Annual report Chair on Drinking Water Engineering 2007 - TU Delft

Research collaboration
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by PhD students in close supervision by our staff members and experts from science and industry.
The research can be characterised as innovative but public accessible. All results are applicable to the public
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research is fundamental but at the same time applied.
Our researchers collaborate with more than 40 companies, research groups, governmental institutions and consultants.
Our research is multi disciplinary and our researchers act like a spider in the water web.
The following collaborations have been established in the different projects:
Research groups and research institutions
Our researchers are actively participating in multi disciplinary national collaborative research programmes like
Delft Cluster and Water Research Centre Delft. Furthermore we participate in different projects in the 6th framework
research programme of the European Union, e.g.: TECHNEAU and Microrisk. In other projects there is a close
collaboration with the leading water research organisations like TZW, IWW and CRC WQ&T.
Collaboration with: Delft Cluster, Water Research Centre Delft, Kiwa Water Research, Delft Hydraulics, TTI Wetsus,
Cooperative Research Centre of Water Quality and Treatment (Australia), Global Water Research Coalition, Swedish
Institute for Infectious Disease Control (Sweden), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Australia),
Anjou Recherche (France), Water Research Centre-NSF (United Kingdom), Institute of hygiene and public health
(Germany), Suez Environment (France), DVGW Technologiezentrum Wasser (Germany), IWW (Germany)
Universities
We work together with different research groups within the Delft University of Technology and with research groups
of other universities. For example, within the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences the fundamental knowledge
of the department of Fluid Mechanics and the applied knowledge on water treatment processes is combined
in the PhD-project on CFD in drinking water treatment. Furthermore these is a close collaboration with professor
Olsthoorn of Geohydrology and professor Bruining form Geosiences
Within the Delft University of Technology there are combined PhD-projects with the faculty of ITS, group of professor
Babushka and the faculty of TNW, group of professor van Loosdrecht.
On national level there is a very intensive collaboration with the Department of Municipal Infrastructure of UNESCO-
IHE, group professor Amy. On a monthly basis researchers from UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft organise research
colloquia to inform each other of the ongoing project and to have discussions with each other. Also with the Catholic
University of Leuven, group of professor van der Bruggen, an intensive collaboration exists.
Collaboration with: Wageningen University, Unesco-IHE, Catholic University Leuven (Belgium), RWTH Aachen
(Germany), INSA Toulouse (France), University of Johannesburg (South Africa), University of Wollongong (Australia),
University of Barcelona (Spain), University of East Anglia (United Kingdom)
Commercial companies
Collaboration with commercial companies focuses on the development of innovative products. The results of this
research will be protected by patents and will be commercialised by the commercial companies. Some recent pat-
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