Dow Chemical in Terneuzen has been awarded the ICIS-innovation Award 2008 for its project that encompasses the reuse of municipal waste water of the town of Terneuzen as process water. ICIS, the world’s biggest provider of information for the chemical and petrochemical industry, nominated this project as the most innovative CSR corporate social responsability) project.
Evides Industriewater produces demi-water and supplies this to Dow by using final effluent of the municipal WWTO of Terneuzen of the local waterboard. The cooperation between the three parties, the innovative use of technologies and environmental advantages have been mentioned as reasons to allocate the award. The environmental advantages include among others the sustainable use of 450m3 waste water per hour, a substantiable reduction of the use of energy and the reduction of discharge to surface water.
This project has already been honoured with some awards, such as the European Responsible Care Award of CEFIC and the Responsible Care Award of the Dutch federation of the chemical industry VNCI.
In 2009 the municipal WWTP will be extended with a membrane bioreactor (MBR). Evides Industriewater and Norit Membrane Technology will construct the reactor – the biggest MBR in the Netherlands – for treatment of the municipal waste water. In October 2008 Evides Industriewater reached agreement with all parties involved with respect to the design, the construction and the subsequent operation of this large-scale reuse plant. NethWater-partner Norit Membrane Technology supplies the innovative Norit AirliftTM MBR-technology. The plant will have a nominal hydraulical capacity of 400 m3 per hour and a maximum hydraulical capacity of 620 m3 per hour. Due to its high-quality the effluent of the MBR will be used as feed source for RO plant of Evides Industriewater some 12 km’s away, that produces demi-water for supply to Dow Chemical. The MBR is expected tob e commissioned in the fourth quarter of 2009.
You can watch the construction in progress here.