Since October 2017, the Water Technology Research Group has been working on the Interreg 2 Seas Project NEREUS; an acronym for New Energy and REsources for Urban Sanitation. The NEREUS project wants to boost the development of the green economy and the transformation of wastewater into a valuable source of water, nutrients (e.g. cellulose, nutrients), and energy that could be reused in the Interreg 2Seas area.
The importance of reusing wastewater is emphasized by global issues such as water scarcity, concerns about the availability of finite resources such as phosphorous (essential for agriculture) and the push to reduce CO2 emissions by finding more sustainable energy sources. These problems all point towards the need to make our wastewater treatment systems more circular; a goal that can be achieved by technology and decision makers. One of the objectives of the NEREUS project is to deliver enough practical evidence of resource recovery to aid both private and public decision makers with this matter of circularity.
The NEREUS partner consortium consists of pilot partners in the Netherlands; Evides Industry Water, Belgium; Waterlink, DuCoop, France; CAPSO and the UK; Southern Water. HZ University of Applied Sciences is a knowledge partner within the consortium alongside University of Portsmouth from the UK and Vlakwa-Vito from Belgium.
Maria van Schaik, Iarima Mendonca, Emma McAteer and Hans Cappon from the Water Technology Research Group are working on the NEREUS project together. They are responsible for drawing up feasibility study and monitoring templates for use during and after the project, as well as collating the data collected by pilot partners during the testing periods in order to make an analysis and conclusion on technology performance. At the moment, several partner test cases are also being incorporated into the curriculum of the Water Management Bachelor programme as a student project; in order to help the students with setting up a research project and to develop their knowledge of water treatment methods. This student project will benefit the students but also the partners who are keen to hear the conclusions made and will adapt their testing plan accordingly. Project Partners also give guest lectures on their specialist topics and specific NEREUS cases to students studying Advanced Water Technology.
Project ‘Nereus’ is financed by the Interreg 2 Seas programme, a transborder collaborative programme which receives financial aid from the European Regional Development Fund. For more information, please visit: www.nereus-project.eu or watch this NEREUS Video explaining the project.
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| NEREUS Scenario Studies | 1 februari 2019 | 30 juni 2019 | CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS. The NEREUS project is an Interreg 2 Seas project working with partners from the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and France aiming to recover valuable resources such as water, energy and nutrients from urban wastewater. The overall project lasts for 4 years, during which contributing research questions need to be answered.
The water technology research group is in need of a student who can work on one of these contributing questions; the investigation of several scenario studies. A scenario in this case is considered to be a certain "train" or set-up of various water treatment technologies in sequence. The student will, using the help of a model, be able to advise on the effectiveness of each scenario in the recovering of the desired resources.
This research assignment could be suitable for graduation level. If you would like more information on this assignment, please contact Emma McAteer. |
| Student Assignment- Evides NEREUS Pilot - Algae Cultivation | 1 september 2019 | 31 januari 2020 | CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS
Evides Industry Water are looking for students at the moment to help them with their research projects. At this moment they are particularly keen on students that are willing to do research at their NEREUS-pilot in den Hoorn (RWZI Harnaschpolder). This pilot focuses on resource recovery from municipal wastewater.
For more information you can contact Paula van den Brink from Evides (p.vandenBrink@evides.nl) |
| Student Assignment- Evides NEREUS Pilot - ElectroCoagulation | 7 mei 2019 | | Evides Industry Water are looking for students at the moment to help them with their research projects. At this moment they are particularly keen on students that are willing to do research at their NEREUS-pilot in den Hoorn (RWZI Harnaschpolder). This pilot focuses on resource recovery from municipal wastewater. For more information you can contact Paula van den Brink from Evides (p.vandenBrink@evides.nl) |
| Student Assignment- Evides NEREUS Pilot - Nanofiltration | 1 september 2019 | 31 januari 2020 | CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS
Evides Industry Water are looking for students at the moment to help them with their research projects. At this moment they are particularly keen on students that are willing to do research at their NEREUS-pilot in den Hoorn (RWZI Harnaschpolder). This pilot focuses on resource recovery from municipal wastewater. For more information you can contact Paula van den Brink from Evides (p.vandenBrink@evides.nl) |
| Student Assignment- NEREUS Resource Recovery from Wastewater | 27 augustus 2018 | 30 juni 2020 | Urban wastewater, as the carrier of various wastes, is considered to be polluted and it should always be treated before discharge. However, scientific experience and technological innovations have been proving that some of these pollutants have actual value and thus can be recovered and used as resources (Roeleveld, Roorda, and Schaafsma 2010). Finding the suitable technological solution for resource recovery (energy, nutrients and water) from urban wastewater is not yet straightforward, often due to technical, economic and legislative challenges (Holmgren et al. 2014). Varying quality and quantity of different urban wastewater streams as well as the environmental impact due to the consumption of energy and chemicals are challenging decision makers when choosing suitable technologies and locations for end–of-pipe solutions (Khiewwijit 2016; Muga and Mihelcic 2008). Moreover, social aspects, such as acceptance of recovered products in the market, play an important role when choosing a technology for resource recovery (Bixio et al. 2006; Drosg et al. 2015). There is plenty of experience with decision making for water and wastewater treatment (Hamouda, Anderson, and Huck 2009) but almost nonexistent for resource recovery from wastewater.
The overall project runs until June 2020 but students are needed to help with work in every semester up until that time. |
