Tag: Recovery

The demise of Grundfos BioBooster has lessons for early-stage acquisitions

Danish pump giant Grundfos announced in April that it would be closing its BioBooster division, affecting some 27 staff, and that it would cease its activities over the coming months. BioBooster MBR is a patented technology that combines biological treatment with a rotating ceramic membrane bioreactor (0.2 μm). The BioBooster was first tested at Herlev…

Resource recovery potential unveiled in Venice

By Paul O’Callaghan, CEO, BlueTech Research Last week I attended the IWA Resource Recovery Conference in Venice. For two-and-a-half days, there were presentations on every imaginable aspect of wastewater resource recovery: magnetic extraction of phosphorus as vivianite, Kaumera alginate production factories in the Netherlands, manufacturing protein from biogas in Belgium, recovery of nitrogen from source-separated…

Intensification of Resource Recovery Forum: August 9-11, 2015

The Intensification of Resource Recovery Forum will be held by the Water Environment Federation and organized in partnership with the Water Environment Research Foundation and the LIFT program, in cooperation with BlueTech Research and with support from the National Science Foundation. The forum takes an innovation approach to information sharing and visioning in the water…