MAUI: A NEW SYSTEM FOR MONITORING POSSIBLE HARMFULL COMPOUNDS IMPUT AT WASTWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS

This work shows the results of a research project "Monitoraggio continuo per le Acque reflue Urbane ed Industriali per l'ecoindustria" (MAUI). Innovative methods for real-time monitoring of urban and industrial wastewater, along with new data management techniques, have been applied to manage the data acquired by a vapour phase e-nose system. The system is based on a semiconductor sensor array, which was used to get real-time monitoring data, tested at labour scale on synthetic solutions for setting it. Actually the system is installed on the wastewater treatment plant of Vimercate (Milan, Italy) for a real time detection and early warning of anomalous influent composition.