{"id":26610,"date":"2015-06-16T03:18:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T01:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=26610"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:45:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:45:28","slug":"follow-up-for-water-treatment-project-using-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/follow-up-for-water-treatment-project-using-algae\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up for water treatment project using algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The process of de-icing aircrafts leaves waste water which contains glycol. Some years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegrounds.nl\/en\/projects\/algae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schiphol experimented with algae<\/a> to break down this type of waste water in an environmentally friendly manner. The pilot project is now to be followed up, in collaboration with Tata Steel and the IMARES research institute.<\/p>\n<p>The original pilot, which was carried out during the winters of 2009 and 2010, already showed that it is possible to purify glycol-containing water using algae. However, we were not able to do it in a cost effective manner yet.<\/p>\n<h3>Profitable business case<\/h3>\n<p>Thanks to some new developments, we may have a profitable business case after all. For a new pilot project, not only Schiphol&#8217;s glycol-containing water will be used, but also the CO<sub>2<\/sub> which is emitted in the steel production process at Tata Steel.<\/p>\n<h3>Fish feed production<\/h3>\n<p>The study is carried out by the IMARES research institute, which is part of Wageningen University and Research Centre. In previous tests, IMARES already demonstrated that algae which are grown using waste water, are very suitable as food for young fish and shellfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of de-icing aircrafts leaves waste water which contains glycol. Some years ago, Schiphol experimented with algae to break down this type of waste water in an environmentally friendly manner. The pilot project is now to be followed up, in collaboration with Tata Steel and the IMARES research institute. The original pilot, which was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[],"supplier":[5992,10114,100],"class_list":["post-26610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2-based","supplier-schiphol-airport","supplier-tata-steel","supplier-universitaet-wageningen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26610"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=26610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}