Networking symposium: Water in the circular economy
The Department of Environmental Technology (ETE) from Wageningen University visits Aarhus University. The aim of the event is to get to know each other, share research interests and establish new contacts, which may pave the way to new collaborations. We have setup a symposium with a varied program including 6 key notes in the morning, and a poster session during the lunch followed by a plenum discussion. In the afternoon, there will be 3 parallel site visits and we will conclude the day with a tasteful dinner at Food Club.
Oplysninger om arrangementet
Tidspunkt
Environmental Technology (ETE) is a chair group of Wageningen University that develops and evaluates innovative environmental technologies and concepts based on processes from nature, to recover and reuse essential resources and maintain and create a healthy environment. Their research is divided into three themes:
- Biorecovery - bio-based technologies for the recovery of valuable components from residual streams of cities, industries, and agriculture in the form of fuels, electricity, sulphur, copper, and phosphate.
- Reusable water - the removal and recovery of salts, nutrients, pathogens, and micropollutants from water.
- Urban System Engineering - the development of sustainable concepts and technologies for urban water, sanitation, waste, and energy management.
From Wageningen University, the following professors and their groups will participate:
Annemerel Mol | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mksVu20AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
Alette Langenhoff | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NXWzspYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
Annemiek ter Heijne | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XXGqz-0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
Huub Rijnaarts | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2fAWD8gAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
Miriam van Eekert | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zi4h00MAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
Katarzyna Kujawa | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IGKogy0AAAAJ&hl=en&inst=8174161223370055331&oi=ao |
Planning of the day
| Time | Activity | Who |
| 08.00-09.00 | Get together (bread, coffee and tea) | All |
| Setup your poster | ||
| 09.00-12.00 | Symposium (Navitas, Auditorium 00.117) | |
| 09.00-09.20 | Welcome and general presentation of relevant research at AU (WATEC, BCE, CORC) | Lars DM Ottosen, Prof., Head of Department |
| 09.20-09.40 | Generel presentation of research af ETE | Alette Langenhoff, Assoc. Prof. |
| 09.40-10.00 | Keynote 1: Micropollutant removal by contructed wtelands developed at WUR-ETE | Thomas Hagner, Postdoc (WAG) |
| 10.00-10.20 | Keynote 2: Biofuel from sewage sludge: integration of hydrothermal liquefaction in wastewater treatment (AU) | Leendert Vergeynst, Assist. Prof. (WAG) |
| 10.20-10.40 | Break | |
| 10.40-11.00 | Keynote 3: Extracellular bioploymers: a "gift" of microbes to environmental technologist? (WAG) | Huub Rijnaarts, Prof. (WAG) |
| 11.00-11.20 | Keynote 4: Biopolymer from sewage sludge | Thomas Seviour, Assoc. Prof. (AU) |
| 11.20-11.40 | Keynote 5: Microbial electrochemical technologies for resource recovery | Annemiek ter Heijne, Assoc. Prof. (WAG) |
| 11.40-12.00 | Keynote 6: The Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center: Mission Oriented Research | Alfred Spormann, Prof. (AU) |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch (sandwich) and poster session (Navitas, romm 03.055) | All |
| 13.10-13.40 | Plenum discussion and wrap up: What's the next big thing? (Navitas, Auditorium 00.117) | Hosted by Leendert Vergeynst and Uffe Thomsen |
| 14.00-18.00 | Parallel site visits (including transport) | |
| 14.00-18.00 | Visit of innovative projects of the waterworks in Aarhus, (Nye waterworks, Egå wastewater treatment plant) | Kristian Brunmark and Lise Hughes (Aarhus Water) |
| 14.00-18.00 | Pilot facilities at AU Viborg: power-to-X hall, anaerobic digester, hydrothermal liquefaction plant, green biorefinery and protein separation facilities | Morten Ambye-Jensen, Patrick Biller, Michael Kofoed and Behzad Partoon (AU) |
| 14.00-18.00 | Wetlands | Carlos Alberto Arias (AU) |
| 18.00 - | Social acitiviy | |
| 18.30-20.00 | Dinner at Food Club, Aarhus | |
Introduction to the site visits
Visit of innovative projects of the waterworks in Aarhus (Nye waterworks and Egå wastewater treatment plant)
Aarhus Vand is the water utility of Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark. We will go to the Northern part of Aarhus to the recently constructed city Nye, where reuse of secondary water supplies is developed to reduce drinking water supply by 40 %. From Nye there is a view to Egå Engsø, which is a flooded wetland and part of the climate change adaptation. From Nye, we will go to Egå wastewater treatment plant, which is part of the re-construction of the whole sewage plan for Aarhus with two larger units in Egå and a new wastewater treatment plant in Marselisborg.
Visit of pilot facilities at AU Viborg Research Center Foulum
At AU Viborg Research Center Foulum, the institute has the facilities and technology to handle a wide range of pilot-scale experimental work. Historically, there has been a focus on agroindustry and recent developments have broadened the scope. We will visit the power-to-X hall of Behzad Partoon, anaerobic digester facilities of Michael Kofoed, hydrothermal liquefaction plant of Patrick Biller, and green biorefinery and protein separation facilities of Morten Ambye-Jensen.
Visit of constructed wetlands
Visit of the wetland systems in the region of Aarhus, led by Carlos Alberto Arias. The following sites will be visited: a sludge treatment system in Hadsten; individual natural base solution systems including evaporative willow-based systems, constructed wetlands and a filtralite systems at Friland community; a sludge treatment system in Hadsten; and a 115ha restored wetland at Egå Engsø.
Read more about Environmental Technology (ETE) at Wageningen University in this brochure.