Water treatment 4.0, between artificial intelligence and predictive technologies
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 21, 2019 3:34 PM
2019-02-21 top_utility_870.1550754098.png The prize was given today in Milan at the seventh edition of the award, which analyses and enhances the performances of the most important public service...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 18, 2019 8:30 AM
valuetoenergy_110 Giving "Value to energy", because the advantageous effects of the circular economy model are actually visible in energy savings. And this is one of the objectives of the Hera...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 23, 2019 4:01 PM
Valsecchi_110 The Hera Group promotes the project by Carlo Valsecchi, which from February 1 to March 31, 2019 exhibits fourteen photographs of the Gasometer M.A.N. #3 at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 31, 2019 9:07 AM
9 "To receive the Top Employers certification for the tenth consecutive year makes us particularly proud because it acknowledges our commitment in the field of training and investments directed to...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 11, 2019 3:13 PM
The Hera Group firmly holds its place among the companies that set themselves apart for their commitment to providing the best working conditions for their employees and for implementing best...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 28, 2019 9:06 AM
Hera Group - Business Plan to 2022 The Hera Group is promoting Carlo Valsecchi's "Gasometro M.A.N. n.3" project, on display from 1 February to 31 March 2019 at the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 28, 2019 12:07 PM
2019-01-28 Calendar of events CALENDAR OF CORPORATE EVENTS (*) In accordance with art. 2.6.2 (Required Reporting) of the "Rules of the markets organised and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A.",...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 24, 2019 11:19 AM
696 Financial Results 2008 2009-03-26 540 Fiorenza Bavieri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLmalQ4wTaM Financial Results 2008 729 1 0 Fiorenza Bavieri 870
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 10, 2019 3:27 PM
Hera Group - Business Plan to 2022 Operating and financial highlights 2022 Ebitda: 1,185 million euro (+200 million over 2017 Ebitda) Overall industrial and financial investments: over 3.1 billion...
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Web Content Article on-date Jan 7, 2019 10:13 AM
2019-01-10 Based on solid forecast for 2018, which significantly exceeded the goal of one billion in Ebitda, this new strategic plan confirms the path of uninterrupted growth achieved by the Group...
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Web Content Article on-date Dec 20, 2018 3:17 PM
2018-12-20 Following up on the steps taken during the past few weeks in all Town Councils involved, the project aimed at integrating natural gas distribution between Inrete and CMV Servizi, as well...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2019 9:18 AM
Cesena_110 The Hera Group, one of the largest Italian multi-utilities, has reached an agreement with Amadori, a leading group in the national agri-food sector and a specialist in the poultry...
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Web Content Article on-date Dec 10, 2018 9:36 AM
2018-12-10 Newco Lux-on created by Bio-on, alongside Gruppo Hera, to develop a revolutionary technology to produce biopolymers from CO2 (carbon dioxide). Newco Lux-on created by Bio-on, alongside...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 16, 2019 4:27 PM
Bio-On-GH_110 Bio-on, a leader in the high quality bioplastic sector, and Hera Group, one of Italy's largest multi-utility providers, have reached an agreement to take 90% and 10% shares...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2019 9:08 AM
Chioggia_110 To extensively reclaim Chioggia's port area and renovate the area to bring it back to life. This is the commitment of a temporary association of companies (ATI) led by Herambiente, a...
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Web Content Article on-date Dec 7, 2018 11:15 AM
2018-12-07 The tender, worth 28.5 million euro, was awarded to a temporary association headed by the Hera Group, Italy's leader in waste treatment. Work will begin in 2019 and will lead to an...
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Web Content Article on-date Dec 4, 2018 4:30 PM
5 In November 28th, the Group ranked first in the 2018 edition of Ferpi's "Oscar di Bilancio" contest, for both financial and sustainability communication (in the segment dedicated to companies...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2019 8:22 AM
Oscar_bilancio_2018_110 The Hera Group has won the 2018 "Oscar di Bilancio" award. The 54th edition of the event promoted by Ferpi (Italian Public Relations Federation) to reward virtuous companies...
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Web Content Article on-date Nov 26, 2018 2:06 PM
2018-11-26 Nuova_Palazzina_1_870x.1533219432.jpg The remaining 51% of the company, headquartered in Atessa (Chieti) and providing natural gas sales to approximately 7,000 customers, has now been...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 11, 2018 12:34 PM
The event is a special showcase dedicated to Italian listed companies, and especially the North-Eastern ones, which will have the opportunity to meet institutional, Italian and international...
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Modena's smart purification plant is COSTANCE, the prototype of the purification plant of Granarolo dell'Emilia. Two outstanding examples of sustainable water resource management.
The watchword is innovation. To protect the environment and those who live in it, and to provide quality services.
That's always been our belief. But there's more. We need to add another watchword: resilience, the ability to cope with change. And when we speak of climate change, we have learned that innovation and resilience are inseparable. The most modern technologies allow us, in fact, to face sudden changes, turning to prevention, the ability to predict causes and consequences, acting in advance.
Following this principle, and as the second-ranking Italian operator in terms of volumes of water sold, we have earmarked Euro 830 million for smart technologies in our Business Plan for 2023. In fact, the networks and plants of the water cycle are subjected to increasing stress due to the ongoing climate change, and only our ability to adapt and innovate, has made us an Italian excellence in the industry.
The investments we have made are 20% higher than the Italian average - almost Euro 176 million in 2019 alone – and reaffirm our commitment to a circular and regenerative economy, starting with water.
In particular, by complying with the requests of the United Nations Global Compact on the sustainable management of water resources, we remain committed to continuously innovate the service to achieve its gradual decarbonisation. This happens not only by using only renewable energy but also through energy efficiency projects and optimisation of the processes involved in the treatment.
There are two virtuous examples we are particularly proud of, the Modena treatment plant and that of Granarolo dell'Emilia (Bologna).
THE SMART TREATMENT PLANT IN MODENA
Blue water, clear water. This is the refrain that welcomes to Modena's smart treatment plant. Its new predictive system, unique in Italy, enables us to improve the quality of the water we return to the environment and to further reduce the energy consumption of our wastewater treatment plant.
Here, technological innovation, integrated systems, and efficient use of resources are at the forefront.
The project, developed together with Energy Way (the company that develops mathematical models for the efficient and sustainable development of businesses), created a system capable of controlling the oxidation process, a fundamental phase of the wastewater treatment cycle, anticipating the needs of the plant's activities. In fact, the requirements vary according to the water flow rate and the concentration of organic pollutants. The smart controller anticipates, 30 minutes in advance, the condition of the plant and acts beforehand to avoid the concentration of pollutants or energy peaks.
The pilot project has yielded positive results, which we are proud of. The Modena treatment plant, which can cope with the needs of 500,000 inhabitants, recorded a 16% decrease in energy used in the oxidation process, compared to a traditional control system, and a further 8.1% decrease in the presence of nitrogen in the outgoing water (a parameter already below the regulatory limits).
WELCOME TO CONSTANCE, PROTOTYPE OF THE GRANAROLO DELL’EMILIA TREATMENT PLANT
It's just been born, but it's looking very promising. We are talking about CONSTANCE (COntrollo iNtelligente e geSTione Automatizzata per il trattameNto di aCque rEflue). The system is the fruit of a partnership between Hera Group and ENEA (Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente), is based on machine learning technologies, and can reduce energy and water treatment plant management costs by more than 30%. The prototype has reached a level 7 technological maturity and is ready for industrialisation; the first tests were successfully carried out in our treatment plant in Granarolo dell'Emilia (Bologna).
CONSTANCE's main innovative feature enables us to remotely manage multiple treatment plants and to estimate in real-time the percentage of pollutants entering the plant, such as nitrogen, reducing them and thus returning cleaner water.
"At Hera, we place technological innovation among the fundamental pillars of our management and development strategy. With this in mind, in 2017 we formed a partnership with ENEA to build projects of common interest," says Franco Fogacci, Water Director of Hera. "The experimental test project of ENEA's CONSTANCE controller at our treatment plant will allow us both to further develop skills, know-how, and transfer new technologies into real applications on an industrial scale, for the benefit of citizens and the environment", he concludes.
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