a project to join

Fraunhofer IGB is an applied research and development organisation specialized in innovation in processes and technologies for wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Our interdisciplinary team of biological, chemical and software engineers have strong expertise and years of experience.

References:
Water reuse: https://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/reference-projects/hypowave-plus.html
P-recovery: https://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/research/resource-recovery-nutrients-metals-biogas/ephos-electrochemical-phosphorus-recovery.html
In-situ H2O2 production: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/13/11/2122
Solar induced CEC removal: https://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/reference-projects/catmemreac.html
Soil enhancer from organic waste: https://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/research/resource-recovery-nutrients-metals-biogas/projects-nutrients/bioecosim.html

Topic 1. Enhancement of water circularity in industries
Topic 2. Urban water circularity
Topic 3. Resource recovery and valorization

We would like to join international projects on Topic 1 and/or 3. Our goal is to advance technologies along the innovation ladder, demonstrating their potential in operational enviroments and scale-up.

Focus interests:
Topic 1: We have developed several oxidative technologies we would like to integrate in to water reuse projects. Firstly, an in-situ H2O2 production cell that can produce high quality hydrogenperoxide on demand and in the water matrix. We would like to develop it further to be used in industrial applications, enabling disinfection as well as the exploitation of wastewater and sewage for increased circularity. Secondly, we have developed an improved solar disinfection process using new materials, katalysing oxidative processes for disinfection and CeC removal. (Link to department: https://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/research/water-technologies.html)

Topic 3: We have develeoped several processes that extract nutrients (e.g. P, N, struvite) and energy (biogas) from wastewater and organic wastes. We would like to work on resource recovery from these streams and explore syneriges with circular water applications such as water reuse. (Link to department: https://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/research/resource-recovery-nutrients-metals-biogas.html)

water reuse, resource recovery, struvite, hydrogenperoxide, oxidation, disinfection, nutrients, biogas

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