bambou-assainissement® filter

BRITER-WATER project: A new promising phytoremediation

technology for food industry wastewater treatment

Frédéric PANFILI (Scientific manager), PHYTOREM (France)

1 Contact : [email protected]

13th European Forum on Eco-innovation

WHO WE ARE? ………………………………………………………………………….3

WHAT ARE WE DOING?...............................................................3

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SOME KEY DATE…………………………………………………………………………4

THE BAMBOU-ASSAINISSEMENT® - HOW DOES IT WORK?...........6

WHY DID WE REALIZE THE BRITER-WATER PROJECT?...................7

THE BRITER-WATER PROJECT.......................................................9

HOW THE ECO-INNOVATION PROGRAM CAN HELP SMEs ?.........13

LESSONS LEARNED / RECOMMENDATIONS.................................19


Created in 2002 by Véronique Arfi and Bernard Benayoun

Commercial team + engineering and design team + R&D team

Located near Marseille (FRANCE)

14 peoples

WHO WE ARE?

WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Design and implement wastewater treatment systems using phytoremediation processes

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13th European Forum on Eco-innovation 4

A phytoremediation based technology

2002 : The Bambou-Assainissement® technology is patented

2005 : The first commercialized Bambou-Assainissement® site

Validation of the technology by the French Water Agency (for winery effluent in 2004, and for olive oil mill wastewater in 2009)

Initially developed for the treatment of :

- Agricultural effluent

(Winery effluent and wastewater of olive oil mill wastewater)

- Domestic wastewater

Adaptation of the Bambou-Assainissement® technology for the food industry effluents Eco-Innovation European project « BRITER-WATER »

2009 :

SOME KEY DATES


In 2012, about 40

Bambou-Assainissement® treatment plants

8,2 ha of bamboo plantations

30 000 Population Equivalents


THE BAMBOU-ASSAINISSEMENT® - HOW DOES IT WORK?

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Effluent spreading

ORGANIC AND MINERAL POLLUTION

MINERALIZED ELEMENTS

ORGANIC AND MINERAL POLLUTION

STORAGE

BAMBOO CULMS =

HIGH-ADDED VALUE BIOMASS

MINERALISATION OF ORGANIC POLLUTION BY

MICROORGANISMS*

* RHIZODEGRADATION process = Microbial biodiversity and activity improve thanks to the root system activity

Rhizodegradation (main phytoremediation

process involved)

bamboo biomass production

Wastewater treatment

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WHY DID WE REALIZE THE BRITER-WATER PROJECT? Initially, Bambou-Assainissement® was designed and

sized for a wastewater treatment on existing soil

Good remediation performances (see Arfi et al. 2009*)

* “Initial efficiency of a bamboo grove-based treatment system

for winery wastewater”. Desalinisation 246 : 69-77.)

BUT FOR POTENTIAL INDUSTRIAL CUSTOMERS Too large treatment areas are necessary (5 to 10 m2/P.E.)

Need to regularly monitored the treated water


WHY DID WE REALIZE THE BRITER-WATER PROJECT?

TO MATCH WITH INDUSTRIAL MARKET, PHYTOREM PLANNED TO BUILD AT REAL SCALE, A SECOND TYPE OF Bambou-Assainissement® SYSTEM :

Rhizome barrier

Impervious liner

Top layer

Drainage layer Treated water Transition

layer

Filtration layer

In this system bamboos are not planted in existing soil but in filtration materials

Smaller treatment surface than

1st BA ® system (1 to 3 m2/P.E.)

All the treated water is collected


OVERVIEW OF THE BRITER-WATER PROJECT

Industrial partner : Délifruits factory (FRANCE) from the REFRESCO group

Company Country Activity Main role in project

PHYTOREM France Wastewater treatment by phytoremediation

Design and pilot plant building + Bamboo biomass recovery study

EUREXCEL UK Project management Project and exploitation management

EAU ET INDUSTRIE

France Consulting in Industrial water treatment

Process optimization and remediation performances monitoring (with REFRESCO)

WHITEBLUE Germany Consulting in Industrial processes

Life Cycle Analysis of the pilot plant

The BRITER-WATER consortium : 4 COMPLEMENTARY EU companies

Overall objective: Validate the remediation performances of a novel bamboo remediation system to access to the market of food industry wastewater treatment

MARKET REPLICATION OF BAMBOO REMEDIATION OF FOOD INDUSTRY EFFLUENT GREY WATER FOR RE-USE

From September 2009 to August 2012



7 WORK PACKAGES :

WP1 Project Management

WP2 Pre-installation Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study

WP3 Build / install prototype

WP4 Monitor

WP5 Post-installation Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study

WP6 Exploitation plan

WP7 Common dissemination plan



Average load 35 m3/day of food-industry grey

water, and up to 100 m3/day

The treatment area of 1500 m2

Functioning since September 2010

The total height of the filter is about 1m, and 6

filtration materials were used for the 4 layers of the

filter

The flow of the effluent applies on the bamboo

filter is vertical

Sept-2011

Sept-2012



Sept-2010 Dec-2010 Sept-2011 Jan-2011 June 2012

Sept-2011 Sept-2012



HOW THE ECO-INNOVATION PROGRAM CAN HELP SMEs ?

Need to have a high CREDIBILITY AND VISIBILITY to be attractive for potential food industrial customers

NEED TO BUILD A REAL SCALE PILOT PLANT FOR A

MAJOR FOOD INDUSTRIAL COMPAGNY

AMBITIOUS PROJECT FOR A SME !

OUR GOAL : market replication of Bamboo filters

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POTENTIAL

SME (PHYTOREM)

Technical & Scientific Expertise/knowhow

Idea

Credibility Visibility

Financial support

POST-PROJECT

CREDIBILITY VISIBILITY

PRE-PROJECT Formation of the

consortium


Financial support


Complementary Expertise/Knowhow +

Design of pilot plant complementary studies +

PROJECT Consortium

& Industrial partner


Financial support

Complementary Expertise/Knowhow


Support of Major Industrial Partner

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Technology validation (at industrial scale)

Communication (Worldwide scale)

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MARKET Deep knowledge of

the product

The product and PHYTOREM start to be

known in EU and other countries

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

INNOVATION COLLABORATION

OPPORTUNITIES

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POST-PROJECT in details...




the product





OPPORTUNITIES

SUCCES Economic Environment Social Human

- Remediation performances - How to improve the treatment efficiency - Treatment limits (optimization of the sizing) - How to improve the reliability of the system - Environmental impact ...

TECHNICAL ASPECTS

BUSINESS ASPECTS

- Build time - Price - Bamboo biomass recovery sectors ...

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the product


OPPORTUNITIES


Thanks to the financial support to present the project :

- BRITER-WATER project website

- Participation to more than 20 French and International events (trade faire, congress, workshop...)

- More than 10 commercial visits on site

- Visit on site of people from French Water administrations

- More than 3 articles in French specialised press

- TV-report (Euronews) ...




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the product


OPPORTUNITIES


2 Bambou-Assainissement® filters sold

in France

2 others under construction

(1 on Reunion island)

1 business partnership in UK

Contacts for technology exportation:

The Bambou-Assainissement® filters

developed in the frame of the project can

by used/adapted for other wastewater

treatment and market contexts

(other type of wastewater, developing

countries...)




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the product


OPPORTUNITIES

SUCCES Economic Environment Social Human The product and

PHYTOREM start to be known in EU and other countries


PHYTOREM was solicited to join

another European project dealing with

the re-use of water for agriculture

WATER4CROPS

(launched in November 2012)

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LESSONS LEARNED / RECOMMENDATIONS


The project must be well defined and prepared with partners

Partners must be complementary and not concurrent (facilitate IP agreement)

Need to have a partner expert in management project

Need to have a major industrial partner

Financial support should be given “in real time” all along the project for the major expenditures (it is difficult for SMEs to advance big amount of money)

For potentially exportable technologies, a WP dedicates to exportation should be planned in the project

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