A project where a large amount of reclaimed water from a sugar refinery is used for irrigation of arable land. The reclaimed water is stored is a basin and transported via a large network of pipelines to the irrigation systems.
Agro-industrial wastewater for irrigation
Agro-industrial wastewater for irrigation HYDROREUSE Waste water source Hydroreuse uses agro-industrial wastewater (slaughterhouses, wineries, cheese production…) from the area around Alentejo. Distribution System Farming system The reclaimed water is tested on hydroponic system to cultivate tomatoes. Future plans however doesn’t exclude use in arable farming. Waste water treatment description Nutrient removal : Basic calcium precipitation...
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Reusing agro-industrial wastewater for vegetable production
Reusing agro-industrial wastewater for vegetable production DEMOWARE Waste water source Fiordelisi is an agro-food industry located in Apulia (Southern Italy). The company grows, processes, packages, and does the marketing of preserved, ready-to-eat vegetables. There are four steps of the process that generate waste water streams: washing, acidification, packaging and pasteurization. Salt is present mainly in...
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Purified water from the food industry for agriculture
F2AGRI is a project to use the reclaimed water from a food processing company in the neighbouring arable fields to irrigate the vegetables that are to be processed in the same company.
Sub irrigation system supplies wastewater from beer brewery
Sub irrigation system supplies wastewater from beer brewery BoerBierWater - F2Agri Waste water source The treated residual water from beer brewery Bavaria is used as the water source for sub-irrigation. Measurements of the effluent indicated high concentrations of sodium, phosphate and chromium. Distribution System The water is delivered by a controlled level sub irrigation system....
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Recovery of nutrients from slaughtering industry wastewaters for reuse in agriculture
Wastewater from a slaughterhouse is treated to deliver reclaimed water, along with two different biostimulants and a fertilizer.
Reuse of wastewater from olive tree industry for irrigation using ‘dry drainage’
Reuse of wastewater from olive tree industry for irrigation usind 'dry drainage' H2OliveTree Waste water source Waste water source is the water used in the olives cleaning process. This is caustic water with a high salt concentration. Distribution System Each test will use a 5 m³ tank that will be filled from the rafts with...
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Water reuse and aquifer storage for greenhouse irrigation
Water reuse and aquifer storage for greenhouse irrigation SUBSOL Waste water source Rainfall as well as a neighbouring sugar factory (Suiker Unie) producing large volumes of waste water between September and January provided a potential water source. However, this availability of water is out-of-phase with the projected demand of the greenhouse horticulturalists (April-August, depending on...
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