Conference brings together municipal enterprises responsible for drinking water supply and sewerage collection and treatment

From 18th to 20th May Kamila Gruskevica, Janis Rubulis and Sandis Dejus participated in Baltic water works conference 2016, held in cruise ship Tallink M/S Victoria I. Conference brings together municipal enterprises responsible for drinking water supply and sewerage collection and treatment; and industrial partners from Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian.

In conferences plenary session Kamila Gruskevica spoked about «Drinking water quality effect on the corrosion of the cast iron pipes» and Janis Rubulis about «Drinking water network flushing: tool to save water quality». On 20th May after come back in Tallin all group visited Tallinn waste water treatment plant.

The 8th Eastern European Young Water Professionals Conference

Sandis Dejus from 12th to 14th May participated in «The 8th Eastern European Young Water Professionals Conference», held in Poland Gdansk University of Technology. In 12th may he presented report «Long term drinking water quality monitoring in drinking water supply systems by on-line sensors».

Conferences home page.

Abstract (pp 73-74)

Biosystems Engineering 2016

From 12th to 13th May Brigita Dalecka, Linda Mezule and Kristina Tihomirova participated in an international scientific conference «Biosystems Engineering 2016» held in Tartu, Estonia. The goal of BSE 2016 was to gather scholars from all over the World to present latest advances in various fields of biosystems engineering. Conference participants had the opportunity to get acquainted with our latest research «Influence of mechanical pre-treatment on fermentable sugar production from lignocellulosic biomass» and «Main Limitations of hydrolysed hay sugar content analysis by HPLC-RI technique».

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European Biotechnology Congress 2016

In Riga, Latvia from 5th till 7th May were «European Biotechnology Congress 2016». On Friday, 6th May, Linda Mezule delivered a report «Efficient, environmentally friendly techniques for lignocellulosic biomass pre-treatment/hydrolysis to produce liquid biofuels».

Congress homepage.

RTU annual Alumni Day

On Friday, 29th April, in Kipsala, Riga Technical University (RTU) campus were RTU annual Alumni Day. Event day program was held Forum of ideas where participated Linda Mezule. She talked about idea generation process. After forum were Live Library. In the evening were RTU Honorary graduate and RTU angels award ceremony.

Photos: RTU Alumni Association

Gudrs, vēl gudrāks

On 22th April in the LTV1 programme «Gudrs, vēl gudrāks» where was final for 12th class one of the questions were experiment made by Talis Juhna and Sandis Dejus. They for the experiment used two beakers, which poured in deionized water and placed electrodes, which are connected to a power source. The finalists had to answer the question «What kind of chemical process takes place in the measuring cup, and why each water turns a different color» after each tipped onto 2gr table salt.

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Representatives from Aqua-Brambis Ltd

On March 30 Talis Juhna, Kristina Tihomirova and Janis Rubulis met with representatives from Aqua-Brambis Ltd (Aivars Brambis and Juris Laicans). Company (http://www.aqua-brambis.lv/) is one of the oldest working in field of consulting and design of water and wastewater systems in Latvia. During the meeting partners had speeches about education of water engineers in Latvia and possible closer cooperation in near future.

Story of NeoZeo and RTU researchers innovative facility

On 22th March, in the LNT broadcast «LNT news» was the story of NeoZeo and RTU researchers innovative facility that allows upgrading biogas into biomethane. It cleans the biogas from hydrogen sulfide, moisture and carbon dioxide, compresses it to the required pressure, as well as storing the resulting product. The facility is able to produce smaller volumes that is suitable for farmers. Currently, these device are used on the farm «Vecsiljāņi».

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Risk management of drinking water supply systems

On March 17th in Riga Technical University, Kipsalas street 6a room 256 at 14:00 o’clock will be held a professors Thomas Pettersson lecture «Risk management of drinking water supply systems». Thomass is leading the drinking water research centre DRICKS at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. Thomas has his expertize within risk assessment/management, raw water protection and distribution network management and renewal.

To this lecture are invited all interested.

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Thomass Pettersson, a leader of the drinking water research center DRICKS (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), and PhD students Saeed Mohlesi and Victor Vinas have visited Water Research Laboratory on March 16-17th. The main topics of the presentations and discussion between two teams were about drinking water on-line monitoring and modelling, and microbial risks analysis. Additionally, Thomass Pettersson have given a lecture on «Risk management of drinking water supply systems», which covered risk assessment and management in a water safety plan context.