Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 10/Sept/2024
8:30am - 2:00pmRegistration
Location: Hotel lobby
9:00am - 9:30amKeynote 4: Advances in nutrient removal and recovery
Location: Mátyás
Keynote Speaker: Nerea Uri Carreno, N118 Consulting, Denmark
9:30am - 11:00amSession 4: Biological processes
Location: Mátyás
Session Chair: Jiří Wanner, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic
 
9:30am - 10:00am

Design vs actual capacity of the MBR in Henriksdal WWTP

Sofia Andersson1, Sofia Lovisa Andersson2, Christer Laurell2, Dan Fujii2

1Sweco Environment, Sweden; 2Stockholm Vatten och Avfall, Sweden



10:00am - 10:30am

Small but (very) active! The major Role of Flocs in Nitrification in Aerobic Granular Sludge-based WWTP

Livia Britschgi1,2, Stephany Wei1, Eberhard Morgenroth1,2, Nicolas Derlon1

1Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland; 2ETH Zürich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland



10:30am - 11:00am

Biological degradation of micropollutants combining activated sludge systems and post-treatment activated carbon filters

Larissa Graß1, Daniel Hillebrandt2, Benedikt M. Aumeier3, Laurence Palmowski1, Thomas Wintgens1

1Institute of Environmental Engineering (ISA), RWTH Aachen University, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany; 2Niersverband, Am Niersverband 10, 41747 Viersen, Germany; 3Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering, TU Munich, Am Coulombwall 3, 85748 Garching, Germany

 
11:00am - 11:30amCoffee Break
Location: Exhibition area
11:30am - 1:00pmSession 5: Greenhouse gas emissions
Location: Mátyás
Session Chair: Susanne Lackner, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Session Chair: Diego Rosso, University of California, Irvine, United States of America
 
11:30am - 12:00pm

Improving N2O-emission quantification and prognostics at a large-scale cascade activated sludge plant through intensive monitoring combined to data-driven and mechanistic models

Ronja Voß1, Juliane Neumann2, Tito Gehring3, Andreas Gessner4, Marc Wichern3

1Ruhrverband, Germany; 2Okeanos Smart Data Solutions GmbH, Germany; 3Ruhr University Bochum, Urban Water Management and Environmental Technology, Germany; 4Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz NRW, Germany



12:00pm - 12:30pm

A novel comprehensive concept to reduce nitrous oxide emission at wastewater treatment plants through side-stream deammonification and biological off-gas treatment

Paul Kelterer, Ernis Saracevic, Norbert Kreuzinger, Jörg Krampe, Vanessa Parravicini

TU Vienna, Austria



12:30pm - 1:00pm

Abatement of N2O in exhaust gas from full-scale WWTPs

Nerea Uri Carreno

N118 Consulting

 
1:00pm - 2:00pmLunch Break
Location: Station Hall Restaurant
2:00pm - 3:30pmSession 6: Advances in wastewater treatment
Location: Mátyás
Session Chair: Ann Mattsson, Envidan AB, Sweden
 
2:00pm - 2:30pm

The Worldwide First Full-Scale Sidestream PN/A MABR – a Research Perspective

Oliver Das1, Sven Baumgarten2, Moreno di Pofi3, Thomas Kurtz4, Zebo Long5, Sylvain Donnaz5, Susanne Lackner1

1Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; 2Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions, Germany; 3Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions, Italy; 4Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln, Germany; 5Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions, Canada



2:30pm - 3:00pm

High Performance – Small Footprint Primary Treatment: Comparison of Floating Media Filtration vs. Traditional Gravity Settling in Seoul, Korea.

Daehwan Rhu1, Victory Fiifi Dsane1, Bongchoel Choi2, Yongjoon Yune2, S. Joh Kang3

1Tomorrow Water, United States of America; 2BKT Company Ltd., Daejeon, South Korea; 3Water & Energy Advisors, LLC, Ann Arbor, MI, USA



3:00pm - 3:30pm

Practical Experiences with Aerobic Granular Sludge for Large Urban Wastewater Treatment

Andreas Giesen1, Mark van Loosdrecht2, Mario Pronk2

1Royal HaskoningDHV, Netherlands, The; 2Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The

 
3:30pm - 4:00pmCoffee Break
Location: Exhibition area
4:00pm - 5:30pmSession 7: Aeration
Location: Mátyás
Session Chair: Jörg Krampe, TU Wien, Austria
 
4:00pm - 4:30pm

Process Upgrades and Innovations for a Large Municipal Plant with Deep Aeration Tanks

Jose Jimenez1, Mark Miller1, Diego Rosso2

1Brown and Caldwell, United States of America; 2University of California, United States of America



4:30pm - 5:00pm

Wastewater to Watts: Nanobubble Treatment Improves Wastewater Treatment Efficiency, Stability, and Biogas Production

Andrea Renee White1, John Crisman1, Cesar Herrera2

1Moleaer; 2Moleaer Espana



5:00pm - 5:30pm

Holistic aeration management: a critical approach for WWTP decarbonization

Erika Varga1, Jose Porro2, François Gauthier-Clerc1,3,4, Victor Galisson1, Loïc Croissant1

1Purecontrol, France; 2Cobalt Water Global, USA; 3LS2N - Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes, France; 4IMT Atlantique, France

 
5:30pm - 6:00pmKeynote 5: Advancing Wastewater Treatment in Hungary Through Benchmarking Based Development Strategies
Location: Mátyás
Keynote Speaker: Miklos Patziger, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
6:00pm - 8:30pmPoster Reception
Location: Mátyás
Session Chair: Miklos Patziger, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
 

MABR-aided process intensification at large wastewater treatment plants: drivers, design rationale and performance

Giuseppe Guglielmi1, Daniel Coutts2, Moreno Di Pofi1, Jeff Peeters3

1Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions, Italy; 2Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions, UK; 3Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions, Canada



Aerobic sludge granulation, conversion, and phosphate removal using sugar substrates

Ali Elahinik1, Maureen Haarsma1, Linghang Li1, Ben Abbas1, Martin Pabst1, Dimitrios Xevgenos1, Mark van Loosdrecht1, Mario Pronk1,2

1TU Delft, The Netherlands; 2Royal HaskoningDHV



Relevance of laboratory tests in the planning process of micropollutant removal stages for large wastewater treatment plants

Katharina Mrosla1, Fabio Ringhof1, Vera Kohlgrüber2, Laurence Palmwoski1, Thomas Wintgens1

1Institute of Environmental Engineering (ISA), RWTH Aachen University, Germany; 2Kompetenzzentrum Spurenstoffe Baden-Württemberg, Germany



Predicting sludge settleability in large wastewater treatment plants: a deep learning time series perspective

François Guichard1,2, Madiha Nadri-Wolf2, Rachid Ouaret3, Antonin Azaïs1

1INRAE, UR REVERSAAL, 5 Rue de La Doua, 69625, Villeurbanne, France; 2LAGEPP UMR 5007, 43 bd du 11 novembre 1918, 69100, Villeurbanne, France; 3LGC, CNRS, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse, France



Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors for the recovery of ammonia from municipal process waters

Martin Ulbricht, Norbert Selzer

3M Healthcare Germany GmbH, Germany



Harvesting of Plant-wide, High-level Information from a Full-Scale Operational Digital Twin

Bruce Johnson1, Cheng Yang1, Adrienne Menniti2, Keaton Lesnik3, Heather Stewart1, Leiv Rieger4, Ivan Miletic4, Joshua Registe1

1Jacobs, USA; 2Clean Water Services, USA; 3Maia Analytica, USA; 4Jacobs, Canada



Hazard mapping over wastewater treatment plants as point critical infrastructures using a multi-hazard, multi-scale approach

Maria Castiglione1, Giuseppe Beringheli1, Santo Fabio Corsino1, Michele Torregrossa1, David Javier Castro Rodriguez2, Micaela Demichela2, Antonello Barresi2

1University of Palermo, Italy; 2Politecnico di Torino, Italy



Implementing Liquid Neural Networks for Enhanced Plant-wide Control of a Wastewater Treatment Plant

Cristian Camilo Gómez Cortes1, Kimberly Solon1, Ingmar Nopens1, Elena Torfs1,2

1Ghent University; 2Université Laval



Shifting Wastewater Treatment Plants towards Cleaner Energy Factories

Ji Li1,2, Xiaodi Hao2, Mark van Loosdrecht1

1Delft University of Technology; 2Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China, People's Republic of



Novel CFIC® Biofilm Process for Efficient Municipal Wastewater Treatment

Leif Arne Kjeldsberg, Yuliia Dzihora, Anirudh Bhanu Teja Nelabhotla, Shuai Wang

Biowater Technology AS, Norway



Robust magnetic vivianite recovery from digested sewage sludge: Evaluating resilience to sludge dry matter and particle size variations

Ha Nguyen1,4, Thomas Prot1, Leon Korving1, Wokke Wijdeveld1, Iulian Dugulan2, Ekkes Brück2, Anna Haarala3, Mark van Loosdrecht4

1Wetsus; 2Dept. Radiation Science and Technology, Delft University of Technology; 3Kemira Oyj; 4Dept. Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology



Energy efficiency upgrades in WWTPs using feed-forward control and existing equipment

Andrea Bolgár, Remy Blanc

Organica Technológiák Zrt., Hungary



Simple, cost-effective and efficient desulphurisation of digester gas by micro-aeration

Niklas Trautmann, Niklas Kempert, Christoph Kormann

aqua & waste International GmbH, Germany



Digital twin is the new generation tool in the optimization of WWTP operation

Jindřich Procházka, Zuzana Kalinčíková

Xylem Česká republika spol s r.o., Czech Republic



Artificial Intelligent Digital Twin at the Edge for Asset Performance and Reliability Optimization

Mike Otten

Xylem, Netherlands, The



Kinetic consideration of the adhesion mechanism for the improvement of Escherichia coli removal by adhesion to activated sludge

Yuki Nakaya1, Yusuke Ishizuka1, Shota Ishizaki1, Uthpala Kaushalya1, Reiko Hirano2, Hisashi Satoh1

1Hokkaido University, Japan; 2Cellspect Co., Ltd., Japan



Extracellular polymeric substances recovery from aerobic granular sludge and its application: turning wastewater treatment plant into resource recovery plant

Yuemei Lin

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The



DIGITAL PLATFORM FOR ADVANCED CONTROL AND MITIGATION OF INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGES IN SEWER NETWORKS AND WWTP

Pablo Montalvillo1, Michal Klimacek2

1Idrica, Spain; 2Xylem Inc., Eastern Europe



The behaviour of microplastics in the municipal wastewater treatment plant of Veszprém

Viktória Pitás1, Viola Somogyi1, Balázs Volf2, Attila Radács2, Gábor Bordós3, Bence Prikler3,4, Brigitta Fekete-Nyírő3, István Szabó4, Sándor Szoboszlay4, Adrienn Micsinai3

1University of Pannonia, Sustainability Solutions Research Laboratory; 2Bakonykarszt Zrt.; 3Eurofins Analytical Services Hungary Kft.; 4Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Aquaculture and Environmental Safety



The difference in carbon footprint among conventional activated sludge, membrane bioreactor and moving-bed bioreactor technologies in wastewater treatment plants

Quyen Tri Le1, Hung Quoc Bui2, Hélène Hauduc3, Imre Takacs3

1Tampere University, Finland; 2Ramboll Finland Oy; 3Dynamita



Decision support tool for the mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions

Matthew Gray1, Juliane Thamm2, Marie Inizan2, Michael Haeck2, Stuart Ainsworth3

1Hach, United States of America; 2Hach, Germany; 3Hach, Spain



Comparison Optimum Removal of COD and Colour from Palm Oil Effluent using Carbon Nanotubes, Granular Activated Carbon and Heated Activated Zeolite

Arezoo Fereidonian Dashti1, Rohana Adnan2, Ubah Promise Chima3

1School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM Penang, Malaysia; 2School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM Penang, Malaysia; 3School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM Penang, Malaysia



Definition of the parameter system for ADV measurement of local flow characteristics of wastewater treatment facilities

Katalin Kiss1, Miklos Patziger2

1Budapest Sewage Works, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; 2Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary



Comparative study of EPS between flocculent sludge and granular sludge

Ji Li1,2, Yuemei Lin1, Xiaodi Hao2, Mark van Loosdrecht1

1Delft University of Technology; 2Beijing University of Civil Engineering & Architecture



Design Efficiency – Options and Scenarios for Prishtina WWTP

Sokol Xhafa, Miklos Patziger

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary



Benefits and experiences of partial nitrification in mainstream wastewater treatment

Zuzana Kalinčíková, Jindřich Procházka

Xylem Česká republika spol. s r.o., Czech Republic



Detectable Potassium reduction in different wastewater treatment systems

László Tutor1, András Béres2, András Barczi3, Márk Kálmán Horváth4, Gábor Géczi4

1Doctoral School of Environmental Science, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science, Hungary; 2University Laboratory Center, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science, Hungary; 3Department of Agricultural Economics and Policy, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science, Hungary; 4Department of Environmental Analysis and Technologies, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science, Hungary



A flexible tool for integrated planning, design, and operation of urban wastewater systems

Lorenzo Benedetti1, Heather Stewart2, William McMillin2, Zsolt Haszpra3, Péter Budai3, Annette Brink-Kjaer4

1Waterways d.o.o., Croatia; 2Jacobs, USA; 3Dynamita S.A.R.L., France; 4VCS Denmark, Denmark



Satellite Monitoring of Ponds Treatment Systems

Emiliano Aguerreberry1, Maestri Franco1, Regueira Jose Maria1, Yanil Hepp2, Gabriel Platzeck2

1National Directorate of Drinking Water and Sanitation; 2INVAP S.E.



Negative role of filamentous bulking and its elimination in anammox process

Dong Li, Huiping Zeng

Beijing University of Technology, China, People's Republic of



Water Reuse and Circularity Implications – Best Practices for Ensuring Integrity of Advanced Treatment Processes via Upstream Optimization and Online Monitoring

Steve Myers, Bob Dabkowski, Maureen Wagner

Hach, United States of America



Grey Water Footprint of Urban Wastewater Treatment Plants in Turkiye

Goksen Capar1, Asligül Yilmaz2, Tugba Kutlu3

1Ankara University Water Management Institute, Turkiye; 2Ankara University Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Department of Integrated Water Management, Turkiye; 3Ankara University Graduate School of Social Sciences, Department of Water Policy and Security, Turkiye



15 years of ozonation for micropollutants removal in Europe

Arne Wieland1, Achim Ried1, Thomas R. Franz1, Zsombor Vankos2

1Xylem, Germany; 2Xylem, Hungary



Climate Change Adaptation Measures for Wastewater Treatment Plants in Jeju Province South Korea

Jinkeun Kim

Jeju National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)



Study on Development of Energy Neutral Technology using Sewage Sludge-Derived Fiber Utilization System

Hiroya Miyamoto1, Hiroyuki Fujimoto1, Kaoru Namekata1, Masato Ishikawa2, Eiji Tochioka2, Manabu Yamashita2, Masaaki Fukuda3, Ryota Kamimoto3

1Japan Institute of Wastewater Engineering and Technology, Japan; 2Ishigaki Co, LTD.; 3Kumamoto City Waterworks and Sewerage Bureau



Forecasting Treatment Plant Influent using Physics-informed Convolutional Neural Networks

Abhiram Mullapudi, Nick Mills, Richard Loeffler

Xylem, United States of America



Energy-Saving by an FF-FB Control Strategy Using Ammonia as an Indicator and Improvement of Blower Operations

Jixian Zhan, Masaki Ikehata

Water Agency Inc., Japan



Study on Energy Saving Effect of Newly Developed Blowers in Wastewater Treatment Plants

Rika Gono, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Kaoru Namekata

Japan Institute of Wastewater Enginiaring and Technology, Japan



Removal of Carbamazepine from Wastewater using Thermoplastic Polyester Elastomer: Adsorption Isotherm, Kinetic Data Measured by GC-MS for Process Optimization

Parisa Mahdavi, Antje Siol, Jorg Thöming

UFT, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany



Permeable Pavement Evaluation for Pollutants Removal Efficiency and Permeability using Standard Pollutants

Taeyang Kim, Jaemyeong Choi, Sang-eon Lee, Soonchul Kwon

Pusan National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)



Ensuring Cost-Effective Reliability in High-Performance Wastewater Treatment: A Case Study

Peter Naylor1, Khaled Zubari2, Tom Curtis3

1Muharraq Wastewater Services Company, Bahrain; 2Newcastle Univsrsity, NE1 7RU, UK; 3Newcastle Univsrsity, NE1 7RU, UK



Packed Bed Electro Reactor for High Efficiency Wastewater Treatment of Organics and Technical Grade Oil Recovery from Palm Oil Refinery Effluent (PORE)

Muhamad Farhan Haqeem Othman1, Razam Abdul Latip1, Norliza Saparin1, Dzul Hilmi Abdul Rahman2, Mohammad Saiful Nidzam Ismail2, Mohd Shiraz Aris1, Syed Said Syed Saggaf1

1Sime Darby Plantation Research Sdn Bhd, Malaysia; 2Sime Darby Oils Sdn Bhd, Malaysia



Concept of sustainable development of the Central wastewater treatment plant in Prague

Jiří Rosický1, Martin Srb2, Milan Lánský2, Petr Sýkora2

1Pražská vodohospodářská společnost a.s.; 2Pražské vodovody a kanalizace, a.s.



A study on Mitigating Non-point Source Pollutant of Carbon-based Filter and Permeable Block

Yongju Kwon, Jongyeong Kim, Joowon Choi, Soonchul Kwon

Pusan National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)



Study on Different Microalgae Ratios in Chlorella- Tetraselmis Consortium for Synthetic Dairy Effluent Removal

Sara Mahdavi, Kasra Darabi, Omid Tavakoli

School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering , University of Tehran, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran



Pipeline Open Data Standard (PODS) use in managing water pipeline inspection services data

Joann Ren1, Brandon ODaniel1, Michal Klimacek2

1Xylem, United States of America; 2Xylem Inc., Eastern Europe



Removal of 53 micropollutants during ozonation, chlorination, and UV/H2O2 processes

Kyung-Duk Zoh, Seungwoon Sohn, Moon-Kyung Kim

Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea



A new design approach for optimized denitrification in BNR configurations achieving low effluent nutrient limits

Güçlü Insel, Nazik Artan, Didem Guven, Emine Cokgor, Goksin Ozyildiz

Istanbul Technical University, Environmental Engineering Dept., Maslak, Istanbul, Türkiye



Enhancing Construction Management Efficiency of Malaysian Large Wastewater Treatment Plants by Predictive Modelling

Juliana Abd Jalil, Wan Hanna Melini Wan Mokhtar

Sewerage Services Department, Malaysia, Malaysia



An innovative solar greenhouse for enhanced sewage sludge drying: a case study

Alice Sorrenti, Santo Fabio Corsino, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Michele Torregrossa

Department of Engineering,University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze,90128 Palermo, Italy



An Intermediate Thermal Hydrolysis in Large Wastewater Treatment Plant. The first Results

Ester Rus, Davy Ringoot, Jacek Kościukiewicz

Cambi Solutions AS, Norway



Demonstration of a robust machine learning tool for predicting influent flows in wastewater treatment plants

Peter Budai, Adrianavalona Harinaivo, Jiaying Wang, Ferenc Házi, Imre Takács

Dynamita SARL, France



Renewable Power-to-X for water resource recovery facilities (RePtX-WRRFs): an illustration of Wind-PtA-BSM2

Qipeng Liu1, Joachim Weel Rosbo1, Shi You2, Xavier Flores-Alsina1, Krist V.Gernaey1

1Process and Systems Engineering Centre (PROSYS), Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark; 2Power and Energy Systems, Power-to-X and Storage, Department of Wind and Energy Systems, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark



Elucidating the role of the discharges from a regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in the eutrophication of a mayor reservoir of Puerto Rico

Gustavo A. Martinez, Miguel Vazquez

University of Puerto Rico, United States of America

 

 
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