A5084159571- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Analytical chemistry methods development
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Smart Materials for Construction
- Odor and Emission Control Technologies
- Advanced oxidation water treatment
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Arsenic contamination and mitigation
- Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
2022-2025
Technische Universität Berlin
2023-2025
University of Tübingen
2024
ABSTRACT Climate change, population growth, urbanisation and water pollution will exacerbate the closely linked challenges of quantity quality. The River Spree in Berlin, Germany, experiences recurrent low flow conditions summer with seasonal reversals certain sections river. This reverse leads to transport treated wastewater upstream possibly introduction into Lake Müggelsee, which is located city centre important for drinking production via bank filtration Berlin. A better understanding...
Fenton-like processes using persulfate for oxidative water treatment and contaminant removal can be enhanced by the addition of redox-active biochar, which accelerates reduction Fe(III) to Fe(II) increases yield reactive species that react with organic contaminants. However, available data on formation non-radical or radical in biochar/Fe(III)/persulfate system are inconsistent, limits evaluation efficiency applicability different matrices. Based competition kinetics calculations, we...
Increasing concentrations of trace organic compounds (TrOCs) in water bodies worldwide are great concern. In addition to a general load reduction and better understanding the ecotoxicological effects TrOC cocktails, it is important understand pathways fate this large group environment. The lowland River Erpe (Berlin/Brandenburg, Germany), which receives treated wastewater from an urban treatment plant, excellent site for such research, as exceptionally high compared other German rivers,...
<p>The hyporheic zone (HZ) describes an interfacial of permeable sediments, located in river beds, riparian and floodplain areas, where surface water mixes with groundwater. It exerts major control over the quality by impacting exchange processes between sediment compartment through dynamically exchanging water, temperature compounds as well demonstrating intensive nutrient turnover, providing stream a self-purification capability. Due to these properties, engineered zones that...
<p>Trace organic compounds (TrOCs) are frequently detected in surface waters such as rivers. Possible entry pathways into the environment include stormwater runoff, industrial effluents, and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents. Understanding behavior of TrOCs their transformation products (TPs) is important, they represent a risk to ecosystem human health. The hyporheic zone river shows high turnover rates for nutrients, dissolved carbon, metals, pathogens, TrOCs....