Smith, Darren

Darren J. Smith, P.E. is a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. Darren has over 25 years of experience in water, wastewater, pumps, centrifuges, rendering, and waste processing. Having traveled the world for various customers and clients, helping and supporting their needs, Darren has gathered a unique set of skills to provide solutions for reducing water (and energy) usage, reusing important resources, and recovering valuable products from waste streams. All in an effort to be more environmentally friendly.

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Description: An Evolution of Water Treatment Technologies in the Food and Beverage Market: 4000...

An Evolution of Water Treatment Technologies in the Food and Beverage Market: 4000 m3 per day water reuse plant and energy recovery from meat wastewater.

Abstract

More and more food and beverage companies decide to use innovative technologies to increase production or optimize their production in a more sustainable way. Getting access to safe, clean and affordable water will have an increased interest for these companies to secure their production as North-America will face serious water shortages in the near future. It’s time to start thinking about how the water life time at the production site can be increased and how also on the water and wastewater side innovative technologies can be applied to reduce the risk and impact of the upcoming water crisis. A good example is the advanced water reuse and biogas generation plant of a leading European meat processor. They started 10 year ago with one slaughter line and gradually expanded with 2 slaughter lines and a rendering facility. The wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) was gradually expanded with WWTP and anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies utilizing to the capacity expansion. Their latest challenges are increasing draught periods stressing the quality and quantity of their boreholes resulting in forced reducing in slaughterhouse capacity. To anticipate on this thread, similar to upcoming water shortages like in North-America, they implemented a Sewage Treatment Effluent Reuse Facility of 4000 m3 per day of certified drinking water quality for process applications, all recovered from their industrial wastewater. In addition, due to the significant energy value of their wastewater, it is turned into approx. 80 MWh/d sustainable energy per day for inhouse use via anaerobic digestion technologies and another “hidden” portion of energy conservation by the water recovery cycle. The plant is an example of treatment and technology evolution.

Nijhuis has developed innovative techniques to help companies increase production or to optimize their production in a more sustainable way. Getting access to clean and affordable water will have an impact for these companies to secure their production as most will face water shortages in the future. It’s time to start thinking about how the water life time at the production site can be increased and how technology can be applied to reduce the risk and impact of the upcoming water crisis. One forward thinking meat processor uses advanced water reuse and biogas generation to reduce environmental impact.

SpeakerSmith, Darren

Presentation time

13:30:00

13:40:00

Session time

13:30:00

15:00:00

SessionReducing Industry's Water Footprint: Alternative Water Sources

Session number106

TopicIndustrial Issues and Treatment Technologies, Stormwater, Green Infrastructure, and Wet Weather, Sustainability and Climate Change, Water Reuse and Reclamation

Author(s)

Darren Smith