Low-footprint waste water treatment,
enabling sustainable recovery of organic nitrogen into valuable fertilizer
Clean water
No Chemicals Needed
All-electric
Renewable fertilizer
Shortcutting the Nitrogen Cycle
We seem to have a love-hate relationship with organic nitrogen: much needed as a macronutrient for crop growth in agriculture, when present in natural areas at too high concentrations it can lead to loss of biodiversity. The production of ammonia based fertilizers from inert nitrogen gas (N2) is responsible for about 1 to 2% of the worldwide energy consumption. The degradation of organic nitrogen in wastewater treatment facilities contributes heavily to the overall central wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) costs. Shortcutting this human-driven part of the nitrogen cycle therefore provides an enticing perspective, and that’s what the N.E.W.B.I.E.S. project is all about!
News & Highlights
Kennisconsortium zet stikstof om in kunstmest
Amidst the Dutch “Stikstofcrisis”, and days before the pilot installation was shipped to Girona, W&F Technologies was interviewed by BNR nieuwsradio about the NEWBIES process.
Kunstmestfabriek wint ammoniak uit afvalwaterstromen
Announcement on commissioning of the pilot installation by Petrochem
Elektrisch zuiveren van mest
Short announcement of the pilot installation on mestportaal.nl
Elektrisch zuiveren van mest biedt perpectief voor productie van kunstmestvervanger
News coverage on the pilot installation and the project in NCM
Elektrische oplossing voor gespannen stikstofcrisis
Interview about N.E.W.B.I.E.S. in C2W with process technologist Sam Molenaar from W&F Technologies
Watertechnologen werken aan duurzame oplossing stikstof
Interview about the N.E.W.B.I.E.S. project in Waterforum with process technologist Sam Molenaar from W&F Technologies.
NH3 Event
W&F Technologies participated at the 2019 NH3 event in Rotterdam, presenting a poster of the project.
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Wetsus Congress 2018
W&F Technologies together with REDstack was present at the Wetsus Congress 2018 and presented the N.E.W.B.I.E.S. project to secretary of state Mona Keijzer.
Partners
Responsible for the design, construction and operation of the pilot installation, W&F Technologies enables the market uptake of the N.E.W.B.I.E.S. technology.
Based in Girona, Spain, the Catalan Institute for Water Research provides scientific excellence of the integrated water cycle. Within the N.E.W.B.I.E.S. project, ICRA hosts the testing of the technology on digestate reject water
Evides Water provides drinking water to 2.5 million people in the southern provinces of the Netherlands. Moreover they provide industrial water services to a variety of large industrial companies in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Evides partners with N.E.W.B.I.E.S. to explore its ability to remove nitrogen from landfill leachate.
Water-tech knowledge institute based in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Home to the N.E.W.B.I.E.S. technology. Continuing lab-scale tests on further optimized ED designs and alternative wastewaters, Wetsus forms the R&D core of our project
The LIFE-NEWBIES project has received funding from the LIFE programme of the European Union.
Contact
For more information, questions or proposals please don’t hesitate to contact us. Communications regarding the project are primarily coordinated by Wetsus:
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