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The Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management (ISWA) is a research and training facility of the University of Stuttgart (Universität Stuttgart) within the faculty of "Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences". The University’s Sewage Treatment Plant for Research and Teaching, which is situated within the institute, is unique throughout Europe.
Experts from various engineering and natural sciences work together at our institute on an interdisciplinary basis. Our principal areas of expertise are the classical engineering tasks in the environmental fields of water, wastewater, solid waste, soil and exhaust air.
The continuous development of technical facilities and practical methods in the fields of industrial and municipal supply and disposal are the focus of our interest. Our experience is also incorporated in the monitoring and development of quality assurance measures and management systems.
Our institute, which is known today as the Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management (ISWA), was founded as the "Institute for Sanitary Engineering and Health Technology" in the early 1950s. At that time it was the first educational establishment in Germany for civil engineers in the field of water and solid waste in urban development. In the 1970s the first chair of solid waste management at a German university was created. Today, our institute is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
The four chairs at the ISWA:
represent the broad spectrum of environmental issues that occupy us in two departments and seven sections.
The institute currently employs around 100 people; five professors and about sixty academic employees, supported by a considerable number of academic and student assistants as well as technical and administrative staff. All necessary facilities, from the research treatment plant, laboratories and lecture rooms, to the technical library and computer workstations equipped with specialist applications, are available for university teaching and research. One of the special features of our institute is the sewage treatment plant for research and education, which routinely also cleans the wastewater from the campus in Vaihingen and the district Stuttgart Büsnau.
Our laboratories are excellently equipped for extensive investigations in a wide variety of environmental fields (water, wastewater, solid waste/soil, air). We have a large amount of (online) measuring equipment available for experiments on a laboratory scale, semitechnical scale and technical scale. In particular, this includes equipment for organic trace analysis; in part, these are operated using special coupling techniques for mass spectrometry (GCMS-MS, HPLCMS- MS). We also utilize computer supported prediction methods. With the aid of specially designed computer applications, modelling of processes in water and wastewater treatment is possible; measures in the fields of rainwater management and waste management concepts can be modelled, as well as geochemical simulations being carried out. The continuously improved computer simulations serve process control or decision making at various levels.
The aim of research and education at the Chair of Waste Management and Emissions is to assure resource conservation and climate protection in a sustainable manner. Within this context, material flows that become waste as result of the use of resources, their treatment processes, along with the emissions from waste treatment plants, are considered. The topic of biological waste air purification is dealt in a special department within the chair. Considering that sustainable waste management gives priority to actions that counteract the generation of waste, fundamental waste management processes, which serve as cornerstones for sustainable resource management, span from the generation of waste and its avoidance, over the recovery of materials and energy from waste, up to the environmentally sound disposal of wastes and the control of the associated emissions.
Education and research encompass a holistic approach to waste management, from waste avoidance, to the valorisation of wastes, up to the environmentally sound disposal of residual waste. Beside the lectures offered for Civil Engineering students, courses are specially tailored for the German taught Environmental Engineering program, and the international Master of Science program "Air Quality Control, Solid Waste and Waste Water Process Engineering - WASTE".
Research is focused on the following fields:
The Chair of Waste Management and Emissions is a member of several competence networks e.g. Competence Centre Environmental Engineering (Kompetenzzentrum für Umweltschutz Region Stuttgart (KURS e.V.)) and several standardization committees and scientific advisory boards, and a result has established numerous contacts and cooperation agreements with several research institutions, public waste management authorities and private enterprises. Cooperation with foreign universities and research institutions have been established through international research projects.
The Chair’s staff, including lecturers, researchers and external readers, holds lectures covering several study courses, and supervises students from different academic programmes:
International Projects*:
* All listed projects are described in detail in the Institute report, which can be downloaded by our homepage
Under the auspices of the Chair, scientific colloquia and congresses on current topics of national significance relating to solid waste management have been held. Our academic employees are represented on numerous national and international boards as well as on technical and standardization committees of various technicalscientific organizations.
Conferences:
Cooperation agreements in research and education exist by SOKRATES and ERASMUS-Programs. They have been established with:
There are several international research projects with other Universities in Europe, Asia, America and Africa.
The professors of ISWA together with their collegues from IWS founded the "Wasserforschungszentrum Stuttgart" - wfz (Water Research Center Stuttgart) end of 2007. The wfz is an international engineering center for water research that supports and interdisciplinarily networks teaching (academic studies), instruction (pHD students), research and practice.
Universität Stuttgart
Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management
Chair of Waste Management and Emissions
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kranert
Bandtäle 2
70569 Stuttgart-Büsnau
Telephone: +49 (0)711/685-65500 o. -65495
Telefax: +49 (0)711/685-65460
E-Mail: martin.kranert@iswa.uni-stuttgart.de
Website: www.iswa.uni-stuttgart.de
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