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Safe innovation and the water sector
Water-Futures

How should the world achieve high-quality water services in the future while facing severe climate, economic and population pressures under deep uncertainty? Water-Futures, a 10M Euros European Research Council (ERC) funded project (ERC Synergy Grant), aims to…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
The customer as ‘follow-up treatment actor’

Drinking water customers seem increasingly open to the idea of home filtration and rainwater applications in their own households. This project sheds light on the number and the kinds of customers concerned,…

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Health
Biological activity
Reuse of activated carbon for the removal of organic micropollutants

The removal or organic micropollutants (OMPs) from (waste) water is becoming a matter of more and more importance. Pharmaceutical residues are increasingly being removed from domestic wastewater –…

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Health
Biological activity
Circular Rain

With Circular Rain we are investigating the innovative storage, purification and use of rainwater. By buffering and simultaneously purifying harvested rainwater, a variety of useful applications can be envisaged for the water. Technology EWB has developed an…

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Health
Microbial safety
Rainwater as a source of drinking water: production costs and environmental aspects

Many people think it would be sustainable to make drinking water from collected rainwater. However, there is not enough rainwater in the Netherlands to meet demand. The costs…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
LCA study of variants of activated carbon

The use of activated carbon in drinking water treatment means that it has to be reactivated on a regular basis, and so this type of treatment has a significant environmental impact. Studying…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Softening 2.0 at Waternet; Leiduin production location

To identify the best option for a new water softening system in Leiduin, five different scenarios were compared in terms of Total Costs of Ownership and life cycle…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Environmental impact of NaOH and lime milk in drinking water treatment

All kinds of chemicals are used to treat drinking water. Caustic soda and lime milk are used on a large scale. On the basis of information from the…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Electrochemical treatment processes

Electrochemical treatment processes present various advantages compared to conventional treatment processes. By gaining experience with a single, promising electrochemical method in a relevant water composition (with a focus on its effectiveness and…

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Health
Biological activity
Preventing and controlling emissions in greenhouse cultivation 2

This project is a re-launch of the earlier ‘Preventing and controlling emissions in greenhouse cultivation’ project. In the present project, knowledge will be further developed on optimising the…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Strengthening research into activated carbon filtration for micropollutant removal

Organic micropollutants (OMPs), including persistent compounds, are being increasingly detected in groundwater and surface water. Understanding the action of (surface water) treatment in the removal of OMPs is…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
The physico-chemical behaviour of purified water turbidity in distribution networks

The groundwater treatment processes at Brabant Water are designed for the removal of iron, ammonium and manganese. These processes work perfectly. The water quality generally fluctuates around the…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Managing concentrate streams

A number of water utilities make use of reverse osmosis (RO) or (capillary) nanofiltration (NF) membranes as a component of their drinking water treatment, since these provide a good barrier for all kinds of substances (e.g., salts,…

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Health
Biological activity
Adsorptive and biological removal of plant protection products from jointly collected discharge water in greenhouse horticulture

The ‘Adsorptive and biological removal of plant protection products from jointly collected discharge water in greenhouse horticulture’ project was recently launched. The project involves the development of a…

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Health
Microbial safety
KWR to advise the State of Michigan in Flint research dispute

In October 2017 KWR conducted a scoping mission for the State of Michigan in the US to get a clear idea of the status of the multidisciplinary project,…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Remineralisation of RO permeate

Oasen is working on the full-stream treatment of, among others, river-bank filtrate using RO, which entails the complete removal of practically all substances, including minerals, from the water. A crucial aspect of this development is the conditioning…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Preventing and controlling emissions in greenhouse cultivation

Starting in 2018, greenhouse horticulturalists will be required to treat their discharge water containing plant protection products (PPPs) (for collectives the requirement has to be met by 2021).…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Shale Gas and Water

Before the Netherlands can initiate shale gas extraction, answers must be given to the question of the possible environmental risks involved for the water system. The Shale Gas and Water programme is focused on issues in the…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
AquaNES

Water scarcity, excess water in cities and micro-pollutants in the water cycle are challenges for now and the future. In AquaNES, we test constructed Natural and Engineered Systems (cNES) to face these challenges, develop a monitoring programme…

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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…

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julian.munoz@kwrwater.nl

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Roberta Hofman PhD MSc
Senior scientific researcher
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Roberta Hofman PhD MSc

Senior scientific researcher

Roberta Hofman works as a senior scientist on the Water Treatment team. She mainly works with two types of processes to remove (mainly organic micro)pollutants from water: adsorption and oxidation.…

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Roberta.Hofman-Caris@kwrwater.nl

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Wolter Siegers
Scientific researcher
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Wolter Siegers

Scientific researcher

Wolter Siegers is a Generic-B researcher and has worked at KWR for more than 30 years. He worked on research in water treatment for drinking water, wastewater and industry water.…

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Wolter.Siegers@kwrwater.nl

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Bas Wols PhD MSc
Scientific researcher Manager
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Bas Wols PhD MSc

Scientific researcher Manager

Bas Wols works as a scientific researcher on the Water Treatment team. He models water treatment processes, such as UV/H2O2 oxidation, membrane filtration, sand filtration, softening and aeration. He uses…

030-6069604

Bas.Wols@kwrwater.nl

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Emile Cornelissen PhD MSc
Senior scientific researcher
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Emile Cornelissen PhD MSc

Senior scientific researcher

Emile Cornelissen is Senior Scientific Researcher in the Water Treatment team, and professor at the PaInT (Particle and Interfacial Technology) research group at Ghent University. Also, since 2014, he has…

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Emile.Cornelissen@kwrwater.nl

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Patrick Bäuerlein PhD
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Patrick Bäuerlein PhD

Scientific researcher Project manager

Patrick Bäuerlein is a chemical researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team, and his main field of expertise is the chemical quality of the entire water cycle. He…

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patrick.bauerlein@kwrwater.nl

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News

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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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Pharmaceuticals in the water cycle

27 October 2021 — Pharmaceuticals can more and more be found in the water cycle. They may affect the aquatic environment and…

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Strengthen the water sector’s capacity by transferring practice-oriented knowledge

24 June 2021 — As we move towards a more circular and sustainable water chain and climate robust water system, new insights,…

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8th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (As2021) – Bridging Science to Practice for Sustainable Development

11 June 2021 — Over 250 participants from over 40 countries and more than 10 scientific disciplines participated in As2021. More or…

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Arsenate removal from drinking water by application of pelletized iron(hydr)oxides

10 June 2021 — The aim of the TKI Polishing Pellets project is to convert liquid iron sludge into granular pellets suitable…

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Need for membranes with a better selectivity, better module design and higher log removal credits

04 July 2019 — In the last ten years, the membrane community experienced a tremendous surge in research of synthesizing novel membranes.…

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News

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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Use of natural viruses to monitor membrane integrity

12 March 2019 — KWR has been granted a patent for a new, very sensitive method to determine how effectively a physical…

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A global perspective on local water, waste and climate challenges

08 February 2019 — This week I had the honour to provide a global perspective on the local challenges of water, waste…

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CoRe Water project launched with pilot plant at Wehl WWTP

13 December 2018 — TKI Water Technology’s CoRe Water project has begun with the installation of a first pilot at the Rijn…

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WQTC 2017 buzzing with potable water reuse

20 November 2017 — Potable water reuse was the central theme during this conference, recognizing the existing ‘de facto’ reuse of wastewater…

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Water Sector

Rossella Messina finalist in Dopper Changemaker Challenge

16 March 2017 — Rossella Messina, master thesis intern at KWR, has reached the final round of the Dopper Changemaker Challenge. With…

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