Wastewater treatment technologies

Nina Poutanen: Concrete corrosion in water treatment plants: origin, effects and solutions.

Tiitu Taipale: Biological nitrogen removal from cold and low carbon mining wastewater - An application of MBBR technology (supported by Agnico Eagles Kittilä)

Ksenija Golovko: Application of advanced oxidation processes for removal of antibiotics and a wide range of antibiotic resistance genes from Finnish reject waters.

Daria Popova: Water quality effects in battery metals flowsheets focusing on magnesium in lithium-rich brines (supported by Metso)

Milla Sieranen: Nitrous oxide emissions at three Finnish wastewater treatment plants – Mechanisms behind nitrous oxide emissions and potential of process modelling in emission quantification.

Osama El Asri: Mitigation of ammonia and methane emissions in pre-treatment of fertilizer recovery process.

Marie Hedström: Operational environmental handprint for wet waste and wastewater treatment on large ships (supported by Evac).

Tuomas Kiviluoto: Enhancing nitrogen removal from cold wastewater - A pilot study of an integrated fixed film activated sludge treatment process.

Nea Rautiainen: Recent changes in diet and its impact on wastewater treatment.

Helena Hilander: Nitrous oxide emission dynamics and emission factors of two Finnish wastewater treatment plants.

Oona Kinnunen: Study of microbial population involved in nitrogen removal and nitrous oxide emission at wastewater treatment plants.

Talvikki Suhonen: Evaluating the potency of granular activated sludge in removing nitrogen from recirculating aquaculture system (supported by LUKE).

Sadia Saleem: Optimizing the start-up phase for granular activated sludge using bio char / sludge char powder (supported by LUKE).

Maija Ahonen: Effects of wastewater heat recovery on nitrogen removal in Finnish wastewater treatment plants.

Alexis Awaitey: Carbon footprint of Finnish wastewater treatment plants (supported by FCG).

Omar Elgadhar: Investigating the use of aerobic granular sludge for removal of nitrogenous compounds for wastewater treatment in a recirculating aquaculture system (supported by LUKE).

Chen Xin Sen: Development of antibiotic resistance detection method for the express analysis of wastewater effluents.

Sanni Eerikäinen: Developing process control and operation of Finnish municipal wastewater treatment plants with data analytics: examples from process industries and international utilities.

Oula Mikkola: Estimating microplastic concentrations and loads in cruise ship grey waters (supported by Evac).

Ilaria Righetto: Utilization of natural coagulants for improving nutrient recovery with membrane contactor technology.

Lauri Pöyry: Modelling wastewater aeration system and high-speed turbo blower for energy efficiency improvements (supported by ABB).

Kiia Mölsä: Life cycle assessment of a wastewater treatment and a sludge handling process - Current state and future scenarios (supported by HSY).

Frank Segessenmann: Improving organization of water treatment projects with a collaborative database connecting schematics, 3D models and other. Case study: Geneva wastewater treatment plant (supported by BG Ingénieurs Conseil).

Katriina Rajala: Removal of microplastics by coagulation/flocculation from municipal wastewater (supported by Kemira).

Irene Konola: Optimization and quality assessment of fertilizers based on resource recovery technologies.

Shanna Myers: Nitrous oxide and gas transfer in full-scale activated sludge basins.