Specialist Group on ANAEROBIC DIGESTION Newsletter - IWA

OLIVEBIOTEQ (Seminar on biotechnology and olive products quality in the Mediterranean)
The 3rd Edition of OLIVEBIOTEQ, a congress-workshop dedicated to the olive industry, will take place next
15-19 December 2009 in Sfax, Tunisia. This international congress covers all aspects of this industry from the
agronomy of olive tree culture to the technology of olive transformation (olive canning and olive oil production)
and the management of the resulting sub-products (three phase olive mill wastewater and husk, two-phase olive
mill waste, wastewater from olive canning, biomass from olive tree pruning). Olivebioteq is one of the most
important events for the actors of this industrial sector in the Mediterranean basin. Beside of being an important
economic activity for several Mediterranean countries, olive industry is also one of the most polluting in the
same area. Until now, no satisfactory solution has been applied by this industry for the protection of the
environment. Direct anaerobic digestion or co-digestion of its sub-products is an alternative that still looks for
recognition and acceptation by this industry. The 3rd Olivebioteq is then a good opportunity to promote the
activities of those of you who work in this field and enters perfectly in the frame of the topic number 6: “New
uses and valorisation alternatives of olive tree products (nutrition, health, cosmetics, energy, environment ...)”.
More information about the congress is available at the following link:
http://www.iresa.agrinet.tn/oliveteq/1-en.html
The call for papers is opened until June 30, 2009. A commercial exhibition will be set up in parallel to the
workshop-congress.
WWTmod2010, the 2 nd IWA/WEF Wastewater Treatment Modelling Seminar
It will be held in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec, Canada, March 28-30, 2010. This is one of the principal seminars
for model development and solution policy, and is supported by the IWA AD specialist group. Further
information can be found here:
http://www.wef.org/ConferencesTraining/ConferencesEvents/WWTmod2010/
12 th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion
As you may know, the next big event of the anaerobic community will be in Guadalajara, Mexico next year. The
IWA <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> on Anaerobic Digestion selected that city as the venue for the 12 th World Congress on
Anaerobic Digestion.
The organizing committee for AD 12 has been working on site in
order to define the date, hotel, technical and touristic visits, to name a
few of the initial decisions to be made. We can inform that the local
venue will be Fiesta Americana Hotel, very well located in Guadalajara
and that the congress will be held from Sunday October 31 st to Thursday
November 4 th 2010. Technical visits will take place on Friday 5 th .
The institutions involved in the organization are the Institute of
Engineering of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) the
University of Guadalajara, the Scientific and Technology Research Institute of San Luis Potosi (IPICyT) and the
Metropolitan University (UAM).
Guadalajara is the capital city of Jalisco state. It is the second / third most important city of Mexico. This
region is the cradle of Tequila and Mariachi, two symbols of Mexico. Some Tequila factories have installed
anaerobic treatment plants, so the visit to the town of Tequila will be a most attractive technical-tourist visit, just
60 km from Guadalajara.
We are expecting around 600 delegates to AD 12, due to the traditional high technical level of the congress,
but also to the tourist attractions that Jalisco and the whole Mexico offers: variety of cultural expressions such as
archaeological sites and colonial cities, renowned folk handcrafts, plenty of natural beauties, beaches,
mountains, deserts, jungle, a diversity of cuisine styles, and the warmth of the welcoming characteristic of its
people.
The program and the scientific committee will be defined during this June, as the invitation and confirmation
process is under way. The call for papers and the web site of the congress will be announced in a few weeks. A
small commercial exhibition will also take place. We count on your participation.
IWA <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> on Anaerobic Digestion
10 June 2009 Newsletter