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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Reducing drinking-water consumption by business

There has been an increasing emphasis in recent years on water savings and water awareness among domestic clients. A similar research focus is needed for business and that is the aim of…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Belissima – modelling removal of OMPs in wastewater

The presence of organic micropollutants (OMPs) in wastewater has a big impact on the aquatic environment. Given that most of these substances end up in the water cycle…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Aqua ludens

The development of a serious game should provide all stakeholders in the water cycle with a clear understanding of the significance of water, of how the freshwater provision works, and of the impact of choices on water…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Water Mining

Securing enough and safe water is a crucial challenge for water management today. This situation calls for innovative water management solutions and alternative water resources. The EU-funded WATER-MINING project will demonstrate innovative next-generation water resource solutions in…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Risks of industrial emissions to air for drinking water production

Drinking water companies need to know how atmospheric emissions from industry may affect supplies of drinking water. Despite monitoring from source to tap, the existing monitoring activities hardly…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Silicon Carbide (SiC) membranes for innovative applications

The separation of oil from stable oil-in-water emulsions is a challenge. This is especially the case if the permitted limits for oil in water are very low, as…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Anammox

Anammox, an acronym for ANaerobic AMMonium OXidation, is a microbial process of the nitrogen cycle; it is a process that occurs in many natural environments. There is a huge interest in the application of the anammox process…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Water reuse and the freshwater provision

We are confronted more and more with increasing drought damage in agriculture and nature. There is growing pressure on our supply of water for high-quality uses, such as drinking water production. The…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Reuse of industrial residual water to meet agricultural water needs

Agricultural yields depend on the amount of moisture in the root zone. But in the summer soil moisture levels are often insufficient and result in reduced yields. In…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
HEATSTORE

The HEATSTORE project is an European project aimed at making technologies for the subsurface seasonal storage of sustainable heat ready for market uptake. With 23 European parties from nine countries the deployment is Europe-wide. In six demonstration…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
‘Contaminants of Emerging Concern’ – a partnership in water technology

More and more chemical substances are being produced and used all over the world. At the same time, increasing volumes of water are being abstracted for domestic, industrial…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Circular Water 2050

The project ‘Circular Water 2050 – impact and opportunities of the “fully circular in 2050” target for an urban water cycle falls under the WiCE ‘Efficient with Raw Materials’ research area. The project’s aim is to develop…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Legionella control in the tropics

Legionella pneumophila, the main cause of legionnaires’ disease, multiply primarily in aqueous environments at temperatures between 30 and 45°C. Under these conditions, in certain water systems with aerosolization, L. pneumophila can grow in the system and be…

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Society
Stakeholder involvement and governance
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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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
REWATCH

Freshwater resources are increasingly under stress conditions and there exists a huge mismatch between available water resources and rising water demand in many parts of the world. The petrochemical industry is an important water user. REWATCH aims to validate…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Cooling water conditioning in the future

Open recirculating cooling water systems are employed on a large scale in industry for the dissipation of low-value, surplus heat into the ambient air. This involves the evaporation of part of the…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation

The objective of this project is to determine the feasibility of EFC for the treatment of regenerant from ion exchange – as applied in DOC removal/decolouration and softening (especially drinking water and water-related industrial applications) – through…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Effluent reuse – MDR in the water cycle

In the ‘Effluent reuse – MDR in de waterketen’ (Effluent reuse – MDR in the water cycle) study the potential contribution of Modular Sustainable WWTP (MDR) to the optimisation of the water…

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Maria Lousada Ferreira PhD
Scientific researcher
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Maria Lousada Ferreira PhD

Scientific researcher

Maria is an environmental engineer, with a PhD in wastewater treatment. She has been working for more than 20 years on how to combine environmental preservation with economic/social growth. Her…

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maria.lousada.ferreira@kwrwater.nl

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Johann Poinapen PhD, FIEAust, CPEng
Scientific researcher
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Johann Poinapen PhD, FIEAust, CPEng

Scientific researcher

Johann is in the Water Treatment team of KWR where he leads research and innovation in water and wastewater treatment, reuse and resource recovery within the water-energy-food nexus. His role…

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johann.poinapen@kwrwater.nl

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Julian Muñoz Sierra PhD EngD
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Julian Muñoz Sierra PhD EngD

Scientific researcher Project manager

Julian Muñoz Sierra is a scientific researcher on the Water Treatment and Resource Recovery team. He studied chemical engineering at the National University of Colombia. He worked as a process…

030-6069672

julian.munoz@kwrwater.nl

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Nienke Koeman PhD MSc
Scientific researcher
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Nienke Koeman PhD MSc

Scientific researcher

Nienke Koeman is a researcher in the team Water treatment. She is mainly active in the field of industrial water treatment and water treatment in agriculture and horticulture. Nienke has…

030-6069558

nienke.koeman-stein@kwrwater.nl

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Frank Oesterholt MSc
Senior scientific researcher
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Frank Oesterholt MSc

Senior scientific researcher

Frank Oesterholt is a senior researcher and project manager in the Energy & Circular Systems team. His specialities are process water treatment, water reuse and water loop closure. For example,…

030-6069575

Frank.Oesterholt@kwrwater.nl

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Kees Roest PhD BSc
Senior scientific researcher Programme coordinator TKI Water technology
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Kees Roest PhD BSc

Senior scientific researcher Programme coordinator TKI Water technology

Kees Roest has worked at KWR since 2008 and was among the pioneers in KWR's wastewater research. On the Energy and Circular Systems team, he works on sustainable transitions, with…

030-6069531

Kees.Roest@kwrwater.nl

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AquaSPICE: Implementation of circular water use in the European process industry

07 June 2022 — The first AquaSPICE General Assembly was held on 12 and 13 May 2022, bringing together 29 partners from…

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Towards water-smart industrial symbiotic systems

25 June 2021 — According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the circular economy aims to design waste and pollution management with new…

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NWO funding for research on water in the circular economy: AquaConnect and ReCoVR

23 March 2021 — KWR will participate in two basic research programmes in the field of water and resource reuse. The two…

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Collaborating on the circular water economy for a sustainable and climate-proof Europe

31 December 2020 — KWR leads two big European projects that should point the way towards a circular water economy and greater…

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Water sector sets course for the circular economy

26 November 2020 — The recently published report ‘Stip op de horizon Circulair Water 2050’ (‘Point on the Circular Water 2050 horizon’)…

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Turning Wastewater into a Resource

15 June 2020 — A team of European researchers and engineers initiated the ULTIMATE project to turn wastewater into a resource. This…

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How can water reuse contribute to a more robust freshwater system?

02 April 2020 — Researchers at KWR have quantified and clarified the potential contribution of water reuse to the freshwater system by…

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Solving water issues for industry

31 December 2019 — In 2019 KWR clearly demonstrated that water availability is high on the agenda of industry. Our research helps…

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Working on water availability for industry

15 November 2019 — Many operational processes depend heavily on water. Companies need to have enough water, of the right quality and…

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New Bosatlas also maps sustainable water projects

17 October 2019 — In the new Bosatlas van de duurzaamheid (‘Bos Sustainability Atlas’), water utility Evides and KWR describe several inspiring…

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Jan Hofman strengthens KWR’s Industry, Wastewater and Reuse team

07 October 2019 — Jan Hofman has since 2015 been associated with the University of Bath but, last 1 September, he returned…

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Water footprint applied in industry

25 September 2019 — On 18 September the Industry Water Network Group discussed the application in industry of the water footprint tool…

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Use of alternative drinking water sources demands close collaboration within the water system

25 September 2019 — If today’s drinking water sources come under further pressure in the future, there are alternative (often local) sources…

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Quality of drinking water sources under growing pressure

12 September 2019 — A survey study by KWR on the quality of drinking water sources in the Netherlands shows that these…

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Water reuse presents opportunities

05 June 2019 — The reuse of water is becoming an increasingly central focus of attention. This reuse presents companies with important…

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Kees Roest ISPT Program Director

04 June 2019 — Since the beginning of April, Kees Roest has been program director at the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology…

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KWR demonstrates value added of water knowledge for practice at trade fair

04 April 2019 — KWR presented the value added of water knowledge in water practice at Aqua Nederland Vakbeurs 2019. The event,…

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KWR and CWTS join forces in research on social impact

25 January 2019 — KWR and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University are going to collaborate in…

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Membrane distillation and freeze crystallisation treat salt-streams containing organic pollutants

23 January 2019 — The Orpheus project shows that membrane distillation and freeze crystallisation offer possibilities for the concentration of high-saline streams…

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Reducing water shortages in agriculture with recycled industrial residual water

28 November 2018 — Rather than discharging the residual water produced by industry into surface water, the water can be used to…

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Science meets Practice in Delft

03 October 2018 — On 12 September TU Delft was once again the venue for the (eighteenth) meeting of the Industry Water…

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Growing interest in the business community in water quality

25 June 2018 — Water quality has been attracting lots of media attention lately. The business community is also expressing growing interest…

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ISPT Eurydice project almost completed

05 June 2018 — In the coming months the ISPT Eurydice project will be completed and reported on. The project is a…

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First WatQual meeting a huge success

05 March 2018 — Researchers from various European countries gathered at the end of February for the kick-off of WatQual. Over two…

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Industrial and drinking water softening techniques compared

17 October 2017 — On Wednesday afternoon, 27 September, the Industry Water Network Group visited Brabant Water’s production site at Veghel. Following…

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The connecting role of water in the circular economy

24 February 2017 — As of 21 March 2017, the TKI Water Technology partners will be present at the Aqua Trade Fair Netherlands…

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More sustainable cooling water systems thanks to softening of makeup water

23 December 2016 — Industry uses open recirculating cooling water systems on a large scale for the dissipation of low-grade, excess heat…

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Biological activity

Growth of microorganisms in (drinking) water can present risks to public health and lead to…

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Industrial water and wastewater

Industry

Reducing drinking-water consumption by business

Belissima – modelling removal of OMPs in wastewater

Aqua ludens

Water Mining

Risks of industrial emissions to air for drinking water production

Silicon Carbide (SiC) membranes for innovative applications

Anammox

Water reuse and the freshwater provision

Reuse of industrial residual water to meet agricultural water needs

HEATSTORE

‘Contaminants of Emerging Concern’ – a partnership in water technology

Circular Water 2050

Legionella control in the tropics

Industry Water Network Group

REWATCH

Cooling water conditioning in the future

Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation

Effluent reuse – MDR in the water cycle

AquaSPICE: Implementation of circular water use in the European process industry

Towards water-smart industrial symbiotic systems

NWO funding for research on water in the circular economy: AquaConnect and ReCoVR

Collaborating on the circular water economy for a sustainable and climate-proof Europe

Water sector sets course for the circular economy

Turning Wastewater into a Resource

How can water reuse contribute to a more robust freshwater system?

Solving water issues for industry

Working on water availability for industry

New Bosatlas also maps sustainable water projects

Jan Hofman strengthens KWR’s Industry, Wastewater and Reuse team

Water footprint applied in industry

Use of alternative drinking water sources demands close collaboration within the water system

Quality of drinking water sources under growing pressure

Water reuse presents opportunities

Kees Roest ISPT Program Director

KWR demonstrates value added of water knowledge for practice at trade fair

KWR and CWTS join forces in research on social impact

Membrane distillation and freeze crystallisation treat salt-streams containing organic pollutants

Reducing water shortages in agriculture with recycled industrial residual water

Science meets Practice in Delft

Growing interest in the business community in water quality

ISPT Eurydice project almost completed

First WatQual meeting a huge success

Industrial and drinking water softening techniques compared

The connecting role of water in the circular economy

More sustainable cooling water systems thanks to softening of makeup water

Biological activity