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Our database contains all of TZW’s ongoing research projects and completed projects up to 2010. By filtering by category or time you can find the specific topic you’re looking for.

Our database contains all of TZW’s ongoing research projects and completed projects up to 2010. By filtering by category or time you can find the specific topic you’re looking for.

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Clean drinking water must continue to be secured (Image: Katja Just on Pixabay)
Practical projects
Resource Protection and Risk Management in Drinking Water supply (ResiTrink!)

The new EU Drinking Water Directive calls for increased resource protection and risk management in the catchment area of drinking water abstraction. How can this be implemented in German legislation? Together with the drinking water supplier bnNETZE…

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cup-plant – energy plant (Source: Energiepark Hahnennest)
Practical projects
Nitrate nitrogen content of the soil under energie plant Silphie

Within the course of a short study, the estimation and evaluation of nitrate leaching from areas with the energy plant Silphie has been carried out and compared to the nitrate leaching from energy maize areas. The nitrate leaching was estimated using…

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Practical projects
Risk Management for catchment areas of drinking water reservoirs

Risk management in drinking water supply is an effective instrument to prevent any negative impacts on the safety of water supply. TZW has developed new methodological approaches for the Saxonian State Reservoir Administration…

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Practical projects
Golf course maintenance and pesticide use

In the pilot project, a novel approach was developed to systematically assess the possible risks to groundwater caused by the active substances in pesticides and their metabolites as a result of golf course maintenance. The aim was to establish a…

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Activated carbon in drinking water treatment plants

Due to different adsorption properties activated carbons based on bituminous coal cannot be replaced by coconut shells based activated carbons in drinkingwater treatment plants in most cases without accepting a significant reduction in adsorption…

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Practical projects
Nitrate removal by reverse osmosis

Increasing nitrate concentrations in groundwater force water supply companies with the challenge of complying with the nitrate limit value specified in the Drinking Water Guideline. If desirable preventive measures in the catchment area not…

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Practical projects
Flushing drinking water networks efficiently with condition-based network flushing

In recent years, TZW has developed the methodology of condition-based network flushing as a result of research and consultancy projects. Positive practical experience has led to this approach being taken into account in the revision of DVGW rule W…

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Practical projects
Water losses - no thanks!

Experts at TZW have been working on the topics of water consumption and digitalisation for years. One aspect is analysing large amounts of data with the aim of gaining new insights and thus creating added value. Together with Wasserwerke Zwickau, TZW…

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