Riku Vahala
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Professor Riku Vahala is specialized in water supply and sanitation where his current research interest is in natural organic matter removal from drinking water, asset management of water distribution and wastewater collection systems as well as impact of cold climate on water services. Before the university career he worked for ten years in water industry e.g. as a member of EUREAU Drinking Water and Wastewater Commissions and as a chairman of the European Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform.
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Osaamisalueet
Water and wastewater engineering, Drinking water quality, Drinking water treatment
Tutkimusryhmät
- Vesi- ja ympäristötekniikka, Vierailija (opetus- ja tutkimushenkilöstö)
Julkaisut
Feasibility and Environmental Impact of NOM Reduction by Microfiltration at a Finnish Surface Water Treatment Plant
Panu Laurell, Heikki Poutanen, Mehrdad Hesampour, Tanja Tuutijärvi, Riku Vahala
2023
Water (Switzerland)
Water quality analysis using mmWave radars
Dariush Salami, Anni Juvakoski, Riku Vahala, Michael Beigl, Stephan Sigg
2023
2023 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2023
Making waves : Mental health impacts of inadequate drinking water services — From sidenote to research focus
A. Toivettula, O. Varis, R. Vahala, A. Juvakoski
2023
Water Research
Searching for a universal water loss indicator using correlation and frontier analysis
Suvi Ahopelto, Riku Vahala
2022
WDSA - CCWI 2022 Proceedings Book Valencia 18th-22nd July
Solar disinfection – An appropriate water treatment method to inactivate faecal bacteria in cold climates
Anni Juvakoski, Gaurav Singhal, Manuel A. Manzano, Miguel Ángel Moriñigo, Riku Vahala, Irina Levchuk
2022
Science of the Total Environment
The dangerous transporters : A study of microplastic-associated bacteria passing through municipal wastewater treatment
Antonina Kruglova, Barbara Muñoz-Palazón, Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez, Anna Mikola, Riku Vahala, Julia Talvitie
2022
Environmental Pollution
Comparative life cycle assessment of activated carbon production from various raw materials
Anna Vilén, Panu Laurell, Riku Vahala
2022
Journal of Environmental Management
Evaluating the nitrogen-contaminated groundwater treatment by a denitrifying granular sludge bioreactor : effect of organic matter loading
Barbara Muñoz-Palazon, Alejandro Rodriguez-Sanchez, Miguel Hurtado-Martinez, Jesús Gonzalez-Lopez, Riku Vahala, Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez
2021
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Tailoring metal-impregnated biochars for selective removal of natural organic matter and dissolved phosphorus from the aqueous phase
Oleksii Tomin, Riku Vahala, Maryam Roza Yazdani
2021
MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Inactivation of simulated aquaculture stream bacteria at low temperature using advanced UVA- and solar-based oxidation methods
Elena Villar-Navarro, Irina Levchuk, Juan José Rueda-Márquez, Tomáš Homola, Miguel Ángel Moriñigo, Riku Vahala, Manuel Manzano
2021
Solar Energy