Water treatment and the development of sustainable technological solutions for industrial water and wastewater treatment

The Water Technology Research Group plays a special role in the field of industry and education because with its foundation in 2014 a unique knowledge center was set up in Nagykanizsa in the field of water purification and water treatment.

The work of the Research Group is supported by a network of national and international industrial experts. The staff of the Group are experts in different fields (chemist, biologist, hydrobiologist, environmental engineer, geographer, hydrogeologist engineer), therefore the branching knowledge ensures the wide range of scope of the Research Group.

The main areas of research are water treatment and the development of sustainable technological solutions for industrial water and wastewater treatment. A further research direction is the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of micro-contaminant pollution (organic, inorganic pollution, microplastics) in different water bodies and their removal technologies.

The future objective is to enhance the application of artificial intelligence in current research areas, utilizing data mining tools. In case of particular company needs the Research Group undertakes to hold lectures or complex educational programmes in Hungarian or in English in connection with water treatment, new technological procedures, analytical methods, biological or microbiological questions, etc.

The Research Group has its own well equipped laboratory for doing experiments in batch or pilot scale treatment technologies with the supportation of high sensitivity analytical measurements (LC-MS; GC-MS).

MAIN ACTIVITIES:

-Reviewing water treatment systems, proposing optimization strategies, and evaluating water recycling options , and life-cycle analysis

-Conducting case studies onoperational systems, suggestingimprovements in chemical usage,and providing cost-effectivenesscalculations.

-Exploring "Zero and Minimal LiquidDischarge" and or similartechnologiesEvaluating obsolete systems andrecommending innovative, state-of-the-art technologies based oninternational practices and/orexperiments.

-Performing classical and high-sensitive instrumental waterchemistry measurements (water and sludge matrices) (notaccredited).

-Evaluating obsolete systems andrecommending innovative, state-of-the-art technologies based oninternational practices and/orexperiments.

-Designing and performing lab-and pilot-scale membranetechnology experiments, includingmicrofiltration, ultrafiltration,nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, andforward osmosis.

-Developing low-cost and magneticadsorbents for wastewatertreatment (e.g., pesticide removal,irrigation use).

-Developing biosensors formeasuring organic micropollutants.

-Establishing Water 4.0 framework-supervised water treatment andmonitoring systems.