Wetsus

Wetsus, the European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, will offer up to 9 fully funded PhD positions in water technology during their autumn 2025 call. The research focuses on five main areas: Sustainable water supply Wastewater treatment and reuse New water sources Reuse of components and production of energy Sensoring of micro/nano pollutants....

Concerns about the occurrence of highly persistent organic substances, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances  (PFAS), in all major water bodies used for drinking water production have steadily been increasing in recent years. To ensure the quality of our drinking water, there is an urgent need to effectively remove these substances. Pressure-driven membrane filtration can....

In water technology, the demand for bipolar membranes is steadily rising. Bipolar membranes split water into protons and hydroxyl ions allowing the industrial on-site production of e.g. acid and base. At Wetsus we are developing many novel processes requiring bipolar membranes: e.g., producing on-site acid and base from desalination brines, concentrating gases from waste streams....

Nanobubbles (NBs), minute gas-filled cavities within liquids, were first hypothesized approximately 30 years ago. Despite initial skepticism regarding their existence, advancements in detection techniques have now enabled their unequivocal identification and measurement in aqueous environments. The first Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) image of NBs was captured in 2000, followed by the first cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy....