The old water plant at Källby in Lund is no longer used to purify Lund's water. Instead, other activities have been built on the premises — including a laboratory for the project Källby Vattenverkstad, which is a Vinnovafain-funded test bed since spring 2021. Here you have the opportunity to test various new instruments and measurement methods on a commissioned but decoupled waters in Lund — mainly drinking water but also sometimes for other parts of the business.

“Our goal is primarily to test instruments for drinking water quality, but this was broadened because we often perform approximately the same measurements on different waters,” says Markus Fröjd, project manager from Sweden Water Research. We realized that it may also be our role to test where in the process the different instruments can do good.

VA SYD, Sydvatten, NSVA and Sweden Water Research participate in the Källby water workshop, and cooperation with the organizations' other test beds, Reco Lab in Helsingborg and Sydvatten research station Bolmen is central. The conclusions made in Källby Vattenverkstad can also be taken into account by the other stakeholders and experts from the other organisations support the water workshop when necessary.

Källby Vattenverkstad welcomes students, researchers, product developers and other testers to work together in their testbed constellation

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Källby Waterworks

Financier: Vinnova

Project Time: May 2021 - May 2024

Budgetary: 2,500,000 SEC

Project Management: VA SYD, Markus Fröjd, Sweden Water Research

Partnerschappen: VA SYD, Sydatten, NSVA and Sweden Water Research

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