Forschungsseminar: Vortrag von Dr.-Ing. Benedikt Aumeier, Hochschule für Life Sciences FHNW

Dr.-Ing. Benedikt Aumeier holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University. His research group "Advanced Water Treatment" at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) deals with the question how to manage the anthropogenic water cycle and material cycles to supply water in sufficient quality and quantity for a growing world population in view of an accelerating climate change and attributed challenges. In the research projects, Benedikt Aumeier and his colleagues develop approaches that reflect closed water cycles contrasting the traditionally linear “take-make-waste” paradigm of centralized water supply and waste water discharge. Hence, advanced water treatment may be employed on either side, wastewater treatment or drinking water purification. This paradigm change is also propelled by current regulative initiatives, e.g. revised EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive and EU regulation for agricultural water reuse.

Hence, target contaminants include:

• trace organic chemicals (e.g. pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial chemicals) and in particular, persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) substances (e.g. PFAS),
• pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, protozoa), and
• antibiotic-resistant bacteria and resistance genes.

The developed hybrid treatment processes rely on different physical, chemical and biological removal mechanisms to offer multiple barriers against contaminants. Notably, the investigated hybrid treatment processes often combine separation and conversion.

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