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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Softening 2.0 at Waternet; Leiduin production location

To identify the best option for a new water softening system in Leiduin, five different scenarios were compared in terms of Total Costs of Ownership and life cycle…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Zero liquid discharge for greenhouse horticulture (phase 2)

The objective of this project is the development of a concept to achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in greenhouse horticulture. In light of the fact that discharge standards…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Zero liquid discharge for greenhouse horticulture (phase 1)

The objective of this TKI project is the development of a concept to achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in greenhouse horticulture. In light of the fact that discharge…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation

The objective of this project is to determine the feasibility of EFC for the treatment of regenerant from ion exchange – as applied in DOC removal/decolouration and softening (especially drinking water and water-related industrial applications) – through…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
High-value reuse of lime pellets from drinking water production

About half of the drinking water in the Netherlands is softened in pellet reactors. This technology generates a residual in the form of lime pellets, which consist of…

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Experts

Wolter Siegers
Scientific researcher
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Wolter Siegers

Scientific researcher

Wolter Siegers is a Generic-B researcher and has worked at KWR for more than 30 years. He worked on research in water treatment for drinking water, wastewater and industry water.…

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News

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Industrial and drinking water softening techniques compared

17 October 2017 — On Wednesday afternoon, 27 September, the Industry Water Network Group visited Brabant Water’s production site at Veghel. Following…

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Langenau drinking water production more sustainable thanks to pellet softening

03 October 2017 — Langenau has switched from a precipitation process (cold lime softening) to a crystallisation process (pellet softening) at its…

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