New Year Meeting 2015 North Region

When:

16 January 2015

15:45 Hour - 19:00 Hour

Event organizer:North-east region

Description

This year, KIVI Region North is once again combining its New Year's reception with a substantively very interesting visit. This time to the Water Application Centre (WAC) in Leeuwarden.
The WAC facilitates industry and education in infrastructure and inventory for the execution of research. Besides infrastructure, the WAC provides technical support for building and maintaining test facilities, analysis support, purchasing, service and safety.
The WAC can accommodate companies, organisations and institutions that do not have their own facilities for conducting (large-scale) research.
The WAC is located on the Water Campus in Leeuwarden and physically gives substance to the innovation chain. The Water Campus acts as an important link in strengthening the innovation power and valorisation capacity of the Top Sector Water. By being part of the innovation chain, the WAC has good contacts with the other parties on the Water Campus. The WAC makes a physical contribution to the European Water Technology Hub.
In addition to making optimal use of this network, access to qualified talent is created. Students among others at the Life Sciences & Technology department of VHL University of Applied Sciences and NHL University of Applied Sciences will take practical classes in the WAC in a real life setting, carry out experiments and conduct research together on the latest technologies.
An example of such follow-up research and of a newly started project:
Tuinbouwontwikkelingsmaatschappij Brabant (TOM) wants to realise an installation for the removal of crop protection agents from discharge water for the greenhouse area, Nieuw Prinsenland. To this end, Bruine de Bruin B.V. and Van Remmen UV Techniek B.V. have been asked to build a demonstration plant based on advanced oxidation. In parallel with the construction of this plant, CEW carried out laboratory tests with the Collimated Beam setup to determine the optimal settings (required UV and H2O2 dose) for this technology. In phase two, these trials will be scaled up to a capacity of about 50 l/h to obtain representative results for practical use. Besides the standard research water with a mix of 12 crop protection agents, which is also used by WUR Glasshouse horticulture, practical water will also be tested.
CEW is carrying out this project. It is doing so on behalf of TOM, Bruine de Bruin B.V. and Van Remmen UV Techniek B.V. The project aims to optimise the application of UV/H2O2 for the removal of crop protection agents from greenhouse horticulture effluent.
The tests are being carried out in the Water Application Centre (WAC) at the Water Campus Leeuwarden. The results will be translated to the demo plant that will be started up at the Nieuw Prinsenland greenhouse location in early 2015.

15:45 - 16:00 Reception at the Water Application Centre (WAC).
16:00 - 17:00 Tour of the WAC, with introduction to "the project market". Here, some project leaders will tell about their (research) project.
17:00 - 17:30 Transfer from the WAC to the Joh. de Doper Church (Science Centre for water Technology).

For reception attendees only:
Bring warm clothes in winter conditions! The church can be cold then.

17:30 - 19:00 New Year Reception of KIVI Region North in the Joh. de Doperkerk (around the altar in the general reception area).
19:00 Closing New Year Meeting 2015.