The dissemination activities of DEMEAU were planned in the beginning of the project and outlined in the dissemination strategy (von Toggenburg et al. 2013). After three years of project work, we have a look at the achievements of these dissemination activities.
After training of the neural net, ANCS was adjusted with the automatic functions and was used to control the pilot plant automatically. The results in terms of flux rate, recovery, chemical and energy demand will be compared to the respective results of the large technical scale backwash-water treatment plant operated without ANCS. This task showed successful modelling of start- and end permeabibity after/before backwashing and resulted in a cost reduction of 4 - 25 %