DynaWater4.0 – Dynamic value creation networks through digital collaboration between industrial water management and production

Initial situation

  • Automation, networking and digital technologies are transformation drivers of process water treatment.
  • Coordination of production processes and process water treatment are necessary.
  • Process water treatment is often environmentally relevant and constitutes a bottleneck.
  • Lack of process water forecasting tools allows only situational management of process water treatment.

Project objectives

  • Dynamic networking of industrial water management or process water treatment and industrial production using models and CPS (cyber-physical systems), sensor networks / data platforms and components (measurement-control-rules (MSR) & water technology).

Innovative process approaches

  • Linking production planning with production and process water treatment.

Current work

  • Process characterization and classification.
  • Product development for the networking of water treatment and production.
  • Modeling of water treatment, e.g. with preparation of a model for the pH-prediction of hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid as well as pre-calculation of the needed for neutralization agent amount.
  • Modeling of production process.

Outlook

  • Installation of available MSR technology and linking / networking with modeling.
  • Demonstration at model locations.
  • Development of integration concepts for the digitization of water treatment.

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