Water & Wastewater Treatment

15 Most Innovative New Technology of the Year Winner NVP Energy For its Low Temperature AD technology, a secondary stage treatment process that treats low strength wastewater and recovers biogas. The technology operates in the psychrophilic temperature range due to its innovative bioreactor design and has worked as low as 4̊ C. ✰Finalist: ALS Environmental's Matrix Assisted Laser Disorption and Ionisation by Time of Flight technique to remove risks associated with presumptive bacteriological con rmation. ✰Finalist: Northumbrian Water Group for the combined Reservoir Control and Bypass Valve, creating a single control valve that serves both purposes. ✰Finalist: Propelair's toilet system comprises step-change technology that can reduce both water and carbon footprint. ✰Finalist: Southern Water for its use of mobile biological treatment tanks, which treat 'over-pumped' wastewater to a much higher quality. ✰Finalist: Wessex Water, Dynamic Flow Technologies and Elster Water Metering for their wastewater metering technology, which can measure ows as low as 0.02l/s. Engineer of the Year What the judges said: NVP Energy's technology is game- changing. The technology is sustainable and recovers valuable biogas as well. It has the potential to make a signi cant difference. Winner Dr Paul Linford, chief technical of cer and founder of Syrinix His persistence, foresight, and faith that solutions can be found as technology develops and evolves has ensured Syrinix's solutions allow utilities to manage their networks actively and effectively for increased resilience, greater leak avoidance and lower operating costs. ✰Finalist: Tom Mann, principal civil engineer, Grontmij's water team. Tom is a shining example of collaborative working, being outcome focused and working closely with others to deliver a signi cant number of schemes. He has inspired others to follow suit, and has built openness and trust. What the judges said: Dr Paul Linford impressed with his innovative thinking. Paul has done something different, and has led on the technology thinking. It's a good story of working from academia and moving into a commercial operation.

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