Titel

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WetsusTechnological Top Institute for Water
technology
Martijn Bijmans Europe Coordinator
combining scientific
excellence with commercial relevance
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Water Quality is Crucial
1.1 billion people no safe drinking water
Increasing shortage Irrigation water
2.5 billion people no safe sanitation
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Wetsus Fields of Activity

• Entrepreneurship
• SME companies
• Venture capital
• Demosites
• Education
• MBA Water
• MSc
• Talent program
• Research Excellence
• Universities (EU)
• PhD students

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Technological Top Institute Model
Developments at Universities
Industrial Need for Knowledge
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Wetsus Top research by unique bundling of
know-how disciplines

• 75 PhD students
• 20 academic research groups
• 65 companies
• 20 themes

Wetsus is a facilitating intermediary for
trend-setting know-how development in the field
of sustainable water treatment technology
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Multidisciplinary team
Membrane technologist
Biotechnologist
Chemical engineer
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Research Program

• General directions for research
• Production of safe and healthy drinking water
• Safe and cost effective disposal of waste water
• Reuse and production of components and energy
  from water
• New sources for water from air, sea water and
  waste water
• Detection of pathogens and micropollutants

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Education

• Technology needs Talent
• Talent needs Technology

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Wetsus academyMaster Track Water Technology

• Multidisciplinary program biotechnology,
  chemical engineering and process technology
• Started in September 2008
• International, dynamic and high tech environment

www.wetsusacademy.nl
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Participating companies
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Incubator business centre
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Example Blue Energy

• Electricity production, gradient in salinity
• 2 MW per m3/s river water flows to sea
• Global potential
• 2.6 TW (20 of total energy consumption)

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
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Roadmap
gt 2010 Full-scale applications
2005 2009 PhD projects Wetsus
2007 2010 Pilot Harlingen
kW
MW
mW - W
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Innovation Blue Energy
Wetsus Research project
Business Success
Patent applications
Demo projects

Spin off companies New business

Larger companies join
Venture capital Talent
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Water for a changing world

• Top Research combine commercial relevance with
  scientific excellence
• Demand driven and Multidisciplinary
• Facilitate development of new technology
• Education for technology workers

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Thank you for your attentionwww.wetsus.nlMarti
jn.Bijmans_at_wetsus.nl
combining scientific
excellence with commercial relevance