IWS 2015 driving innovation for another yearCOMING TO a close today, the International WaterSummit (IWS) has successfully brought togetherworld leaders, industry experts, and business in-novators in showcasing world-class water andwastewater technologies and promoting watersustainability in arid regions.

Shining a light on innovative and sustainabletechnologies has been at the forefront of thesummit over the last four days, particularly withthe addition of Innovate@IWS this year.

The new initiative, co-organised by Isle Utili-ties, was launched at IWS 2015 to offer cleantechnology developers an opportunity in which topitch their solutions to an expert judging panel aswell as a platform to connect with potential in-vestors and end users.

Christina de Poitiers, senior environmental con-sultant at Isle Utilities, said, “This has created afantastic opportunity both for our utilities to un-derstand how the municipal market works here inthe Middle East, but also to give our emergingtechnologies to opportunity to attend an eventthey would otherwise may not be able to.”

Organised into three categories, with the judg-ing process spread across the first three days ofthe show, winners of the 2015 Innovate@IWS areTrevi Systems (Municipal Water) with its Forward

Osmosis System; BGH (Industrial Water) with itsZLD technology; and Thermowatt (Water for Real-Estate) and its solution for utilising communalwastewater for cooling large buildings.

“It's been competitive and there have beenvery different technologies presented to the panelso it's been challenging for the judging panel tomake a decision,” de Poitiers added.

As part of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week(ADSW), which is expected to attract more than32,000 attendees in total, IWS ran for an extraday this year as did its co-located exhibitions: theWorld Future Energy Summit (WFES) and EcoWASTE.

Leon Awerbuch, director and past president ofthe International Desalination Association (IDA),dean of the IDA Desalination Academy, and presi-dent of Leading Edge Technologies, commented,“IWS is an important event to all of us who are in-volved in the water-energy nexus.”

He added, “Gatherings like IWS provide an op-portunity to show the reality of desalinationpower and businesses − a reality which provesthat desalination is environmentally-friendly, isdesigned to have minimum impact on the envi-ronment and, more importantly, has significantimprovements in energy costs.”

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2 NEWS: Adionics looks to build onbusiness in the GCC

4 FEATURE: The MENA region is takingthe lead in developing renewableenergy-powered desalinationtechnologies

6 NEWS: Researchers have uncovereda way of using pine needles as anenvironmental asset

6 NEWS: ACWA Power awarded12.5mn bpd Omani RO plantexpansion project

7 NEWS: The Abu Dhabi PortsCompany launches new MaqtaGateway project in the emirate

Two of the winners at Innovate@IWS – Pascal Le Melinaire, founderof BGH (middle) and Pál Kiss, managing director of Thermowatt Ltd.(second from right) – with panel members Dr. Piers Clark (secondfrom left) and Dr. Bruce Ferguson (far right), and IWS international

business development director Andrew Walker (far left)

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FRANCE-BASED technology provider Adionics islooking to build a stronger presence in the GCC re-gion through concluding partnership agreementsand establishing local representation this year.

With plans to open a Dubai office in September2015, Adionics’ technology AquaOmnes is alreadypart of a winning tender, awarded to Degrémontlast year to build an energy-efficient pilot desalina-tion plant with Masdar.

Loïc Bernard, managing director of Adionics,said, “It's a key region, first of all because theyneed water and fresh water, and they don't haveenough resources so they need desalinationplants. We have a solution to provide technology torun desalination plants at a cheap price comparedto the current situation.”

Launched in Europe in May 2014, AquaOmnesremoves salt from water by liquid-liquid extraction,promising a desalination process that is more ro-bust, cost-effective and runs at ambient pressure.

According to the company, utilising its technol-ogy means an operator can reduce a plant's costsby close to 30 per cent in terms of capital expen-diture, and approximately 50 per cent in opera-tional expenditure.

Stanislas de Montlebert, Adionics vice-presidentoperations and HR, explained, “We can treat saltedwater up to 200-250g per litre so there is no limit(other than the crystallisation limit). But we are notconstrained by the salinity like other technologiesand there is no scaling barrier so we have a smallfootprint.”

Adionics looks to build business in the GCC followingMasdar's Abu Dhabi-based desalination plant tenderStand no: 4415 - France Pavilion

INNOVATE@IWS 2015 − Day 411:30 Closing Ceremony

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Innovate@IWS Awards, to be presented by:Stuart Moss, Managing Director, Isle UtilitiesProf. Bruce Ferguson, Head, Institute Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,Professor of Practice, Engineering Systems and Management, Masdar Institute

Adionics' technology, AquaOmnes, promises amore cost-effective desalination process

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IWS DAY 4 – PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE09:00 – 09:05 IWS Chairperson’s Opening Introduction

The Nexus of Water and Energy in Food

09:05 – 10:00 Panel Discussion: The State of Food Security in Arab Countries Executive Summary of the AFED Report on Arab Food Security

Round Table Discussion Session

10:00 – 11:00

Table 1: Climate Change and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Table 2: Environmental Economics and Social Sustainability of Farming in Arid Regions

Table 3: Importing Food and Virtual Water versus Local Production

Table 4: Alternative Farming Methods and Shifting Eating Habits

11:00 – 11:15 Round Table Session Feedback and Wrap Up

11:15 – 11:30 Networking Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 Panel Discussion: Integrated Water And Energy Planning: Opportunities And Challenges

12:35 – 12:40 Awards Ceremony Innovate@IWS Winners of the technology innovation prize

12:40 – 13:00 Chairperson’s Closing Session

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch / Guided Tour of the Exhibition and Innovate@IWS Competition

IWS DAY 4 – WORKSHOP PROGRAMME09:00 – 09:05 Workshop 1: Paris Sorbonne University Workshop

A comprehensive Legal Framework for Water Resources Management in Abu Dhabi: Towards Efficiency, Security, Fairness andSustainability

Introduction Speech

14:00 – 15:30 Fresh Water, Stakes and Law in Context• Global Water Management Trends & Recent Water Laws • Economical Stakes• Geographic and Geohydrologic Stakes • International Commercial Law

15:30 – 17:00 “Towards Efficiency, Security, Fairness and Sustainability”• How can we strengthen the legal framework to protect the quality of groundwater and to control the use of groundwater that is

contaminated to protect human health and the environment?• Decentralisation of Water Management • What is the most equitable and sustainable legal articulation to be applied through water access management policies between so

imbalanced sectors as the agricultural, urban and industrial consumption?• What legal options would be available to apply efficient tariffs on the three types of distributed water (desalinated water, recycled water,

groundwater)?

Concluding Speech : The integration of environmental considerations in contracts

Workshop 2: Masdar Institute Workshop Session: How to achieve sustainable marine and coastal environment in the Arabian Gulf

14:00 – 15:00 Threats to Sustainability of the Marine Resources in the Arabian GulfPresentation: Detection and tracking of oil spills and red tides in Arabian GulfPresentation: Analysis of long term changes in hydrodynamic conditions in the GulfPresentation: Remote sensing for red tide monitoring and detection

15:00 – 15:20 Networking Coffee Break

15:20 – 16:20 Ongoing efforts to Monitor the Identified Threats and Assess the State of the Gulf Presentation: UAE Action Plan: Monitoring andRisk Assessment of HABs ImpactPresentation: DOT Waterways division Legislation background; Role, Vision & Mission Presentation: Towards a sustainable marine and costal environment in RAK

16:20 – 16:50 Solutions to achieve Future Sustainability in the Arabian GulfPanel Discussion: How may Application of Integrated Approaches be the Solution to Help Mitigate the Challenges?

16:50 – 17:00 Session Conclusion and Wrap Up

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MENA region pioneers sustainabledesalination solutionsTHE MENA region is taking the lead in developingenergy-efficient and renewable energy-powereddesalination technologies.

Home to 14 of the 20 most water-stressedcountries in the world, the MENA region faces awater crisis. Its growing population, forecast todouble by 2050, along with urbanisation and in-dustrialisation, are putting pressure on scarcewater resources with the result that the watergap is forecast to quintuple by 2050, from 42 sqkm per annum to 200 sq km per annum.

Desalinisation has played, and will continue toplay, a critical role in meeting the region’s press-ing water needs; indeed the region accounts foraround 50 per cent of global installed desalinationcapacity. According to Global Water Intelligence’slatest Desalination Tracker, 97 desalination proj-ects are currently at various stages of develop-ment throughout the MENA region.

However conventional desalination is highlyenergy-intensive as well as costly, and the wasteproducts can be damaging to the environment.Saudi Arabia, for example, is reported to be usingaround 300,000 barrels of crude oil equivalent aday to power its 30-odd desalination plants.

“The status quo is not sustainable. Reducingthe cost of desalination, eliminating its relianceon fossil fuel and mitigating its environmental im-pacts are crucial,” comments the World Bank.

Growing focus on sustainabilityWith the growing focus on environmental sustain-ability in the Middle East, the emphasis is nowshifting from high-energy thermal desalination toless energy intensive reverse osmosis (RO). Theregion is playing a leading role in researching, ex-ploring and piloting new energy efficient tech-nologies from advanced membrane distillation,low temperature distillation and nanofiltration topressure retarded osmosis and forward osmosis(FO), which draws liquid through the membranewithout the use of pumps. Oman is home to theworld’s first commercial FO plant, at Al Najda; ac-cording to its developers, the UK’s Modern Water,this technology can lower energy consumption byup to 30 per cent as well as providing additionalbenefits such as reduced fouling of membranesand increased membrane life, reduced chemicalconsumption and lower levels of pollutants inproduced water.

The region is also exploring the potential fordesalination powered by renewable energy, par-

ticular solar power.“Solar energy – in particular heat from concen-

trated solar power (CSP) for thermal desalinationand electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) andCSP for membrane desalination – is a key solu-tion in arid regions,” says the International Re-newable Energy Association (IRENA).

“As the demand for fresh water grows in theMiddle East, the future of desalination will dependon combining established and emerging tech-nologies,” comments Faisal Wali, operations man-ager at the Water Desalination and Reuse Center,King Abdullah University of Science and Technol-ogy (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, in an article for NatureMiddle East.

“Researchers need to focus on the hybridisa-tion of FO, membrane distillation (MD) and ad-sorption desalination (AD) coupled with, andwithout conventional desalination processes suchas thermal desalination and reverse osmosis.”

This combination will assist the development ofenergy efficient and renewable energy-driven de-salination technologies, he adds.

A number of pilot projects are underway in theregion. Saudi Arabia has developed a 30,000cu/m per day solar PV powered desalination plantwith a view to eventually powering all its desali-nation plants by solar energy. The UAE’s Masdarlaunched a pilot programme in 2013 to test anddevelop advanced energy-efficient seawater-de-

salination systems that can be powered by re-newable energy sources, laying the groundworkfor developing a large-scale commercially viabledesalination plants by 2020 that can be poweredby renewable energy. In mid-2014 it awardedcontracts to four companies – Spain’s Abengoa,France’s Veolia and Degrémont, and US-basedTrevi Systems – to develop small-scale pilotplants in Ghantoot, 90 km west of Abu Dhabi.

Throughout the course of the project, sched-uled to last 18 months, the test plants will provide1,500 cu/m of drinking water a day to AbuDhabi’s water infrastructure. Veolia, for example,will be using proprietory technologies such ashigh-performance sea water pre-treatment com-bining air floatation and filtration and a new os-mosis membranes feed configuration allowinghigh treatment fluxes. Pairing state-of-the-art en-ergy efficient desalination technologies with re-newable energy should allow power recovery ofup to 98 per cent, the company claims.

While issues remain to be resolved in scalingup and commercialising innovative new desalina-tion technologies, it is clear that combining suchtechnologies with the region’s abundant solar re-sources could be the way forward in mitigatingthe region’s water security issues. And as the costof solar technology continue to fall, desalinisationcould become a viable option for the poorer coun-tries of the region too.

The MENA region is exploring solar-powered desalination

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Ireland’s OxyMem nominated forindustry business awards

WASTEWATER TREATMENT company OxyMemhas been named a finalist in the ‘Emerging NewBusinesses’ category at the Small Firms Associ-ation (SFA) National Small Business Awards2015, to be announced in March.Thirty three companies have been short-

listed as finalists across eight categories in theSFA National Small Business Awards, whichaims to celebrate the achievements of smallbusinesses in Ireland and to recognise the vitalcontribution of the small business sector toIrish industry.AJ Noonan, SFA chairman and chairman of

the awards judging panel said, “The people be-hind these companies are dynamic, diligent anddetermined.”OxyMem also won the UK Energy Efficient

Technology of the Year at the 2014 EnergyAwards in London. OxyMem was chosen on thebasis of its innovation, widespread applicabilityand its overall positive impact for energy de-mand and the environment.OxyMem managing director Wayne Byrne

said, “We are delighted to have received recog-

nition for our energy neutral solution and arethrilled to be recognised by our peers.”He added, “This award suggests that we are

truly recognised as an innovative solution for thereduction of energy demand both at home andabroad.”Having won eight awards last year for their

breakthrough technology for wastewater treat-ment between Ireland, the UK and Europe, thecompany was the only Irish finalist in the GlobalEnergy Awards. According to the company, OxyMem’s mem-

brane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) aids in en-ergy-intense wastewater treatment. Reportedly,wastewater treatment in developed nations canresult in energy losses of 75-95 per cent, whichis largely due to the amount of oxygen lost viabubble aeration.OxyMem, however, claims that its technology

is four times more energy efficient than conven-tional aeration methods. This is achievedthrough a bubbleless aeration process, whichuses gas permeable membrane technology. Re-sultantly, it eliminates the needs for bubbles andalso reduces the energy cost by approximately75 per cent.

Fire hazard turnedenvironmental tool

Innovate@IWS: Industrial Water

RESEARCHERS AT the American University ofBeirut (AUB) have turned the forest fire hazard ofdry pine needles into an environmental asset.Led by civil and environmental engineering

professor George Ayoub, the team used dry pineneedles to produce activated carbon, a materialthat is used to purify water, air filters, and severalproduction processes. The team was also the first to test the effec-

tiveness of the pine needle-produced activatedcarbon in removing heavy metals from water. Theresults showed that newly prepared pine needle-activated carbon is effective in adsorbing toxicheavy metals under various operating conditions.Although all organic material can be turned into

activated carbon, coal and wood are the mostcommonly used source materials. While activatedcarbon can remove heavy metal contaminantsfrom industrial wastewater, the decontaminationeffectiveness varies from one material to another.Ayoub said, “The advantages of pine needles

are that they are available worldwide and in largequantities. They are simple to collect, and they’realready dry so they don’t require a lot of breakingdown in order to convert them into activated car-bon. In other words, it’s much cheaper to turn pineneedles, instead of wood, into activated carbon.”The professor added that relying on pine nee-

dles would reduce the use of pinewood, sourcedby cutting down pine trees for the purpose of pro-ducing carbon. The current practice leads to for-est destruction and environmental degradation.“By turning pine needles into activated carbon

we would be turning an ubiquitous, potentiallyharmful material, into an economically advanta-geous product,” he explained.While Lebanese regulations on the treatment of

industrial contaminants are rarely enforced,Ayoub said he believed there was still a largemarket for activated carbon, which makes theconversion of pine needles a viable business.“Activated carbon is used very much in the

water treatment industry,” he said. “It’s the bestadsorbent material that you can think of. It’s alsoused in medicine.”

ACWA Power awarded 12.5mn bpdOmani RO plant expansion projectSAUDI ARABIAN company ACWA Power has beenawarded a water expansion project in the AlBatinah region of northern Oman, which will seethe current reverse osmosis (RO) plant reach aproduction capacity of 12.5mn bpd of seawater,equivalent to 57,000 cu/m per day.Awarded by Oman Power and Water Procure-

ment Company (OPWP) to ACWA Power’s Barkabranch, the phase two expansion project is re-ported to begin operations in October 2015.An ACWA Power representative said in a

statement to the Muscat Securities Mar-ket, “Execution of this water expansionproject phase two will not only resultin value creation for all sharehold-ers, but also support the nationalgrid with the provision of cleanand reliable water.”Once completed, the new

expansion will feed thegrowing demand forwater in the northern

region of Oman, a demand which has an allegedprojected increase of six per cent year-on-yearand is expected to reach 349mn cu/m in 2020.The first phase of the expansion at Barka,

which began commercial operations in May2014 with a capacity of 10mn bdp, is owned byACWA Power and operated under a power andwater purchase agreement (PWPA) with OPWP.

The expansion project will help feed thegrowing water demand in north Oman

(Photo: Tristan Schmurr)

Using pine needles as a carbon source will re-duce the need to harvest trees (Photo: Daria)

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JFE Engineering acquires German power plant firm

JFE ENGINEERING Corporation has completed theacquisition of Germany-based StandardkesselPower Systems Holding (SPSH) GmbH, which pro-vides services for power plants, generating en-ergy from biomass, waste materials, heat, andprimary fuels. Standardkessel GmbH is part of SB Group,

which includes Baumgarte GmbH, responsible forthe design of waste-to-energy plants, and Stan-dardkessel Baumgarte Service Holding GmbH,covering the maintenance of plants. JFE Engineering produces grate firing systems

and gasifying and direct melting furnace systems.As far as biomass power plants are concerned,the company has constructed large-sized plantsemploying circulating fluidised bed boilers in vari-ous regions of Japan.

With increasing demands for waste-to-energyplants and biomass power plants worldwide, JFEEngineering has been promoting its globalisation. A JFE Engineering representative said, “By ac-

quiring the shares of SPSH, we are determined toaccelerate our development of waste-to-energyand biomass power plants all over the world.“In Asia, we already have experience in waste-

to-energy plants using grate firing technology. Weare now ready to focus on making wide-rangeengineering proposals that will meet customers’needs, including large plants such as of 1,000 mtper day, which SB Group specialised in.”In Europe and the Middle East, there has been

growing interest in thermal waste treatment byapplying gasifying and direct melting furnacetechnologies. The company expects it will be wellprepared to undertake the projects on full turn-key basis, from design to construction by unifying

the SB Group into our group.“Furthermore, we will respond to the needs for

biomass power plants with various ranges of out-put by incorporating SB Group’s grate firing tech-nology, as it is attracting attention as a stablesource of renewable energy in Japan and over-seas,” the Japanese firm added.

Stand no: 3242

ADPC launches innovative MaqtaGateway project in Abu Dhabi

MAQTA GATEWAY, the Abu Dhabi Ports Com-pany’s (ADPC) new innovative port communitysystem project is intended to offer ports, ex-porters, importers, shipping lines, customs andgovernment agencies a single point of contactand real time information at all times, enhancingprocessing times and communication proce-dures.Launched under the patronage of HH Sheikh

Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, national security ad-visor and vice-chairman of the Executive Councilof Abu Dhabi, Maqta Gateway was designed inline with international standards and interlinksthe relevant parties involved in Abu Dhabi’sgrowing import and export trade business. The ‘one-stop-shop’ system will ensure

smooth transport and logistics between AbuDhabi ports, airports and railway networks andfeed into wider global supply chain communica-tion platforms, acting as an accelerator for tradein the emirate − a core objective for ADPC and its Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030. ADPC CEO Mohammed Juma Al Shamisi said,

“Maqta Gateway will help facilitate the next gen-eration of trade in Abu Dhabi and will dramati-cally transform the emirate’s way of doingbusiness. It will make import and export activi-ties more efficient, transparent and thus moretime- and cost-effective while guaranteeing op-timum supply chain efficiency.

“As more than 90 per cent of global tradetravels by seas, ADPC’s ports are crucial logis-tics hubs for Abu Dhabi’s trade business andservices.”With the introduction of Maqta Gateway proj-

ect, ADPC is the first organisation in the GCC re-gion to become a member of the InternationalPort Community Systems Association (IPCSA), aglobal body which promotes the highest possiblestandards in international port community sys-tem operators. Alan Long, chairman, IPCSA, added, “We are

delighted to welcome ADPC as our 26th memberand our first member from the GCC and indeedthe whole of the Arab world.” Maqta Gateway takes its name from the Al

Maqta Bridge, which was the first crossing tocommunicate Abu Dhabi island with the main-land. It was a crucial connection for Abu Dhabi’strade and development and the Maqta Gatewaywill be a crucial 'bridge' for future business op-

Wastewater usedto heat and cool

THE IWS exhibitor Thermowatt has constructed awastewater heat recovery system at HungarianMilitary Hospital State Health Centre in Budapest.Thermowatt’s technology recovers heat energy

from wastewater and sewage streams and usesit to heat and cool building complexes. This is thethird Thermowatt system being implemented inBudapest and supposedly the largest of such anapproach being deployed in the world.Istvan Tarlos, Mayor of Budapest, explained

that the investment of more than US$3mn willsave the hospital around US$400,000 in heatingand cooling costs for each year it is in operation.Tarlos said, “Energy is one of the most prob-

lematic industries worldwide. We are running outof energy sources and people need to come upwith new ways of solving this pressing issue.”Csaba Hende, Hungarian Minister of Defence,

added, “In addition to the financial savings itbrings, this system is of great military and safetyimportance, because the hospital is no longercompletely dependent upon external sources forits heating and cooling energy.”He added, “It [the military hospital] has impor-

tant duties to perform which cannot be fulfilled byany other hospital in the country. It is, therefore,of key importance that the Military Hospital is asindependent as possible from incidental circum-stances and vulnerabilities like external energysources.”

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The new gateway is named after Abu Dhabi’s AlMaqta Bridge (Photo: Visit Abu Dhabi)

JFE Engineering is looking to expand globally

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