Agenda

During this session, we will go into detail on the three different focus areas of this years BLUE PLANET Berlin Water Dialogues. At first, Dr. Anne Kleyböcker from the Centre for Competence on Water Berlin will speak about Water smart industrial symbioses: recovering and reusing resources from industrial wastewater in her presentation on outcomes of the ULTIMATE project.

The title of Christian Kabbe’s presentation will be Nutrient recycling – Quality matters! Volume matters! Reliability matters! – for Circular Economy, where he will focus on nutrient recovery from wastewater. In specific, we will learn how EasyMining Germany, a joint Venture from the Gelsenwasser AG and EasyMining Services Sweden AB, is recovering high quality phosphorus from sewage sludge ash.

In the focus area Water-Energy-Nexus we will have a combined presentation by Timo Paul from Vattenfall and Heinrich Gürtler from the Berliner Wasserbetriebe on the Potential of Wastewater Heat as a Carbon Neutral Source - Benefits of Sector Coupling. Together, they will present a pilot project in which a large scale wastewater heat pump will fuel the Berlin district heating system with carbon neutral thermal energy.