Mobile water treatment pilot plants
This testing infrastructure provides us with five different water treatment technologies in modular containers. This allows companies and governments to temporarily test and demonstrate water treatment systems on a real scale. These mobile containers are installed and connected on site. The containers can be connected individually or in series.
5 different water treatment technologies in modular containers
VITO is committed to making our water system smarter, more robust and sustainable. Therefore, we invest in the development of water expertise and test infrastructure to help companies, governments and organisations to temporarily test and demonstrate water treatment systems on a real scale.
That way, we can conduct in-depth research into circular water use in Flanders. After all, water treatment is quite complex and tests in laboratories are not always a good reflection of the real situation in which companies have to work.
With this test infrastructure, VITO now has five different water purification technologies available in modular containers. These mobile containers are installed and connected on site. The containers can be connected individually or in series.
The technologies that can be deployed through the water treatment containers are:
- Multifiltration (MMF)
- Activated carbon filtration (AKF)
- Ultrafiltration (UF)
- Reverse osmosis (RO)
- Direct nanofiltration (dNF)
Project info Vlaanderen Waterproof
Together with local partners, the Vlaanderen Waterproof/Flanders Waterproof project aims to get more out of our precious water. Here, in the fruit region par excellence, we are cherry-picking effective water and soil management.
Fruit growers yearn for additional water sources during droughts. At the same time, sewerage operator Aquafin discharges more than 800 million m³ of treated domestic wastewater per year. Why not give that water a second life?
After initial treatment, too many micropollutants and bacteria often remain for immediate use in fruit cultivation. That is why an extra purification step is needed. Which additional purification techniques can you use? How can you combine them? That is exactly what Flanders WaterProof is investigating in this test set-up at Aquafin Hasselt.
This way, we can offer a safe, qualitative and sustainable water source to the Haspengouw fruit cultivation!
More information?
If you would like more information about this project or the possibilities of these state-of-the-art pilot containers, please contact Karen Vanderstraeten.
