DRIZZLE at Almedalsveckan

Come and participate in the seminar "Stormwater is a resource!" that DRIZZLE is part of during Almedalsveckan!

Time: Tuesday, July 2 at 11.45 - 13.15
Location: Arena City Development Days, Trappgränd (between St Hansgatan and Mellangatan, Visby)

"Svampen" takes care of large stormwater volumes

How can large amounts of stormwater be taken care of in built-up areas where there is lack of space? This is a question that researchers in the DRIZZLE competence center want to answer in a project with the work name "Svampen".

In the media: She becomes new head of Urban Water Engineering in Örebro

Jenny Johrin is a graduate engineer from Luleå University of Technology and at the beginning of her career she has worked for two years as a urban water engineer.

Denmark's Swedish Ambassador visited LTU

Ove Ullerup, Denmark's Swedish ambassador, visited Luleå University of Technology (LTU) on May 21 to discuss cooperation opportunities between the university and Denmark. Lena Goldkuhl, VA technology, was invited to talk about "City planning of sustainable cities".

Design and environmental impact of biofilter

Laila Søberg defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Bioretention for stormwater quality treatment: Effects of design features and ambient conditions” the 29th May 2019 at Luleå University of Technology. Opponent was David McCarthy from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Improved stormwater quality using grass swales

With increasing urbanization, there will be more of hardened surfaces, such as roads, parking places and roofs. Hard surfaces cause higher levels of pollutants to storm water, higher flow rates and higher volumes. Urbanization thus affects both the quantity of water and the quality of the stormwater...

GreenNano Day May 8, 2019

On May 8, GrönNanodagen owns rooms in Stockholm.

Chemical precipitation of stormwater

On April 26, 2019, Fredrik Nyström presented his licentiate thesis "Coagulation Process Characteristics and Pollutant Removal from Urban Runoff" at a seminar with Michael Cimbritz, senior lecturer at Lund University, as discussion leader. In the paper, a chemical precipitation process has been inves...

In the media: Stormwater hero of the year 2019 awarded at Water Conference

For the first time in the Water Wastewater Circle conference's history, a prize was distributed to this year's stormwater hero. This year's award winner is Godecke Blecken, assistant professor at Luleå University of Technology.

Engineering degree with a MSc thesis about green roof functionality on cold climates

Jonathan Hjelm has completed his studies in Natural Resources Technology with a thesis on green roofs.

Industry day with focus on sewage systems

What do you do when the treatment plant burns up? In March 2018, the plant in Täfteå burned down to the ground. Urban Water-manager Robert Hansson talked about the work on crisis management and reconstruction.

New SWWA report on stormwater quality available

Recent knowledge about stormwater quality has been compiled and published in the Swedish Water and Wastwater Association (SWWA) report 2019-2 that summarizes stormwater pollutants, their sources, concentrations, and variations in concentrations.

National Conference Sewerage & Environment, #NAM19

#NAM took the lead 6-7 February 2019 in Sundsvall and Heléne Österlund from Stormwater&Sewers at LTU joined the program committee.

Press Release: New research project focuses on reducing microplastics in the Baltic Sea

Sweden Water Research

In the media: New project focuses on the Baltic Sea microplastics

The total budget is EUR 2 968 068.80, about SEK 30 million, and is financed by the EU Interreg, as well as the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency for the Swedish parties Sweden Water Research and Luleå Technical University.

Micro litter in urban environment: Analysis of anthropogenic particles accumulated in snow

Lovisa Renberg, who studied environment and water in the Civil Engineering Engineering program at Natural Resources Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, has now completed her thesis "Micro-litter in urban environment: Analysis of anthropogenic particles accumulated in snow".

Improved sanitation systems in rural areas

In large areas of northern Scandinavia on-site sanitation systems are used. In a new project investigates the function of existing treatment systems, their effect on the environment, how the treatment efficiency can be increased and which alternative systems can be used.

Sustainability and treatment efficiency of on-site sanitation systems

The PhD student Brenda Vidal presented her Licentiate thesis on December the 19th with the title “On-site Sanitation Systems – An Integrated Assessment of Treatment Efficiency and Sustainability”.

Investigates microplastics in our cities

Helene Österlund, a researcher in Urban Water Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, has been commissioned to investigate how microplastics are transported and dispersed in our city centers, stormwater systems and via busy roads. The result will show what actions will be most effective to st...

How municipalities can work with design of environmental goals

Elvira Lindström, studying Environment and Water at The Master Program Natural Resources Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, has now finalised her master thesis work Design of environmental target model, from global to local scale – Case study with focus on selection of indicators and wat...

Published:5 November 2013
Updated: 20 June 2019
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