Brightwork

Brightwork has taken the initiative to introduce the technology of Meniscus in the Netherlands. The technology focuses on intelligent data management in the field of (waste) watertreatment, where a wide variety of process data can be processed in a simple manner and the results can be made available immediately to the business. This form of data management has been used by the English Waterboards for several years resulting in significant cost savings. The Plant manager is responsible for recording and disclosure of relevant process data. Ready-made reports and benchmark results will be reported back directly, giving clear insight into the state-of-affairs. All data is translated into cost factors, making the consequences and the relevance of abnormalities occurring immediately clear.

Brightwork started collaboration for this instrument with Knol Training & Consulting, a company known in data management, executing project in this field for Waterboards in the Netherlands. Knol will execute a first pilot shortly.

A leaflet can be downloaded here: (in preparation)

Dashboard analyse

Press Release, released on April 2, 2009

Industriewater Eerbeek tests environmentally friendly technology against limescale

Vibrations on audition

A technology which reduces limescale at process water at low cost making it available for reuse. This has been tested for a number of weeks at Industriewater Eerbeek (IWE). The test takes about 2 months and must prove whether this new technology can reduce current chemical dosage or even completely replace it. The test is one of the projects of the “Mannen van de WIT” and is supervised by Hans Wouters.

The technology is developed by the company String Energy. String Energy brings a number of products on the market, all based on vibration technology (string energy). Certain vibration frequencies can influence the characteristics of molecules, without changing in the molecule itself. String Energy is able to influence the vibration frequency, and transfer these vibrations – through a catalyst – on to the medium to be treated, eg water. Using the technology of String Energy lime water may be affected, which prevent calcium deposition.

High potential

For the marketing of this technology String Energy called “De Mannen van de WIT” for assistance. They assisted the company to establish and implement a marketing strategy aimed at applications in the water sector. Subsequently, the men looked in their network for a launching customer. It was Industriewater Eerbeek, a processor of industrial wastewater from the paper industry. The effluent is characterized by high calcium depositing (and odor) characteristics, which makes often dosage of substantial quantities of chemicals necessary in pipes, nozzles, pumps and valves to control.

If the results of pilot at Industriewater Eerbeek meet the expectations, there is a high potential for the String Energy technology.

Download: factsheet-string-energy

The Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP) organized on 2 and 3 April an international conference, The 6th European Forum on Eco-innovation, together with the fair Wasser Berlin in Berlin. At this conference discussions were initiated on how to improve cooperation between companies, institutions, universities from different EU Member States. For NWP, Hans Wouters of Brightwork gave a lecture on Dutch initiatives to achieve greater cooperation. In his presentation Wouters highlighted the essential characteristics of successful partnerships: team spirit, discipline and self-reflection. The full presentation and other speakers can be downloaded through the link below.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ecoinnovation2009/1st_forum/index_en.htm

Team spirit as a main requirement for good collaboration between partners.

In the journal H2O, number 9-2009 an article is posted on the cost structure for purifying waste water, initiated by Waterboard Brabantse Delta. The title of the article is:

Municipal purification but industrial building

The Project, Industrial Building, was managed by Brightwork and executed by a project team, meeting members of the Waterboards de Brabantse Delta and Aa and Maas, Bavaria, Heineken, DMV Campina, industrial Association (VIW) and Brightwork. The article examines the results of the research and its translation into strategic proposals for cost savings in the realization of construction projects. The results were applied immediately to the renovation of the sludgetreatment at WwTW Nieuwveer and lead to significant savings.

You can find the article (in Dutch) here:

 h2o-project-industrieel-bouwen

RWZI Nieuwveer, Waterboard Brabantse Delta

Project team in front of the castle Bouvigne in Breda after the final meeting.
(fltr: Theo Slob, John Gooiker, Linda van Kessel, Frank van Zijl, Hans Wouters, Henny Bron, Hanco de Labije, Jack Jonk, Wilfried Aarsen en Ger Toonen)

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