Sixth framework programme

1.13Overall budget for the project (Forms A3.1 & A3.2 from CPFs)

A3.1 form:

A3.2 form

1.14Management level description of resources and budget.

The project budget is summarized in Table 9. The total labour costs are based on the person months as defined in the project effort form, section 8.1.

Table 9 Summary of project budget

Partner	Total labour^1	Consumables	Durable Equipment	Protection of Knowledge	other costs	Travel + subsidence	Overheads	Total cost per partner	Funding requested
NTNU	266 640	30 000	14 000	-	-	18 000	62 128	390 768	390 768
CU	123 200	41 600	-	-	-	15 000	32 960	212 760	212 760
RWTH	170 000	12 000	-	-	-	12 000	36 400	230 400	230 400
IBET	95 745	54 000	10 000	-	-	15 000	31 949	206 694	206 694
INSA	110 484	40 000	20 000	-	-	15 000	34 097	219 581	219 581
UM II	100 440	40 000	15 000	-	-	15 000	31 088	201 528	201 528
DUT	95 418	40 000	18 000	-	-	15 000	30 684	199 101	199 101
EAWAG	94 600	32 000	15 000	-	-	15 000	28 320	184 920	184 920
UNITN	222 525	40 000	20 000	-	-	15 000	157 258	454 783	231 004
UTS ^2	95 418	25 000	21 000	5 000	-	20 000	19 084	185 501	185 501
UKZN	41 400	12 000	10 000	-	-	12 000	12 680	88 080	88 080
Polymem	272 175	40 000	50 000	-	-	10 000	72 435	444 610	224 693
KMS	168 000	40 000	15 000	-	-	12 000	44 600	279 600	143 300
FlowConc	96 000	20 000	5 000	-	-	12 000	24 200	157 200	81 800
MILL	32 000	20 000	15 000	-	8 000	15 000	13 400	103 400	51 700
WHD	190 000	200 000	-	-	-	5 000	78 000	473 000	236 500
EV	72 800	20 000	-	-	-	15 000	18 560	126 360	63 180
IHE	50 000	3 600	-	-	-	3 600	10 720	67 920	33 960

¹ Total labour is based on PMs from Efforts form (section 8.1)

² UTS funds are supported by the Australian Government
For the AC model partners the PMs input is primarily allocated to Master Thesis student work, PhD fellowships and costs related to employing post-doc or researcher positions. For the FC/FCF partners the PMs the funds are to cover input by staff required to complete the tasks outlined in the project description. A breakdown of the budget allocations are shown in Table 10.
Table 10 Overview of project budget allocations

Partner	Budget allocations
NTNU	Personnel: PhD fellowship / post-doc Research Officer (36 PM), project management staff (12 PM) Consumables: 30.000 Chemical analysis costs (HPSEC, TOC, COD/FCOD, BOD, UV, PSD, Zeta pot., microscopy, MLSS/VMLSS, etc.) cleaning chemicals and operation additives Durable equipment: 14.000 Modifications to existing pilot testing units and construction of new components/systems
CU	Personnel: PhD fellowship (36 PM) and post-doc Researcher Officer (8 PM) Consumables: 7.000 Fitting of side-stream modules 3.600 PC & data logging 4.000 Chemical fractionation method, biomass analysis 27.000 Chemical analysis costs (HPSEC, TOC, COD, BOD, UV etc.)
RWTH	Personnel: Researcher (34 PM) Consumables: 6.000 Membrane material Chemicals (Cleaning, Buffers, Organic Standards) HPLC-Column 6.000 Spare Parts and auxiliary material for lab and pilot scale plants
IBET	Personnel: PhD fellowship (18 PM), post-doc Research Officer (21 PM) Consumables: 54.000 Chemicals and other consumables for analysis (UV, GC, HPLC, Dionex, TOC, ICP), purchasing of molecular probes, acquirement of sensors (i.e. DO, pH etc.) Durable equipment: 10.000 Purchase of electronic equipment for data acquisition and data processing
INSA	Personnel: PhD fellowship (36 PM), post-doc Research Officer (8 PM) Consumables: 14.000 PC & data logging & specific software for modelling 6.000 Membranes and modules 10.000 Spare parts and auxiliary material for lab scale plants and for the visualisation cell 10.000 Consumables and reactants for analysis Durable equipment: 20.000 Modifications to existing pilot testing units and construction of new components/systems
UM II	Personnel: PhD fellowship (36 PM) and post-doc Research Officer (4 PM) Consumables: 40.000 Chemical analysis costs (DCO, N, PR, PS, gas, filters, membranes etc.) Durable equipment: 15.000 Construction of a new pilot plant unit
DUT	Personnel: PhD fellowships (38 PM) Consumables: 30.000 Chemical analysis costs 10.000 Chemical costs for cleaning and operational tests Durable equipment: 18.000 Modifications and building of filtration characterisation unit
EAWAG	Personnel: Post-doc Research Officer (22 PM) Consumables: 32.000 Chemical analysis and operating costs Durable equipment: 15.000 Modifications to existing pilot testing units and construction of new components/systems
UNITN	Personnel: Professor (6 PM), Associate Prof. (6 PM), Graduate Lab. technician (13 PM), Research Officers (12/24 PM) Consumables: 40.000 Chemical analysis costs: (COD, UV, flow-cytometry etc.) Durable equipment: 10.000 Modification to the large pilot scale installations (module replacement, piping rearrangement, etc.) 10.000 Electronic modifications and equipments
UTS	Personnel: Masters thesis work, PhD fellowships, post-doc Research Officers Consumables: 25.000 Chemical analysis costs: (TOC, MW distribution, endocrine disruptors, conventional water and sludge analysis), construction of membrane module samples Durable equipment: 21.000 Construction of three lab-scale pilot plant units for testing
UKZN	Personnel: Post-doc Research Officer, Masters student thesis work Consumables: 12.000 Chemical analysis costs and pilot plant operating costs Durable equipment: 10.000 Construction of pilot plant testing unit
Polymem	Personnel: Engineers (40.5 PM), Technician (16.5 PM) Consumables: 5.000 lab scale membranes modules 10.000 semi industrial modules for testing (pilot nr.1) 5.000 membrane modules for ageing tests (pilot nr.2) 15.000 full scale prototype modules for testing (pilot nr.3) 5.000 Chemical analysis costs: (COT, MEB, COD, BOD, UV, bacteria) Durable equipment: 20.000 Construction of pilot nr.1 – MBR pilot plant for 5m^3/d 10.000 Construction of ageing tests pilot plant 20.000 Construction of mobile filtration plant
KMS	Personnel: Project Engineers (24 PM) Consumables: 40.000 Manufacturing of membrane samples and modules Durable equipment: 15.000 Construction of test units/pilot components
FlowConc	Personnel: Project Engineer (15 PM) Consumables / equipment: 25.000 Computer hardware and software, licences fees
MILL	Personnel: Product Engineer (8 PM) Consumables: 20.000 Construction of membranes and membrane modules Durable equipment: 15.000 Construction of test units/pilots
WHD	Personnel: Process operator (36 PM), Process Engineer (8 PM), Researcher/Project Manager (6 PM) Consumables: 30.000 Operation for costs for operating and running the MBR pilot 170.000 Chemical and microbial analysis: (COD, BOD, N, P, heavy metals, micro pollutants, endocrine disrupting components, bacteria, viruses)
EV	Personnel: Researcher, Engineer (15 PM) Consumables: 6.000 PC and data acquisition system 14.000 Chemical analysis and operation costs
IHE	Personnel: Post-doc Research Officer, Masters student thesis work Consumables: 3.600 Chemical analysis costs: (LC-OCD)

There are two end-user representatives in the partner consortium, WDH and EV. These partners bring an added value to the project through access to existing treatment plants, large-scale pilot plants, and long term operation reference data of existing treatment plants. WHD is responsible for the Heenvliet wastewater treatment plant in the Netherlands. A pilot MBR with a capacity of 100 m³/h is currently under construction and will be used in this project. The pilot MBR can be operated in parallel to the existing plant with a capacity of 290 m³/h, but can also be operated in combination with the plant enabling a hybrid MBR combination. This option offers a very promising concept for upgrading of existing wastewater treatment plants. Operation of the pilot plant will make much information available to the project. A direct comparison can be made between the performance of the conventional wastewater treatment plants and MBRs. Several parameters will be monitored, like nutrient removal, removal of micro pollutants, removal of endocrine disrupting agents and disinfection. Also several operational parameters will be monitored and optimised, like energy consumption, membrane cleaning and general operational parameters. The joint knowledge from laboratory and pilot tests will result in the further development of the MBR concept. EV is responsible for several wastewater treatment plants of which two are MBR processes, the Rödingen MBR plant and the Nordkanal plant. This offers the unique opportunity of testing findings from the laboratory scale on full-scale systems.

The EUROMBRA partners include three membrane manufacturing companies, Polymen, KMS and MILL. The companies both manufacture membranes and construct membrane modules which opens a great potential for the project team to get access to membrane materials and modules at various stages of construction. The potential of testing new concepts and prototypes is also apparent depending on the progress of the research program outlined in this project. These partners will supply membrane modules and units to various levels of the activity in project.
The project consortium has further been strengthened by the participation of FlowConcept, a SME specializing in computation fluid dynamics (CFD). The CFD-modelling will strengthen the analysis and understanding of hydrodynamics both within the membrane modules themselves and in complete treatment process schemes.
The 12 remaining partners of the 18 partner consortium represent universities and/or research institutions. These partners either manage or have access to a variety of well equipped laboratories and research facilities with advanced analytical instruments and pilot plant units which will be made available to the project. The indirect costs requested in the budget are primarily related to operation and analysis costs for this equipment, building and/or adapting some of the testing units, supplementing equipment as needed for the defined tests to be undertaken.
Own resources made available to the project by AC model contractors. The contribution of person months (PMs) for the AC partners is shown in Table 11.
Table 11 Contribution of AC partners in personnel resources

Partip. No.	Participant short name	Resources Personnel: Effort:	Amount
1	NTNU	T. Leiknes, Associate Professor 12 PMs H. Ødegaard, Professor 3 PMs L. Fiksdal, Professor 3 PMs A. Grostad, Workshop Manager 4 PMs G. Thorvaldsen, T. Hårberg, Laboratory Staff 6 PMs Administration staff 4 PMs	120.000 30.000 30.000 23.200 34.800 23.200 Total: € 261.200
2	CU	Professor 4 PMs Senior Researcher 2 PMs Technical Staff 4 PMs Administrators 2 PMs	68.746 22.097 29.462 19.642 Total: € 162.946
3	RWTH	T. Melin, Professor 3 PMs S. Yüce, T. Wintgens, Senior Researcher 6 PMs J. Bouge, Technical Staff 3 PMs G. Spalding, Laboratory Staff 6 PMs	Total: € 90.000
4	IBET	M. Teresa Crespo 9 PMs Fernanda Rodrigues 9 PMs	36.903 22.793 Total: € 59.696
5	INSA	C. Cabassud, Professor 6 PMs C. Guigui, Assistant-professor 6 PMs M. Spérandio, Assistant-professor 2 PMs N. Clergerie, Technician 4 PMs B. Reboul, Technician 4 PMs	38.256 27.312 9.104 8.437 8.437 Total: € 91.546
6	UM2	A. Grasmick, Professor 6 PMs C. Wisnieski, Assistant-professor 4 PMs M. Heran, Assistant-professor 4 PMs R. Boilletot, Technician 4 PMs Post-doc/PhD 6 PMs	38.256 18.208 18.208 8.437 16.800 Total: € 99.909
7	TU-Delft	J. van der Graaf, Professor 6 PMs J. deKoning, Assistant-professor 6 PMs A. van Nieuwenhuijzen, Assistant-professor 4 PMs A. Schuit, Lab/Technician 4 PMs	43.648 30.032 20.021 16.875 Total: € 110.576
8	EAWAG	H. Siegrist, Professor 2 PMs A. Joss, Scientist 6 PMs K. Rottermann, Technician 5 PMs	28.000 60.000 40.000 Total: € 128.000
10	UTS*	S. Vigneswaran, Professor 5 PMs H. H. Ngo, Dr. 2 PMs H. Nguyen, Professor 1 PMs A. Fane, Professor (UNSW) 1 PMs P. Smith, Mr. 1 PMs E. Laszlo, Research Assistant 6 PMs	Total: € 80.000
11	UKZN	C. Buckley, Professor 4 PMs K. Foxon, Researcher 10 PMs M. Guness, Technical Staff 12 PMs	15.625 13.540 7.500 Total: € 36.665
		Sum person month contribution Total: € 1,120.508

* Activities of UTS are supported by the Australian Government

Contribution in laboratory facilities and equipment by AC partners are shown in Table 12:

Table 12 Contribution of AC partners in facilities and equipment resources

Partip. No.	Participant short name	Resources Facilities / Equipment	Amount
1	NTNU	Pilot plants, laboratory equipment, analytical instruments	Total: € 100.000
2	CU	Pilot hall, equipment, laboratories, analytical instruments	Total: € 23.000
3	RWTH	MBR pilot plant, test modules, laboratory instruments	Total: € 200.000
4	IBET	Pilot plant, filtration unit, analysis instruments	Total: € 43.859
6	UM2	Laboratory, pilot plant, analytical instruments	Total: € 104.000
7	TU-Delft	Laboratory and equipment:	Total: € 12.500
8	EAWAG	Experimental apparatus – MBR pilot	Total: € 200.000
10	UTS*	Laboratory facilities, analysis, and equipment	Total: € 95.000
11	UKZN	Laboratory and equipment	Total: € 4.750
		Sum facilities / equipment contribution Total: € 783.109

* Activities of UTS are supported by the Australian Government
The total in-kind contribution to the project by the AC cost partners based on person months and in-kind contribution is therefore estimated at € 1.903.617.