EDITORIAL

Welcome to the second E4Water newsletter. 1/3 of the pro-ject has passed now and E4Water is moving forward: the E4Water partners are working very hard on testing, optimiz-ing and selecting technologies for the next steps. They are bringing technologies forward towards pilots in new appli-cations and new technology trains for a more sustainable industrial water management.

You are welcome to have a closer look into the work of E4Water and get informed about partners and their specific work. To learn more about E4Water in general, you are very welcome to visit the E4Water website www.e4water.eu. You’ll also find detailed information on upcoming events there.

Your E4Water team

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New Facility for Wastewater Threatment 1

UCM: Sustainable Water Management in the Industry 3

VITO: Unit Separation and Conversion Technology 3

TU Delft: Research towards the Urban Water Cycle 5

FHNW: Sustainability in the Water Sector 6

FHNW: E4Water Research in Depth 6

Participation on International Events 9

Announcement on upcoming Events 11

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KALUNDBORG: NEw FAcILITY FOR wAsTEwATER TREATMENTKalundborg opens algae facility for a resource efficient wastewater treatment. A microalgae based research, test,

and demonstration facility equipped with ten 4m3 photobiorea-tors, has emerged at Kalundborg Utilities to clean industrial re-sidual streams rich in nutrients.

On the 8th of October Kalundborg opened its newest research, test, and demonstration facility at Kalundborg Utilities, where re-sidual streams from industry will be cleaned through the activity of selected microalgae.

The algae facility is a showroom for new innovative technologies that can reduce water consumption and costs in wastewater treatment. The project has brought together the water sector and chemical industry, as well as a number of technology provid-ers within production of new biomass and in pre- and post-treat-ment of residual streams, biomass and freshwater. By showcas-ing the entire “food chain” of related industries in an innovative wastewater treatment concept, individual companies and spin off consortia can get a unique and early access to new markets, within sustainable biomass production, water technologies and eco-efficient process optimization.

Detail of the PhotobioreactorGreenhouse at the Kalundborg Symbiosis

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Opening ceremony of the Algae Facility in Kalundborg.

Inside the Greenhouse Project manager Per Møller from Cluster Biofuels Denmark

On the opening day the first pre-selected microalgae were pumped into the large-scale reactors in front of an audience of partners, industry and cleantech representatives. The photo-bioreactors are designed to track the sun thereby allowing the algae to grow most efficiently on natural sunlight. A mixture of air and CO2 is introduced from below to ensure gentle but thor-ough mixing of nutrients and algae to balance pH, at the same

time, driving the liquid flow via an “air-lift effect”. In the process microalgae are removing and incorporating nitrogen, phospho-rous and CO2-related carbon leading to a cleaning of the fresh-water resource and creating added value through the production of a higher value renewable biomass resource (e.g. plant oil, pro-tein, carbohydrates, enzymes and pigments).

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“Realization of this test and demonstration facility in Kalundborg is mainly based on funding through the EU-FP7 project E4WATER but “very important” also through the pro-active involvement of Kalundborg Municipality, Kalundborg Utilities and their dedicated staff. Kalundborg Utilities have allowed the construction of the facility on their premises. We owe much of the openness and willingness to engage in this type of innovative projects to the unique cooperative spirit in the Kalundborg Symbiosis”, says Project Manager Per Møller from Cluster Biofuels Denmark, a cluster organization under the Municipality’s Development Department in Kalundborg.

The test and demonstration facility will gradually scale up activi-ties over the next 12 month. The E4WATER project will run for an additional 3 years, but already on October 1st a new GUDP project (FIMAFY) on dewatering technologies and fish feed pro-duction has been added to a list of planned new initiatives. In the Water Bio Solution Concept partners and new companies are entering into test and demonstration activities of wastewater treatment in the facility and new product design. Per Møller says, “We are hoping that new partners can see this project as an op-portunity to test existing products and also to co-develop new design to support this method of utilizing micro-algae in going towards commercial solutions”.

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UcM: sustainable water Management in the IndustryOur Research Group belongs to the Chemical Engineering Depart-ment of the Complutense Universi-ty of Madrid (UCM). The group’s expertise is well-recognized due to

its combination of fundamental and applied research in the areas of water treatments, sustainable paper production, control of flocculation and wet end chemistry. The research activities range from the acquisition of new knowledge and the fundamental un-derstanding of the phenomena taking place during the different industrial processes, to the application of this new knowledge to respond to the specific needs of the industry and suppliers alike. As a step further towards becoming an innovation driver for the paper and water sectors, the Group has an advanced UCM-HOLMEN Laboratory within the facilities of the paper mill that facilitates the information exchange between the university and the industry.

The UCM group has a long term experience on research activi-ties at national and international level. It has participated in 14 European Projects since the IV Framework Program and in more than 50 research contracts directly funded by the industry.

In the area of water treatments the final aim is to help industry to achieve sustainable water management. Thus research covers a wide spectrum of activities: from the minimisation of water con-sumption without affecting the process or the product quality, through water circuits closure and the optimization of industrial waste water treatments, to the use of alternative water sources, such as reclaimed water from municipal treatment plants after a double membrane treatment and a disinfection process. The UCM research group has collaborated with the European Water Partnership to develop the European Water Stewardship Stand-ard, with Holmen to reduce the water consumption by 60% and to substitute the 100% of the fresh water by reclaimed water, and with many other companies to remove specific contaminants through the adequate selection of treatment chains. The group has published more than 100 scientific papers and 4 patents.

At this moment the main water research activities are related to the removal of recalcitrant and emerging contaminants by the development of new chemicals and advanced flocculation treat-ments, membrane technologies, aerobic and anaerobic MBR treatments, advanced oxidation processes, etc. In most cases lab and pilot plants experiments are run in parallel.

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VITO: Unit separation and conversion TechnologyVITO, the Flemish Institute for Technological Re-search, is a leading inde-pendent, customer-orient-

ed European research and development institute, implementing client-driven research projects and developing innovative prod-ucts and processes.

The Business Unit Separation and Conversion Technology (SCT) focuses on the integration of conversion (reaction) and

separation processes as parts of a process intensification ap-proach towards more sustainable chemistry. One of the focus areas is Water Processing, with membrane technology and electro-separation as core competences. Research projects are targeting one of the main bottlenecks in water reuse projects, namely finding a solution for treating and valorizing concentrate streams (brines) and other saline sources. A few examples of recent realizations are given below.

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Salinity Gradient Power Reversed Electro dialysis (SGP-RE pilot unit)

Schematic presentation of acid/base production by electro dialysis with bipolar membranes

Electro dialysis pilot unit

•Regeneration of a sulfuric acid doping bath at a cellulose membrane production plant by ED-bipolar. A sodium sulphate brine was converted to 4,5 M sulfuric acid and 2,8 M NaOH enabling direct on-site reuse of the acid and base.

•Reusing the osmotic energy from high concentrated brines by Salinity Gradient Power Reversed Electro dialysis (SGP-RE). A second generation demo plant has been built achieving a power density up to 12 w/m2!

•Upgrading of low concentrated Na,K rich stream (12 g/l, 87 % purity) from metal processing industry to high concentrated pure stream (240 g/l, 99,9% purity) by combination of nano-filtration and membrane distillation. Concentrated stream can be reused in aluminum melting process.

•Converting a NaCl stream to NaOH and HCL by ED-bipolar with high purity (3.5 M NaOH with 99,5% purity)

•Recycling the regeneration stream of softening resins by nano-filtration or electrodialyses. The concept proved to be technical and economical feasible if discharge of saline streams is locally restricted and the regeneration streams needs to be treated externally.

•Desalination of a process stream to reuse as alternative feed-stock for fermentation processes. The stream containing 30% of glucose was treated with double pass CDI, removing 96% of Na/K and reducing the conductivity from 3650 µS/cm down to 200 µS/cm.

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TU Delft: Research towards the Urban water cycleDelft University of Technology is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical uni-versity, located in Delft, the

Netherlands. With eight faculties and numerous research insti-tutes it hosts over 15,000 students (undergraduate and post-graduate), more than 2,600 scientists (including more than 200 professors), over 2,000 doctoral students and more than 2,000 people in the support and management staff. TU Delft ranks amongst the top universities in the world in the field of technol-ogy according to the THE-QS World University Rankings and Academic Ranking of World Universities.

TU Delft is involved in E4Water via the department of Sanitary Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. This department carries out research towards the urban water cycle: drinking water, wastewater and industrial water treatment, and their interrelations. The department currently employs 5 full professors, 2 associate professors and 5 assistant professors to supervise over 50 Ph.D.students and post-docs. The research in the department is clustered in 5 thematic research themes. Solu-tions for emerging threats, increasing standards, and optimized treatment are covered in the research theme “Emerging technol-ogies for drinking water and wastewater treatment”. Operational efficiency improvement is obtained in the theme “Modeling, sen-soring and automation”. In the research themes “Optimal design and operation of piped networks”, the water quality and hydrau-lic aspects in distribution and drainage system are investigated. “Water and Health” focuses on the relations between technical interventions and related health risks. The research theme “Sus-tainable solutions for drinking water and sanitation” focuses on improving drinking water supply and sanitation in developing countries. Research includes a mixture of desktop research, lab-oratory experiments, pilot-plant experiments and full-scale field research. This mixture of scales and sciences provides a total view on sound sanitary engineering that stimulates new ideas and approaches.

The department collaborates intensively with the water sec-tor, the Global Water Research Coalition and the International

Water Association, providing additional stimuli to the research. The international network includes a vast number of foreign universities, such as in Aachen, Müllheim, Duisburg, Karlsruhe, Leuven, Sheffield, New South Wales, Bradford, Johannesburg, Boulder, Waterloo, Trondheim, Dresden, Poitiers, Zürich, Gent, Santiago de Compostela, Singapore, Harbin, Shanghai, Beijing. Research projects are carried out in cooperation with Agentsc-hap NL, NWO, a wide range of commercial partners, TTI Wetsus and the European Union. Strategic research collaborations are running with Waternet, Dunea, Oasen, Evides, HWL, Vewin and RIONED.

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FHNw: sustainability in the water sectorEnvironmental technology at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

The Institute of Ecopreneurship (IEC) as one project partner of the E4Water project is one of four institutes at the School of Life Science at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts North-western Switzerland with its main focus on water technology research.

With more than 40 ongoing projects and about 40 employees, the institute is offering Bachelor and Master degree courses in environmental technology for national and international students in Muttenz (Basel-Landschaft, Switzer-land).

The institute’s research portfolio includes a wide range of membrane processes for advanced wastewater treatment, drink-ing water production and resource re-covery. Due to recent developments in legislation and public awareness, processes targeting the removal of mi-cropollutants from wastewater such as activated carbon adsorption, ozonation and novel approaches such as bioaug-mentation are gaining importance in the research portfolio.

An overview of the research concept is given in the following figure.

With the motivation to support and drive the development to-wards more sustainable processes in water treatment, improved resources (e.g. phosphorous) recovery and source control, the institute`s research concept and competences address and cover many relevant factors associated with sustainability in the water sector.

Environmental technology research concept at the Insitute of Ecopreneurship

FHNW: E4Water Research News In DepthRole within E4water – BackgroundWithin the E4Water project, the role of the IEC is mainly related to work package (WP) 9 on mild demineralization and WP 13 in which supporting work for life cycle assessment is performed. In both areas the work is associated with the Dow case study in Terneuzen (The Netherlands) focusing on the identification of suitable pre-treatment technologies.

Dow Benelux is a major water consumer in the area, which suf-fers from a lack of fresh water due to salt water intrusion in the natural water bodies. In order to decrease the significant demand for fresh water by Dow, waste streams from the surrounding area are targeted for reuse as process streams or in agriculture.

The effect of different pre-treatment technologies on the water quality of three waste streams from Dow premises and the sur-rounding area was investigated. Since dissolved organic matter is believed to be a key influencing factor on reverse osmosis (RO) special attention was paid to the removal of DOC by different means. Liquid chromatography organic carbon detection (LC-OCD) was used to characterize the DOC profile of the different waters before and after treatment. In addition, the direct influ-

ence of the different treatment technologies on the flux develop-ment during RO operation and an analysis of the generated foul-ing layer were investigated. Lab scale experiments concentrated on the Elsta cooling tower blow-down (CTBD) stream which was considered to be hardest to treat.

Investigated processesSeveral processes such as ozonation, coagulation/sedimenta-tion, powdered activated carbon adsorption (PAC), ion exchange (IEX) and ultrafiltration (UF) were investigated for their effect on DOC removal. After evaluation of the results some of the tech-nologies were coupled to UF and the product water was used to operate a RO process to further investigate the direct influence of DOC removal on RO fouling.

The ultrafiltration pretreatment was performed with an ultrafiltra-tion unit constructed and located at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. A Multibore® ul-trafiltration membranes (inge AG, Germany) with a nominal pore size of 20 nm were used during all experiments. The process scheme is given in Figure 1, while the shown reactor was only used if Fe3+ or PAC was used.

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Figure 1 - Ultrafiltraton process scheme

Figure 2 - RO process scheme

The influence of DOC removal on the performance of an RO pro-cess was studied with the FILMTECTM membrane BW30FR of Dow, a polyamide thin-film composite membrane. Filtration ex-periments were performed with the OSMO Inspector of Conver-gence Beheer BV (Enschede, the Netherlands) and the integrat-

ed flat sheet membrane cell made out of super duplex stainless steel. The filtration was performed under constant feed pressure of 15 bars, with a cross flow velocity of 0.19 m/s, constant tem-perature of 25 °C and pH was adjusted to 6.5 if not otherwise mentioned. The process scheme is given in Figure 2.

Preliminary resultsExperiments on the DOC removal efficiency showed that ultra-filtration pre-treatment as standalone technology achieved the least DOC removal while PAC adsorption at 50 mg PAC/L re-

moved small amounts of DOC from the CTBD. This is illustrated by LC-OCD chromatograms in Figure 3.

Figure 3 - Influence of PAC/UF on DOC removal

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It is believed that the applied ultrafiltration membrane with a nom-inal pore diameter of 20 nm was not able to remove any DOC because the pores were too small. The normalized flux decline during RO filtration over the duration of five days on untreated

CTBD as well as pre-treated with UF and PAC/UF is illustrated in Figure 4. Experiments were performed several times under the same conditions and labeled with ascending numbering.

Ultrafiltration pre-treatment was able to cause the normalized flux to decrease slower than the untreated CTBD, which is believed to be mainly caused by the removal of suspended solids. The additional removal of DOC by PAC resulted in higher fluxes during

the RO experiments. The assumed lower fouling development on the membrane indicated by the flux decline is confirmed by visual observation of the membrane after filtration. The fouling layers af-ter RO for different pre-treatment measures are given in Figure 5.

Figure 4 - Normalized RO-flux decline of untreated CTBD and pre-treatment CTBD

Figure 5 - Visual impression of RO membrane fouling

Further experiments on different processes and their combina-tion with ultrafiltration showed good DOC removal by IEX as well as coagulation with Fe3+ and to a minor extent by ozonation.

It was shown that residuals from coagulation and IEX can have a negative influence on the RO process which shows the impor-tance of further optimization of the pre-treatment steps.

Indications, that the chemicals dosed to the Elsta cooling water have the tendency to increase the RO fouling were found but no quantification of the effect in comparison to the CTBD could be made due to difficulties in detecting the chemicals in the com-plex wastewater water matrix.

conclusion•Ultrafiltration as standalone technology was found to be effec-

tive for pre-treatment of the CTBD most likely due to complete TSS solids removal

•The process combination PAC/UF showed the DOC influence on RO fouling suggesting further efforts of DOC removal being required.

•The DOC was found to be one factor of RO fouling while no specific fraction was identified to have the greatest influence.

•Coagulation with Fe3+ showed satisfying DOC removal but dif-ficulties during RO filtration due to residual iron in the RO feed. Indicating the importance of optimization of the process.

•The pilot pre-treatment process at Evides will incorporate co-agulation with Fe3+ and sedimentation to achieve higher DOC removal with subsequent ultrafiltration.

•The lab scale investigations were able to support the pilot scale design by identifying suitable process parameters as well as performance indications for various pre-treatment technologies.

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Participation at the 9th European congress of chemical Engineering – UcM

EccE9 & EcAB2The Hague, 21-25 April 2013

shaping a sustainable Future!

A partnership of academia, industry and society The ECCE9 / ECAB2 congress ‘Shaping a Sustainable Future’ brought together 1900 researchers, scientists, engineers, policy makers, industrial professionals and managers, entrepreneurs and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ide-as, innovations and research results on all aspects of chemical engineering, applied biotechnology and process intensification.

The theme “Shaping a Sustainable Future: a Partnership of Aca-demia, Industry and Society”, encompasses every corner of today’s society. ECCE9 offered a diverse and engaging 5-days programme for all target groups creating a forum to discuss new ideas, address practical challenges, find solutions, and allow new partnerships to flourish. During the congress E4Water pro-jects results were presented by UCM and Solvay.

During the congress it was also celebrated the 60th Jubilee year of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE), it was in 1953 that eighteen member societies from nine countries formed with a common goal and common interests to advance the science and profession of chemical engineering. Today, EFCE has grown to 39 member societies in 30 countries, with 25 Working Parties and Sections, representing 100,000+ indi-viduals in Europe’s engineering community.

In this 60th Jubilee year, president Richard Darton reflects on its achievements: “In the difficult years when Europe was politically split between East and West, we worked across boundaries to promote understanding of issues and the technical approaches to deal with them. The Federation set a wonderful example of what international collaboration can achieve. “To continue the journey,” says Darton, “EFCE must be a community that not only harbours great minds, but one that engages with educa-tionalists, influences politicians and promotes the innovation and technical competence that enable business to create wealth. Our profession is now at the heart of some of the world’s most difficult issues: water and energy provision, climate change, consumption and waste, revolutionary new materials, biomedi-cal breakthroughs. There will undoubtedly be a need for greater collaboration across engineering disciplines as well as across borders and this can only be a good thing. But we must inspire the next generation of engineers who will be tackling these is-sues; we must also ensure that tomorrow’s pioneering thinkers are equipped for leadership roles. The world is changing, our discipline is developing, and EFCE is ready to play its part in ad-dressing the challenges ahead.”

PARTICIPATION ON INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

Participation at the suschem stakeholder Meeting 2013 – DEcHEMA / cEFIc

suschem stakeholder Meeting 2013 Brussels, 14-15 May 2013

At the SusChem Steakholder event 2013 in Brussels E4Water project and its first results were presented. The event entitled ‘The root of EU Growth and Jobs: Innovative Materials and Pro-cesses’ took place in Brussels on 14 and 15 May. The clear message was that the Technology Platform is already working to engage with Horizon 2020 – the European Commission’s next major Research and Innovation Framework Programme. There were almost 200 delegates present.

SusChem is leading the two Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs) – SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency) and BRIDGE (Biobased and Renewable In-dustries for Development and Growth in Europe) and is heav-ily involved with the European Innovation Platform (EIP) on Raw Materials, the Smart Cities and Communities EIP, and the EIP on Water.

Parallel sessions on European initiatives showed the tremendous amount of work going on across a range of societal challenge areas in preparation for Horizon 2020. The session on Water was led by Gernot Klotz of CEFIC and focused on advances in the ChemWater and E4Water FP7 pro-jects that are contributing to fulfilling a number of the EIP on Wa-ter’s objectives. A key issue is how to replicate and deploy best practice and most appropriate technologies in water manage-ment across European manufacturing. There is a need to com-bat risk adversity and ensure that a clear direction is established to ensure actions now.

DECHEMA presented the E4Water project that is looking at six case studies in the chemical process industry with the overall idea to link tools and expected impact. Furthermore the first re-sults of the E4Water Pilot Case Kalundborg were presented by Per Møller (CBD).

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Participation of E4water at cefic workshop – cEFIc

cefic workshop Brussels, 25 June 2013

water matters! water Management in chemical Production Plants with particular regard to water stressed areas

The water flagship initiative was officially launched on 25 June 2013 in Brussels, with several EU representatives attending the event. The main objective was to exchange views with policy makers about the initiative and to share good practices between industry representatives on water management.

The final objective of the flagship initiative is to define the key performance indicators (KPI) on sustainable water management to be included in Responsible Care report and the Cefic sus-tainability report. Currently, a set of high quality approaches and technologies is being developed to adopt the most appropriate solutions in the specific local context to reduce the industry’s

impact if needed, e.g. in case of scarcity: for instance, reduce consumption, improve water efficiency or change strategy in wa-ter provision. The KPI is indeed aimed at measuring the uptake of sustainable practices at operating sites.

A strong support for the Cefic initiative has been expressed by Mr. Seeber (European Parliament) and by UNEP (Mr. Arab Hob-allah). Similarly, the Commission represented by Mr. Gammeltoft expressed appreciation that the chemical industry is showing its commitment towards sustainable management, emphasizing the important role private partners can play in further implement-ing the water legislation.

E4Water consortium at the 1st review meeting in Antwerp during a visit of the Solvic site where one of the E4Water pilot plants has already staretd.

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ANNOUNcEMENT OF UPcOMING EVENTs - Where you can meet E4Water

DwA/DEcHEMA Industrietage wassertechnik (in German) 13-14 November 2013 – Fulda/Germany www.dwa.de

Industrial Technologies 20149-11 April 2014 - Athens/Greekwww.industrialtechnologies2014.eu

IwA world water congress & Exhibition21-26 September 2014 – Lisbon/Portugalwww.iwa2014lisbon.org

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