NORTH AMERICA waveInsights from Veolia Water Technologies BIOSTYR® IMPROVES HEALTH OF LONG ISLAND SOUND The Power of Reclaimed Water CRAFTING H2O – THE SCIENCE AND ART OF BEER MAKING New Horizons for Sludge EFFECTIVE SLUDGE MANAGEMENT AT REMOTE MINING SITE WATER TECHNOLOGIES Increase the value of water WATER TECHNOLOGIES Through its innovative solutions, Veolia Water Technologies enables industry, local authorities and citizens to optimize their use of resources for more efficient, environmentally-friendly and socially responsible outcomes. We understand the value of water resources, and we preserve them by supplying high quality water, treating and reusing wastewater, producing and/or recovering energy, extracting raw materials and capitalizing on valuable byproducts. www.veoliawatertech.com RESOURCING THE WORLD 3 waveInsights from Veolia Water Technologies Cost-effective water solutions Veolia Water Technologies specializes in water treatment solutions and provides the complete range of services required to design, build, maintain and upgrade water and wastewater treatment facilities for industrial clients and public authorities. We help cities and industries to manage, optimize and recycle water. Our portfolio of technologies features everything from state-of-the-art water and wastewater treatment technologies to evaporation and crystallization, energy- producing sludge treatment, desalination plants, and mobile water services. These innovative technologies maximize energy production and product recovery, allowing our clients to extract raw materials and capitalize on valuable byproducts. What is discarded by some becomes a resource for others. We develop access to these resources through standardized technologies, state-of-the- art customized solutions and water reuse techniques. By optimizing both treatment processes and technologies, we help our clients reduce their water footprint while generating considerable savings in energy and chemical consumption. Veolia is furthermore the only company in the world that can combine all that expertise, process knowledge and our existing digital solutions into one comprehensive digital service package, Aquavista™, which supports and enhances the operation of industrial as well as municipal installations. This magazine highlights a number of articles about our technologies and solutions including some of our references in North America, and I hope you will find it an interesting read. Klaus Andersen CEO, Veolia Water Technologies Americas CONTENTS Smart water 06 Interview with Aude Giard & Jean-François Nogrette Aquavista™ 08 The all-in-one water digital service The importance of intake water 11 Ensuring success at large-scale recirculating aquaculture facilities 14 New horizons for sludge Biostyr® 17 Improves health of the Long Island Sound Fast mobile water services 18 Mobile water treatment anytime, anywhere 19 The power of reclaimed water 22 A “fresh approach” to industrial water utilization 24 Effective sludge management at Brucejack Gold Mine Crafting H2O 26 The science and art of beer making Follow the electron 28 Veolia’s capabilities for lithium, nickel and cobalt producers CONTENTS 5 STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGIES High-rate clarification 31 Actiflo® High-rate clarification with Power Activated Carbon 32 Actiflo® Carb Leading-edge biological treatment 33 AnoxKaldnesTM MBBR Smarter solution for carbon diversion 34 HydrotechTM Primary The next-generation Biological Aerated Filter 35 Biostyr® Duo Anaerobic technologies for industrial effluent treatment 36 BiothaneTM Thermal hydrolysis 37 BioThelysTM Low-temperature drying 38 BioConTM Ammonia removal 39 AnitaTM Mox Struvite removal 40 StruviaTM Co-digestion of biowaste 41 EcrusorTM Evaporation technologies for wastewater treatment 42 Evaled® Water treatment chemicals 43 Hydrex® Produced water reuse 44 ShaleFlowTM Dry polymer make-up system 45 HydraPolTM 6 WAVE I NORTH AMERICA SMART WATER Interview with Jean-François Nogrette, CEO & Aude Giard, Chief Digital Officer Veolia Water Technologies What are the main challenges facing This information must be accurate value and on the performance of their the water world? and reliable; it must be available in daily operations. real time, over a long period of time. Jean-François Nogrette: We often talk These digital tools need to be flexible, about the issue of access to water. How can we get accurate and reliable they need to be available 24/7, and This is of course a very important information? most importantly, they need to be topic that needs to be addressed, available on a highly secured Cloud along with access to sanitation and JFN: This information can be obtained platform. This is how we can provide the importance of water reuse. But by establishing the digital plant. information to our clients and there is another topic that we don’t establish a long-term relationship address as much, and that I feel is For me, the digital plant is a lever to based on trust. very important, and that is the issue boost operational performance and of trust. it is also a way to solidify a long-term Could you give us an example of the pact with the client. This pact of trust benefits of a digital plant? In many parts of the world, we are is based on real-time data paired sharing, exchanging and reusing with water treatment expertise and a Aude Giard: Yes of course, we have water in various ways, through worldwide benchmark. several projects. One example is our many different partners at a much customer BlueKolding who optimized faster pace than ever before. These The world is changing fast. its energy consumption thanks to our exchanges must be based on trust, Technologies need to respond to an digital offer AQUAVISTATM. and trust can only be established increasingly complex environment through information. and help us address the challenges BlueKolding is an environment, of water scarcity and water reuse. energy, and climate company which Information about water quality, And as I mentioned before, they need covers the entire municipality of of course, quality of the water to somehow secure the trust of the Kolding in Denmark. They are inspired coming in, quality and composition client and of the end-user. by the concept of blue economy and of the water going out, but also are constantly working to find new information about chemical Water is either an ingredient of our ways of exploiting the resources in consumption, about the amount of customer’s value creation or a cost wastewater and improving processes sludge generated, of biogas produced of compliance but either way, it to clean it. and energy used. Information about needs to flow as per expectations. hydraulics, about the network, even Implementing a digital plant can help Veolia has been working with about the weather. clients focus on their own business BlueKolding for several years. In RESOURCING THE WORLD 7 2017, they decided to adopt our Technologies. Innovation is in our And we have an “Insight” module, digital service offering, AQUAVISTA™. DNA and we count on this new offer based on more advanced analytics, Doing so gave them access to a sort to improve the operations of our looking at long-term data, liaising of digital autopilot at the service clients’ plants. operational information and financial of energy optimization, while information to deliver business maintaining robust and sustainable But AQUAVISTA™ is not just one offer, decision KPIs and enable operators water treatment. it presents four different modules and managers to simulate the impact which can be adapted to the of an operational decision. They had the flexibility to choose different needs. which features of AQUAVISTA™ they As a digital services solution, wanted to activate on the processes One of these modules, called AQUAVISTA™ is value driven. Our in their plant. They have access to AQUAVISTA™ Portal, is a customer ambition is to deliver high-value real-time cloud-based information portal which provides real-time services to our customers and that optimizes energy use and energy remote monitoring of equipment and address their key business stakes and production through biogas. It also alert management. industrial challenges : optimizes sludge production and • increase their operational efficiency recirculation, and chemical usage. The AQUAVISTA™ Plant, our most and plant uptime; complete offer, is a stack of remote- • improve their water quality, To what extent does AQUAVISTA™ control algorithms that embed 25 anytime and anywhere; help municipalities and industrial years of process knowledge from our • ensure the effluent complies with companies better operate their engineers in Denmark. This product regulation and results in a smaller plants? provides real-time remote controls environmental footprint; on drinking water and wastewater • work on the complex energy AG: AQUAVISTA™ is a complete suite treatment plants (municipal and exchanges between the plant of digital services using internet- industrial). parameters: biogas management of-things, advanced analytics and optimization, SMARTGrid and our water treatment expertise. We We have some other modules in the energy balance, water network developed AQUAVISTA™ on several pipeline, for example, a module called optimization, etc. of our existing technologies, on ‘‘Assist’’ which aims to provide our solutions provided to our customers customers with remote expertise Connecting our customers to during these past few decades, based by giving access to the network of AQUAVISTA™ will make them better on our design