SEwAgE SLudgE TREATmENT

INTERNATIONAL VDI CONFERENCe 2013
Sewage Sludge Treatment
Renown speakers will present their results on the following topics:
•• Current developments in sewage sludge treatment across Europe
•• European framework, sewage sludge potentials and agricultural usage
•• Overview on conditioning, dewatering and drying technologies
•• Efficient energy recovery from sewage sludge
•• Phosphorus recovery from waste water, sludge and ashes
OFFICIAL PARTNERS
Date and venue:
June 18–19, 2013
Strasbourg, France
Chairman:
Prof. Reiner Numrich, University of
Paderborn, Germany
An event organized by VDI Wissensforum GmbH
www.vdi.de/sewagesludge
Monday, June 17, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Visit the SDEA Sewage Sludge
Drying Plant and Waste
Water Treatment Plant in
Gunstett and Brumath
Departure: 14:00
A bus will pick you up from the hotel.
Please register beforehand.
The visit is free of charge for participants
of the conference.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
1st day
10:00 Registration & welcome coffee
10:30 Chairman‘s welcome and opening address
European Framework, Sewage Sludge Potentials &
Agricultural Usage
10:45 The Water Information System for Europe (WISE) –
Knowledge base on urban water treatment
• General information on the WISE
• Specific information on urban waste water treatment plants across
Europe
• Overview of emissions of nutrients, examples of emission of priority
pollutants
• Data on energy consumption for waste water treatment
• Potentials for improving the WISE
Bo N. Jacobsen, Ph.D., Project Manager Water, European Environment
Agency (EEA), Copenhagen, Denmark
11:15 The EU’s legal framework for sewage sludge
• EU environmental waste policy including proposed Environment Action
Programme 7
• Current EU waste framework legislation, notably directive 86/278/EEC
• Need for revision of the current rules?
• Use of risk assessments
• The impact of sewage sludge on climate change
Dr. Wybe Th. Douma, Senior Legal Researcher, University of Amsterdam,
T.M.C. Asser Institute for International and European Law, The Hague,
The Netherlands
11:45 Sewage sludge production, treatment, recycling and
disposal in the EU
• Status quo and prognosis of production rates by countries and people
• Changing treatment, recycling and disposal routes, and potential
for use
• Competition with other biowastes and sludge qualities
Roderick Palfrey, Senior Microbiologist and Safety Officer, WRc Plc,
Swindon, United Kingdom
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12:15 Agricultural use of sewage sludge in EU member states
(EUMs)
• Sludge production in the EUMs
• Strategy for sludge recovery in the EU
• Technical guidelines for the use of sludge in agriculture
• Risks and benefits of the use of sludge in agriculture
Hubert Brunet, Chairman of the European Federation for Agriculture
Recycling (EFAR), Paris, France
12:45 Lunch
Technology Overview: Conditioning, Dewatering
and Drying
14:00 Dewatering Technologies
• Operational costs
• Occupational health and safety issues
• Effective sludge handling
• Composting after dewatering
Mads Leth, M.Sc., Head of Department, Senior Project Manager, co-author:
Per Henrik Nielsen, VCS Denmark, Odense, Denmark
14:30 FlocFormer application – Optimization of municipal sludge
dewatering
• FLocFormer application design
• Two stage process with flocculation reactor on European waste water
treatment plants
• Decrease of sludge water content and polymer consumption
• Decrease of phosphates, nitrates and dry matter with FlocFormer
dewatering
Ulrich Kittmann, Key Account Manager, co-author: Dr. Christian Schröder,
SC Consult GmbH, Kiebitzreihe, Germany
15:30 Networking & coffee break
16:00 Thermal drying
• Different drying technologies
• Plant concepts and design features
• Operational Experience
Erwin Reinharter, MSc., Senior Manager Global Sales, co-authors: Klaus
Trattner, MSc., ANDRITZ AG, Graz, Austria
16:30 Thermal treatment of sewage sludges – System integration
and energy optimization
• Efficient drying and heat recovery
• Drying and power generation integration
• Effective drying and incineration integration
• Future concepts of sludge treatment
Ulf Bojner, MBA, Managing Director, Torkapparater AB, Stockholm, Sweden
17:00 New trends in solar sludge drying
• Floor heating and heat pump use for more evaporation
• Advantages and limits of the process
• Plant options for the sludge handling
Dr. Albert Heindl, Team Leader Drying, Huber SE, Berching, Germany
17:30 End of conference day one
Evening Reception
At the end of the first conference day we kindly invite you to our evening
reception/get together. Enhance your personal network and use the relaxed
and informal atmosphere for deepening talks with other participations and
speakers.
15:00 Sewage sludge disintegration of anaerobic digesters with a
focus on ultrasonic disintegration experience
• Plant design concept
• Anaerobic digestion and disintegration
• Plant energy balance
Valéry Geaugey, Ph.D., Stereau, Maurepas, France
Second Day
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
2nd day
Efficient Energy Recovery from Sewage Sludge
09:00 Higher biogas production, lower running costs and higher
phosphate recovery by thermofilic sludge digestion
• Increase of biogas production by thermophilic sludge digestion
• Plant design and more economic equipment for mixing and heating
• Economic data and feasibility
• Technological aspects of thermophilic digestion and effects on nitrogen
and phosphorus release
• Better efficiency on phosphorus removal by Struvite Anphos® process
Joop Colsen, BSc., General Manager and Head of the Technological
Department, Colsen International BV, Hulst, The Netherlands
09:30 Sewage sludge is not waste but a resource !
• Legal aspects on a waste water treatment plant with regards to sewage
sludge in Switzerland
• Optimization in efficiencies for processing of sewage sludge at arabern
treatment plant
• Increasing the biogas production through utilization of biomass
• Future challenges with regards to sewage sludge
Beat Ammann, Dipl. Bau-Ing., MBA USD, Director, ara region bern ag,
Herrenschwanden, Switzerland
10:00 Concept, realization and operation of the world’s most
efficient sewage sludge incineration plant – From two viewpoints
Operator’s viewpoint
• Background information on building the new incineration plant
• Experience from planning of the treatment process and disposal of
sewage sludge
• Best Practice Examples: From building the plant until its operation
Builder’s viewpoint
• Replacement of multiple hearth furnaces by modern fluidised bed
technology
• Description of various plant components
»» Fluidised bed incinerator
»» Heat recovery with thermal oil boiler
»» Multi-stage “effluent free” flue gas treatment
»» Heat and mass flows of the sludge incineration plant
Alice Saabye, Project Director, co-author: Jesper Stuhr Jensen,
Lynettefaelleskabet I/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dipl.-Ing. Björn Weigelt, Process Engineer, BAMAG Environment GmbH,
Butzbach, Germany
10:50 Networking & coffee break
11:20 Major steps in energy- and resource efficient recovery of
sewage sludge by the cement industry
• New developments in reducing primary fuel for sludge drying
• P2O5 recovery before mechanical dewatering
• Global applications of sewage sludge recovery by cement kilns
• Cooperation in the value chain - Key to success
• Thermal and mineral recovery leading to best ratio in CO2-reduction
Dipl.-Ing. Henrik Wesseling, Senior Fuel Mix Optimization Manager,
HeidelbergCement, Heidelberg, Germany
11:50 Pyrobustor: Possibilities and limits of the pyrolysis of
sewage sludge
• Application range of the Pyrobustor compared to fluidized bed
incineration
• Operational experience Pyrobustor plant in Southern Tyrol
• Advantages and disadvantages of the Pyrobustor technology
Dr.-Ing. Uwe Neumann, Head of Department Thermal Waste Treatment,
co-authors: Réka Tittesz, Carolina Acuña Caro, Eisenmann Anlagenbau GmbH
& Co. KG, Holzgerlingen, Germany
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Phosphorus recovery from sewage water,
sludge and ashes
12:20 Outlook on resource recovery from sewage
• Current schemes and technologies for resource recovery
• Current and future drivers to increase resource recovery
• New innovations and aspects of sustainability
Mona Arnold, Tech Lic. MBA, Principal Scientist, co-authors: Johannes
Jermakka, Pentti Pirkonen, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland
About us
The Association of German Engineers (VDI) is one of the
largest technical-scientific associations in Europe. Throughout
the years, the VDI has successfully expanded its activities
nationally and internationally to foster and impart knowledge
about technology-related issues. As a financially independent,
politically unaffiliated and non-profit organization the VDI is
recognized as the key representative of engineers both within
the profession and in public.
12:50 Lunch
Our Media partners
14:00 P-Rex sustainable sewage sludge management
fostering phosphorus recovery and energy efficiency
• Current phosphorus recovery in the EU
• Goal and approach of P-Rex
• A European market for recovered phosphorus-requirements and
opportunities
Dr. Anders Nättorp, Research Associate, University of Applied Sciences
and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland, co-authors:
Dr. Christian Kabbe, Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin, Germany;
Ludwig Hermann, Outotec GmbH, Oberursel, Germany
14:30 Sewage sludge ash – A valuable secondary resource?
• Mono-incineration of sewage sludge in Europe
• Valuable materials in sewage sludge ashes – Recovery potentials
• Phosphorus – An essential element for all life forms
• Phosphorus recovery from waste water – A strategy for Western
Europe towards independence from the world market
Dr.-Ing. Christian Adam, Head of Division, co-authors: Dr. Oliver
Krüger, Dr. Jan Steemann, BAM - Federal Institute for Materials Research
and Testing, Berlin, Germany
15:00 Chairman’s closing remarks
15:15 End of conference
Thursday, March 20, 2013
2nd day
Do not miss out on our other international conferences
Energy and Materials from Waste
Renown speakers will present their results on the following topics:
•Current developments in waste management across Europe
•European recycling and resource efficiency
•Market development in key-countries
•Recycling of residues from Waste-to-Energy operations
•Efficiency in energy recovery in Waste-to-Energy plants
•Effective plant optimization and best practices
Conference chairmen are Jan Manders (CEWEP) and Dr.-Ing. Ragnar Warnecke (GKS Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Schweinfurt GmbH).
Expect speakers from the following companies, institutes and organizations:
EEA • ISWA • CEWEP • Statkraft Vame AS • CNIM • SITA Northern Europe Waste Services • Keppel
Seghers • MVV Umwelt GmbH • Götaverken Miljö AB • E.ON Energy from Waste UK Ltd • Martin GmbH
für Umwelt- und Energietechnik • Fisia Babcock Environment • Babcock & Wilcox Vølund • Inashco
Technology • LAB SA • Politecnico di Milano • Technical University of Denmark ...
Date and venue:
May 14–15, 2013
Frankfurt, Germany
An event organized by VDI Wissensforum GmbH
Find more information here: www.vdi.de/wastetoenergy
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