monthly update on the international activities of the Dutch Water Sector
No.1 - September 2011
Content:
- Welcome to first news letter
- First full scale wind turbine RainMaker makes drinking water from air
- New Orleans safer due to first regional, web-enabled levee management system
- Stockholm Water Week: Prince of Orange calls for 21st century cascade water
- Stockholm Water Week: Dutch seminar on effective climate adaptation and urban water buffering technology
- Pentair X-Flow launched Megablock validation at Singapore wastewater plant
- Dutch water experts present latest purification technologies at IWA-conference
- Dutch expertise: Phosphate recovery from waste water
- Delta Urban Area Land Development Analysis
- AAWS - Aqua-Aero WaterSystems
1. From the editor
Welcome to this first newsletter that brings you the news and back ground of all international activities by Dutch water authorities, knowledge centers, NGOs and companies. Our country has a great reputation on water affairs and as such the Netherlands is involved in a great number of international water projects. This newsletter will update you monthly on these activities.
The Netherlands is a small nation and knows who important international cooperation is for achieving major goals. The global water challenges are such major goals. Therefor we invite you to team up with our international water projects.
Enjoy this news letter, Jac van Tuijn
2. News
First full scale wind turbine RainMaker makes drinking water from air
The first full scale demonstration model of the RainMaker AW75 became operational at the Dutch business park Newton Park IV in Leeuwarden. The installation consists of a large wind turbine that captures air in a compressor with a cooling system. The wind turbine produces about 8,000 liters of water a day,
>> read more
New Orleans safer due to first regional, web-enabled levee management system
The Dutch engineering company Royal Haskoning completed the vital Levee Information Management System (LIMS) module for the South Louisiana Flood Protection Authorities East and West. For the first time, the levee boards, Louisiana State and USACE can simultaneously manage and monitor the status of the flood gates (open or closed) in and around New Orleans during a hurricane event.
>> read more
Stockholm Water Week: Prince of Orange calls for 21st century cascade water technology
Modern water technology was a recurring theme of a lecture the Dutch Prince of Orange gave in Stockholm on Augusts 20, commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Global Water Partnership. The prince addressed the biggest water problems of this moment, emphasizing sanitation and agriculture. Cascading should be the essence of 21st century water systems, the prince told his audience.
>> read more
Stockholm Water Week: Dutch seminar on effective climate adaptation and urban water buffering
The Dutch 3R consortium organized a special seminar during the Stockholm Water Week titled ‘Integrated Management of Urban Water Buffering: From Research to Implementation'. The seminar addressed a very practical approach for climate adaptation in relation to water management". The 3R-concept is based on three steps: recharge, retention and reuse.
>> read more
Pentair X-Flow launched Megablock validation at Singapore wastewater plant
Pentair X-Flow's latest innovation in wastewater treatment was launched this month in Singapore when the Airlift Membrane BioReactor (MBR) Megablock validation plant at the Changi Water Reclamation Plant (CWRP) was commissioned. The system at CWRP is the first Megablock installation in Asia.
>> read more
These news items are a selection of all items published on the website: www.dutchwatersector.com in October 2011.
3. Features
Dutch water experts present latest purification technologies at IWA-conference
At the international Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies (LET2011), held in Amsterdam in June 2011, leading representatives from both academia and industry presented the latest developments in the field of water purification technologies. Leading Dutch university, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) presented eight innovative technologies for water purification.
>> read more about these eight technologies
4. Latest videos
Dutch expertise: Phosphate recovery from waste water
Water technology company Paques has built a combined Phospaq-Anammox waste water treatment plant at the potatoes processing factory of Aviko in the Netherlands. The plant removes nitrogen and phosphorus from the waste water for the effluent to meet the environmental standards. Remarkable about this treatment plant is that the phosphorus is recovered as struvite granules, ready for agricultural use (fertilizer). The struvite complies with EU standards for fertilizer.
>> see the video
5. Project Focus
Delta Urban Area Land Development Analysis
The continuing urbanisation of coastal areas, in combination with periodic flooding, is causing increasingly serious problems around the world. The Dutch companies Arcadis, Royal Haskoning and Van Oord jointly developed the Delta Urban Area Land Development Analysis (DUAL) model to address this problem. DUAL uses the silt produced during dredging work in ports to create new land in coastal areas. This allows urban areas to expand at a much lower cost. This project entailed a market analysis of the opportunities to introduce DUAL in various countries.
>> read more about this Dutch initiated project
6. Expert focus
AAWS - Aqua-Aero WaterSystems
This Dutch company is the producer of the WaterPyramid, a cone construction of plastic sheeting. Water is pumped into the cone and is heated by the sun. Distilled water runs down the sides of the pyramid wall and is collected as drinking water.
>> read more about this company
Big challenges need joint solutions - let's work together!
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