Title: Challenges of industrial water treatment
Presented by Mike Farrimond, ACQUEAU Scientific Advisor
ACQUEAU Workshop on Industrial Waste Water Treatment 12 March 2015
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Challenges :
1 - produce an effluent of stable quality from a highly
variable influent
2 - decrease the environmental impact and cost of
treatment processes by:
o valorise as much as possible the components of this
effluent,
- more selective processes
o decrease the energy consumption of the overall
process
o recycle effluents
The BLUE Book
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Avoid/minimise
Treat & reuse
Treat & recycle
Material recovery
Energy
recovery
Destruction
/disposal
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1. Low energy brine treatment
2. Biological treatment to operate in extreme and variable
conditions
3. Process intensification
4. Catalytic processes (e.g. organic compound removal, โฆ)
5. Nano-engineered materials
6. Surface modification of membranes
7. Membrane nano-engineering to reach higher fluxes with lower
energy
8. Adsorption, new materials with enhanced specificity
9. Low scaling/low fouling membranes
10.Selective separation of valuable compounds
11.Recovery of organic matter to produce energy or use as a
resource in other applications
12.Treatment of refractory COD by sustainable processes
The BLUE Book - needs
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Data from Sciencedirect.com - annual publications with these key words
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Technology
Regulation and Policies
Business models, performance
measures; Procurement practice,
Contracts & incentives; Mindsets,
culture & behaviour
The BAU โlock-inโ cloud
How do we get โbeyond the R & Dโ?
(ref Prof Charles Ainger, Cambridge University)
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Innovation
progress
Time
โLandscapeโ
- standard
practice
โNicheโ
- new
ideas
โBAUโ SustainableInnovate
R & D or
new idea
Wide adoption
of new solution
(After Ainger, 2010)
โ1st useโ full-scale project
Broad dissemination
1st โfollowerโ project
โCase studyโ
- report of
1st project
โWhat-if?โ
study,
and/or pilot
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Barriers to innovation
โข Ecological, social, political pressures
Local
environment
Legislation
Competition
Lack of legislation
Political interference
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Barriers to innovation
Company strategies
Green
credentials
Cost reduction
Lack of strategy
No competitive
pressure
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Barriers to innovation
Financial pressures
SME spin offs
Subsidised RDI
Low risk โ high
return solutions
Risk averse lenders
High IRR needed
Lack of skills
Low cost economies
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Barriers to innovation
Networking & cooperation
Open
innovation
Network from
RDI to End user
Lack of open innovation
Intense competition
Lack of skills
19. THANK YOU for your attention !
Please feel free to ask questions
+ 32 (0) 27 770 986
mike.farrimond@acqueau.eu
www.acqueau.eu
rue Neerveld, 107, Brussels, B-1200
Editor's Notes
the risk/credibility gap is entirely understandable - we work in a sector which has responsibilities for public and environmental safety
and if we fail, we fail in public, on the front pages of the newspapers..
so, to innovate faster, we need to create planned opportunities to allow the experimental, business case testing questions to be asked โ in a safe way