Biofuels

The fast growing Biofuels industry has to be reactive, flexible and adaptable in the sector's changing and innovative environment. In this competitive, emerging market, biofuel production sites require solutions that ensure responsible environmental performance, regulatory compliance and energy optimisation.

Producers, engineers and consulting companies must be able to respond to these challenges, which include first and second generation Bioethanol, Biodiesel and Biomass-To-Liquid (BTL) plants, greenfield sites and plant extensions. Combining industrial performance and sustainable development while remaining competitive means that the biofuels industry must:

• Find solutions that can be easily duplicated
• Make capital expenses more efficient
• Ensure the safety of industrial processes
• Reduce operational costs
• Implement solutions providing significant savings, such as optimising the energy consumption of installations
• Comply with environmental constraints

At the industrial water cycle level, this means:

• Securing process and utility water (boilers, cooling towers)
• Residue treatment for recovery and recycling (fertilizer, animal feed)
• Environmental compliance of discharged effluents, which meet increasingly stricter regulations
• Implementing partial or total water recycling solutions
• Biogas recovery

Veolia Water offers a combination of best technology and equipment to propose solutions ranging from designing and installing inclusive solutions, to making efficient use of and operating existing water treatment facilities.

Our extensive experience allows us to adapt our expertise to every project and our solutions offer a range of economical, energy, process and environmental benefits, such as:

• Low energy consumption solutions and technology
• Reduced water consumption and costs
• Maximised performance and profitability
• Increase equipment life-span and reliability
• Relevant and reliable technologies for long-term investment
• Recovery of biogas energy
• Ensuring a continuous water supply
• Providing a constant water quality
• Priority on health and safety
• Regulatory compliance
• Effluent recycling for process water needs and reduced environmental discharge

The issues of water scarcity and availability of resources can both put production processes at risk and push industrial sites to find alternative resources to avoid threats to production. By implementing water reuse and recycling, we can help the biofuels producers to:

• Reduce costs
• Ensure continuous production
• Limit effluent discharge
• Contribute to environmental responsibility and sustainable development
• Ensure full regulatory compliance and anticipate future constraints

Contact us on industrialservices@veoliawater.co.uk

Please read our dedication Biofuels brochure.