ULTIMATE: indUstry water-utiLiTy symbIosis for a sMarter wATer society

ULTIMATE is a Horizon2020 funded project that supports the transition from a linear to a Circular Economy model. The project focuses on Water-Smart Industrial Symbiosis (WSIS) and aims to create economic value and increased sustainability by introducing circular symbiotic arrangements between industry and water service providers. In ULTIMATE water and industrial sectors collaborate to deliver innovative resource-efficient, circular solutions, with special emphasis on cross synergies, transferability, and applicability of the WSIS concept.

ULTIMATE systematically addresses technological, digital, socio-economic, governance and business systems interdependencies. To ensure successful transition to a water-smart industrial symbiosis, ULTIMATE develops, optimizes, and demonstrates water-energy-materials reuse approaches in 9 high profile WSIS cases (7 in the EU, 1 in the UK and 1 in Israel). More than 25 novel technologies for water reclamation and reuse (recovery, refining and reuse of wastewater from industries and municipalities), exploitation of energy and heat (extraction of energy, combined water-energy management, water enabled heat transfer, storage and recovery of heat), nutrient and material recovery/reuse (nutrient mining, extraction/reuse of high-added value exploitable compounds) are tested and demonstrated in real scale, within key industrial sectors (agro-food processing, beverage, heavy chemical/petrochemical and biotech industries).

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Project Coordinator

KWR WATER B.V., The Netherlands

Project Partners

Fundacio Eurecat, Spain
KWB Kompententzzentrum Wasser Berlin Gemeinnutzige GMBH, Germany
Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Water Europe, Belgium
The University of Exeter, United Kingdom
National Technical University of Athens - NTUA, Greece
Crandfield University, United Kingdom
FCC Aqualia SA, Spain
SUEZ Smart Solutions, France
Strane Innovation, France
European Science Communication Institute (ESCI) GGMBH, Germany
The Galilee Society - The Arab National Society for Health Research & Services (RA), Israel
Mekorot Water Company Limited, Israel
Greener than Green Technologies AE, Greece
Aquabio Limited, United Kingdom
Aguas Industriales de Terragona, Spain
Consorzio Aretusa, Italy
Agrobics LTD, Israel
West Systems SRL, Italy
Alberta Anonimi Emporiki & Biomixaniki Eteria Ximon, Greece
SUEZ RR IWS Chemicals France, France
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet NTNU, Norway
Kalundborg Renseanlaeg A/S, Denmark
Novozymnes A/S, Denmark
X-FLOW BV, The Netherlands
CPTM, Italy

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