Innovation

R&D&I Strategy 2017-2020

This document covers different areas of Canal's activity: from the services we provide and the relationships we establish with our environment, emphasising innovation in the company, society and the market by improving processes, and with the efficient provision of our services and a position at the fore of the sector.

Initially, the strategy is defined from 2017 to 2020; during this period, the strategy will serve as the guide which defines our company's path towards growth and innovative progress.

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INDUSTRIAL USE OF RECLAIMED WATER

As a result of collaboration between Canal de Isabel II, the paper company Holmen Paper Madrid and the Cellulose and Paper Research Group at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, the first paper plant in the world to use reclaimed waste waters in most of the production processes was set up in 2011. To guarantee that quality requirements are met, we installed a double membrane (ultrafiltration and inverse osmosis) treatment system followed by a disinfection process at the Culebro Medio Waste Water Treatment Plant. This allows for 100% of the plant's supply water to be replaced, obtaining savings in drinking water of more than 4 cubic hectometres per year, equivalent to the annual consumption of a population of 80,000 inhabitants.

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MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY IN NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

Work on the construction of the Arroyo Valenoso Waste Water Treatment Plant (EDAR) in the town of Boadilla del Monte began in 2012, with a budget of 9.2 million Euros and a treatment capacity of up to 12,000 cubic metres per day of waste water, equivalent to the pollution load of a population of 40,000 inhabitants. This highly advanced treatment system, which eliminates nitrogen and phosphorus, is based on ultrafiltration membrane technology. At present there are only 15 waste treatment plants of this type in Spain.

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INNOVA 100 PLAN

100 research or innovative projects which are feasible in 2022

The challenge for innovation lies in making it viable, useful and efficient for all of the society. We aim to make our company a centre of excellence in innovation, research and development in our sector. To this purpose, 100 innovative projects have been developed, with feasible and effective results for the 2018-2022 period.

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CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN WATER

Creation of the Dual Vocational Training and Masters in Water

There is a shortage of professionals with expertise in water management, both with respect to Intermediate and Advanced Vocational Training and to university postgraduates of all types. The Centre of Advanced Studies in Water aspires to specialise in training the best water management professionals of the future in Spain and other countries, placing Canal at the fore when it comes to training experts in water in Spain, and establishing Madrid as a centre of excellence in this training.

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