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Jan Terlouw Innovation prize for nitrogen stripper
The company CSS Advies has won the Jan Terlouw Innovation Prize 2021 with a so-called nitrogen stripper that the company has developed itself. With the device, nitrogen emissions can be reduced by 70%, without having to reject a large number of animals.
D66 celebrity Jan Terlouw praises the nitrogen stripper as a revolutionary piece of technology. "It is a breakthrough in the nitrogen problem", according to the name bearer of the innovation prize. Remarkably enough, current D66 Member of Parliament Tjeerd de Groot argues in favor of halving the livestock in order to limit nitrogen emissions. This can therefore be prevented by using nitrogen strippers on a large scale.
green fertilizer
The device developed by CSS Advies is called Bio-NP. With the nitrogen stripper cow manure can be processed into green fertilizer. This cuts the nitrogen losses and the eutrophicational nitrogen emissions in half by 70%. A check for 2021 euros is attached to the Jan Terlouw Innovation Prize 10.000. "The prize helps us in our mission and the technical support for reducing nitrogen deposition," says René Cornelissen of CSS.
Purchasing a nitrogen stripper does require a substantial investment for around €200.000, CSS has stated several times. That is roughly in the same price range as a Lely Sphere. The Jan Terlouw Innovation Prize aims to stimulate innovations and new activity in the field of energy transition and circular economy in the east of the Netherlands.
Klaas van der Horst
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