Annual report Chair on Drinking Water Engineering 2008 - TU Delft

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Highlights in 2008 More than 400 people participated in the annual “Vakantiecursus” in the second week of January. The theme of the “Vakantiecursus” was “Water and Sanitation for All”. Several well known national and international water researchers gave presentations about water related topics on this day. Patrick Smeets defended his PhD thesis “Stochastic modeling of drinking water treatment in quantitative microbial risk assessment ” successfully in the spring of 2008. Arne Verliefde defended his thesis “Rejection of organic micropollutants with high pressure membranes (NF/RO) ” at the end of 2008. Several international researchers visited our research group to work on collaborative research projects. Zhiping Li (China), Rusnandi Garsadi (Indonesia), Megan McConville (USA) and Donglei Zou (China) worked during some time together with some of our researchers. Arne Verliefde is currently doing a secondment at the membrane research group at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. In 2008 six new PhD projects were initiated. Our research group welcomed Javier Sanchez, David de Ridder, Zahira Herrera Rivera, Lamber Paping, Marco Casola and Gang Liu as new PhD students (see also section “Individual Research Projects”). Karin Teunissen received a Casimir grant from NWO (Dutch Scientific Research Council) for her PhD project. This grant is aimed to stimulate knowledge exchange between universities and companies. In 2008 three Innowator grants were awarded: FilterXpert for developing a tool to measure how clean a sand filter bed is, DIPOOL for developing the concept of a chlorine free swimming pool and DemiFlush to back wash UF membranes with RO permeate. In 2008 strategic collaborations were signed with the water companies Waternet and Oasen. With Waternet innovations in the water cycle will be investigated. The focus on the research with Oasen is on improvements in water quality during distribution of drinking water to the consumers. Further collaborations with other water companies are being discussed. PhD defense dr. ir. P.W.M.H. Smeets PhD defense dr. ir. A.R.D. Verliefde 4 <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>report</strong> DWE 2008
A grant from the European Union and the Australian government with a value of over 500,000 euro was awarded to train the next generation of specialists in the field of sustainable water resources. Five Australian universities (all founding partners of the International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management – ICE WaRM) and three European leading water universities (Delft, Dresden and Dundee) will exchange 90 post graduate students in the coming three years. To attract more pupils to study engineering and more specifically drinking water engineering a NLT module for secondary schools (5 VWO) has been developed. In this module the necessity of clean drinking water is discussed, followed by the different drinking water processes. To finish the module students have to do simple drinking water experiments in which they apply simple theory from physics, mathematics and chemistry. The project Drinking with the Wind attracted a huge amount of media attention. This concept of desalinating sea water with reverse osmosis membranes directly powered by wind energy has been tested successfully at Curacao, Dutch Antilles. The amount of scientific publications increased again in 2008. Besides more publications a shift towards journals with a higher impact factor can be observed. In 2008 Delft University of Technology and UNESCO-IHE have started a new journal on drinking water research. This journal is an open-access journal, meaning that all issues are freely available for the public. The title of the journal is “Drinking Water Engineering and Science” and the aim is on papers discussing applied drinking water research. Four papers have been accepted for publication in 2008 and eight were in the review processes at the end of 2008. Our researchers gave presentations in many conferences all over the world. For example at the IWA biannual conference in Vienna, WQTC in Cincinnati, the IWA NOM conference in Bath, the Water and Sanitation conference in Edinburgh, the IWA Membrane conference in Toulouse, WISA in South Africa and many more conferences our researchers presented their research. A full lecture hall during the Vakantiecursus” Networking during the coffee break highlights 5
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