Industry - KWR

Water Mining

Securing enough and safe water is a crucial challenge for water management today. This situation calls for innovative...

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’)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Maria Lousada Ferreira PhD

Maria is an environmental engineer, with a PhD in wastewater treatment. She has been working for more than...

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...

Johann Poinapen PhD, FIEAust, CPEng

Johann is in the Water Treatment team of KWR where he leads research and innovation in water and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jan Hofman

Jan Hofman is Principal Scientist in KWR’s Energy and Circular Systems team, and also professor of Water Science...

Anammox

Anammox, an abbreviation for ANaerobic AMMonium OXidation, is a microbial process of the nitrogen cycle. It takes place...

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...

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...

Water reuse and the freshwater provision

We are confronted more and more with increasing drought damage in agriculture and nature. There is growing pressure...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

HEATSTORE

The HEATSTORE project is an European project aimed at making technologies for the subsurface seasonal storage of sustainable...

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...

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...

Julian Muñoz Sierra PhD(c) PDEng

Julian Muñoz Sierra is a scientific researcher on the Water Treatment and Resource Recovery team. He studied chemical...

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...

‘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,...

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...

Circular Water 2050

The project ‘Circular Water 2050 – impact and opportunities of the “fully circular in 2050” target for an...

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...

Legionella control in the tropics

Legionella pneumophila, the main cause of legionnaires’ disease, multiply primarily in aqueous environments at temperatures between 30 and...

Industry Water Network Group

Through the Industry Water Network Group , KWR’s Industry, Wastewater & Reuse team provides industrial partners with a...

REWATCH

Freshwater resources are increasingly under stress conditions and there exists a huge mismatch between available water resources and rising...

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 ...

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...

Biological activity

Growth of microorganisms in (drinking) water can present risks to public health and lead to customer complaints, technical...

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,...

Industry, wastewater & reuse

KWR conducts research into the treatment of wastewater and the reuse of the water, resources and energy it...

Nienke Koeman PhD MSc

Nienke Koeman is a researcher in the team Water treatment. She is mainly active in the field of...

Frank Oesterholt MSc

Frank Oesterholt is a senior researcher and project manager in the Energy & Circular Systems team. His specialities...

Kees Roest PhD BSc

Kees Roest has worked at KWR since 2008 and was among the pioneers in KWR’s wastewater research. On...

Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation

The objective of this project is to determine the feasibility of EFC for the treatment of regenerant from...

Effluent reuse – MDR in the watercycle

In the ‘Effluent reuse – MDR in de waterketen’ (Effluent reuse – MDR in the watercycle) study the...