INSTITUTE OF WASTE MANAGEMENT AND CONTAMINATED SITE TREATMENT

1. INSTITUTE OF WASTE MANAGEMENT AND CONTAMINATED SITE TREATMENT

2. History • Part of the Faculty of Forestry, Geo and Hydrosciences • Founded in 1995, as cooperation of two chairs: - Chair of Waste Management - Chair of Contaminated Site Treatment • System Analysis and Computer Science also joined later Location • Pirna, upon the banks of the Elbe River (15 km SE from Dresden)

3. Staff members • About 40 people (education and research): chemists, geologists, civil engineers, microbiologists and computer scientists • Basic training and education focused on: - German diploma/master’s study course; - International master program: “Waste Management and Contaminated Site Treatment” • Research activities

4. Education Basic study program Intermediate study program Advanced study program

5. Endownment (?) Modern and high quality laboratories, lecture rooms and facilities. • Large spatial capacities for research reactors, such as: • landfill simulation reactors • lysimeters • soil columns • laboratory sewage treatment plants • fluidised bed reactors

6. Research CHAIR WASTE MANAGEMENT Prof. Dr. Bernd Bilitewski Main field of research • Risk assessment and long-term risk management of landfills • Waste collection strategies and waste fees • Thermal and mechanical treatment of waste • Development of new recycling methods and production of refuse derived fuel • Biological and thermal treatment of sewage sludge • Research on endocrine active substances in sewage sludge, wastewater and soil

7. Research CHAIR WASTE MANAGEMENT Prof. Dr. Bernd Bilitewski Ongoing projects • European Waste Management Cluster EUWMC • Integration of solid waste management tools into specific settings of European and Asian communities ISTEAC • Implementation of master’s course “Waste Management and Contaminated Site Treatment”, Vietnam • Development of software for European WASTE TOOL management of construction waste • Thermic waste treatment for recycling of heavy metals SAB • Feasibility study on a biogas plant in South of Vietnam RENEW

8. Research CHAIR CONTAMINATED SITE TREATMENT Prof. Dr. Peter Werner Main field of research • Microbiological treatment and natural attenuation processes of contaminated sites • Physico-chemical treatment of contaminants • Applicability of different electron acceptors i.e. nitrates, sulphates, iron • Risk assessment and risk management of sites contaminated with petroleum, PAH, halogenated solvents, BTEX, MTBE, and ammonia • Microbiological sorption and solubilisation of heavy metals and metalloids • Microbiological treatment of highly saline industrial wastewater

9. Research CHAIR CONTAMINATED SITE TREATMENT Prof. Dr. Peter Werner Ongoing projects • Enhanced natural attenuation of MTBE-contaminated sites METLEN • Nitrate-based microbial degradation of hydrocarbons SPANDAU • Natural attenuation of creosote-contaminated sites WÜLKNITZ • Feasibility study on a biogas plant in South of Vietnam RENEW

10. Research SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES Prof. Dr. Peter-Wolfgang Gräber Main field of research • Simulation and Decision Support System for leakage and groundwater prognosis • Determination of groundwater protection areas using FUZZY-methods • Methods for indirect parameter identification of geo-hydrological systems Ongoing projects • Development of a computer-based SIWAPRO-DSS decision support system for the forecast of landfill leaching

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