Events
CEWEP Residues Conferene
Below you will find the list of speakers and panellists that will participate in the CEWEP 2024 Residues Conference.
Welcome Address
Paul De Bruycker is CEWEP president since 2017. Paul obtained a master’s degree in bio-engineering at the UGent. He joined Indaver at its start in 1986 and held different management positions before he became CEO of the Indaver-group in 2011. As CEO he focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship to put the circular economy into practice.
With a career of over 30 years in the waste industry, Paul is a respected senior expert in waste management and waste legislation. He has contributed to several books and published a large amount of articles that are considered to be references in the environmental field and waste treatment industry. He holds board mandates both in companies and joint-ventures associated with Indaver as well as in federations and associations in the waste treatment and chemical industry. He is chairman of Vlaanderen Circulair, a partnership of the government, companies, civil society, and the knowledge community that together form the Flemish transition platform to the circular economy.
Indaver is a leading European waste management company specialised in the treatment and management of industrial and municipal waste. With 2000 employees Indaver generates a turnover of 650 mio EUR and manages about 6 million tonnes of waste.
Keynote Speech
Claudia Mensi
Keynote Speech
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Deike was born in Berlin 1959 and studied from 1979 to 1985 Foundry Science at the TU Clausthal. He worked at the Institute of General Metallurgy from 1985 to 1991. He received his doctorate on reactions between liquid silicon and graphite concerning alternative processes for producing silicon for solar cells. In 1991, he started working for DK Recycling and Roheisen GmbH in Duisburg, a medium-sized company that recycles filter dust (about 450.000 t/a) from the steel industry, from which pig iron is produced again with a blast furnace. He became deputy CEO in 1999, with full responsibility for the whole technique. He left DK in 2003 and founded DEIKE Iron Metals Services GmbH. In 2007, he was appointed professor for iron and steel technology at the University of Duisburg Essen. Since then he has worked on sustainability issues, in particular recovery of metals from dissipative distributions in industrial waste (filter dust, slag, bottom ash, etc.), and the processing of mineral fractions into secondary building materials. He has also been involved with developments in the raw materials markets for 20 years. His most essential publications can be found here.
Case Study UK & the Netherlands
by Neil Nolan and Mark van Kempen – Blue Phoenix Group
IBA panel
Amalia Cerdà Lacaci holds a PhD in Chemical Sciences and a Master Degree on Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain)
Since 1997, she has held several positions focused on Environmental and Business Management fields at TIRME S.A., the company responsible for the municipal waste management of Mallorca. Here, she currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer, working on topics related to Sustainability, Circular Economy, Environment and Climate, Quality, Human Resources and Occupational Health & Safety. She is also a professor lector at the University of the Balearic Islands in the Chemistry Department.
On behalf of the Spanish Association of Municipal Waste to Energy Plants (AEVERSU), Amalia participates in meetings and working groups at national and European level, amongst which as chair of CEWEP’s Working Group Emission Control. She has acted as advisor in the last revision of both the Waste Incineration and Waste Treatment BREF documents, being member of the corresponding Technical Working Groups set up by the European IPPC Bureau.
Amalia co-authored three books related to the automation of environmental analytical methods, and has several environmental research articles to her name. She has participated in several research projects of the European Union, Spanish, and Regional Governments.
Jakub Bator currently holds a position on the Management Board of Krakowski Holding Komunalny S.A., responsible for the operation of the Thermal Waste Treatment Plant
in Cracow (Eco-incinerator). As co-founder and Vice President of the Association of Energy Producers from Waste (SPEO), and Vice President of the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP), his responsibilities include shaping the future of energy production from waste. Active membership in the European Federation of Local Energy Companies (CEDEC) further extends professional engagement. Since 2011, his responsibilities have included the role of Measure Authorising Officer for the construction of the Waste-to-Energy Plant, with a focus on managing resource distribution and securing project authorizations. Currently Jakub is also engaged in PhD studies at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and his research is directed towards utilizing high-calcium fly ash from thermal waste processing in carbonation processes. Jakub’s career is focused on consistently improving management methods and supporting new, sustainable practices in the waste-to-energy field.
Nicole Neukirchen studied waste management engineering at RWTH Aachen University, specialising in solid waste materials. At that time, she also worked as a student assistant at the Department of Processing and Recycling. Her master’s thesis at Steinert GmbH in Cologne, Germany, focused on the sorting of heavy metals.
After her studies, she started working as a project engineer at the waste treatement center Asdonkshof. She worked there for eight years as a project engineer in the areas of slag treatment, landfill expansion, biowaste treatment and sorting. In addition to her work as a project engineer, she served as the head of the slag treatment plant for three years.
Following her time at Asdonkshof, she worked at Uniper Biomethan for over a year in the area of project development.
She is now an authorized signatory at WVW Wertstoffverwertung Wuppertal GmbH, which operates a slag treatment plant in Wuppertal, Germany, and is also an authorized signatory at BRA Bodenrecyclinganlage Wuppertal GmbH, which is currently under construction and will process excavated soil. In addition, she is a project engineer in charge of the development of a mono landfill mine and a multifunctional area.
Wim Ooms – Indaver
Inge Johansson has been working in the field of WtE for over 20 years. Currently he is working as a senior scientist at the innovation department of NOAH, where he is exploring the possibilities to recover different resources from the fly ash/Air Pollution Control residues. Before his position at NOAH he has worked the in RISE-Research Institutes of Sweden with waste related research and at Avfall Sverige – the Swedish waste management association – where he was active within the work of both ISWA and CEWEP.
Henrik Jilvero currently holds the position of Engineering Director at HaloSep AB. He has over 10 years of work experience in developing technologies in the field of recycling and has a doctoral degree in Energy and Environment. Henrik focuses on the engineering and chemical aspects of fly ahs treatment, as well as how the fractions from the HaloSep process can be turned into valuable products.
Cristian Tunsu – EasyMining
Veolia – Speaker TBC
Gert Van Hoof graduated as a industrial engineer Chemistry in 1991 and obtained a master in Environmental Management at the KU Leuven in 1992. He started his professional career in R&D at Procter & Gamble Brussels. In 1997, he moved to the Sustainability Department, where since 2012 he led the team in charge of Life Cycle Assessment activities (LCA). In 2018, he moved to Umicore as a manager LCA & Recycling, where he is now active in the ESG (Environment Social Governance) department. Gert was also active in the SETAC Europe LCA steering committee (2009-2016) and has several LCA related publications.
Lionel Kosior – SVDU
by CEWEP
Anne Kulmala currently holds the position of Strategy and M&A Manager for Fortum Recycling & Waste in Finland, and also acts in the role of the Growth Portfolio Manager. With a curiosity and passion to make the world more sustainable and resource efficient, she is an advocate of sustainable growth of the Nordic recycling and waste management company. With 15 years of experience in developing solutions in the area of challenging waste management, the main focus of her career has been on waste-to-energy residues treatment. Anne has experience in practical research and development, acting as expert advisor in waste regulation, in strategy formation, implementation and management, and in M&A projects. Anne has been a member of CEWEP’s Working Group Residues since 2016 and has been acting as the chair of the working group for the past two years. Anne lives in Finland and is passionate about continuous self-development, both in work life and in her free time.
