Internship Wastewater treatment plants of the future brine treatment

Currently nitrificationdenitrification is the most common technique for the removal of nitrogen from municipal wastewater. In the future municipal wastewater plants should become energy and carbon neutral. It is hardly possible to achieve these requirements with the nitrificationdenitrification process in combination with more stringent discharge limits. Therefore different treatment technologies are required. With ionexchange the more stringent discharge limits can easily be reached. However ioexchange produces a concentrated brine which should be treated and partially reused.

Your goal

The goal of this internship project is to develop a process which will separate the ionexchange brine into a valuable nitrogen fertilizer a clean brine suitable for reuse in the process and a small waste stream which can be discharged.

What will you be doing We have listed it for you:

You will investigate the feasibility of new brine treatment concepts:

• Performing lab experiments with new brine concepts.
• Performing pilot experiment with new brine concepts.
• Investigating the feasibility of new brine treatment concepts with theoretical calculations and the results of the experiment.

Internship available from September 2024 onwards.

Who are you

• BSc or MSc Chemical (Bio)Process Civilor Environmental Engineering.
• Flexibility and indepence.
• Curious and analytical.
• Professional command of the English language in words and writing. Command of the Dutch language is desirable but not required.
• Minimum 4 months internship.

Working for us means

• An internship allowance of 350 per month based on fulltime employment.
• Possibility of a contract after your graduation.
• A buddy who will show you around in our organization.
• Reimbursement of travel expenses of 0.23 cents per km up to a maximum of 75 km if you live further than 10 km from our office and do not have an Ovcard.
• Learn from knowledgeable and dedicated people.
• Create impact and contribute to critical water challenges.
• Become part of an inclusive and collaborative culture.
• Contribute to sustainability.

As an intern from the Technology & Innovation department you will take on challenging and important projects along with Process Design Engineers and R&D engineers. You will run a project with your supervisor and a larger team located in Doetinchem and/or other locations (if applicable).

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