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The port of Rotterdam (Netherlands), one of the largest petrochemical clusters in Europe, has become the setting for the second pilot project of Project ZERO BRINEA circular economy initiative, of which SITRA and FACSA are a part, that combines waste heat and wastewater to eliminate saline effluents in the production of demineralized water, an essential element for most industrial processes.
The project, coordinated by TU Delft, has 22 partners from universities, SMEs, process industries, and end users across 10 European countries, united by the goal of integrating innovative brine treatment technologies into the industrial sector. This objective involves the development of four European pilot plants in different industries, which offer enormous potential for replicating and deploying circular economy solutions in the field of industrial brine treatment.
In the specific case of Rotterdam, during the second phase of the pilot project, an innovative design will be used to treat the concentrates of the Inverse osmosis which supplies demineralized water to the complex, using a combination of new and existing technologies to recover sulfate salts, sodium bicarbonate and treated water.
With all this, this project - applicable to the chemical, petrochemical or agri-food industries - presents great advantages related to the valorization of by-products and mineral compounds existing in the highly saline wastewater generated by different industries.
