Cloud-based environmental modelling

From small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the biggest industrial plants, there is a considerable demand for environmental consulting services, in order to reduce and avoid every kind of pollution risk. The CLEEN experiment aims to overcome existing limitations of environmental modelling tools: long processing time, low data elaboration quality, and focus on a single scenario. The main aim of the CLEEN experiment is therefore to set up and test an innovative service for SMEs, public sector (i.e. environmental agencies) and private stakeholders (i.e. consultancy companies, research centres, engineering facilities) through a single access-point/platform. The use of CLEEN simulation via the Fortissimo HPC Cloud will help customers to rapidly evaluate substantial changes in their production cycles by quickly calculating the changes in their expected environmental impacts. At the same time it can reduce the costs of design of new plants providing an innovative service that will be used for new multiple scenario-based design due to computational power and the integration between different tools. A leap forward made possible by FORTISSIMO Project thanks to interoperability among different skills (i.e. computing, applied research, environmental engineering, consulting) that would hardly be seated at the same table otherwise.