Resource Recovery from Water: Best Practices from KWR Watercycle Institute, the Netherlands, and Europe

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RESOURCE RECOVERY FROM WATER DUTCH TOP SECTOR POLICY: TKI WATER TECHNOLOGY

Kees Roest

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TOWARDS A WATER-WISE WORLD

BRIDGING SCIENCE TO PRACTICE

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• Nature

• Our lives and well-being

• Food production

• Economic development

WATER IS ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE

BACKGROUND

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The Dutch and water

INNOVATION BY NATURE

BACKGROUND

Polders

Deltaworks

Dikes

Rhine

Meuse

IJssel

Waal

Amsterdam

Rotterdam

Water quality

Salinisation

Water scarcity

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KWR generates knowledge to assist the water sector in becoming water-wise in our urban society.

KWR RESEARCH AGENDA 2014-2020

OUR RESEARCH

HEALTH

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

SUSTAINABLE WATERCYCLE SOCIETY

THINKING AHEAD

WATER-WISE WORLD

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KNOWLEDGE BASE REFERENCE PROJECTS PRODUCTS NETWORKS

WORKING TOGETHER

KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION MODEL

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KWR invests in strong links with valuable partners.

• Working together for the international water sector we:

• build a solid knowledge base

• realise high quality reference projects

• create marketable products

We remain leaders in the field by participating in, and sometimes creating, key Dutch and international networks.

KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION MODEL

WORKING TOGETHER

COLLABORATION AS CORE BUSINESS

BTO

ARC

EIP on Water

WssTP

GWRC

WHO

Watershare

HORIZON 2020

TKI

DPWE

ALLIED WATERS

Universities

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Building the knowledge base needed to provide drinking water of world class quality.

• Dutch water companies, branche association Vewin and De Watergroep (BE)

• KWR: Coordinator, principal implementor

• 40 years of collective research covering source to tap, institutional memory for the drinking water sector

KNOWLEDGE BASE - THE NETHERLANDS

KNOWLEDGE BASE - THE NETHERLANDS

JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAMME WATER COMPANIES (BTO)

7.8

MILLION EURO/YEAR

>100

RESEARCH PROJECTS/YEAR

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European funding program for research and innovation, aimed at improving the global competitiveness of Europe.

• 2014-2020

• Three pillars, focusing on research, industry and society

KNOWLEDGE BASE - EUROPE

EU PROGRAMME HORIZON 2020

Excellent science

Societal challenges

Industrial leadership

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Demand-driven projects with public-sector end-users.

• Since 2013

• Private businesses & research organisations

• KWR: Coordinator, principal implementor public-sector end-users projects, Secretary of the Water Technology Board (Wim van Vierssen)

REFERENCE PROJECTS - THE NETHERLANDS

APPLICATIONS & TOOLS - THE NETHERLANDS

DUTCH WATER TECHNOLOGY (TKI)

RESOURCE EFFICIENCY

SMART WATER SYSTEMS

SUSTAINABLE CITIES 2.5 >50

MILLION EURO/YEAR

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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Global expertise for local water challenges.

• Since 2012

• KWR: Coordinator, founding member

• Sharing and reviewing knowledge from research and practice in Communities of Practice

• Encapsulating the knowledge into tools

• Tackling the water sector’s challenges on:

REFERENCE PROJECTS - INTERNATIONAL

APPLICATIONS & TOOLS - INTERNATIONAL

WATERSHARE

Resilient Urban Water Management

Subsurface Water

Solutions

Emerging substances

Future-proof Water Infra-structures

Resource Recovery and

Upcycling

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MEMBER INSTITUTES

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TOOLS

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APPLICATION REFERENCES

Commercialising game-changing innovations in the water cycle that are driving the circular economy.

• Since 2015

• Public-private partnership (PPP): prominent scientific institutes & ambitious business enterprises

• KWR: Founding father, research partner

• SALutions Collab: commercialisation of Subsurface Water Solutions (Freshmaker®, Freshkeeper®, ASR-Coastal)

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PRODUCTS – INTERNATIONAL

PRODUCTS – INTERNATIONAL

ALLIED WATERS

RTWQM ESE ARREAU CITY

BLUE-PRINTS

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Boosting innovation in the European water sector.

• Since 2012

• High level representation from EC, member states, industries and research

• KWR is coordinator of 2 Action Groups:

City Blueprints

ARREAU (Resource Recovery)

And member of:

ESE Action Group (Ecosystem Services)

RTWQM Action Group (Real Time Water Quality Monitoring)

NETWORKS - EUROPE

EUROPEAN INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP (EIP) ON WATER

STEERING GROUP WIM VAN VIERSSEN

TASK FORCE THEO VAN DEN HOVEN

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KWR is a WHO Collaborating Centre on Water Quality and Health.

• Testlab for Household Water Treatment System Verification

• Produce evidence-based guidance for safe water systems

• Supporting international knowledge transfer

• Providing specialized training

• Providing technical expertise in water-related disease outbreaks

NETWORKS - INTERNATIONAL

WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE

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THE KNOWLEDGE ENTERPRISE

KWR

ABOUT KWR


Research Programs KWR Stakeholders

BTO & DPWE & WiCE

Focussed on drinking water & Water in the Circular Economy:

Joined Research Program drinking water companies

TKI

Since 2013 TKI Water Technology: Public-Private Partnerships

Europe

Participation in several European consortia & projects

Advice

Consultancy & multi-client projects

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Resource recovery from the water cycle Definition of resources

WATER

Reuse of treated water

ENERGY

Thermal

Chemical: e.g. Biogas from organics

COMPONENTS / ‘by-products’

Organics (PHA, cellulose, etc)

Nutrients (N, P, K, S, Mg, Ca, etc.)

Metals

Drinking water production residuals

(iron oxide, lime, etc.)


INTEGRAL

e.g. study of resources flows within an airport, city, hospital, etc.


Resource recovery from the water cycle Some TKI Water Technology projects

WATER

• Effluent reuse: smart implementation

of modular sustainable WWTP

• Effluent reuse: storage of clean

effluent in aquifer for greenhouses

• ZLD: processing of the concentrate

and IEX regenerate

• Sewer Mining: Forward osmosis

• Eutectic freeze crystallisation

ENERGY

Thermal:

• Thermal energy from drinking water

‘Calorics’

• Energetic decontamination: aquifer

thermal energy storage & UV

treatment

Biogas from organics:

• Cavitation: new technology for sludge

desintegration

COMPOUNDS / ‘by-products’

• Sustainable airport cities: phosphorus

recovery

• Granular iron for phosphate, arsenic

and H2S binding

• Pure lime pellets production

• NOMixed: treatment IEX regenerate by

EDR & reuse of humic acids

• EuRyDice : resource recovery from

industrial wastewater

• Power to Protein


INTEGRAL • Sustainable hospital Hilversum

• Closing cycles: cleantech playground Amsterdam


Value piramide It is the aim to produce high value products

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Detection, removal and recovery of metals From water, sludge and fly ash

The concept

The focus of water treatment is increasingly shifting to the recovery of raw materials. There might be opportunities for the recovery of (scarce) heavy metals and rare earth metals.

Aim

Detection of (rare) metals from the watercycle.

Find a suitable technology to remove and recover the metals from the water-sewage-sludge-ash-chain.

Testing effectiveness (small-scale) of the chosen technology


source: Jhunjhunwalas

CELLULOSE RECOVERY Impact on downstream processes

WwTP Aarle-Rixtel Capacity: 320,000 PE (150 g TOC/day) DWF: 2,922 m3/h FFT: 16,500 m3/h Finescreen capacity 4,000 m3/h


First results Finescreens

SVI remains 70 -90 ml/l

No negative impact on removal of P & N or on dewatering of sludge

Approximately 12% decrease in m3 aeration (= energy)

Approximately 7% lower sludge production

Increased WWTP capacity (person equivalents) approximately 8%


Biosynthesis: Power to Protein From wastewater to feed/food

The concept

Bacterial protein production from recovered gases at sewage treatment plant.

Protein in feed or food.

Aim

Sufficient food, reduced environmental impact


Source: PPT Silvio Matassa / Willy Verstraete Avecom, Belgium & LabMET , Ugent

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Goal: - Overview of best practices on resources recovery from water - Share experiences and lessons learned - Four categories: water, energy, components and integral

- IWA Cluster Resource Recovery launched a Best Practice Award

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