Partner Consortium

CAPSO

CAPSO is as an inter-municipality organisation for the agglomeration of Saint-Omer in the North of France, which is responsible for the urban development and planning of the region. CAPSO guarantees among other competencies access to basic resources such as water, energy, telecommunication, etc. CAPSO has the following competences and experiences :
1. Building and managing pilots and full scale water plants
2. Knowledge in water treatment and drinking water security
3. Developing energy policies
4. Project management and facilitating multi-party stakeholder meetings/projects

CAPSO foresees capacity building in technical knowledge, project management skills, inhabitants’ acceptation and public/private cooperation, thanks to input from partners. Experimental development of the biogas unit also serves CAPSO’s regional and national partners, enhancing its attractiveness and influence in the field of circular economy.

CAPSO will coordinate the progress of the demonstration workpackage “building decentralised wastewater installations for the recovery of energy from wastewater”. CAPSO will also contribute to test water and ressources recovery in its installations and to crossborder exchanges between partners on the WP strategy and technical solutions.

DuCoop

DuCoop is a sustainability cooperation that will invest in a decentral wastewater treatment system (“the ZAWENT technology”) and a 4th generation heating network in the new district ‘De Nieuwe Dokken’ in Ghent. ZAWENT will demonstrate a scalable design for circular recovery of energy, nutrients and water in sustainable urban districts.  Sanitary wastewater and shredded kitchen waste will be treated separately from the grey water commonly produced by i.e. showering, washing machines. Waste heat will be recovered from burning produced biogas and from the effluent wastewater with a heat pump. This heat recovery will be used for central heating and sanitary hot water demand for 400 housing units, offices and a city building. The remaining heat demand will be provided by recovering low-temperature (55-65°C) waste heat from a nearby industry. This industry will also reuse the effluent of the wastewater treatment plant as process water. To link all these technologies, DuCoop will also contribute to the development of new sustainable business models with smart energy management. This combination of innovative technologies will help cities and local communities abate challenges regarding climate change, sustainable energy production, global water stress and of depletion of natural resources.

Evides Industriewater

Evides is a watercycle company. We produce drinking water, treat industrial and municipal wastewater and produce process water for industries. Our clients are active in the chemical and petrochemical, food and beverage industry in the Benelux and Germany. We are an innovative partner for the Dutch Waterboards. Together we develop sustainable solutions to treat wastewater and recover resources, for example in the Delft Blue Water project. Within this project we produced irrigation water for greenhouses from used urban water, Evides has set a goal to become climate neutral by 2025.

Within NEREUS, Evides will design, build and operate a pilot plant to recover water, energy and nutrients from municipal wastewater in Rotterdam.

HZ University

HZ University of Applied Sciences is based in Zeeland, the Netherlands. As a university of applied sciences, a great deal of practical research is conducted at HZ both by students and researchers, focusing on questions from the professional field. Any knowledge acquired from the research will result in new insights, which can lead to innovations and even new products for the work field as well as contributing to educating the next generation of water managers.

One of the research groups at HZ University of Applied Sciences; the Water Technology research group, works on research projects involving applicable technologies for sustainable water (re)use in a combined fresh/saline delta.

Research themes include:
1. Recycling of urban and industrial water;
2. Recovery of valuable content from wastewater;
3. Optimization of water treatment systems;
4. Fresh water availability for agriculture.

HZ has experience with the analysis of full scale systems for recovery of phosphate from industries with the aim of creating fertilizer and works on developing techniques for recovery of various other resources. Furthermore, HZ has much experience on reuse and recovery of water for industrial and agricultural applications in water stressed areas. 

In the NEREUS project HZ leads the Work Package investigating the technical feasibilities of available technologies and the monitoring of the technologies for their performance once they have been implemented by the pilot partners. HZ is responsible for the final reporting of the project; based on input from the pilot partners and data analysis, conclusions will be drawn and reported on the success of the technologies implemented regarding specific resource recovery goals.

Southern Water

Every day Southern Water treats and recycles 700 million litres of wastewater at our 368 treatment works after it has travelled through our 39,000 kilometres of sewers (that's six times as long as the entire UK motorway network).
Man-made technology and the power of nature are used to make wastewater safe to return to the environment.
One by-product of the process is 'bio-solids' (sewage sludge), which is turned into fertiliser and sold to farmers for use on crops. As Southern WateE already provide bio-solids to the agricultural community it is our aim to review the commercial and environmental impacts of recovering a more pure form of fertiliser in crystalline form. This supports the circular economy whilst also potentially improving the wastewater treatment and providing a more efficient service for our customers.
We recycle wastewater from almost two million homes before returning it to rivers and the sea.
 

University of Portsmouth

The University of Portsmouth has a prestigious 'Gold' rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) – one of only four Gold-rated universities in the south east. The University is in the top 25 in the UK. Research at the University of Portsmouth is world-class and is further validated by the outcome of the most recent national Research Excellence Framework (REF), with over 60% of research submitted by the University rated as world-leading and internationally excellent. The University of Portsmouth contributes to the NEREUS project by delivering on the following: design and the development of a Decision Support Tool for the selection of wastewater recovery technologies and the life Cycle Assessment with the collaboration with the "Centre for Operational Research and Logistics and the Environmental Technology and Management Group in the "School of Civil Engineering and Surveying".
 
The Centre for Operational Research and Logistics (CORL) brings together multidisciplinary expertise on the Science of Data and Operational Research (OR) and conducts world-leading research in OR and the development of novel mathematical optimisation models, advanced meta-heuristic methods, and intelligent decision support systems for automatically producing high quality solutions to a wide range of real-world problems. Real-world problems include: manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, supply chain and production management, sustainability and renewable energy. This expertise is also applicable for the optimisation of resource recovery processes. 

The Environmental Technology and Management Group has a broad range of research interests ranging from wastewater treatment through to sustainability appraisal. The group has an Environmental Technology Field Station at an operational wastewater treatment plant, comprising of laboratories and test bed facilities.  This allows the field scale testing of pilot plants and other large scale test rigs. The Group has an Innovation Hub collaboration with Southern Water and also works with a range of smaller companies, such as WPL Ltd. Current projects include P removal for small sites, energy efficiency improvements for package plants and the fate of microplastics in wastewater treatment.  
 

VITO

VITO is an independent Flemish research organisation in the area of cleantech and sustainable development. In the NEREUS project, the Flemish Knowledge Center Water (Vlakwa), an independent division of VITO, is responsible for the operational follow-up. Vlakwa initiates, coordinates and facilitates an integrated approach with maximum international connectivity, knowledge building, mutual cooperation and exchange of experience and knowledge. The WMT team of VITO is also involved in this project because of their knowledge and experience with digestion of different waste (water)streams.

In this project, Vlakwa/VITO will effectively work together, exchange knowledge with the involved research organisations and the other involved project partners. 

water-link

water-link is the biggest water-producer in Flanders and delivers drinking water to the households and businesses in Antwerp and we deliver water in all different qualities for industries. The main customers are chemical and petrochemical companies in the harbour of Antwerp. water-link's strengths are global asset management, customer intimacy, innovation and technical performance. 

water-link invests in resource recovery from wastewater, which is necessary for not exhausting our natural water resource s and to reduce the energy consumption within the scope of the current climate evolution.