Water smart industrial symbiosis
ULTIMATE aims to create economic value and increase sustainability by valorising resources within the water cycle.
Wastewater plays a key role both as a reusable resource but also as a carrier for energy and materials to be extracted, treated, stored and reused within a dynamic socio-economic and business oriented industrial ecosystem.
Ultimate Water Talks
Ultimate Water Talks
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News
The answer to water scarcity – Extract it, recycle, and reuse it!
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Materials recovered from leftover fruit juice could make saving water pay
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Soluciones de economía circular exponen modelo de negocio para el uso sostenible del agua
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Circular economy solutions showcase the business model for sustainable water use
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Turning Wastewater into a Resource
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9 demosites
ULTIMATE will implement Water Smart Industrial Symbiosis in nine large-scale business cases from the international agro-food, petrochemical and biotech sector.
- 1- Tarragona (ES)
- 2- Nieuw Prinsenland (NL)
- 3- Rosignano (IT)
- 4- Nafplio (EL)
- 5- Lleida (ES), Ostrava (CZ)
- 6- Karmiel, Shafdan (IL)
- 7- Tain (UK)
- 8- Saint-Maurice l'Exil (FR)
- 9- Kalundborg (DK)
Circular solutions
The circular solutions adapted in the project cover the three areas: water recycling and reuse, extracting and exploitation of energy, and material recovery.
Reuse wastewater
Recover, refine & reuse wastewater from industries & municipalities
Exploit energy
Extract & exploit energy – combined water-energy management, treatment process as energy producers, water-enabled heat transfer, storage & recovery
Recover Materials
Nutrient mining & reuse, extraction & reuse of high-added-value exploitable compounds
ULTIMATE's STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
LIVING LABS
Open Innovation
Learning in practice
Building a support system in practice. Scale impact, create sustainable strategies and actionable goals through innovation, capacity development, and market outreach
COMMUNITY of PRACTICE (CoP)
Integration and Peer Knowledge
Learning with peers and experts
Involving domain-specific stakeholders and experts with various hands-on experiences
CO-CREATION
Play & Community Engagement
Learning by doing and reflection
Involving local communities and general public to co-innovate by allowing them to
reflect on the processes and finding new solutions to challenges
PLAYBOOK
Multi-use Playspaces
Learning beyond
Formulating human-centered approaches, methodologies, tools, and interventions to guide and motivate people to do things, disseminate, use and re-use information in a new way
Immersive Narrative / Art and Technology Interventions in 3 Case Studies