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Danish company Unisense wins prestigious innovation award at AquaTech
Addressing an often overlooked problem
While most carbon footprint discussions related to wastewater treatment tend to focus on reducing carbon dioxide, the level of nitrous oxide is often overlooked. “What many people don’t realise is that nitrous oxide accounts for up to 80% of the greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants,” explains Unisense CEO, Christian Buur. “If you want to manage your carbon footprint, you therefore also have to look at your N2O emissions”.
According to Unisense, efforts to reduce energy consumption at the treatment plants actually often result in increased emissions of N2O and thereby an underestimation of the plant’s total greenhouse gas emissions. “With our new N2O Wastewater sensor it is possible to monitor N2O emissions in a cost-efficient manner thereby enabling a long term N2O emission optimisation,” says Christian Buur.
Learn more about the award-winning system here
About the AquaTech Innovation Award
AquaTech is one of the world’s leading trade exhibitions for process water, drinking water and wastewater and gathers water companies, researchers and political stakeholders from all parts of the world. As part of the program, an independent jury awards the most innovative new products within five categories.
Learn more about the AquaTech Innovation Award
Meet Unisense and other Danish companies at AquaTech
Unisense and 14 other Danish water companies are exhibiting at the Danish pavilion at AquaTech from the 5-8 November 2013 at Booth no. 07.234A+B.
