Biomonitoring and automatic control system of microbiological contamination of industrial hydraulic circuits

The main objective of the project is to validate and demonstrate a new technology that allows real-time monitoring and quantifying aerobic microorganisms that are present in the water of a hydraulic system, and the subsequent correct and consistent dosing of a biocide optimization to minimize these microorganisms. To this end, a prototype will be built at industrial scale and start up on two spanish textile companies with very different hydraulic systems in order to demonstrate the efficiency of the technique. Both companies need disinfection systems connected to cooling towers of finishes on one hand and the air conditioning system for a weaving company in the other hand. Presented prototype significantly improves the management of disinfecting water systems and air conditioning systems making the process more effective by the fact that detection is continuous and can be performed at various points in the system (where the concentration and type of biocide is variable and disinfection must be adapted.

The new method proposed in this project will optimize the biocide dose at any time, thus reducing overdosage or extra waste amounts of biocide (and packaging), making the process cheaper and more environmentally friendly.

Proposal Acronym: BIOMOMI - LIFE11 ENV/ES/000552
Duration: 36 months - Start Date: January 2013 - Date of completion: December 2015
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Servyeco will attend the 20 th International Salon and irrigation water and 10 lounge environment SMAGUA 2012 in Zaragoza Fair. There will highlight its advanced oxidation pilot plant (project LIFE +) and present the development of plant coagulants (Series ECOTAN) for the treatment of wastewater.

SERVYECO wins a public tender in Andalusia for the treatment of circuits against legionella at the prestigious Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío and related centers.

This prestigious hospital, the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio is the largest in Andalusia and one of the largest in Spain. It features the most advanced technologies and depends on the Andalusian Health Service (Department of Health). It employs over 8000 professionals and its annual budget amounts to almost 535 million euros.

This fact solidifies SERVYECO’s expansion in Andalusia through its delegation and consolidates our leadership in the Spanish public sector.

COMPANY OF THE YEAR 2009
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PRIZE

SERVYECO won last week the “Company of the year 2009 - Environment and social commitment prize”, which is awarded each year by “El Periódico Mediterráneo”

After been nominated three consecutive years, Servyeco won this valued prize, thanks to the respect for the environment and the current research, based on the development of an innovative treatment system against Legionella.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF AN ECOLOGICAL DESINFECTANT SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER

The primary objective of the new treatment system, recently developed by the company, is to reach the antiseptic and disinfectant properties of the system. Fighting Legionella, removing at the same time some bacterium which are situated in the water, coming mainly from frits and glazes, is the main issue of the current research, as is published at the IMPIVA web page

The SERVYECO Laboratory is certified by the National Certification Organisation (ENAC), in accordance with the criteria of UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 regulation: 2005 (CGA-ENAC-LEC). Number 700/LE 1389.

The Directorate-General of Public Health and Foreign Health of the state MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS approves and enters our product ECOCIDE IS-30 into the official Pesticides Register as entry No. 09-100-05277, as a disinfectant for treatment of Legionnaires Disease

The EUROPEAN COMMISSION approves the R&D project presented to the LIFE+2007 programme
Legionellosis: Risk Reduction to Public Health from Environmental Sources using Biotechnology in the Textile Sector.“.
This project was co-financed by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION "Directorate-General of the Environment" led by AITEX together with SERVYECO, ATEVAL, UPV and PASCUAL Y BERNABEU S.A., with the aim of developing an innovative technology for control and prevention of Legionnaires Disease in the 2009-2011 period.

SERVYECO takes part in the 4th ENVIRONMENT MASTER DEGREE programme offered by Universitat Jaume I of Castellón.

The SERVYECO laboratory expands the scope of its registry in the Public Health area of the Regional Ministry of Health of the Valencia Regional Government to perform analysis of food products

SERVYECO purchases from the multinational CIBA 33 % of the shares in the SERVYECO IBERIA S.L., company, now holding 100% of the shares in the company.

The state Department of Research of the state MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION approves the SERVYECO R&D project in the National Program of Experimental Development Projects titled “Investigación sobre las aplicaciones de nuevas moléculas de biocidas y sus síntesis industrial (Research on Applications of New Molecules of Biocides and their Industrial Synthesis).

The SERVYECO analysis laboratory is certified in accordance with UNE-EN ISO 14001:2004 regulation for distribution and sale of chemical products, installation and maintenance of water treatment installations, and treatments for preventing Legionnaires Disease.

SERVYECO gives the 6th and 7th official training courses for personnel responsible for performing the hygienic-sanitary maintenance of installations at risk of Legionnaires Disease in the Castellón Chamber of Commerce.

SERVYECO takes part in the AQUATEX day seminars organised by the Polytechnic University of Valencia.