Economics of Humic Acid Recovery

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Economics of Humic Acid Recovery

Humic Acid Recovery: New Tech Claims Economic Benefits

Dutch water supply company Vitens is marketing the technology as a potential money-saver for companies who use it, since humic acid is valuable in other industries.

Companies such as BioAg already market humic acid to farmers. "Humic acid is a fantastic soil conditioner and better for dry broadcast and soil/soil-less application,"according toBioAg.

Vitens teamed up with consultancyRoyal HaskoningDHV to handle the marketing in a partnership announced this year.The marketing campaign will stress the economic benefits of the technology while also pegging it as a sustainability tool.In 2013, Vitens won an award for its humic acid recovery tech.

"Vitens developed a technology to filter and process [humic acid] as a by-product from its drinking water treatment. At several production locations Vitens uses ion exchange to remove humus acids from the ground water. Normally the humus fraction is considered waste and disposed of,"according totheNetherlands Water Partnership.

The jury at the award ceremony said the technology was a twist on conventional resource recovery technologies, since it arose out of the drinking water industry instead of the wastewater sector.

"We're used to seeing resource recovery technologies being developed in the waste water treatment sector," said Professor Cees Buisman,a jury member.

Source: Water Online

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