On April 10-13, 2022, the Water and Resource Recovery (WWRR) conference was held under the auspices of the International Water Association (IWA). The conference was dedicated to prof. Jan Oleszkiewicz in recognition of his contribution to the removal and recovery of nutrients at the IWA forum and research on the improvement of water quality in Poland in the last 25 years. The organizers of the conference were the Poznan University of Technology and Aquanet S.A. The event took place through the virtual platforms.
Presentation by prof. Oleszkiewicz on Energy self-sufficient water resource recovery facility in Canadian conditio during the Opening Ceremony inaugurated three days of speeches. There were 12 thematic sessions:
- P recovery
- Deammonification -anammox
- Process intensification
- Nutrient recovery
- Hybrid activated sludge processes
- Modeling, monitoring and control
- Recovery of valuable organic products
- Photoprocesses in wastewater treatment
- Water reuse and emerging contaminants
- Energy recovery
- P removal
- LCA and carbon footprint
Moreover, four workshop sessions for young scientists (YWP) were organised. The first workshop took place before the official opening of the conference, on Sunday, April 10. They were organized by a team from Delft University of Technology and The Energy and Resources Institute. This workshop concerned Decision Analysis Processes to Support Wastewater Management and Reuse. In the following days, we could participate in workshops on Alternatives for phosphorus recovery and Nutrient recovery from decentralized operations, whereas on the last day the team of the Poznan University of Technology prepared a workshop on the SIREN project (SImultaneous Recovery of Energy, organics and Nutrients and generation of valuable products from municipal wastewater).
The conference program, list of presentations, posters and their short abstracts can be found on the conference website https://wwrr.put.poznan.pl.
We would like to thank all the speakers, participants and organizers of the conference for their attend in the event. We also thank our sponsors for their support:
VEOLIA Group
BGK Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
HUSAR Civil Engineering
