Water treatment plants face ever-evolving influent characteristics and discharge limits, as well as the challenge of removing emerging contaminants (CECs) and substances of very high concern (SVHCs). Across Europe, the EU’s Water Framework Directive has introduced legislation to protect groundwater and surface water, making the right water treatment system essential.
You need to choose a system that provides responsible, effective, and sustainable treatment, but finding the optimum combination of different technologies is complex, and the consequences of improper system selection can be expensive and long-lasting. Here’s how Royal HaskoningDHV’s system selection service can help you make the best technology decision.
Municipal water treatment plants must comply with sustainability regulations and discharge limits while meeting rising demand with limited capacity. However, in addition to basic functionalities like removing organic matter and nutrients, plants face the challenge of soon becoming energy- and climate-neutral and upgrading systems to remove micropollutants.
A new treatment system gives plants the opportunity to operate more sustainably by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (N2O, CO2, CH4), introducing water circularity, and harnessing value-adding resources such as nutrients, bioplastics, and green gases such as compressed biogas and natural gas (CBG and CNG).
If your site is ready to see waste as a revenue generator, we can help you select a system that will deliver high treatment performance and considerably offset the cost of investment while complying with current and future sustainability legislation.
The solutions to these challenges are complex – and unique to each site – as you must combine several disciplines to overcome many challenges, from stringent nutrient removal to climate neutrality and resource recovery.
Water is vital for industrial operations, but businesses must ensure they use it responsibly. A robust and reliable treatment system is essential to preventing costly operational downtime and environmental impacts that can put your licence to operate at risk.
However, safeguarding business continuity isn’t the only consideration for industrial water users. The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive provides a new opportunity for businesses to enhance their brand reputation by highlighting responsible water use in their financial reporting.
If your site needs help finding the right combination of technologies to maintain business operations and also provide greater sustainability, our experts can choose from all the available options to select the best system.
Our system selection service doesn’t just help industrial clients find the best solution. It helps them understand the problems they need to solve and why some systems are better for them than others.
Independent and future-focused advice for system selection
We work closely with R&D departments at universities to develop water treatment products. This market insight, product feedback, and innovative focus give us unique insight into what works well and what doesn’t – while helping us predict which technologies will be needed in the future.
Our mission – enhancing society together – matches the ambitions of water authorities and industrial users worldwide. They’re looking to futureproof their plants with technologies that help them focus on sustainability, circular economy, and climate resilience while ensuring water quality and quantity for local communities and wildlife.
We start by understanding your situation, challenges, and requirements. Then, we propose treatment technology options and help you select the system that’s the best fit. While we develop technologies for biological treatment and sludge digestion, our system recommendations are independent and can be reviewed by a third party, if required.
Our system selection service will start by assessing your existing assets to understand your current performance and any limitations. Then, we’ll gather your future requirements, including expected influent characteristics, potential discharge limits, available footprint, CapEx and OpEx constraints, resources, and sustainability goals like water recovery and reuse.
Our concept screener tool compares over 10,000 technology line-ups, allowing us to suggest different technology line-ups that meet your performance requirements. We’ll ensure solutions are technically feasible and match the expertise of your workforce and local contractors, so you can be confident you’ll achieve effective, sustainable water treatment.
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