Kees Roest PhD BSc

Senior scientific researcher
Programme coordinator TKI Water technology
Project manager/Portfolio manager

030-6069531
Kees.Roest@kwrwater.nl
06-53197741

Pure Fresh Water and Salt

Changing conditions and future challenges such as anthropogenic pollution and salinisation mean that water utilities are faced with the task of improving robustness and their operational strategies. Reverse osmosis (RO) membrane filtration serves as a strong barrier…

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Aarhus ReWater

The municipality of Aarhus (Denmark), because its population is growing annually by 5000 people, faces the challenge of both creating a cleaner harbour and bay and increasing the capacity of wastewater treatment plants. The current wastewater treatment…

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Closing the Cycle of Nutrients from Wastewater and Process Water (KNAP)

In this cross-sectoral project within TKI Water Technology and TKI Agri & Food, research partners WUR/WENR, KWR and LeAF are working together with a wide range of public-…

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Waterrotonde Eerbeek

A pilot project has been organised with a circular water management system at the Industriewater Eerbeek (IWE) site. Existing plants treat process water from paper and cardboard mills and recover residual products for use in agriculture. The…

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Monitoring, modelling and reducing nitrous oxide emissions from WWTPs

Towards mitigation strategies for WWTPs through intensive monitoring and modelling of N2O emissions Industry and society are striving to reduce the carbon footprint in response to tackling climate…

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Opportunities for Concentrated Residual Streams

In this project, we are investigating how the circular processing of concentrated residual streams can contribute to future-resilient and socially responsible freshwater supplies. This involves recovering water and producing raw materials for…

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Micronutrients in the resource loop

This research is directed at closing the micronutrient resource loop of a number of essential micronutrients in the Dutch food system, within legal, environmental, economic and technological frameworks. The focus is on…

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Explorations by KWR and the drinking water sector in innovative water technology

Water constitutes one of the economic top sectors designated by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. In order to stimulate innovations and create economic value from…

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Innovative technology for treating waste water from slaughterhouses

Waste water from slaughterhouses is difficult to treat because it contains high concentrations of solids and colloidal compounds such as blood, proteins and fats. The waste water is…

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ReCirc Singapore Community of Practice

The main aim of the project is to establish a joint Singaporean-Dutch Community of Practice (CoP) to exchange knowledge and business opportunities relating to Zero Waste and circular objectives in Singapore and…

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Industry Water Network Group

Through the Industry Water Network Group , KWR provides industrial partners a platform in which they can make and maintain contacts, and share and transfer knowledge. Diverse participants The Network Group consists of companies in the (petro)chemical…

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Efficient hot water heating

As homes become better insulated, energy consumption for spatial heating is decreasing. It is therefore increasingly important to have a clear picture of another reason for household energy consumption: hot water heating. In this project we determined…

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SCREENCAP

The essence of the innovative concept of Screencap is the recovery of solids from raw wastewater on the basis of particle size rather than density. The partners, Aa and Maas Water Board, CirTec and KWR Water Research…

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BTO workshop on Collaboration Opportunities in the Cycle

The water companies have the intention of reducing their CO2 footprint. But their own operations consume a limited amount of energy, and there are only modest levels of…

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Exploration of climate-neutrality in the water cycle at the tactical and strategic level

Practically all water companies have ambitions and objectives concerning a climate-neutral water cycle. In the first instance, these ambitions target the drinking-water part of the water cycle, but,…

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Sustainable airport cities

This TKI project is meant to showcase how different sectors can strengthen each other in the process of increasing the sustainability of their own sector – a win-win concept – through the application of innovative technologies originating…

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Production and application of granular aquafer

Every year in the Netherlands about 95,000 tons of aquafer is generated (62,000 tons of liquid aquafer and 33,000 tons of dewatered aquafer). Reststoffenunie (now AquaMinerals) disposes of this water company residual…

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IWA – KWR Collaboratory on Resource Recovery

The quest for a circular economy is becoming an increasingly important underlying principle in government policy. Resource recovery in the water cycle has a contribution to make: the recovery and useful application…

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Pure Fresh Water and Salt

Aarhus ReWater

Closing the Cycle of Nutrients from Wastewater and Process Water (KNAP)

Waterrotonde Eerbeek

Monitoring, modelling and reducing nitrous oxide emissions from WWTPs

Opportunities for Concentrated Residual Streams

Micronutrients in the resource loop

Explorations by KWR and the drinking water sector in innovative water technology

Innovative technology for treating waste water from slaughterhouses

ReCirc Singapore Community of Practice

Industry Water Network Group

Efficient hot water heating

SCREENCAP

BTO workshop on Collaboration Opportunities in the Cycle

Exploration of climate-neutrality in the water cycle at the tactical and strategic level

Sustainable airport cities

Production and application of granular aquafer

IWA – KWR Collaboratory on Resource Recovery

Material flow analysis & City Blueprint Framework of Singapore

Een studie naar mogelijke effecten op de RWZI door oplossen vetblokkades

A systematic comparison of commercially produced struvite: Quantities, qualities and soil-maize phosphorus availability

Routes naar een Circulaire Economie voor de waterketen

Trendalert Hydrothermische conversie van (bio)massa, bron van koolstof in een all-electric toekomst

Innovative slaughterhouse wastewater treatment technology

Biogas production enhancement by non-conventional AnSBR treating protein and lipid-rich wastewater: From Lab to Pilot

TKI Micronutriënten in de kringloop - Samenvatting resultaten