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Project Economically and Ecologically Efficient Water Management in the European Chemical Industry

Chemical Industry provides the highest potential for increasing eco-efficiency in industrial water management. E4Water addresses crucial process industry needs, to overcome bottle necks and barriers for an integrated and energy efficient water management.

The main objective is to develop, test and validate new integrated approaches, methodologies and process technologies for a more efficient and sustainable management of water in chemical industry with cross-fertilization possibilities to other industrial sectors.

E4water unites in its consortium large chemical industries, leading European water sector companies and innovative RTD centers and universities, active in the area of water management and also involved in WssTP and SusChem European Technology Platforms and collaborating with water authorities.

The E4Water project unites in its 19 member consortium large chemical industries, leading European water sector companies and innovative RTD centres and universities active in the area of water management. Together they will work to address crucial process industry needs to overcome bottlenecks and barriers for an integrated and energy-efficient water management. 

E4Water is a European Commission-funded FP7 project jointly developed by SusChem and the European Water Platform (WssTP). E4Water was launched in May 2012 and will continue for four years. The project is coordinated by Dechema. 

 

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E4WATER CONSORTIUM

CAMPDEN - Campden BRI - United Kingdom

CBD - Cluster Biofuels Denmark/ Kalundborg Kommune - Denmark

CEFIC - Conseil Européen de l'Industrie Chimique - Belgium

DECHEMA - DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Technik und Biotechnologie e.V. – Germany

DOW - Dow Benelux B.V. - Netherlands

DTU - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - Denmark

EVIDES - Evides Industriewater BV - Netherlands

FHNW - Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz - Switzerland

IVL - IVL Svenska Miljoeinstitutet AB - Sweden

ONDEO IS - Ondeo Industrial Solutions SA - France

PGB - Procter & Gamble Eurocor N.V. - Belgium

SOLVIC - Solvic NV - Belgium

SOLVIN - Solvin Spain SL - Spain

TNO - Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Netherlands

TOTAL - Total Petrochemicals France SA - France

TUB - Technische Universität Berlin - Germany

TUD - Technische Universiteit Delft - Netherlands

UCM - Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Spain

VITO – Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.V. - Belgium

 

COORDINATING INSTITUTION

DECHEMA e.V.
Theodor-Heuss-Allee 25
60486 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

http://www.dechema.de/

Project Coordinator:

 

 Dr. Thomas Track
 Phone:             +49 (0)69 7564 427      
 Fax: +49 (0)69 7564 117
 Email: track@dechema.de

 

Project Manager:

 Dr. Renata Körfer  Dr. Christina Jungfer  Katja Wendler
 Phone:            +49 (0)69 7564 619        Phone:            +49 (0)69 7564 364        Phone:            +49 (0)69 7564 425      
 Fax: +49 69 7564 117   Fax: +49 69 7564 117  Fax: +49 69 7564 117
 Email: koerfer@dechema.de  Email: jungfer@dechema.de  Email: wendler@dechema.de

Project number n/a
Subject(s) ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , TOOL TERMS , WATER QUALITY
Acronym E4Water
Geographical coverage Denmark,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Netherlands,Switzerland,Sweden,France,Spain,
Budget (in €) 0
Programme EU FP7
Web site http://e4water.eu/
Objectives

E4Water aims to achieve an expected reduction of 20-40% in water use, 30-70% in wastewater production, 15-40% in energy use and up to 60% direct economic benefits at its industrial case study sites.

E4Water builds on state-of-the-art and new basic R&D concepts. Their realization, improvement, utilization and validation, with the compromise of early industrial adaptors, are clearly innovative.
Results

E4Water is envisioning the realization of its concept by:

  1. Creating water loop interfaces, synergies and symbiosis: (I) in industry (II) with urban & agricultural water management
  2. Developing and testing innovative materials, process technologies, synergetic combination of technologies and tools for an integrated water management (i.e.. membranes, biotreatment including microalgae, pretreatment, polymers, chemical oxidation and disinfection) that enhance recycling/reuse of industrial relevance.
  3. Providing an open innovation approach for testing the solutions developed to other industries to ensure robustness, wide applicability, cross-fertilization and exploitation of eco-efficient solutions.
  4. Testing and validating the developments in 6 industrial on-site case studies for tests and pilot demonstrations, each one of them representing critical problems in a wide range of Chemical Industry and other process industries, therefore fostering a wide acceptance of the solutions developed during the project. Five of the case studies (CS) are linked to on-site demonstration (CS1-5), one case study (CS6) is embedded in a symbiotic network by using samples of the network streams.
  5. Implementing improved tools for (I) process efficiency optimization, linking water processes with production processes via modeling, (II) eco-efficiency assessment; esp. related to water, energy, costs and environmental risks. 
  6. Following a multi stage exploitation approach from industrial partners to related process industry
Period [01/05/2012 - 30/04/2016]

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