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Paul O'Callaghan, CEO of BlueTech Research, gives the keynote speech at the Tech Xchange Workshop at Singapore International Water Week 2012.
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Re-inventing WaterCurrent and Future Trends in
Water and Wastewater Technologies
SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL WATER WEEK 2012 | JULY 2012 | WWW.BLUETECHRESEARCH.COM
PAU L O ’C A L L AG H A N | C EO | B LU E T EC H R ES EA RC H
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We serve the global water market.
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Brave Blue World
Water is a Local Issue
Providing Water Services…Without Water
Re-thinking Water Systems Efficiency
Urban Water Solutions
• Municipal and urban water systems represent 92% of the value of the global water market
• Technology opportunities– Re-invent the urban
water system– Current system is
inefficient and wasteful
Global Water Use
Agriculture
70%
Energy & Industry
22%
Municipal & Urban
8%
Municipal & Urban8% En
ergy & In-dustry22%
Agriculture70%
Agriculture $9.5Bn (2%)
Energy & Industry $23Bn (6%)
Municipal & Urban $368Bn (92%)
Global Water Usage Global Water Market
Intelligent Design or Evolution?
Past, Present, Future(source: adapted from Glen T. Daigger, WEFTEC, 2008)
1850 water closet (WC) and sewer adopted
1914 activated sludge wastewater treatment process invented
ThenPopulation <2 billion and mostly rural, without modern technology
Today 6 billion people, mostly urban, experiencing energy & resource constraints
Future Population & urbanisation are set to increase
Innovative Companies Tracked by Application Area
Next Generation Sensors
• Advances in information technology and sensors is transferring across into the water industry
• Operational costs - where the money is: sensors and automated control systems offer the potential to access “operational dollars – without becoming an operator”
Global Water OPEX
Operational Expenditure,
$189.7Bn
Capital Expenditure,
$164.3Bn
Capital Expenditure,
$9.7Bn Operational Expenditure,
$13.3Bn
Utility Market OPEX – 53%
Industrial Market OPEX – 57%
Energy-Water-Waste Nexus- Hot Spot of Innovation
Energy from Wastewater
Resource Recovery
Decentralised Treatment & Water Re-use
THERE IS ENERGY IN WASTEWATER
Energy-Water-Waste Nexus- Hot Spot of Innovation
There is energy in wastewater!
The energy in wastewater produced by one person each day could power a 100-watt light bulb
for five hours.
Utilized: 12%Not Utilized: 88%
Treated Ef-fluent2% Biogas
17%
Sludge45%
CO236%
Flared 67%
Utilized33%
Incineration15%
Landfill37%
Beneficial Re-use 49%
49 Million MWhr in USA Municipal Wastewater
Total USA Municipal WWT Wastewater Energy Input
Biogas
Sludge
WWTP
Source: BlueTech Research Insight Report
Phosphorous Recovery
• Every person produces approx. 1.2kg P/annum
• The UK then has approx. 72,000 tonnes P in wastewater from humans
• This has a market value US$168M/annum
52%
37%
34%
63% is landfilled or incinerated
66% to agriculture, industry, etc.
48% is discharged in the effluent*
Phosphorous Recovery in Europe(Source BlueTech Insight Report 2012)
EU27 imports 3,400,000 tonnes of P2O5 /yr
[100% of Total Imported P2O5]
Approx. 1,145,000 tonnes P2O5/year goes into the EU27 wastewater
[34% of Total Imported P2O5]
Approx. 595,000 tonnes P2O5/year goes into biosolids (sludge)
[18% of Total Imported P2O5]
Approx. 220,000 tonnes P2O5/year gets recycled to
farmland in biosolids
[7% of Total Imported P2O5]
*in absence of P recovery
Re-inventing the water industry
The water industry is undergoing a period of re-invention both from within and without.New
Entrants
Tectonic Shifts
New Thinking
Technology Opportunities
BlueTech Tracker Companies:Number of Employees per Company
<519%
5-3056%
30-10018%
100+7%
How is the water technology market likely to change?
• Pressures are driving early adopters
• New technologies will then move to the ‘early majority’ section of the market
• Overall, the rate of adoption of new solutions will accelerate
What technologies are we likely to see?
• Technologies that
– deal with water issues locally
– that use butter knives, instead of chain-saws
– which provide water services, without using potable water, or using less water
Straws in the Wind
• Increase in research – Up 30% each year between 2000 & 2009 (Elsevier)
• Increase in patent filings– Desalination technology patents in 2010 almost
double those in 2005 (BlueTech Research)
• Investments and acquisitions– 2009 - record high, 50 deals, 60% early-stage (Cleantech)
• Water Centres for Excellence & Research Centres– Proliferating at an alarming rate
• Water Conferences
When there is
Big Change,
there is
Big Opportunity.
Re-inventing Water
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SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL WATER WEEK 2012 | JULY 2012 | WWW.BLUETECHRESEARCH.COM
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