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Doris van Halem was awarded a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros to develop knowledge of sustainable water treatment technologies. The grant of the Dutch Research Council enables Van Halem to develop her own innovative line of research and set up her own research group in the coming five years. “I am incredibly happy with the opportunity to work on this important and challenging topic!”

The founders of MEZT, Adriaan van Lieftinck and Edward Sibeijn, together with professor Jules van Lier, talk about the innovative electrodialysis technique with which nitrogen can be transformed from a headache case into a source of income for the farmer. They have won HiTMaT 2020.

Prof. Zoran Kapelan was interviewed by the International Water Association about AI Solutions for the Water Sector.

Our AidroLab proposal was chosen as the first Artificial Intelligence laboratory hosted by the CEG Faculty as part of the Kick Start Call of TU Delft’s DAI-Labs initiative. AidroLab is led by the Department of Water Management and the Department of Intelligent Systems (EEMCS), in collaboration with the Department of Hydraulic Engineering (CEG), and the departments of Software Technology (EEMCS) and Microelectronics (EEMCS).

TU Delft has reached the age of 178 and celebrates this occasion with Delft primary school pupils. On Wednesday 29 January, 25 TU Delft professors gave a guest lecture to pupils from group 7 and 8 at various primary schools in Delft as part of Meet the Professor, an event organised by the WIJStad programme and the TU Delft 'Wetenschapsknooppunt'.

Prof Kapelan became a member of KWR’s External Scientific Advisory Council (ESAC) in 2019.

The first project, WIDER UPTAKE, was awarded under the circular economy call CE-SC5-04-2019. The project is led by SINTEF in Norway and it involves 18 partners from across Europe. The project aims to achieve wider uptake of water-smart solutions by facilitating industrial symbiosis with focus on resource recovery and reuse as means of increasing efficiency, limiting emissions and developing sustainable businesses.

A next group of trainees has reached the second year of the PDEng programme Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). This programme focuses on the development of innovations for the civil industry in PDEng projects by converting results from fundamental research into solutions for environmental and public transport issues.

The TAPP-BDP project aims to develop a smart phone application to improve operation and maintenance, water quality and hygiene awareness, trust, and acceptance of piped water supply (PWS) systems within the Bangladesh Delta Plan (BDP).

Sand filters, widely applied technologies for drinking water treatment, have been around for centuries. These filters are well-known to effectively sieve suspended solids from surface waters, or from iron-containing groundwaters. Also, as slow filters with a fine sand fraction, these filters are known to remove pathogenic micro-organisms and organic material from the water. With over a century of experience, one might think we know everything about these filters, however surprisingly, only very little is understood regarding the biological and chemical processes that occur in them. The aim of Vitens-Dunea’s partnership with NWO-TTW is to increase our understanding of sand filters to increase operational efficiency, control and contaminant removal.