BIO
A graduate from Ecole nationale supérieure d'agronomie et des industries alimentaires (Nancy, France), Emmanuel Trouvé is currently CEO of Nerovia, a start up company aiming to provide sustainable recycling systems to selected industries, mainly based on innovative membrane applications.
He started his carreer as a researcher at Centre international de recherche sur l'eau et l'environnement (CIRSEE, SUEZ Environnement), before joining Orelis as a Sales & Marketing Director (2000–2004). In January 2005 he became Wastewater R&D Director at Veolia Environnement, a position he kept till April 2012, when he took a sabatical for developing Nerovia.
Demain les stations d'épuration des eaux usées urbaines seront bien plus que des usines de dépollution. Elles produiront de multiples ressources : de l’eau réutilisable pour les besoins humains, de l'énergie verte, du bioplastique ou des matières minérales. Pour faire entrer l’assainissement dans l'ère de l'éco-économie, les chercheurs associent biotechnologies, biochimie et microbiologie avec génie des procédés et mathématiques appliquées.
Tomorrow, urban wastewater treatment plants will be more than just decontamination factories. They will also produce a wide scope of resources, from water reused for human needs to green energy, bioplastics or even mineral components. Wastewater treatment will be a key issue in the development of a green economy: researchers will be able to combine biotechnologies, biochemistry and microbiology with chemical engineering and applied mathematics.