Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste ...

Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management
Sewage Treatment Plant for Research and
Education
The facilities of the LFKW play an important part in the traditionally practice-oriented education at our institute.
Within the scope of practical training measures, the assistance in research projects and working on Master’s theses,
the students are provided with plenty of opportunities to become familiar with the details of the equipment
and the operation of a highly mechanized sewage treatment plant.
The LFKW is operating under real conditions: its primary task is the purification of the wastewater from the
university campus in Stuttgart-Vaihingen and from the nearby Büsnau district of which the total daily volume is
about 2.000 cubic metres. In order to comply with the strong official discharge regulations and to provide opportunities
for research at the same time, the LFKW has a multitrack purification system: all process steps required
for advanced wastewater treatment consist of at least two parallel units. In this way separate plant components
can be used at any time for fullscale research, independent of the other units and without any adverse effects on
the quality of the final effluent. Additional experimental areas inside and outside of a large two-storey hall offer
a wide variety of options for research work and individually contracted investigations on a semi-technical scale.
The LFKW also offers its services to technical companies, operators of municipal environmental facilities and
engineer’s offices: from the testing of measuring devices, chemical aids etc. under practical conditions through
the manufacturing of laboratory test equipment to the leasing of complete pilot plants for the treatment of wastewater,
sludge and exhaust air.
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