Technical Visits

Currently the following Technical Visits have been confirmed and are open for subscription by symposium participants.

 

Technical Visit 1: GeoPower Oudcamp & Mineralz

GeoPower Oudcamp is operator of the geothermal location at Maasland. This location provides 8 surrounding greenhouses with heat saving 15 million m3 of natural gas per year and gives a significant reduction of CO2 emmission. This makes geothermal energy a sustainable energy source.

Geothermal water is extracted from a debth of 2.800 meters with a temperature of 95°. With the production of Geothermal energy, NORM from the deep underground, travels up to the installation and causes deposits inside the installation.

During this visit you will get:

  • basic knowledge about the geothermal installation and process
  • an explanation of the deposit mechanism of NORM inside the installation
  • understanding of the NORM waste and difficulties in disposal under the current release limits

To find out where the waste from geothermal energy production ends up, this visit is combined with a Technical visit to Landfill Mineralz Rotterdam-Maasvlakte.

Mineralz is a subsidiary of Renewi, division Renewi Mineralz & Water, and is active in cleaning contaminated soil and recycling mineral waste streams into secondary raw materials. We immobilize the waste for which no sustainable processing yet exists and then process it in an environmentally responsible manner at our own landfills. In this way, we have a sustainable answer to every waste issue.

Schedule:

The bus for this Technical Visits leaves at 09.00 from the Jaarbeurs (symposium venue) and returns around 17.30.

Participants:

The maximum number of participants for this Technical Visit is 20. For the visit a valid passport is required.

Technical Visit 2: Port of Antwerp & Gypsum Landfill in Zelzate

The visit will take place at the Border Inspection Point Left Bank in the Port of Antwerp. At the site a number of fiscal, security and safety inspections are combined in order to facilitate commerce.

The visit will focus on the nuclear inspections (Megaports Initiative) of container traffic by Belgian Customs, whereby a large amount of NORM is detected on a daily basis. A short glimpse of the X-ray scanning equipment for containers will also be included.

The Gypsum Landfill in Zelzate has a large solar park (22 hectares are 55,000 solar panels) that produce green energy (the grass under the solar panels is grazed by 200 sheep).

Schedule:

The bus for this Technical Visits leaves at 09.00 from the Jaarbeurs (symposium venue) and returns around 17.30.

Participants:

The maximum number of participants for this Technical Visit is 20. For the visit a valid passport is required. For international participants a visum for Belgium might be needed, please check this before you register for this Technical Visit.