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

Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management
Chair of Waste Management and Emissions
The aim of research and education at the Chair of Waste
Management and Emissions is to assure resource
conservation and climate protection in a sustainable
manner. Within this context, material flows that become
waste as result of the use of resources, their
treatment processes, along with the emissions from
waste treatment plants, are considered. The topic
of biological waste air purification is dealt in a special
department within the chair. Considering that sustainable
waste management gives priority to actions
that counteract the generation of waste, fundamental
waste management processes, which serve as cornerstones
for sustainable resource management, span
from the generation of waste and its avoidance, over
the recovery of materials and energy from waste, up
to the environmentally sound disposal of wastes and
the control of the associated emissions.
Education and research encompass a holistic approach
to waste management, from waste avoidance, to the
valorisation of wastes, up to the environmentally
sound disposal of residual waste. Beside the lectures
offered for Civil Engineering students, courses are specially
tailored for the German taught Environmental
Engineering program, and the international Master of
Science program „Air Quality Control, Solid Waste and
Waste Water Process Engineering – WASTE”.
Because of the retirement of Prof. Dr. -Ing. Dipl.-Chem.
Erwin Thomanetz in June 2008 and new additional
topics, the work areas in our department have been
newly arranged and newly renamed.
Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Chem. Klaus Fischer is in charge of solid
waste working group; Dipl.-Ing. Gerold Hafner leads
the working group for resource management and industrial
recycling and Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Chem. Martin Reiser
is responsible for the emissions working group.
The research team for IGNIS project is led by Mr MSc
Nicolas Escalante and Dipl.-Geogr. Agata Rymkiewicz.
(zero waste and wastewater processes e.g. tourist
areas, islands).
• Infrastructure development for future megacities,
particularly in developing and emerging economies.
Scientific accompaniment of the implementation
of sustainable material management
systems and waste treatment technologies.
• Analysis of wastes and emissions
• Laser based method of measuring methane emissions
from area sources
• Stabilization of landfills by in-situ aeration
The Chair of Waste Management and Emissions is a
member of several competence networks e.g. Competence
Centre Environmental Engineering (Kompetenzzentrum
für Umweltschutz Region Stuttgart (KURS
e.V.)) and several standardization committees and scientific
advisory boards, and as a result has established
numerous contacts and cooperation agreements with
several research institutions, public waste management
authorities and private enterprises. Cooperation
with foreign universities and research institutions have
been established through international research projects.
Activities in Education
The Chair’s staff, including lecturers, researchers and
external readers, holds lectures covering several study
courses, and supervises students from different academic
programmes:
German taught Diploma “Civil Engineering” and “Environmental
Engineering”:
From winter semester 08/09 the diploma courses Environmental
Engineering will be converted to Bachelor-/Master
Courses and the form of modular teaching
will be provided.
Research is focused on the following fields:
• Modelling, simulation and evaluation of waste management
systems and concepts taking into consideration
resource conservation and climate protection.
• Biotechnological waste treatment processes (composting,
anaerobic digestion), concentrating specially
on process modelling and simulation of anaerobic
systems, and regenerative energy recovery
from organic waste and renewable resources.
• Examination and evaluation of decentralized disposal
systems for the joint treatment of solid
waste and wastewater, as well as energy recovery
• Core course “Sanitary Engineering (and Waste
Disposal)”, Subarea: Solid Waste Management
• Specialization field “Solid Waste Management” (including
13 spezialized lectures, laboratory work,
seminars)
International Master Programme „Infrastructure Planning“:
• Solid waste Management
• Ecology III
International Master Programme „WAREM“:
• Solid waste Management
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