Aqua Enviro Past Events

The European Biosolids & Organic Resources Conference is the “best technical sludge event in Europe” giving attendees the opportunity to hear from high-profile industry experts and network with over 250 like-minded people. The Call for Papers will be released in April 2018 – if you would like to be added to our mailing list please email: clare.hunter@aquaenviro.co.uk Now in its third decade this event provides practitioners with an annual update on legislatory changes; new technologies; best practice and site-experiences with existing technologies and an insight into relevant research in the science and engineering of biosolids and organic resources. The conference is attended by recognised experts from around the world both, as speakers and delegates.

Stimulating new ideas on all aspects of the wastewater treatment cycle from the sewer to discharge of final effluent and the impacts on receiving watercourses. The conference provides a forum for practitioners and researchers to meet and discuss the needs and interests of the European water industry. This year the EWWM conference looks to be even bigger as the programme will include the follow-on from last year’s BIG P conference in Manchester. The event is attended by over 200 professionals from the water industry and is recognised both for the quality of the individual presentations and the debates that follow these presentations.

The European Wastewater Management Conference is the UK’s leading conference on problems and solutions for the management and treatment of wastewater. The conference covers all aspects of the wastewater treatment cycle from the sewer to discharge of final effluent and including the impacts on receiving watercourses including: 1. latest treatment technologies; 2. legislatory changes impacting on the water industry; 3. more efficient and effective design approaches; 4. instrumentation and process control; 5. modelling techniques and odour control Case studies of successful approaches that recognize and deliver the key industry drivers of: 1. consent compliance; 2. energy saving and recovery; 3. recovery of other resources; 4. technologies for removing P and priority chemicals, 5. cost-savings across the whole treatment plant

Presentations and discussion on the main water quality challenges facing the profession and consider the requirements for next generation of disinfection technologies in order to successfully improve drinking water. This event will: 1. Consider the importance of UV within an overall disinfection strategy. 2. Examine the importance of validation and its likely impact on this strategy. 3. Look at how we can deal with seasonal occurrences with advanced oxidation processes for a number of micropollutants. 4. Discuss technological innovations

Evaluating the past present and future of instrumentation and real time control within the waste water industry.

A wide range of modelling tools is now readily available to aid in the design, operation and optimization of wastewater treatment processes. But these models are sophisticated tools and their successful application requires an understanding of their limitations as well as the input data that is necessary to ensure their effectiveness. It is the aim of this course to examine those models that have found widespread usage in the UK. By use of case studies it will explore their effectiveness and seek to understand the information necessary for their successful application.

Over the past decade it has been apparent that the UK Water Industry can make a major contribution to the Government aims of a Circular Economy in which materials from wastes are returned to other productive parts of the economy, thus reducing the amount of waste for ultimate disposal. Estimates by Defra of the potential annual value to UK businesses are as high as £23 billion and this could be achieved through low cost or no cost improvements in use of resources. Globally, McKinsey has estimated the annual value of resource efficiency as up to $3.7 trillion. This has led to a significant research initiative to identify potential resources available for recovery from wastewaters. It has long been recognised that the potential energy in domestic wastewater is in excess of the energy required for its full treatment and thus energy recovery was one of the first technologies to be adopted on a wide scale in the UK. The success of this approach has meant that energy neutral wastewater

his international conference intends to make available the latest discoveries and proven technologies from pond systems, with the ultimate aim of achieving sustainable and affordable wastewater treatment systems. Wastewater pond technology has made significant contribution to sewage treatment around the world by providing low-cost and effective treatment technologies. Latest research and experiences in full-scale pond systems have examined treatment alternatives that might provide radical changes to how we currently treat wastewaters, both in industrialised and developing countries. In particular, this conference aims to promote the use of low-cost treatment technologies that provide added value from reducing operation and maintenance costs, while meeting stringent discharge water quality standards; and the recovery and reuse of resources from wastewater streams in the form of bioenergy generation, safe wastewater for reuse for agriculture, nutrient recovery and opportunities for nov

De-watering is an essential first step in valorisation or further treatment of anaerobic digestates – whether in the waste water, waste or farm-fed AD sectors. This one day event aims to present the current state of the art in de-watering, with a particular focus on commercial and near-commercial approaches to managing food-based and crop/slurry-based digestates. Aqua Enviro invite you to attend this event in which we plan to explore the following themes: 1. Current approaches to de-watering food-based and crop/slurry-based digestates, including the economics and impacts on nutrient partitioning; 2. Near market approaches to de-watering food-based and crop/slurry-based digestates; 3. Challenges associated with de-watering of different substrates and the impacts of mesophilic vs thermophilic digestion.

FOGs are often associated with waste food and are rich in potential energy materials with calorific values in the region of 39MJ/kg. Changes in energy generation tariffs especially combined with increasing landfill costs have created a resource market from the waste product with FOG being used in: combustion direct for energy, co digestion with other substrates in Anaerobic Digestion and conversion through to Biodiesel. Source separation and independent collection of FOGs from FSE’s has become widespread with the potential to increase to domestic scale collections although mechanisms and benefits have yet to develop fully. Aqua Enviro invite you to attend our conference “FOG – Means and Opportunities” in which we will explore this fascinating subject both on a technical, social and legislative basis.