New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

Date of latest update: 2024-12-17

Description

Description (EN):

The overall objective of the NEREUS project is to increase the reuse of resources, water and energy from wastewater by boosting the adoption of technologies that recover resources, water and energy from wastewater in urban areas. A demonstration framework and an institutional framework will be developed to increase the adoption and acceptance of resource recovering technologies. A demonstration framework and an institutional framework will be developed to increase the adoption and acceptance of resource recovering technologies. The major change the project will make is to show and to convince cities, regions, waterboards and citizens the benefit of implementing resource recovering solutions to reuse wastewater. The urban context shows residents directly what these technologies can do. This can accelerate the adoption of these resource recovering techniques and can contribute to a 'circular economy'.

Achievements (EN):

Despite unusual working conditions for most of 2020, the NEREUS partners kept up their efforts for the demo cases. Now, all demo cases are operational. Certainly DuCoop has made a huge progress. In May 2020, the residents of the apartments on the New Docks site (Ghent) moved into their new homes. Right after, the greywater treatment plant by NEREUS partner DuCoop became fully operational, purifying greywater from the apartments (wastewater from sinks, showers, baths, washing machines…). A few months later the heat pump was commissioned and the temperature of the treated effluent (20-30°C) was found to be well-suited to be recovered by the heat pump. In October, water utility company Farys started the piloting tests to reuse the treated water as process water by next-door soap factory Christeyns. So far tests have been promising and operations continue into the 1st quarter of 2021. The New Docks demo also received international recognition in the past year: DuCoop reeled in 3 awards. Not in the least the Belgian prize in the Energy Globe Awards, the most renowned environmental prize worldwide. They also won the silver award in the category 'Business Process Award' in The European Business Awards for the Environment, for combining innovation, competitiveness and outstanding environmental performance. These medals are also awarded on a Belgian level (Belgian Business Awards for the Environment), where DuCoop was also honoured with the 2nd prize. In recent months, Dutch partner Evides Industriewater made promising progress in exploring how the resource nitrogen can be extracted from wastewater. One of the tests examines adding a specific type of algae, since they feed on nitrogen and carbon dioxide, and produce the valuable blue pigment phycocyanine. As small-scale tests have provided sufficient insights, the algae cultivation has recently been upscaled to a photobioreactor (20 l) to optimise treatment conditions. Towards the end of 2020, NEREUS knowledge partners HZ University and University of Portsmouth published a research article in the Journal of Environmental Management about the technical, environmental, economic and social key performance indicators (KPI’s) that can be used to quantify the benefits and the risks of resource recovery. Title: Mathematically formulated key performance indicators for design and evaluation of treatment trains for resource recovery from urban wastewater.

Website: https://www.nereus-project.eu/

Delivered Outputs (EN):

The main outputs of the NEREUS project are: - A strategy to provide decision makers involved in the selection process of WWT information about opportunities to implement resource recovering technology; - A decision support tool (DST) providing policy recommendations and specific information on suitable technologies; - A joint feasibility study (based on pilot specific/local feasibility studies) providing detailed and site-specific information with respect to the installation of resource recovering technologies; - 3 test/monitoring reports (resources, water, energy) to measure and optimise the performance of the installed resource recovering technologies; - A report regarding the utilisation and market study of locally produced struvite; - 8 decentralized wastewater plants to recover energy, resources (for instance nutrients), and water in 5 different locations; - 3 trial plants for the removal and recovery of nutrients from decentralised urban wastewater in South-England, for treatment of mixed sludge and for water reuse technology train on a smaller scale. Check the “Outputs” section below to download related material and see “Main Achievements” section for further information about the achieved results.

Thematic information

Water management Urban development

Specific Objective: Increase the adoption of new circular economy solutions in the 2 Seas area

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06g) supporting industrial transition towards a resource- efficient economy, promoting green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management in the public and private sectors

Partners (8)

Lead Partner: VITO NV

Department: VLAKWA

Address: Leiestraat 22, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 386 150.13

ERDF budget: EUR 231 690.07

Evides Industriewater B.V.

Name: Evides Industriewater B.V.

Department: Department/ unit/ division (if prensent) Process & Technology

Address: Schaardijk 150, 3063 NH Rotterdam, Netherlands

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 1 184 651.77

ERDF budget: EUR 473 860.72

Southern Water Services Ltd

Name: Southern Water Services Ltd

Department: Innovation Strategy

Address: Southern House, Yeoman Road, BN13 3NX Worthing, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 796 748.08

ERDF budget: EUR 478 048.85

University of Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation

Name: University of Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation

Department: Department of Mathematics Logistics, Operational Research, and Analytics Group

Address: Lion Terrace, Lion Gate Building, PO1 3HF Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 496 704.27

ERDF budget: EUR 298 022.57

Communauté d’agglomération du Pays De Saint Omer

Name: Communauté d’agglomération du Pays De Saint Omer

Department: Department of Environment / Service de l'environnement

Address: 2 rue Albert Camus, 62968 LONGUENESSE, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 365 155.08

ERDF budget: EUR 146 062.04

HZ University of Applied Sciences

Name: HZ University of Applied Sciences

Department: Delta Academy Applied Research Centre

Address: Edisonweg 4, 4382 NW Vlissingen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 462 390.03

ERDF budget: EUR 277 434.02

Waterlink

Name: Waterlink

Department: development

Address: Mechelsesteenweg 66, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 780 322.21

ERDF budget: EUR 312 128.88

DuCoop CVBA

Name: DuCoop CVBA

Department: general department

Address: Poortakkerstraat 94, 9051 Gent (Sint-Denijs-Westrem), Belgium

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 1 376 777.65

ERDF budget: EUR 688 388.81

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Evides Industriewater B.V.

New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

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Southern Water Services Ltd

New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

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University of Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation

New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

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Communauté d’agglomération du Pays De Saint Omer

New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

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HZ University of Applied Sciences

New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

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Waterlink

New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

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DuCoop CVBA

New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

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VITO NV

New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

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Summary

Project name (EN): New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

Project acronym: NEREUS

Project start date: 2017-10-01

Project end date: 2021-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 5 848 899.22

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 905 635.96

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 0.50%

Co-financing sources:

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Videos / films

Interreg 2Seas_Nereus project Ducoop in Nieuwe Dokken, Ghent (BE)

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2020-06-17

Languages: en

2 Seas project – NEREUS

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en, nl

Reports

Calcium Phosphate Route and Struvite Route

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-12-12

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Recovery & optimization of water

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.nereus-project.eu/tools/

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Recovery & optimization of energy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.nereus-project.eu/tools/

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Recovery & optimization of resources

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.nereus-project.eu/tools/

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2021-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Market potential struvite produced in a decentral wastewater plant in Ghent, Belgium

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.nereus-project.eu/tools/

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2021-10-07

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

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New Energy and REsources from Urban Sanitation

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