Energy | Saur

Your challenges

Tackling complex water and wastewater challenges across various energy sectors, such as:

Managing high-strength wastewater

from biofuel and hydrogen production processes.

Meeting strict discharge requirements

and minimizing water use in upstream oil and gas operations.

Reducing water cost and focus on water stewardship to meet sustainability goals

Reusing wastewater for process cleaning purposes and reusing process water from pasteurization lines and cooling water towers can help you meet your sustainability goals.

Handling challenging wastewater streams

from refinery and downstream processes.

Treating leachate and process water

from waste-to-energy plants.

Reducing energy-water footprint

and achieving circular economy goals.

Our approach

We’re ready to give water the value it deserves in the energy industry. To tackle your challenges, we offer an innovative approach to:

Design, build, and operate water and wastewater treatment systems tailored to energy sector needs.
Recover energy, heat, and valuable by-products from wastewater and sludge.
Integrate circular water concepts for reuse and zero-liquid discharge (ZLD).
Improve water quality for critical processes like steam generation and chemical reactions.
Minimize operational risk through robust, reliable, and scalable solutions.

To which energy subindustries water treatment can be applied?

Based on your requirements and contract type (DBFMO), we select in-house technologies suited to your energy application, supported by decades of experience in water treatment and recovery. We support the following segments:

Biofuels

Treat wastewater rich in organics and nutrients.
Recover biogas for energy generation.
Enable water reuse and nutrient recovery.

Hydrogen

Treat process water for electrolysis and fuel cell production.
Implement closed-loop systems for ultrapure water recovery.
Manage waste brine and chemical contaminants.

Waste-to-Energy

Leachate and condensate treatment.
Odour control and air scrubber water management.
Heat and nutrient recovery from digestate and wastewater.

Upstream (Oil & Gas)

Produced water treatment and reuse.
Desalination and advanced oil-water separation.
Sludge dewatering and disposal.

Downstream (Refineries & Petrochemicals)

Cooling tower blowdown reuse.
Process water polishing and zero-liquid discharge (ZLD) solutions.
Removal of hydrocarbons and heavy metals.

Reference examples in the energy industry

See all our references

Saint-Brieuc, France

_ Template Référence (ex : Saint-Brieuc Armor Agglo)

Context

The existing drinking water production plant was reaching the end of its useful life and could no longer meet growing demand and regulatory requirements. This led Saint-Brieuc Armor Agglo and SDAEP22 to commission the construction of a new plant.

Customer Challenges

Improve and secure the distribution of drink ing water to the inhabitants of the Saint-Brieuc area
Treat the algae present in raw water and modernize the treatment process ahead of regulatory changes in micropollutant

More about this reference

"“Drawing on global coverage, Nijhuis Saur Industries has been able to support multiple energy clients with its in-house industry knowledge and experience – from produced water, to process water and condensate water, to wastewater treatment.” "

Nijhuis Saur Industries - Water treatment for the energy sector experts