Working actively on innovation

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Working actively on innovation
Emerging technologies for eco-innovation October
16th 2008 Tom Vereijken/Lionel Platteuw
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• Objective
• To promote the international competitiveness of
  Europes environmental technology industry.

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• Members
• Regular members
• Organisations that represent national
  environmental technology industries in a broad
  sense
• Associated members
• Represent a section or organization in the field,
  do not take part in the decision making processes

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WWW.EUCETSA.COM
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Background

• Environmental Technology Industry is rapidly
  growing
• Contributing to energy efficiency
• Essential to achieve 2020 targets (March 2007
  Council)
• Employs an estimated 2.6 million people
• energy efficiency and renewables
• Prospect of further 1 million jobs

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Approach to innovation

• Speed - accelerate transition from research to
  market, via demonstration
• Teamwork - forge cooperation between multiple
  stakeholders
• Awareness of environmental technology as an
  instrument to improve productivity
• Money - improve access to capital (specially for
  SMEs)
• Focus - on issue to create incentives for
  application

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Goals

• Innovation
• Provide an effective link for European
  environmental technology companies with EU
  research programmes and with the EUs standards
  bodies
• Information
• Provide members with information on EU
  environmental legislation, available funding and
  market opportunities.
• Cooperation
• Cooperate with other international organisations

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Activities

• Research Projects
• Techneau www.techneau.org
• Testnet www.est-testnet.net
• AirTV www.airtv.eu
• WSSTP www.wsstp.org
• ETAP http//ec.europa.eu/environment/etap
• LIFE http//ec.europa.eu/environment/life
• EWP www.ewp.eu

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Main role in EU Projects

• TECHNEAU, TESTNET AIRTV
• EUCETSA representing technology suppliers
• Responsabilities
• Technology Scan (TECHNEAU)
• Stakeholder participation (TESTNET, AIRTV)
• Dissemination of research results (TESTNET, AIRTV)

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What is Innovation?

• The development of new products, solutions
  methods, etc.,
• Overcoming problems, becoming more efficient,
  reducing resource use, improving sustainability,
  improving profitability
• Plus ITS DEMONSTRATION

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The Innovation Cycle A continuous process
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Dutch Case Innovatiebureau Water technology
Goal Coordinated strategic Business Development
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Fast growing company characteristics

• High level of ambitions
• High level of education
• Focus on human resource management
• Ongoing renewal of organisational structure
• More often exporting
• More product innovation
• More process innovation
• Offensive marketing strategy

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Regional and international initiatives

• Various European initiatives to promote RTD and
  enable new technologies to reach the market,
  including
• National / regional
• 1) Innovation Programme Watertechnology,
  Netherlands Water Partnership
• International
• 2) Aquawareness, European Water Partnership
• 3) Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform

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Innovation Programme Water Technology

• Dutch Ministry of Economic affairs
  Innovation-policy 2005
• Focused approach on selected sectors to achieve
  more impact
• Activities made-to-measure, flexible and
  consistent
• Less administration
• Innovationprogramme Watertechnology
• Technogical Top-Institute Water (TTIW)
• Innowator subsidy-programme
• Financial Instruments
• Business development / brokerage

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Innovation Programme Water Technology
Home-market
Development
Research
Market
Financial Instruments
InnoWATOR
TTIW
Export
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Innovation Programme Water Technology

• Speed
• Cooperation
• Market Access
• Focused technology application
• Stakeholder consensus
• Risk and Technology ownership

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Innovation Programme Water Technology
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Anticipated results

• Develop new technologies
• Existing technologies in new applications
• Existing technologies in new markets
• Attract technologies and businesses from outside
  watersector
• Bringing foreign businesses to Dutch market

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Examples of innovation

• Dutch Rainmaker
• Water out of air
• Drinking water out of salt water
• Expertise Innovation-bureau
• Access international market
• Demos
• Launching customers

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Concrete examples of market access (2)

• Blue Energy
• Energy production out of fresh and salt water
• Application in fresh water deltas and industry
• Expertise Innovation-bureau
• Access international market
• Building consortia
• Demos

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National Water Partnerships

• Apart from Netherlands Water Partnership, set up
  in 1997, various National Water Partnerships
  exist in Europe
• Danish Water Forum 02
• Swedish Water House 03
• Czech Water Alliance 05
• German Water Partnership 07
• French Water Partnership 07
• Others are planned to be set up, including Greece
  and Italy
• European Water Partnership in Brussels, 06

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European Water Partnership

• Independent, non-profit organisation helping to
  coordinate initiatives and activities in
  international water issues and undertaking
  worldwide promotion of European expertise related
  to water
• Aquawareness
• European Regional Coordination fifth World Water
  Forum Istanbul

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Energy Water Development

• Water for energy
• Energy and power production
• requires water
• Thermoelectric cooling
• Hydropower
• Minerals extraction and
• mining
• Fuel production
• (fossil, non-fossil and bio-fuels)
• Emission controls

• Energy for water
• Water production, processing, distribution, and
  end-use requires energy
• Pumping
• Transport
• Treatment
• Raw water (GW,SW)
• Desalination

Energy footprints for water development
Water footprints for energy development
From DHI Water Policy, Prof. Torkil Jønch Clausen
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European Water Awareness Programme
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Aquawareness Regional Hubs

• Regional Centres of Excellence

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Industrial fluid recycling solutions Westfalia
Separator Systems GmbH Protecting the
environmentMinimizing wasteReducing costs
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Process Technology
Energy and Farm Technology
Process Engineering
Thermal Engineering
Pharma Systems
Emmission Control
Process Equipment
Air Treatment
Refrigeration
Farm Technologies
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Industrial Fluid Cleaning and Recycling

• A wide variety of fluids is used in the
  production processes of different industries. In
  the course of time, the quality of these fluids
  deteriorates through solid impurities or tramp
  oil or water, to such an extent that it
• has to be replaced or disposed of.
• Westfalia Separator offers solutions for cleaning
  and reycling industrial fluids like e.g.
• coolant emulsion
• diesel oil
• hydraulic oil
• lube oil

• MARPOL oil
• washing lye
• waste emulsion
• waste oil

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Industrial fluid cleaning Benefits at a glance
Environmentally friendly solution
Increased product quality
Economic and profitable
Higher productivity

• Reduced disposal volumes
• Minimized fluid consumption

• Significant increase of fluid life
• Higher machine availability

• Cleaner parts
• Fewer rejects

• Reduced purchasing costs
• Reduced disposal costs for waste liquids

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Westfalia Separator Company Portrait

• Manufacturer of high-performance separators and
  decanters for more than 2,500 applications
• Market leader in centrifugal separation
  technology
• 3 production plants
• 47 sales and service companies worldwide
• 115 years experience
• approx. 3,000 employees

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Centrifugal Separation Technology
Separators and decanters are used for the
separation of following mixtures
Liquid - solid
Liquid - liquid
Liquid - liquid - solid
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Centrifugal Separation Technology

• Decanter centrifuges
• are used for the simultaneous separation of
  liquids or liquid- mixtures and solids.
• are applied when the solids content
• in the suspension to be processed is particularly
  high.
• Decanter types
• 2-phase decanters (liquid-solid)
• 3-phase decanters (liquid-liquid-solid)

• Separators
• are centrifuges which remove solids from a
  liquid or separate two liquid mixtures with
  simultaneous solids removal.
• Separator types
• Manual cleaning centrifuges
• Self-cleaning centrifuges

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Industrial fluid cleaning Example Metalworking
fluids (e.g. coolants)

• Clean fluids are crucial for a high product
  quality in the machining process and a healthy
  and safe working environment.
• Centrifuges efficiently remove particles and
  tramp oil metalworking fluids.
• Result substantial increase in fluid lifetime
  and significant cost savings as well as reduced
  environmental impact due to minimized disposal
  volumes.

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Industrial fluid cleaning Example Metalworking
fluids (e.g. coolants)
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Industrial fluid recycling Example Waste oil
recovery

• Everywhere where oils play a role in
• production processes, more or less large
  quantities of waste oil are produced.
• These residuals pose a considerable disposal
  problem in many branches of industry.
• Consequently, today companies have to meet
  stricter regulations to reduce environmental
  impact.

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Industrial fluid recycling Example Waste oil
recovery
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Westfalia contact Westfalia Separator
Systems GmbH Werner-Habig-Str. 1 59302 Oelde
(Germany) Tel [phone] Fax 49
(0) 2522 77-31593 E-Mail info_at_fluidsmanagement.co
m www.fluidsmanagement.com www.westfalia-separato
r.com
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Conditions for innovation

• Access to informal networks
• Speed shorter development cycle
• Teamwork requires exceptional disposition to
  cooperate and ability to overcome conflicts
• Crossing cultural and linguistic gaps
• Funding depends on confidence and credibility,
  tough for SMEs
• Commercial and productivity focus