News of the Lesswatt Project

Final Conference of the project on February 16, 2022

The final conference of the Lesswatt project will be held in Italian on February 16, 2022 from 10 AM to 1 PM. You are invited to participate, it’s free! Participation

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Newsletter #6 available on-line

Newsletter n.6 is now available on-line and can be downloaded from the section Download/Newsletter.

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The Lesswatt project at 9th IWA Odour and VOC/Air Emissions conference, Bilbao

The Lesswatt project was presented at the 9th IWA Odor and VOC / Air Emissions conference in Bilbao (Spain) on October 27, 2021. With this participation, the presentations of the

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The Lesswatt project at ECOMONDO 2021

The Lesswatt project was present at the ECOMONDO 2021 International Fair – the leading event in Europe for the Green Economy – which was held in Rimini from 26 to

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The Lessdrone in the “Il Sole 24 Ore” economic newspaper

Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian economic newspaper, has published, within the section dedicated to the Fair “ECOMONDO The green technology expo – Green challenges for the next decade”, an

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Lesswatt project at Ecomondo Fair

The Lesswatt project participates in the ECOMONDO 2021 International Fair – the leading event in Europe for the Green Economy – to be held in Rimini from 26 to 29

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Lesswatt project workshop

The third workshop of the Lesswatt project will be held in Ghent (Belgium) both in person and by videoconference on October 16, 2021 from 9.30 to 12.30. The Life LESSWATT

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Lesswatt project at SIDISA 2021 conference

The Lesswatt project has partecipated at the SIDISA 2021 international conference in Turin (Italy). On 2 July 2021, Cecilia Caretti of UNIFI presented the project and its results. The slides

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Lesswatt project at EcoSTP 2021 conference

The Lesswatt project has partecipated at the EcoSTP 2021 international conference in Milan (Italy). On 22 and 24 June 2021, Cecilia Caretti of UNIFI and Saba Daneshgar of UGENT presented

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Lesswatt participates in international conferences

The Lesswatt project will participate in international conferences taking place in different countries presenting the results of the project through oral presentations and scientific articles: EcoSTP 2021 – Milano (Italy)

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Webinar on N2O risk assessment

The slides of the Lesswatt project webinar entitled “N2O risk assessment” held on March 31, 2021 are available online and can be downloaded from the Download section of this website.

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Newsletter #5 available on-line

Newsletter n.5 is now available on-line and can be downloaded from the section Download/Newsletter.

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Lesswatt project published in “Scenari”, the insert of the  “Il sole 24 ORE” newspaper

A description of the LESSWATT project was published on 21 December 2020 on SCENARI, the commercial supplement of the “Il sole 24 ORE” economic newspaper . The article published in

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Lesswatt project at the FAST 2020 webinar

The Lesswatt project was presented on December 3, 2020 at the FAST 2020 free webinar.

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Lesswatt project second workshop (in Italian)

Download the slides of the second workshop of the Lesswatt project held at the ECOMONDO 2020 Fair.

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Lesswatt project at ECOMONDO 2020 fair

The LESSWATT project takes part in ECOMONDO 2020. Thursday 5 November at 2 pm. Follow us, it's free!

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Lesswatt project presented at Industrial Union of Pisa

The 8th October 2020 the Lesswatt project was presented at Industrial Union of Pisa.

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MATTM – Lesswatt is the project of the month

In September 2020 the LESSWATT project was published on the website of the MATTM (Italian Ministry of the Environment and Protection of the Territory and the Sea).

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Lesswatt article published in the Ingegneria dell’Ambiente journal

A scientific article on the experimentation carried out in the Lesswatt project has been published in the technical-scientific journal with free consultation Ingegneria dell’Ambiente (n.2 / 2020). The article can

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Newsletter #4 available on-line

Newsletter n.4 is now available on-line and can be downloaded from the section Download/Newsletter.

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Project activities at the time of COVID-19

Starting from March 8, 2020, when the restrictions for the COVID-19 epidemic began in Italy, the LESSWATT project continued its work as far as possible. While the experimental activities are

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LIFE Waste-Water Treatment Platform Meeting

The Lesswatt project was present to the Event Guide for the LIFE Waste-Water Treatment Platform Meeting, held on the 29th and 30th January in Barcelona, Spain. The project manager Cecilia

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Seventh student visit

On January 21, 2020, the seventh student visit was held at Cuoiodepur WRRF with the students of the Istituto Buonarroti secondary school of Ponte a Egola. During the visit, the

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July is the Lesswatt month!

The 2020 calendar of the LIFE Program has been published and the LESSWATT project had the honor of representing the month of July! We thank the LIFE Program for the

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Sixth student visit

On November 14, 2019, the sixth student visit was held at Cuoiodepur WRRF with the students of with students of the course of Complements of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering of

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Fifth student visit

On November 7, 2019 the fifth didactic visit with the students of the TE.CH. course (Technology and chemistry in the tanning industry – Technician performing biochemical and microbiological laboratory activities)

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Presentation at ECOMONDO Fair 2019

On November 6, 2019, at the ECOMONDO Fair 2019 (The Green Technology Expo) in Rimini – Italy, in the Global Water Expo section and within the Conference “Energy and carbon

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Newsletter #3 available on-line

Newsletter n.3 is now available on-line and can be downloaded from the section Download/Newsletter.

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Forth student visit

The 11st of June 2019 the forth didactic visit with the students of the ITS course of “Tecnico Superiore per il coordinamento dei processi di progettazione, comunicazione e marketing del prodotto moda”

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Newsletter #2 available on-line

Newsletter n.2 is now available on-line and can be downloaded from the section Download/Newsletter.

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Project activities
Tracks the operational work of the project.
The After-LIFE activities have started

Contacts with stakeholders have begun and in particular with water service utilities to carry out targeted measurement campaigns with the aim of optimizing the management of the aeration sector of

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The Lesswatt project is completed

The Lesswatt project is completed and the results are perfectly in line with expectations. After-LIFE activities are now starting and will continue in the next few years and will be

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B5 – Second measurement campaign at Roma Est WRRF completed

In September 2021, the second measurement campaign planned at Roma Est WRRF was completed. The campaign, which was intended to measure oxygen transfer and the production of greenhouse gases produced

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B5 – Second measurement campaign at Reggio Emilia WRRF completed

In July 2021, the second measurement campaign planned at Reggio Emilia WRRF was completed. The campaign, which was intended to measure oxygen transfer and the production of greenhouse gases produced

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B5 – Second measurement campaign at San Colombano WRRF completed

In April and May 2021, the second of the 2 measurement campaigns planned at the San Colombano WRRF was completed. The campaign, which was intended to measure oxygen transfer and

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C2 – Evaluation of the companies’ interest in the project

On March 30, 2021, Utilitatis, partner of the project, sent a questionnaire to 34 companies associated with Utilitalia (Association that brings together water, environmental and energy managers active in Italy)

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B5 – First measurement campaign at Reggio Emilia WRRF completed

In March 2021, the first measurement campaign planned at Reggio Emilia WRRF was completed. The campaign, which was intended to measure oxygen transfer and the production of greenhouse gases produced

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B5 – First measurement campaign at Roma est WRRF completed

In September and October 2020, the measurement campaigns planned at Tillburg and Eindhoven WRRFs (The Netherlands) were completed.

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B5 – Measurement campaigns at Tillburg and Eindhoven WRRFs completed

In September and October 2020, the measurement campaigns planned at Tillburg and Eindhoven WRRFs (The Netherlands) were completed.

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B5 – First measurement campaign at San Colombano WRRF completed

In July 2020, the first of the 2 measurement campaigns planned at the San Colombano WRRF was completed. The campaign, which was intended to measure oxygen transfer and the production

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B4 – The activities of action B4 continue

Action B4 continues: Development of the protocol for the reduction of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The biokinetic and hydrodynamic models have been implemented by UNIFI and UGENT respectively,

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Action B3 completed

LESSDRONE has been used for the first official off-gas testing of this project in the aeration tanks of Cuoiodepur Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF). The aim of the tests is to

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