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Talk Title: Moving towards sustainable wastewater treatment
Synopsis
Energy cost inflation and the need to meet carbon emission standards is focusing the water industries efforts on both minimising energy consumption and increasing the energy generation potential of wastewater treatment plants. Innovative technologies for both these opportunities are currently available, moving away from traditional practices to a bio-refinery treatment concept. The challenge of assessing the sustainability of these technologies has lead to the development of OCEAN a modular platform for calculating plant wide energy use and GHG emissions.
Biography of Kieran Healey
Currently Kieran Healey is the Synergies and Integration Manager for Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies in the UK, with 30 years experience in the Water Industry. Previously having worked for 10 years with Mass Transfer International in Cumbria as Technical Director and 7 years with Umgeni Water in South Africa as Regional Process Scientist. Main areas of specialist involvement have been process design of wastewater treatment facilities, both municipal and industrial, based on fixed growth reactor, dual biological, submerged reactor, MBBR and IFAS technology. Recent work has focused on the environmental footprint of VWS process solutions.
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