Annual report Chair on Drinking Water Engineering 2008 - TU Delft

Research collaboration
Our researchers collaborate in many national and international research projects. All projects are defined in close
cooperation with water companies and boards, ensuring short lines to the field practice. The research is per-
formed 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
water sector and are published in scientific journals and presented on international conferences. Furthermore
the 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)
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