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| When: |
March 11 - 14 2025 |
| Where: |
RAI Amsterdam, Amtrium, Entrance L, at the Aquatech Amsterdam Expo |
| Contact: |
Mirabella Mulder, mmulder@mirabellamulder.nl |
Results of the Dutch Innovation and Implementation Programme
The Dutch Water Partners are exploring innovative technologies for removal of micropollutants from municipal wastewater. Research has been carried out the past five years in an extensive Innovation Program, which was initiated by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the Dutch Water Authorities and managed by STOWA. Through this Innovation Program the implementation of innovative full-scale installations to remove micropollutants will be fast-tracked. These technologies are promising because of reductions on CO2-footprint, costs or enhanced effluent quality in respect to proven technologies. In this three-day event we present a first sneak preview of the final results of the Dutch Innovation Pilot Program and the progress of full scale implementation.
At the Aquatech Expo, the Dutch Approach on reducing the discharge of micropollutants into surface water is presented including technological challenges of implementation. Results of research of more than 15 technologies on demo and pilot scale will be presented. Furthermore research on how to measure the performance of these technologies will be presented with new and specific sampling and measurement methods.
You will find the old version of the programme, from Aquatech Amsterdam 2023, below. This programme will give you a good example of the upcoming programme in 2025!
Programme Wednesday November 8th 2023
10:00 hrs
Opening Aquatech Amsterdam Exhibition.
10:00 hrs
Registration with coffee and tea.
10:30 hrs
Opening and welcome
Cora Uijterlinde | STOWA
10:45 hrs
Session 1 - Tackling removal of micropollutants: policy meets practice
Chair - Maarten Nederlof | Program Manager Implementation Demo's Dutch Water Authorities
10:50 hrs
The Dutch Approach
Oscar Helsen | Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment.
11:10 hrs
Progress Full-scale Implementation Removal of Micropollutants @ NL
Maarten Nederlof
11:30 hrs
Full scale implementation of PACAS @ wwtp’s Leiden Noord and Oijen
Paul Versteeg | Water Authority Rijnland and Robert Kras | Water Authority Aa and Maas.
11:50 hrs
Implementation of Activated Carbon: Lessons Learned, Knowledge Gaps and Future Research
Ad de Man | Water Authority Limburg and Chair Work Force Implementation Activated Carbon @ NL.
12:15 hrs
Lunch Break.
13:15 hrs
Opening afternoon sessions:
Overview Performances Innovative Technologies Activated Carbon and Non-Fossil Alternatives
Mirabella Mulder | STOWA / Mirabella Mulder Waste Water Management.
13:40 hrs
Session 2 - Innovation in Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC)
Chair – Roger Vingerhoeds | Water Authority Brabantse Delta.
13:45 hrs
Pilot Powdered Activated Carbon Nereda Activated Sludge
Sandra Malagon | Water Authority Limburg.
14:00 hrs
Pilot PAC dosage and Cloth Filtration
Arnoud de Wilt | Royal Haskoning DHV.
14:15 hrs
Using Non-Fossil commercially available PAC
Joost van den Bulk | Tauw.
14:25 hrs
Measurement of PAC in effluent and effect of PAC on digestion
Herman Evenblij | Royal Haskoning DHV
14:40 hrs
Coffee Break.
15:10 hrs
Session 3 – Innovation in Adsorption onto New Fossil Free Materials
Chair – Ruud Schemen | Water Authority de Dommel.
15:15 hrs
Pilot Zeolites Adsorption
Jan Peter van der Hoek | Delft University of Technology.
15:30 hrs
Pilot DEXSORB (Cyclodextrines) Adsorption
Jaïr Dan | Witteveen+Bos.
15:45 hrs
Session 4 – Innovation in Granular Activated Carbon (GAC)
Chair – Manon Bechger | Waternet (Water Authority Amstel, Gooi and Vecht).
15:50 hrs
Pilot Upflow GAC (CarboPlus and DynaCarb)
Alexandra Deeke | Water Authority de Dommel.
16:15 hrs
Pilot BODAC (Discontinuous BioGAC)
Astrid Mous | WLN.
16:30 hrs
Pilot Continuous Bio-GAC
Hans Wouters | Brightwork.
16:45 hrs
Closing day 1 and preview program day 2
Cora Uijterlinde | STOWA.
Programme Thursday November 9th 2023
10:00 hrs
Opening Aquatech Amsterdam Exhibition.
10:00 hrs
Registration with coffee and tea.
10:30 hrs
Opening and welcome day 2 & session 5
Full-scale Implementation of Ozone in the Netherlands
Mirabella Mulder | STOWA / Mirabella Mulder Waste Water Management.
10:35 hrs
Full scale implementation of Ozone @ wwtp’s Houten and Wervershoof
Marlies Verhoeven | Water Authority Stichtse Rijnlanden and Maaike Hoekstra | Water Authority Hollands Noorderkwartier.
11:00 hrs
Implementation of Ozone: Lessons Learned, Knowledge Gaps and Future Research
Ruud Schemen | Water Authority de Dommel and Chair Work Force Implementation Ozone @ NL.
11:20 hrs
Overview Performances Innovative Technologies day 2:
Combinations with Oxidation
Mirabella Mulder | STOWA / Mirabella Mulder Waste Water Management.
11:45 hrs
Session 6 – Innovation in Combinations of Ozonation and PAC.
Chair – Robert Kras | Water Authority Aa and Maas.
11:50 hrs
Pilot O3-STEP
Manon Bechger | Waternet (Water Authority Amstel, Gooi and Vecht).
12:05 hrs
Pilot PAC- O3
Laura Piai | Royal Haskoning DHV.
12:20 hrs
Lunch Break.
13:15 hrs
Session 7 – Innovation in Combinations of Ozonation and Biological Degradation.
Chair – Robert Kras | Water Authority Aa and Maas.
13:20 hrs
Do’s and Donti’s in Implementing Ozone: Minimization of byproducts and bromate formation
Arnoud de Wilt | Royal Haskoning DHV.
13:30 hrs
Pilot MicroForce
Nelis de Rouck | PureBlue.
13:45 hrs
Pilot B-O3
Arnoud de Wilt | Royal Haskoning DHV.
14:00 hrs
Session 8 – Effects of Implementing Enhanced Removal of Micropollutants on Water Quality PFAS and Antibiotic Resistance
Chair – Bert Palsma | STOWA.
14:00 hrs
Do’s and Don’ts in Sampling and Analysis to Determine Removal Performances
Bert Palsma | STOWA.
14:20 hrs
Effects of Implementing Enhanced Removal of Micropollutants on Antibiotic Resistance
Imke Leenen | H2Oké.
14:40 hrs
Effects of Implementing Enhanced Removal of Micropollutants on PFAS
Anja Derksen | Ad Eco Advies.
15:00 hrs
Coffee Break.
15:30 hrs
Session 9 – Innovation in Combinations of Oxidation and Filtration and Natural Systems
Chair – Bernadette Lohman | Water Authority Zuiderzeeland.
15:35 hrs
Quick scan Natural Systems
Mirit Hoek | Tauw.
15:55 hrs
Pilot Ozonation and Ceramic Filtration
Martin Spruijt | PWN-T.
16:15 hrs
Pilot Nanofiltration and UV-treatment
Tom Weijtmans | Water Authority Aa and maas.
16:35 hrs
Closing of the event
Cora Uijterlinde | STOWA.
16:45 hrs
Drinks and Bites.
Programme Friday November 10th 2023
09.30 – 17.00
Bus excursion to full-scale plants in the Netherlands: PACAS plant wwtp Leiden Noord and Ozone plant wwtp Wervershoof (including experiments hall) For this bus excursion you have to register separately. A fee of 100 euro for attending the busexcursion has to be paid if you are not an employee of a water authority and in case of no-show.
STOWA (Acronym for Foundation for Applied Water Research) is the knowledge centre of regional water managers in the Netherlands. Its mission is to develop, collect, distribute and implement applied knowledge, which the water managers need in order to adequately carry out the tasks that their work supports. This expertise can cover applied technical, scientific, administrative-legal or social science fields.
