Resource Recovery

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The water sector is embracing sustainable practices to effectively manage water and wastewater, aligning with circular economy principles and striving towards net-zero goals while promoting resource recovery. This paradigm shift entails comprehensive, interdisciplinary strategies that prioritise not only technological advancements but also the establishment of metrics and key performance indicators. Considering regulatory frameworks and engaging local stakeholders are pivotal aspects.

These 5-days short course offers insights into the latest advancements in resource recovery from water, municipal, and industrial wastewater. It explores the drivers, challenges, opportunities, success stories, and tools essential for evaluating resource recovery implementation within the water sector.

*Part of WWP MSc Course

At a glance

Dates
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DurationFive days
LocationCranfield campus
Cost£1600 (Includes refreshments and lunch) Concessions available

Course structure

The course will be delivered through a combination of lectures, interactive discussions, and practical case studies.

What you will learn

As an attendee, you will be equipped with the skills needed to evaluate sustainable water and wastewater management practices, emphasizing their alignment with circular economy principles and net zero goals and to develop strategies for implementing resource recovery technologies in water, municipal, and industrial wastewater treatment processes.

You will learn to analyse the key drivers and challenges that influence the adoption of resource recovery practices in the water sector. Additionally, you will gain the skills to assess tools and metrics for identifying resource recovery opportunities, with a focus on evaluating their economic, environmental, and social benefits.

Core content

• Introduction to sustainability and resource recovery
• Monitoring and quantifying emissions
• Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) tools
• Barriers and opportunities for resources recovery (including nexus approaches)
• Risk and values to the water sector
• Societal values, tensions and uncertainties in resource recover
• Introduction to industrial wastewater
• Technologies for industrial wastewater treatment
• Polymer recovery (aerobic granular sludge
• Organics recovery (bioplastics etc)
• Advanced Anaerobic Digestion
• Mainstream anaerobic Wastewater treatment
• Pyrolysis/gasification
• Phosphorus recovery
• Nitrogen recovery
• Gases recovery (biogas upgrading and H2)
• Water reuse
• Public Receptivity of water reuse
• Reverse osmosis for water reuse
• Micropollutant removal
• Grey water recycling

Who should attend

This course is ideal for water professionals involved in water and wastewater management, industrial water treatment, and in environmental sustainability. It is particularly suited for those involved in resource recovery projects, policy development, and circular economy practices, as well as consultants and engineers seeking to enhance their expertise in innovative wastewater treatment technologies.

Accreditation

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This short course is a module that comprises part of one of our postgraduate award programmes. Therefore, delegates are advised that they will be joined on this course by students from our MSc cohort.

Applicants have the option to attend this course as a short course delegate, where a certificate of attendance will be presented. Alternatively, applicants may apply for this course via the short course for credit route.

Registering via the short course for credit route and successfully passing the associated assessment* will gain you Cranfield credits. These could then be used to apply for a transfer towards a PgCert/PgDip or MSc, should you wish to complete one of these courses within 5 years. For further information visit Accredited short courses.

*Please note that this may mean returning to 扣扣传媒, in order to sit an examination.

Speakers

Olaf van der Kolk, CEO, Aquaminerals, The Netherlands
Miguel Mauricio, Associate Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Yuemei Lin, Associate Professor, Delft University, The Netherlands
Stephen Riches, Associate Director – Bioresources, AtkinsRéalis, UK

Concessions

10% Cranfield alumni

Multiple booking discounts:

2 days @ £ 700
3 days @ £1000
5 days @ £1600

*Discount only applies to multiple bookings across WWP Course modules.

Accommodation options and prices

This is a non-residential course. If you would like to book accommodation on campus, please contact Mitchell Hall or Cranfield Management Development Centre directly. Further information regarding our accommodation on campus can be .

Alternatively you may wish to make your own arrangements at a nearby hotel.

Location and travel

扣扣传媒 is situated in Bedfordshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The University is located almost midway between the towns of Bedford and Milton Keynes and is conveniently situated between junctions 13 and 14 of the M1.

London Luton, Stansted and Heathrow airports are 30, 90 and 90 minutes respectively by car, offering superb connections to and from just about anywhere in the world.

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