Technical visit
Excursion to the Amsterdam Waste to Energy company and Waternet:
We can offer you a very interesting excursion to the largest Waste to Energy plant in the world in combination with the largest wastewater treatment plant in Amsterdam (1.5 million p.e.). More than 1.5 million ton of waste and sludge is incinerated at this plant. The plant has a very high-efficiency energy production. More than 1.0 Mwh of electricity is produced, as well as district heating for 45.000 houses in Amsterdam. The district heating will be increased up to 100.000 houses in 2020. Biogas from the wwtp is also used for electricity and heat production. Heat from the incineration is used to operate the digesters. An efficient combination of wastewater treatment and waste incineration.
Workshop: Balancing water quality and energy: a model-based approach
This is a practical workshop that addresses the complex relation between water quality and energy. A balanced mix of presentations by experts, case studies and hands-on exercises with the modeling and simulation software WEST® will show the feasibility of using dynamic simulations for optimizing the performance of a wastewater treatment plant, both in terms of effluent quality and energy consumption.
Water and energy are two essential resources, the availability of which is already becoming critical in some societies. The cost for energy at a wastewater treatment plant is one of the major cost items. Stricter discharge requirements to improve surface water quality and ecology may require extended wastewater treatment technology, with even higher power consumption and larger carbon footprint. A wastewater project life cycle exists of several phases (management options, design, operations…) and opportunities to reduce costs declines as the project proceeds. Therefore it is important to evaluate the energy consumption (in relation to the required effluent quality) at an early stage. This workshop will address the use of dynamic process models during the design and operation phases.
