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Dieses Fachbuch dient als Planungswerkzeug für nachhaltiges Bauen im Wohnungsbau, sowohl bei Neubauten als auch beim Bauen im Bestand. Es werden alle relevanten Kriterien erläutert, die beim nachhaltigen Bauen zu beachten sind. Neben konkreten Maßnahmen zur Zielerreichung wird erläutert, wie die vorgestellten Kriterien bei einer Nachhaltigkeitszertifizierung mit dem Deutschen Gütesiegel für nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB) und dem Qualitätssiegel Nachhaltiger Wohnungsbau (NaWoh) einbezogen und bewertet werden. Jedes Kapitel bietet zusammenfassende Checklisten, mit denen anstehende Bau- und Modernisierungsaufgaben systematisch angegangen werden können.
Die Rückführung von Prozesswasser aus der Faulschlammentwässerung kommunaler Kläranlagen führt insbesondere durch dessen hohe Ammoniumkonzentration zu einer stofflichen Rückbelastung der Abwasserbehandlung. Zur separaten Prozesswasserbehandlung wurde auf der Hauptkläranlage Münster eine großtechnische Membrankontaktorenanlage mit Vorbehandlung installiert. Es wurden Stickstoffentfernungsleistungen von durchschnittlich ca. 74 % erreicht. Betriebserfahrungen zeigen, dass neben pH-Wert, Temperatur und Volumenstrom insbesondere die Feststoffabscheidung durch die Vorbehandlung des Prozesswassers einen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf den stabilen Betrieb der Membrankontaktorenanlage hat. Mit den Membrankontaktoren konnte aus dem Prozesswasser Stickstoff als Ammoniumsulfatlösung mit einem mittleren Stickstoffanteil von ca. 2,7 % N zurückgewonnen werden.
Wastewater Generation Model to Predict Impacts of Urine Separation on Wastewater Treatment Plants
(2023)
Wastewater treatment plants are under increasing pressure to enhance resource efficiency and reduce emissions into water bodies. Separation of urine within the catchment area may be an alternative to mitigate the need for costly expansions of central wastewater treatment plant. While previous investigations assumed a spatially uniform implementation of urine separation across the catchment area, the present study introduces a modelling framework which allows to determine the influence of targeted urine separation on the operation and emissions of central wastewater treatment plants. The framework includes an adapted stochastic wastewater generation model, the Stormwater Management Model, and Activated Sludge Model No. 3 with Bio-P module (SIMBA#). The entire application is embedded in the R programming language. The model is validated by an extensive sampling and measurement campaign. Preliminary results based on observed and simulated wastewater generation and transport for a catchment area of 436 residents indicate the suitability of the model for wastewater generation and transport modelling, but also show further need for calibration.
Im Zuge des Klimawandels wird der landwirtschaftliche Bewässerungsbedarf auch in Deutschland zukünftig steigen. Die EU-Verordnung 2020/741 stellt Mindestanforderungen an die Wiederverwendung weitergehend aufbereiteten kommunalen Abwassers zur landwirtschaftlichen Bewässerung, um die Nutzung natürlicher Wasserressourcen hierfür zu begrenzen. Die EU-Verordnung wird am 26. Juni 2023 Gültigkeit erlangen und soll in Deutschland in das Wasserhaushaltsgesetz eingebettet und um eine neue Bundesverordnung ergänzt werden. Zentrales Element der Wasserwiederverwendung wird der für jeden Einzelfall zu erstellende Risikomanagementplan sein, der der Minimierung möglicher hiermit verbundener Risiken dient. Als Hilfestellung für die praktische Umsetzung von Wasserwiederverwendung wird die DWA die Merkblattreihe M-1200 veröffentlichen.
Sediment bypass tunnels are an effective countermeasure against reservoir sedimenta-tion. They are operated at supercritical sediment-laden open channel flow conditions. The major drawback of these tunnels, besides high construction costs, is the severe invert abrasion caused by these flows provoking high annual maintenance costs. The project goal was to analyze the fundamental physical processes and to develop design criteria to decrease these negative effects. A laboratory study was performed in a scaled hydraulic model flume. The project was divided in three main test phases giving new insights into the dynamics of turbulence structures and particle motions, resulting bed abrasion and their interactions in a supercritical open channel flow, respectively. In phase A the mean and turbulent flow characteristics were investigated. In phase B single sediment particle motion was analyzed. In phase C the invert abrasion development in time and space was examined.
Phase A revealed that secondary current cells affect the turbulent flow pattern leading to high bed shear stress at the wall vicinity. In phase B it was found, that particles were dominantly transported in saltation. Relationships between the saltation probability, and particle hop lengths and heights to the flow Shields parameter were found. The specific impact energy was determined by the impact velocity, number of impacts and the amount of particles transported in time. In phase C the results show that bed abrasion progresses with time both in the lateral and vertical direction. Two lateral incision chan-nels developed along the flume side walls at narrow flow conditions occurring at low flume-width to flow-depth aspect ratios b/h < 4-5, whereas randomly distributed pot-holes were found at wide channels where b/h > 4-5. The observed abrasion patterns match well with the spanwise bed shear stress distributions found in phase A. Further-more it was found that the abraded mass linearly increases with the transported sedi-ment mass allowing for a linear fit. Further results showed that abrasion increased with flow intensity and sediment transport rate, with highest values for the mean particle diameter category, whereas abrasion decreased with increasing material strength.
Finally, a new formulation was developed based on Sklar’s saltation abrasion model. A new abrasion coefficient CA is introduced correlating the impact energy and material properties with the gravimetric abrasion rate.
Bedload transport and hydro-abrasive erosion at steep bedrock rivers and hydraulic structures
(2018)
An experimental investigation of supercritical uniform and gradually varied open channel flows is presented for a wide range of Froude numbers and flume width-to-flow depth aspect ratios. The instantaneous streamwise and vertical flow velocities were measured in a laboratory flume over the entire width using a two dimensional–laser Doppler anemometry (2D-LDA) system to determine turbulence intensities, and bed and Reynolds shear stresses. The mean velocity patterns show undulation across the flume, indicating the presence of counterrotating secondary current cells. These currents redistribute turbulence intensities and bed and Reynolds shear stresses across the flume. For aspect ratios ≤ 4−5, i.e., narrow open channel flow, the velocity-dip phenomenon is identified both in the streamwise velocity and the Reynolds shear stress distributions. For high aspect ratios, i.e., wide open channel flow, the strength of secondary currents diminish toward the flume center, resulting in a 2D flow farther away from the walls and no velocity-dip phenomenon. Froude number effects on the flow characteristics are less pronounced compared to the aspect ratio effects. At high Froude numbers, the results for narrow and wide open channel flows agree well with literature data. The log-law holds in the inner region across the entire flume width for all investigated Froude numbers and aspect ratios. The Reynolds shear stress distribution agrees well with the computed spanwise bed shear stress distribution. At the flume side walls, the bed shear stresses are 20–50 % higher than the mean values. These results are verified with an engineering example in which high sediment transport and corresponding deep abrasion patterns at the side walls were observed.
Particle dynamics are investigated experimentally in supercritical high-speed open channel flow over a fixed planar bed of low relative roughness height simulating flows in high-gradient non-alluvial mountain streams and hydraulic structures. Non-dimensional equations were developed for transport mode, particle velocity, hop length and hop height accounting for a wide range of literature data encompassing sub- and supercritical flow conditions as well as planar and alluvial bed configurations. Particles were dominantly transported in saltation and particle trajectories on planar beds were rather flat and long compared with alluvial bed data due to (1) increased lift forces by spinning motion, (2) strongly downward directed secondary currents, and (3) a planar flume bed where variation in particle reflection and damping effects were minor. The analysis of particle saltation trajectories revealed that the rising and falling limbs were almost symmetrical contradicting alluvial bed data. Furthermore, no or negligible effect of particle size and shape on particle dynamics were found. Implications of experimental findings for mechanistic saltation-abrasion models are briefly discussed.
Sediment transport in high-speed flows over a fixed bed. 2: Particle impacts and abrasion prediction
(2017)
Single bed load particle impacts were experimentally investigated in supercritical open channel flow over a fixed planar bed of low relative roughness height simulating high-gradient non-alluvial mountain streams as well as hydraulic structures. Particle impact characteristics (impact velocity, impact angle, Stokes number, restitution and dynamic friction coefficients) were determined for a wide range of hydraulic parameters and particle properties. Particle impact velocity scaled with the particle velocity, and the vertical particle impact velocity increased with excess transport stage. Particle impact and rebound angles were low and decreased with transport stage. Analysis of the particle impacts with the bed revealed almost no viscous damping effects with high normal restitution coefficients exceeding unity. The normal and resultant Stokes numbers were high and above critical thresholds for viscous damping. These results are attributed to the coherent turbulent structures near the wall region, i.e. bursting motion with ejection and sweep events responsible for turbulence generation and particle transport. The tangential restitution coefficients were slightly below unity and the dynamic friction coefficients were lower than for alluvial bed data, revealing that only a small amount of horizontal energy was transferred to the bed. The abrasion prediction model formed by Sklar and Dietrich in 2004 was revised based on the new equations on vertical impact velocity and hop length covering various bed configurations. The abrasion coefficient kv was found to be vary around kv ~ 105 for hard materials (tensile strength ft > 1 MPa), one order of magnitude lower than the value assumed so far for Sklar and Dietrich's model.
Four dams in Japan and Switzerland with Sediment Bypass Tunnels (SBT) as a measure against reservoir sedimentation were monitored to analyse the effects of sediment supply on the downstream environment based on up- to downstream differences in geomorphological and biological characteristics. SBT operation times ranged from 93 years at Pfaffensprung and 17 at Asahi to only three years at Solis and no operation at Koshibu. Sediment grain size distribution was monitored, and microhabitats and invertebrates were analysed in terms of richness and composition. Results showed that grain sizes were coarser down- than upstream at dams with newly established SBTs, while they were similar or finer for dams with long SBT operation. Analysis of biotic data revealed that microhabitat and invertebrate richness was low directly below the dam but increased further downstream the longer the SBT operation. Sedentary species dominated at locations where bed conditions were stable, e.g. directly downstream of the dam at Koshibu. Recovery of downstream environment with increasing SBT operation time was disclosed by the Bray–Curtis similarity index, which evaluated an overlap between up- and downstream reaches for both microhabitat composition and invertebrate communities. With increasing operation time, both indices increased, revealing the positive effects of long-term SBT operation.
Abrasion in a concrete-lined sediment bypass tunnel is estimated using a Japanese state-of-the-art prediction model and validated by measured invert abrasion data at Asahi Reservoir, Japan. The model is described in detail, certain shortcomings are disclosed, and a revised version is proposed. The model consists of a kinetic energy term accounting for the impact by saltating particles, and a friction work term accounting for the grinding stress. It is found that the latter term yields concrete abrasion values being consistently a multiple compared to its kinetic term contradicting other research. Based on that, and a possible particle impact angle inconsistency, it is proposed to omit the friction work term. It is shown that the calculated abrasion is overestimated by 138% on average compared with that measured, if both terms are accounted for. However, promising results are obtained with only 30% overestimation by neglecting the friction work term.
To achieve the sustainable use of dams, the development of methods for sediment management in reservoirs is required. One such method includes the use of Sediment Bypass Tunnels (SBTs) to divert sediment around a dam, thereby preventing sedimentation in the reservoir. However, SBTs are prone to severe invert abrasion caused by the high sediment flux. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a measurement system of the sediment transport rate in these tunnels. One system to measure sediment transport in rivers is the Swiss plate geophone, which can register plate vibrations caused by particle impact. In Japan, the Japanese pipe microphone is used, and sediment transport is measured based on the sound emitted by the particle impact. In this study an attempt was made to optimize the advantages of both systems by fixing a microphone and an acceleration sensor to a steel plate. The results of calibration experiments with this new system are presented and compared with the existing methods. It was found that the acceleration sensor can detect sediment particles larger than 2 mm in diameter. Moreover, a new parameter, referred to as the detection rate, was introduced to describe the correlation between the actual amount of sediment and the registered output. Finally, two parameters - the saturation rate and hit rate - are introduced and exhibit strong correlation with the detection rate.
From 2023, new minimum standards for the reuse of treated wastewater will apply in the EU. Internationally, water reuse has already been a relevant issue for some time. Rising water demand worldwide, also as a result of global climate change, is increasing the scarity of freshwater resources in some areas. Reclaimed water is increasingly considered as a valuable substitute for natural water resources. Even before the new EU regulation came into force, DWA has published an extensive report covering a variety of aspects to be considered within the scope of non-potable water reuse. This article provides an overview of that DWA Topics issue “Non-Potable Water Reuse – Development, Technologies and International Framework Conditions for Agricultural, Urban and Industrial Uses”.
Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt Studierenden des Bauwesens volks- und betriebswirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge sowie die Grundlagen der Finanzierung, Investitions- und Liquiditätsplanung im Bauunternehmen.
Ein durchgängiges begleitendes Fallbeispiel aus der Baubranche veranschaulicht in Form von 39 Lernvideos und Erklärvideos den Lehrstoff und erläutert typische Problemstellungen in Bauunternehmen.
Prozesswasser aus der Faulschlammentwässerung von kommunalen Kläranlagen stellt eine zusätzliche stoffliche Belastung der Anlage in Form von Stickstoff dar. Die Hauptkläranlage Münster betreibt zur Stickstoffentfernung und -rückgewinnung aus Prozesswasser eine innovative Membrankontaktorenanlage im großtechnischen Maßstab. Im Rahmen dieser Studie werden Auswirkungen auf die Leistung und den Betrieb der Membran sowie die Verwertung des produzierten Düngers untersucht. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen Stickstoffentfernungsleistungen von ca. 85 % und eine regionale Verwertbarkeit des produzierten Düngers.
Ab 2023 gelten in der EU neue Mindeststandards für die Wiederverwendung von aufbereitetem Abwasser – und damit auch in Deutschland. International ist die Wasserwiederverwendung schon länger ein relevantes Thema. Weltweites Bevölkerungswachstum und ein damit einhergehender steigender Wasserbedarf sowie die Folgen des globalen Klimawandels verringern zunehmend die Verfügbarkeit von Süßwasserressourcen. Aufbereitetes Abwasser kann ein wertvoller Ersatz für natürliche Wasserressourcen sein. Der aktuelle DWA-Themenband „Non-Potable Water Reuse – Development, Technologies and International Framework Conditions for Agricultural, Urban and Industrial Uses“ behandelt das breite Spektrum der Wasserwiederverwendung für Nutzungen, bei denen keine Trinkwasserqualität erforderlich ist. Der vorliegende Beitrag bietet einen Überblick über die im Themenband beschriebene Herangehensweise an die Wasserwiederverwendung und die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen.
Dieses Lehrbuch führt in die Grundlagen der Immobilienbewertung ein. Studierende lernen sowohl die normierten Verfahren nach Immobilienwertermittlungsverordnung (ImmoWertV) als auch zwei sog. nicht normierte Verfahren zur Wertermittlung kennen. 23 Kurzvideos zum Vorgehen bei den einzelnen Methoden der Wertermittlung und Beispielrechnungen veranschaulichen den Lehrstoff und unterstützen beim Lernen. Das Lehrbuch ist in der Springer Vieweg Reihe "erfolgreich studieren" erschienen.
Against the background of the world population growth, accompanied by increasing water demand on the one hand and at least regionally decreasing freshwater resources as a consequence of climate change on the other hand, reclaimed water is increasingly considered as a valuable substitute for natural water resources. DWA has recently published an extensive report covering a variety of aspects to be considered within the scope of non-potable water reuse. This article provides an overview of and excerpts from DWA Topics “Non-Potable Water Reuse – Development, Technologies and International Framework Conditions for Agricultural, Urban and Industrial Uses”.
Regionale Verwertungspotentiale für mineralische Bauabfälle im Hoch- und Tiefbau. Digitale Konferenz
(2020)
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts „Ressourcenplan im Quartier – R2Q“ startete im Frühjahr 2019 ein großer Forschungsverbund aus Hochschulen, wissenschaftlichen Instituten, Praxispartnern und einer Kommune, um die Verwendung der Ressourcen Wasser, Fläche, Baustoffe und Energie in Quartieren zu bilanzieren und zu bewerten, damit ihre effiziente Verwendung im Quartier mit Hilfe neuer rechtlicher Festsetzungen zukünftig gewährleistet werden kann.
The water balance of urban areas differs considerably from the landscape water balance. Increased surface runoff, reduced groundwater recharge and evaporation change the hydrological regime, the morphology and ecology of water bodies close to the cities, the groundwater in the urban area and the urban climate. Today's urban drainage systems are designed to prevent, reduce, drain, seep away, evaporate or discharge precipitation into nearby surface waters with considerable delays. In doing so, it follows the principles of the German Water Resources Act (WHG) and the objectives of the relevant technical regulations DWA-A 102 to keep changes in the natural water balance by settlement activities as low as ecologically, technically and economically acceptable. A reference for the "natural" water balance has to be defined as a planning objective in order to quantify the hydrological changes in settlements. As a suitable reference, we propose to use the water balance of the landscape of the associated ecoregion with today's cultural land use without urban developments. This approach is more suitable to define local conditions than the water balance of the enclosed catchment. The presented calculation approach to define reference values of the water balance, uses soil and geological properties, precipitation and climate data and can be implemented and applied uniformly throughout Germany. The water balances in this study are simulated with the water balance model RoGeR. In this study, the developed approach is applied for five locations in Germany.
Im Rahmen einer nachhaltigen Stadtentwicklung wird der Vegetation die
Funktion der Beschattung und Verdunstung zugesprochen. Der Stadthydrologie fehlte hierfür bislang ein geeignetes Simulationsmodell. Der entwickelte Modellbaustein SWMM-UrbanEVA erlaubt die standortgerechte Simulation der Verdunstung von Vegetation im urbanen Raum. Für Freiflächen erfolgt die Prozessmodellierung des Energie- und Wasserhaushaltes des Systems Boden-Pflanze-Atmosphäre. Mit meteorologischen und vegetationskundlichen Kenndaten wird eine raum-zeitlich differenzierte Berechnung ermöglicht.
Die Verdunstung als Teil des urbanen Wasserhaushalts sollte aus wasserwirtschaftlicher und energetischer Sicht im Rahmen von Planungsprozessen zielgerichtet beeinflusst werden. Lösungs-strategien können nur in einem iterativen und interdisziplinä-ren Prozess entwickelt werden. So ergeben sich zahlreiche pla-nerische Optionen blau-grüner Infrastruktur, die anhand des Oxford-Quartiers in Münster exemplarisch dargestellt werden. Die erfolgreiche Umsetzung solcher ganzheitlichen Planungen erfordert interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit über bisherige kom-munale Organisations- und Arbeitsstrukturen hinweg. Je nach Planungsphase unterstützen dabei unterschiedlich differenzier-te Planungswerkzeuge die Entscheidungsfindung (zum Beispiel WABILA, SWMM-UrbanEVA).
The in-situ performance of large decentralised stormwater treatment systems is investigated by means of continuous turbidity measurements. Turbidity measurements are used as a surrogate to continuously estimate Total Suspended Solid (TSS) concentrations. TSS event loads are calculated at the inlet and outlet of two stormwater treatment systems, which both are installed at the outlet of catchments with high pollution potential. The event-specific performance is defined as ratio between TSS loads of inflow and outflow. Based on measurement data obtained, the overall TSS load retention efficiency is about 32 %.
Stormwater quality models are usually calibrated using observed pollutographs. As current models still rely on simplified model concepts for pollutant accumulation and wash-off, calibration results for continuous pollutant concentrations are highly uncertain. In this paper, we introduce an innovative calibration approach based on total suspended solids (TSS) event load distribution. The approach is applied on stormwater quality models for a flat roof and a parking lot for which reliable distributions are available. Exponential functions are employed for both TSS buildup and wash-off. Model parameters are calibrated by means of an evolutionary algorithm to minimize the distance between a parameterized lognormal distribution function and the cumulated distribution of simulated TSS event loads. Since TSS event load characteristics are probabilistically considered, the approach especially respects the stochasticity of TSS buildup and wash-off and, therefore, improves conventional stormwater quality calibration concepts. The results show that both experimental models were calibrated with high goodness-of-fit (Kolmogorov–Smirnov test statistic: 0.05). However, it is shown that events with high TSS event loads (>0.8 percentile) are generally underestimated. While this leads to a relative deviation of −28% of total TSS loads for the parking lot, the error is compensated for the flat roof (+5%). Calibrated model parameters generally tend to generate wash-off proportional to runoff, which is indicated by mass-volume curves. The approach itself is, in general, applicable and creates a new opportunity to calibrate stormwater quality models especially when calibration data is limited.
Results from a long-term stormwater quality monitoring program were used to derive total suspended solids (TSS) event load distributions at four small urban environments (flat roof, parking lot, residential catchment, high traffic street). Theoretical distribution functions were fitted to the empirical distribution functions obtained. Parameters of the theoretical distribution functions were optimized with respect to a likelihood function to get both optimized parameters and standard errors. Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling test statistics were applied to assess the goodness-of-fit between empirical and theoretical distribution. The lognormal distribution function was found to be most expressive to approximate empirical TSS event load distributions at all sites. However, the goodness-of-fit of the statistical model strongly depends on the number of events available. Based on the results of a Monte-Carlo-based resampling strategy, around 40 events should be considered.
Der Behandlung von Niederschlagsabflüssen aus Trennsystemen kommt zur Zielerreichung eines wirksamen Gewässerschutzes eine wesentliche Rolle zu. Konventionelle, zentrale Anlagen behandeln den Abfluss vor der Einleitung in das Gewässer. Zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen haben dezentrale Anlagen, die den Abfluss am Entstehungsort behandeln. Unterschiedlich belastete Oberflächenabflüsse können somit den wasserrechtlichen Anforderungen entsprechend gezielt behandelt werden. Voraussetzung zur Anwendung ist der Nachweis der vergleichbaren Reinigungsleistung zu zentralen Anlagen. In-situ Gütemessungen der Zu- und Ablauffrachten einer Behandlungsanlage ermöglichen eine datenbasierte Bewertung der Anlagenwirksamkeit.
The stormwater management model SWMM of the US EPA is widely used to analyse, design or optimise urban drainage systems. To perform advanced analysis and visualisations of model data this technical note introduces the R package swmmr. It contains functions to read and write SWMM files, initiate simulations from the R console and to convert SWMM model files to and from GIS data. Additionally, model data can be transformed to produce high quality visualisations. In accordance with SWMM’s open source policy the package can be obtained through github.com or the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
Membrane contactors are a promising alternative for nitrogen removal and recovery from process water compared
to other physicochemical and biological sidestream treatment processes. Münster wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is the first municipal WWTP in Germany operating a full-scale membrane contactor
system to improve the nitrogen elimination and recovery efficiency. Factors influencing the operation and membrane performance are investigated in an accompanying research project. Additional operational aspects of the applied membrane modules are investigated in detail using a bench-scale membrane contactor. First results of the full-scale application demonstrate a high nitrogen removal efficiency of >95%.
Bauatlas NRW: Analyse regionaler Potenziale für die Kreislaufführung von mineralischen Bauabfällen
(2020)
BIM Interdisziplinär
(2018)
Nordrhein-Westfalen braucht eine gut aufgestellte Wasserforschung,
um den heutigen und künftigen Herausforderungen im
Land sowie auch national und international gewachsen zu sein.
Eine erste Erfassung der Wasserforschung in Nordrhein-Westfalen
im Sommer 2017 vermittelte Fakten zu Bestand, Defiziten
und Entwicklungspotenzialen. Mehr als 750 Wissenschaftler
forschen in Nordrhein-Westfalen in über neunzig Forschungsgruppen
verschiedener Disziplinen zum Thema Wasser. Die
Schwerpunkte liegen primär in den Ingenieurwissenschaften,
aber auch in den Natur-, Geo-, Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften.
Universitäten, Fachhochschulen, An-Institute
sowie außeruniversitäre Forschungsinstitutionen tragen zur
breit aufgestellten Wasserforschung bei, die unter anderem in
sechs Forschungszentren und zahlreichen Kooperationsprojekten
untereinander vernetzt ist. Der guten nationalen Vernetzung der
Akteure stehen befriedigende internationale und stark ausbaufähige
europäische Kontakte gegenüber. Die internationale
Sichtbarkeit und Attraktivität der Wasserforschung in Nordrhein-
Westfalen wird ihren Spitzenleistungen in einzelnen Bereichen
nicht gerecht. Ein vertiefter Praxistransfer von Forschungsergebnissen
offeriert der Wasserwirtschaft innovative, praxistaugliche
Lösungen und zudem der Umweltwirtschaft interessantere
Marktchancen. Besonders günstige Randbedingungen
sind in den innovationsfähigen Kommunen und Wasserverbänden
des großen, dicht besiedelten und an Landschaftstypen reichen
Bundeslandes Nordrhein-Westfalen zu sehen. Im nächsten
Schritt wird zu analysieren sein, wie die Potenziale der Wasserforschung
in Nordrhein-Westfalen effizienter genutzt und ausgebaut
werden können, um zur zukunftssicheren und nachhaltigen
Ausrichtung der Wasserwirtschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen,
zu wissenschaftlicher Exzellenz und umweltwirtschaftlichem Erfolg
des Landes beizutragen.