installation of an energy management system that is capable of optimising consumption as well as forecasting the building load.
The [...] from the incineration of municipal waste (MSW) in the nearby treatment plant TERSA.The remaining cooling production is carried out in electric chiller machines cooled by seawater. Consequently, high yields are reached
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Intelligent monitoring solutions...
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DUOL provides not only engineering, production and assembling of the tents, but also an aftersales service of their structures. Efficient facility management is one of the DUOL’s important priorities. In order to optimize operational processes, control air dome assets, protect from potential structure damages and energy waste they have decided to introduce Smart air dome monitoring and management solution that enables remote monitoring and management of the air dome statuses. DUOL company was facing several challenges that required the implementation of an intelligent monitoring system
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Hubgrade Energy saving centre
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24/7 – remote control increasing proactivity
Can set alarm by undesirable temperature fall or sudden raise energy consumption
Real-time information on resource consumption helps tenants see and reduce their environmental footprint.
Using this in pricing provides further incentives for residents to cut waste and energy usage.
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Streetlights as wifi-to-grid...
[...] , Sustainable Mobility, Low Energy solutions for buildings, Video Surveillance and Incident Monitoring, Waste Management and Quality of Life.
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Electric van test fleets for...
[...] , courier and delivery services, waste management and recycling, gardening services and wholesale.
Since autumn 2017, the companies have been testing electric vans in the city of Stockholm. A survey
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Sustainable Energy Supply by Soil...
SANERGY is a low-cost system which aims at purifying soil in combination with extracting energy from groundwater using heat pumps in the Strijp-S district in Eindhoven.