Best paper award!
Water Research laboratory team (Researcher Sandis Dejus and Profesor Talis Juhna) made research and wrote a paper “Detection of drinking water contamination with Mahalanobis distance method, using on-line monitoring sensors and manual measurement data” – which has been chosen as the inaugural Water Supply best Paper for 2018! This also will be announced in Volume 19, Issue 8 of Water Supply via an Editorial. Congratulations!
The super-food spirulin, grown by RTU scientists, is coming to the market
Water research laboratory senior researcher Kristīne Veģere is a part of the team who transformed idea of cultivating the valuable tropical spirulina in cool climates into a ready-to-market product. More about this read here.
Presentation at the Health inspectorate of Latvia
At the beginning of November, WRL staff made several presentations at the Health Inspectorate, 7 Klijanu Street, where the audience was hygienists. Talis Juhna talked for more than an hour about drinking water treatment technologies for the removal of iron, manganese and ammonium. Sandis Dejus presented her dissertation research on online monitoring of drinking water quality and the U-Vitamins initiative. Janis Rubulis, for his part, gave a detailed account of the risk analysis conducted by Madonas Udens Ltd in the context of Water Safety Plans.
Ogre River monitoring during NOAH project
In April in NOAH project, geospatial measurements were made, i.e. using a drone for the water and shore area of the Ogre River and some of the most important objects. Measurements were made in approximately 20 km distance from the A6 motorway in Ogre to the administrative boundary of Ogresgala parish. From the airborne surveys, measurements later will be generated the 3D model of the area for the flood modeling. Photos from J.Zvirgzds personal archive.
New Doctor in Water Research Laboratory
We are proud to announce that Sandis Dejus, a researcher at our Water Research Laboratory, successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Online Monitoring of Drinking Water Quality”. Within the framework of the doctoral thesis, analysis of drinking water quality monitoring requirements and systems was performed and a new solution for drinking water quality online monitoring was developed.
And on 25th of February at the meeting of the Senate of the Riga Technical University (RTU) our new Dr.Sc.ing. Sandis Dejus received his diploma!
Congratulations!
RTU practical experience in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
From 19.11.2018. to 08.12.2018. Vahur Rooni from Estonian University of Life Sciences (EULS) and Ieva Berzina from Riga Technical University (RTU) visited Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to obtain practical experience in filtration-separation technologies of fermentable sugars, perform sugar analysis with HPLC and other techniques and learn about continuous fermentation. Part of the tests has been performed with pre-treated and hydrolyzed biomass that has been prepared in EULS and RTU in November 2018. The activities were part of INNO-INDIGO IPP3 project B-LIQ “Development of an Integrated Process for Conversion of Biomass to Affordable Liquid Biofuel”
Workshop for students in Jurmalas Udens Ltd.
On November 27th the “Wastewater management and modernization of wastewater technologies” workshop for students took place in Jurmala, Latvia. The workshop was organized within the activities of framework project BEST – Better Efficiency for Industrial Sewage Treatment #R054, PVS ID 3315 and supported by municipal water and wastewater utility “Jurmalas udens” Ltd. and the Department of Water Engineering and Technology of RTU.
During the workshop series experts from RTU Water Research Laboratory, RTU Department of Water Engineering and Technology and “Jurmalas udens” Ltd. Kristina Tihomirova, Ksenija Golovko, Romans Neilands, and Guntis Klive gave the introduction regards the contemporary technologies of wastewater collection and treatment and presented the results of the various projects of modernization of wastewater collection and treatment systems implemented in Jurmala, the most popular resort town of Latvia.
Participants of the workshop had a discussion on the implementation and needs of modernization processes within the wastewater sector. They also had the opportunity to visit wastewater treatment plant Sloka in Jurmala and learn about its reconstruction history and future plans.
On October 16, in the framework project BEST – Better Efficiency for Industrial Sewage Treatment – a student workshop
On October 16, in the framework project, BEST – Better Efficiency for Industrial Sewage Treatment #R054, PVS ID 3315 (https://bestbalticproject.eu) a student workshop on the practice or water resource management and reduction of environmental pollution caused by industrial wastewater was organized.
The experts from RTU Water Research Laboratory Janis Zviedris and Kristina Tihomirova who are involved in the implementation of the project, shared the experience gained by the activities within the water sector towards the monitoring and control of the wastewater quality, cooperation between industrial organizations and municipalities and legislation on wastewater management. Also, practical tasks on wastewater management principles and the development of wastewater management plans for various industrial sectors were performed during the seminar. The results and wastewater management plans created by the students were presented at the end of the seminar.
We are thankful to the participants for the active work throughout the whole day!