Industry Success Stories: Turning Wastewater into Value

10:05-10:15 – Designing A Successful Treatment Scheme – Simone Callioni, Global Lead Project Development, Aquatech

Bio:  Mr. Callioni has been involved in the water treatment industry in Technical, Sales and Business Development roles since 2001. After spending the first years of his career in Italy and Europe, he then covered different sales and Business development positions in the Middle East, India and the United States. He holds a strong technical expertise on wastewater treatment technologies and their applications across several industries (textile, F&B, O&G, mining and power).

10:15-10:30 – “Building water resiliency for industrial sites throughout appropriate level of sustainable water/wastewater re-use”

Presented by Carlo Zaffaroni, Global Wastewater treatment expert – Golder associates

Industry: Oil, Gas, Chemicals

Description: Water can be simultaneously viewed as a critical input and a nuisance for mining operators and companies across the world. Many technology firms and systems providers have claimed that they have developed cost-efficient, energy-appropriate water reuse solutions to help decrease costs and increase uptime and yield for companies, yet many operators remain skeptical of wastewater reuse technology. This talk will explore the various solutions that mining firms have adopted with regards to wastewater reuse, as well as new technologies that have the potential to gain greater market adoption over the next several years.

Bio: Mr. Carlo Zaffaroni is a process engineer with more than 25 years of experience in Environmental engineering activities, including DB projects and support to operations. He is currently the Global Subject Matter Expert and Director for Industrial Water inside Golder Organization, and has always had important technical roles in water sector. Specialized in processes for industrial water-wastewater treatment (including advanced treatment for low discharge limits and/or re-use) and thermal treatment of wastes, Dr. Zaffaroni provides senior technical assistance to industrial clients, from preliminary design to erection and start-up of new plants (water and wastewater treatment plants, water re-use, sludge drying plants, waste incineration plants).

10:30-10:45 – “Water Reuse for a Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility – Challenges, Solutions”

Presented by Roman Lis – Principal Engineer, Industrial Water Practice Leader – Stantec

Industry: Semiconductor

Description: The semiconductor industry, in order to ensure proper product manufacturing and variance acceptance, is heavily dependent on meeting key water quality and quantity parameter inputs. Key manufacturers, located in drought-prone and water scarce regions across the world, have been an early adopter of closed-loop water reuse systems in order to decrease waste and drive down operational cost inputs. This talk will discuss water reuse in terms of both semiconductors and the microelectronics industry, generally, one of the fastest-growing water industry sub-sectors globally.

Bio: Roman Lis is an Engineering and Environmental Professional (Professional Engineering license in Chemical Engineering and a Certified Energy Manager, Association of Energy Engineers) with over 25 years of experience in water & energy management, water/wastewater treatment design, permitting, sustainability, and cost reduction services. Mr. Lis has managed many successful water conservation and reuse projects across a wide spectrum of industries (e.g., Chemical, refinery, food, aerospace, small to medium manufacturing, commercial, and retail etc.). In 2017, he along with his client, Honeywell, was awarded the Environmental Excellence Award from the Industrial Environmental Association (IEA) for a water conservation and reuse project at a California (USA) facility. This year, Mr. Lis been awarded the Environmental Excellence award again together with Northrop Grumman for a Water Reuse project at Northrop Grumman’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Baltimore, Maryland (USA).

10:45-11:00 – “A Case Study of Industrial Water Reuse and ZLD Five Years of Operation and Lessons Learned”

Presented by Ed Greenwood – Senior Process Engineer – Wood Group

Industry: Food

Description: One food processor rose to the challenge of water scarcity with a unique high recovery water reclamation plant. To meet the needs of production the plant was designed with a water recovery rate of 87%. A few years later the RO system was upgraded to over 93% and later to 97%. Since startup operators have dealt with wastewater treatment plant upsets, issues with brine management and several production plant expansions.

This presentation will focus on a major upset in 2017 and its impact on the water reclamation plant’s tertiary ultrafiltration system.

Bio: Mr. Greenwood is a Senior Engineer with 21 years of experience in industrial water and wastewater treatment. He has participated in a wide range of projects, plant assessments, water and wastewater characterization programs, pilot plant studies, preliminary and detailed plant designs for various industrial clients and engineering firms. His specific area of expertise is wastewater reuse systems using various types of membranes systems.

11:00-11:20 – Q & A