Water technology for agriculture, food- and process industry
Companies in agriculture, horticulture, food industry and processing industry experience problems with water quality when closing water and nutrient cycles. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research uses innovative technology to purify and reuse process and cooling water and recover valuable nutrients. Based on our expertise and research results, we design an optimal process together with the client, using the best combination of existing and new techniques.
Physico-chemical water treatment
In order to recover valuable nutrients, remove salts and pollutants and disinfect the water, we offer a combination of technologies. This physico-chemical water treatment varies from (electro)membrane technology, adsorption and extraction to advanced oxidation. We complement our expertise with knowledge of general process technology: we investigate the opportunities to deploy our water technology in existing processes, evaluate the technical and economic feasibility and help companies with upscaling and implementation.
Water cycles: from crop to processing industry
The strength of Wageningen Food & Biobased Research is that we, as part of Wageningen University & Research, are strongly rooted in the agrifood domain. As a result, we know the technical needs of companies in the sector and can relatively easily combine new technologies and develop them into cost-effective solutions. In collaboration with Wageningen University, we invest in fundamental research into electrochemical water technology. Various patents that are applied in practice are the result of this:
- We have developed new, advanced oxidation processes (AOP) for the removal of micropollutants. In this process the oxidants, such as peroxide, are made in-situ and it is no longer necessary to transport chemicals. Examples of processes are Peroxite © and GreenOxidants.
- Memstill © and Mempower are examples of patented processes in which solar heat is used to make both pure water and energy with membrane distillation.
- We are working on technology to not only remove phosphonates and other valuable but environmentally damaging additives from wastewater, but also to regenerate them.
Interested in the possibilities?
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