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| Title | Wastewater circularity - reclaiming wastewater for beneficial use in the Dutch water system |
| Group | Water Resources Management group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Saskia van der Kooij |
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| Contact info | saskia.vanderkooij@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2020/01/01 |
| End date | 2022/01/01 |
| Description | Country: The Netherlands
Host institute: tbd Period: open Problem context The Dutch water sector aims at converting wastewater treatment plants into ‘resource factories’ providing energy, nutrients and clean water. Recovering energy from wastewater is becoming common practice, and also the recovery of nutrients - for example via struvite - precipitation is operational at several wastewater treatment plants. The development of ‘water factories’ is a new development in the wastewater sector, and aims at treating wastewater till a level sufficient for its re-use in agriculture, nature areas or groundwater re-charge. Recycling wastewater has several advantages. The fresh water is kept longer in the water system, thus creating a buffer in draught periods, which increasingly becomes relevant in the Netherlands. While the benefits seem evident, adjusting the treatment of wastewater to re-use purposes means that the demand for re use should be known. Research Objective/Question We invite students to study the possibilities for ‘Water Factories’ by placing the demand for re-use upfront. What are the expected end use(r)s of the recycled water, and what are their demands in terms of quality, quantity and timing of the water? How can these be incorporated in the design of ‘Water Factories’? What is expected from the student (type of research) Socio-technical approach, methods to be determined based on specific research question: interviews, GIS, water balances, ... |
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