High Profile Involvement of The Israeli's Water Innovation in Horizon 2020

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1 High Profile Involvement of The Israeli's Water Innovation in Horizon 2020

2 Mekorot Group Unique Global Competitive Edge 2

3 Facts and Figures Reuses 60% of Israel s treated wastewater Supplies 85% of Israel s drinking water Supplies 70% of total water consumption 1,200 well drillings 12,000 km water pipelines 3,000 facilities Investments $300 million per annum Revenue $1.1 billion per annum Ranking ilaaa Standard & Poor s for more than 13 years 3

4 International Center for Knowledge & Expertise Water Security & Safety Hydrology & Drillings Water Resources Management Water Treatment Desalination Water Quality Wastewater Treatment & Reclamation Water Supply Flood Catchment Command & Control Operational Models Rain Enhancement Sustainable Development Coverage of more than 95% of the water Cycle 4

5 The Unique Water System of Mekorot Integrative Real-Time Water Management Brackish Water 9% Effluent Water 16% Surface Water (Sea of Galilee) 4% Ground Water 36% 1.5 Billion m 3 Annual Water Supply Desalinated Water 35% Industrial Domestic Agriculture Average data for 2015

6 WaTech The Entrepreneurship & Partnership Center for Water Technologies Founded in 2004 Key Goals Positioning Mekorot at the cutting edge of technology Improving Mekorot s technological performance and reducing Mekorot s CAPEX and OPEX costs Developing the human capital in Mekorot Creating new sources of income How we achieve them? Identifying Mekorot s technological needs Attracting innovative technological partners Implementing innovative technologies to address Mekorot s needs, and needs of the international water industry 6

7 Entrepreneurship & Partnership Center for Water Technologies Intellectual Property Knowledge Management Entrepreneurship & Partnership Center Applied Research 7

8 Water Technology Commercialization Platform Deal flow Startup company Academy Mature and business oriented companies Mekorot Selecting relevant technologies Joint experiments Granting stamp of approval (Mekorot's authorization) Technological Joint Ventures Finance Investors Venture capital funds Technological incubators International and global companies Research funds 8

9 R&D Centers and Key Partners From the Israeli Academia and Industry Partners Ben-Gurion University Hebrew University Technion Mekorot R&D Centers Eshkol Central Laboratory: Center for Surface Water Purification and Monitoring Technologies Tel Aviv University Shafdan Center for Advanced Wastewater and Effluent Technologies The local water sector Ashdod Center for Sea Water Desalination Technologies Sabcha (Eilat) Center for Desalinated Brackish and Sea Water Technologies 9

10 Few examples of projects Projects that are at an undergoing stage or in the pipeline Unique R&D demonstration platform 10

11 DemoWare Improving and demonstrating advanced technologies for reclaiming effluents at the Shafdan site Goal Improving and demonstrating advanced technologies for reclaiming effluents for a variety of uses. Benefit Finding a chain of optimal processes for treating the effluents of the Shafdan from a variety innovative technologies that include: pre-filtration on various levels (wire mesh filtration, UF), AOP processes and desalination that includes optimization, raising the reclamation ratio, reducing energy and chemical consumption. Partners 26 partners including: Veolia, DOW, Thames Water Utilities Limited (TWUL), KWB, Rotec and more 11

12 Horizon2020 Submissions During PILATEX Smart-Plant WW Treatment STOP-IT Protection of water Infrastructure antimicrobial surfaces During 2016 Mekorot participated in 4 Project Submissions AquaNES WW and Water Treatment ClearWater Guarding Critical Threats Alg ID (FTI) Cyanotoxins monitoring Success Rate in Horizon2020 Submissions 12

13 AquaNes Demonstrating combined natural treatment and engineered processes for water purification Submitted to the second phase on September 2015 Goal The AquaNES project will demonstarte innovations in water and wastewater treatment processes and management through improved combinations of natural and engineered components. Among the demonstrated solutions are natural treatment processes such as Bilogical filtration (BF), managed aquifer recharge (MAR) and constructed wetlands (CW) plus engineered pre-and post-treatment options. Benefit Managed aquifer recharge (MAR)/soil aquifer treatment (SAT) for storage and quality improvement Constructed wetlands and other natural systems for improved wastewater treatment BAC- Biological Activated Carbon filter Water quality control and risk management Removal of emerging contaminants Partners 27 partners including: Xylem, Pentair, KWR, WADIS and many other key players. 13

14 SMART Scale-up of low-carbon footprint material recovery techniques in existing wastewater treatment plants Goal To validate and to address to the market a portfolio of SMARTechnologies that, singularly or combined, can renovate and upgrade existing wastewater treatment plants and give the added value of instigating the paradigm change towards efficient wastewater-based on bio-refineries. Benefit Stable, advanced high rate anaerobic wastewater treatment using AgRobics technology with enhanced biogas production. Energy efficiency in municipal wastewater using AgRobics advanced anaerobic treatment. Nutrient recovery from wastewater and sludge. Production of biopolymers and recovery of cellulose from sludge. Partners 25 partners including: Severn Trent, Agrobics, Atherns water supply and many other key players. 14

15 PILATEX PIlot line integration of LAser TEXturing Submitted to the second phase on May 2016 of antimicrobial surfaces Goal The PILATEX project aims to transfer integrated technology for laser surface structuring, coating technology, and real-time metrology into enduser defined applications of major sectors (healthcare, water systems and domestic appliances) where improved antimicrobial performance is a critical requirement. In the water section, the screen filters used in extracting water from drilling wells will be nano-strcutured by laser. Benefit Improving drinking and irrigation water quality Reducing remediation costs of clogged water wells Avoiding the use of environment unfriendly materials Developing technology which can be applied to other components in the water supply system Partners 16 partners including: Bosch, Cikautxo, Ben Gurion University and many other key players. 15

16 ClearWater - Guarding Water and Wastewater Critical Infrastructure against Critical Threats Goal Clearwater's vision is a secure, resilient and safe water infrastructure ensuring the healthiness of citizens and continuity of water business in cases of physical and cyber threats and of all of their combinations. Benefit Development of on-line and just-on-time operation of water and wastewater processes to detect effects of harmful phenomena in water and waste water supply network Feeding the gathered data to create short term predictive hazard and mission scenarios to prevent new harmful phenomena and plan new mitigation actions Tailoring the information to practitioners to select the most suitable response actions Communication of possible early warnings and alarm messages to citizens and other customers Partners VTT (Finland) as a coordinator and another 24 partners including: Energie AG Wasser (Austria), ICS 2 (Israel), S::Can (Austria), Tecnalia (Spain), Consorcio de Aguas de Bilbao Bizkaia (Spain) 16

17 STOP-IT Strategic, Tactical, Operational Protection of water Infrastructure against Cyber-physical Treats Goal STOP-IT project aims to efficiently tackle cyber-physical security threats, bridge an existing risk management gap in utilities practices and an untapped technology market potential for protection solutions for water infrastructure Benefit STOP-IT will cover the whole risk management chain from Prevention and Detection to Response and Mitigation and it will allow to integrate security and technical aspects of risk management into the same view, so to guarantee permanent control over the water systems. This will result to a new approach that will enable flexible water systems management tailored to the need of the water utilities Partners SINTEF (Norway) as a coordinator and another 21 partners including CETAQUA (Spain), KWR (The Netherland), Technion (Israel), Aigues De Barcelona (Spain), Berliner Wasserbetriebe (Germany), Aplicatzia (Israel) 17

18 Alg ID (FTI)- User friendly portable biosensor for the protection of drinking water production from the risk of cyanotoxins and other algal by-products Goal Alg ID project aims to develop and validate a user friendly portable biosensor for the protection of drinking water production from the risk of cyanotoxins and other algal by-products Benefit Alg ID will enable faster, more affordable monitoring of cyanotoxins and other algal by-products Partners LG Sonic (the Netherland) as a coordinator, Optisense (The Netherland), Biotem (France), Acciona (Spain), Mekorot, Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR ) 18

19 Research thru Partnership A Breakthrough in water technologies That's the name of the game