The H2020 Run4Life project is organising a Stakeholder Engagement Workshop as a side event at the IFAT trade fair in Munich, on May 17th. Everyone with an interest in nutrient recovery is invited to take part in this inspiring event. The programme includes a wide variety of speakers ensuring that it will be a very… Continue reading Join Run4Life@IFAT / The virtuous circle of integrated nutrient recovery in Munich on May 17th
Author: Prithvi Simha
Implementing Urine Drying technology in Durban, South Africa
Prithvi Simha, Jenna Senecal, and Björn Vinnerås just returned after spending a week in Durban, South Africa. We travelled there to present our novel sanitation technology called alkaline urine dehydration to several potential collaborators, and to see if the technology could fit into the local context. We met with sanitation experts from the Pollution Research… Continue reading Implementing Urine Drying technology in Durban, South Africa
Edible Insects: the Value Chain, symposium at Wageningen
Last month, Giulio Zorzetto from our research group participated in the ‘Edible Insects: the value chain‘ symposium hosted by Wageningen University at Ede, Netherlands. The symposium celebrated 10 years of research related to the utilization of insects as novel food and feed. Giulio contributed to the event by presenting a poster on the cold storage… Continue reading Edible Insects: the Value Chain, symposium at Wageningen
Presentation vid mottagandet av Vattenpriset 18-03-14
I samband med att Håkan Jönsson, professor vid Forskargruppen för kretsloppsteknik mottog 2018 års vattenpris från Föreningen Vatten höll han en presentation om sin forskning och sin vision om framtidens kretsloppsanpassade avloppssystem när dess näring återförs som bra gödsel för odling av mat istället för att övergöda vatten. Bilderna tillsammans med… Continue reading Presentation vid mottagandet av Vattenpriset 18-03-14
The 2018 Water Prize ceremony in Stockholm
Professor Håkan Jonsson received the 2018 Water Prize from Föreningen Vatten yesterday (14.03.2018) for his work on nutrient recycling. Many congratulations to him from all of us at the kretsloppsteknik research group at SLU!Marta Ahlquist-Juhlén from Föreningen vatten delivering the Vatten-priset to Professor Håkan Jönsson; PC – Magnus Berglund
Framtidens avloppssystem workshop Monte Verita, 14-17 mars
Björn Vinnerås deltog i detta möte på ETHs kursgård Monte Verita i Ascona i södra delen av Schweiz. Platsen var en av de mer bildsköna mötesplatser man kan tänka sig med palmer i förgrunden och snöklädda berg i bakgrunden. Utsikten från konferenscentret Monte Verita. PC: Björn Vinnerås
Non-grid solutions for the future of urban water management workshop Monte Verita, 14-17 March
Björn Vinnerås participated in this meeting at ETH, Monte Verita venue in Ascona, Southern Switzerland. The venue was quite picturesque, with palm trees in the foreground and snowy mountains in the background.The view from the workshop venue, Monte Verita. PC: Björn Vinnerås
New study on occurrence and concentrations of PFASs in Uganda
In a very recent study published in Science of the Total Environment, Sahar Dalahmeh, a researcher at the Environmental Engineering Unit and her co-workers investigated concentrations and partitioning of 26 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in wastewater, surface water, soil and crop plants (yam, maize and sugarcane) in Nakivubo wetland and Lake Victoria at Kampala, Uganda.Location of… Continue reading New study on occurrence and concentrations of PFASs in Uganda
Water Research School annual meeting in Luleå
This year’s annual meeting of the Water Research School, of which many members of the kretsloppsteknik research group are part of, was hosted by Luleå Tekniska Universitet (LTU) between 7-8 February. Solveig Johannesdottir, Jennifer McConville and Prithvi Simha from our group made it to Luleå for the 2-day event. On the first day, they got to hear about… Continue reading Water Research School annual meeting in Luleå
Building blocks of modular BSF treatment are put together in a course
Our one-day-course in modular fly larva treatment is in high demand. After the first course opportunity in December 2017, the course was organized again on 14 March 2018, with eight participants from different Swedish companies and universities. In the morning Cecilia Lalander and Evgheni Ermolaev gave an in-depth introduction to the concept of a modular… Continue reading Building blocks of modular BSF treatment are put together in a course