Process Studies
We study the processes which are responsible for
the behaviour of organic compounds in the water bodies and technical systems by
use of laboratory and field studies on different scales. Main focus is on
biological and abiotic transformation as well as sorption. According to the
research questions, relevant matrices (activated sludge, soil, surface water,
groundwater) from appropriate sites as well as model systems (e.g. batch
studies, pilot treatment plants, bacterial cultures) are used or field studies
are conducted. The results are included in exposure and effect models and used
for the prediction and assessment of organic contaminant’s occurrence and fate
in the watercycle.
Contact persons
Projects
- Bioavailability of sulfonamide antibiotics
- Benzotriazols in the aquatic environment
- Integration of internal metabolites in effect modelling of insecticides in Daphnia Magna
- EvoChemTox
- Formation of Nonextractable Residues of Sulfonamides with Organic Matter - Mechanisms and Detection by High Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometry
- Computational prediction of biodegradation pathways of environmental contaminants
- Influence of the river revitalisation on the behaviour of organic micropollutants in the Thur valley within CCES project Record
- Development
of Passive Sampling for Water Quality Assessment and for Simulating the
Bioconcentration in Aquatic Organism Under Pulsed Exposure Conditions
Closed projects
- Predicting sorption of neutral and ionic complex contaminants
- Phencon: Phenolic endocrines disuptors in the aquatic environment
- Heterocyclic aromatic compounds and other tar oil typical contaminants in groundwater - identification, quantification and metabolism
- Anaerobic degradation of steroid hormones by novel denitrifying bacteria