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  Pirna, upon the banks of the Elbe River (15 km SE from Dresden) Location

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

4. Basic study program Education 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. CHAIR WASTE MANAGEMENT Prof. Dr. Bernd Bilitewski Research 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. 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 CHAIR WASTE MANAGEMENT Prof. Dr. Bernd Bilitewski Research

8. CHAIR CONTAMINATED SITE TREATMENT Prof. Dr. Peter Werner Research 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. CHAIR CONTAMINATED SITE TREATMENT Prof. Dr. Peter Werner Research 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. SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES Prof. Dr. Peter-Wolfgang Gräber Research 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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