Water 4.0

Modeling for Process Optimization and Environmental Assessment

Modeling plays a crucial role in accelerating the development of technical innovations by narrowing down possible variations, allowing early feasibility assessments, and supporting the evaluation of potential environmental impacts from construction measures or substance emissions.

We model processes and strategies under real, random, and artificial, defined boundary conditions, enabling estimates of the sensitivity of specific parameters in product and process development, as well as environmental simulations. These include, for example, energy from wastewater, water storage, leaching from construction products, erosion processes, odor emissions, or substance flow analyses related to microplastics. Our computational cluster provides high performance even for demanding simulations.

• Numerical Simulation**: Applied to wastewater treatment plants, flowing waters, energy systems, buildings, etc.
• Simulations Combined with Physical Model Experiments**: Integrating real-world testing with digital models to validate results.
• Emulations**: Digitally replicating a specific aspect of a system to study behaviors and responses.
• Fluid Engineering**: Assessing the flow of liquids and gases, crucial for systems like pipelines, treatment processes, and environmental studies.
• Model-Based Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)**: Evaluating the environmental impacts of building products during their usage phase.
• Statistical Data Analysis for Prediction**: Leveraging historical and real-time data to predict outcomes and optimize decision-making processes.
• Semantic Lifting**: Converting «dumb» data into formal models, enhancing the value and usability of raw data in decision-making and system optimization.

These advanced modeling techniques allow us to anticipate challenges early in the development phase and optimize solutions to reduce environmental impacts and improve system efficiency. With our high-performance computing capabilities, we can handle complex simulations and provide detailed, actionable insights across various domains, from wastewater management to construction product life cycles.

Urban water management is facing particular challenges due to heat stress, heavy rainfall events, a comprehensive network infrastructure and new technologies. In addition, there are new challenges in industry, commerce and agriculture that can be met with new technologies.

We develop technical solutions for the treatment of polluted water with a strong practical focus and accompany the work through to implementation. To this end, we analyse processes, test procedures and balance material flows. Of particular interest are trace substances, heavy metals and particulate matter in drinking water and wastewater as well as measures for water reuse and rainwater retention.

• Process design for chemical, biological and thermal treatment processes
• Monitoring of plants and processes
• Determination of wastewater parameters in the laboratory and field (analytics)
• Decentralised plant technologies
• Innovative retention systems for urban areas
• Concepts for technologies in the water sector - clarifications up to feasibility

Practically all companies and organisations are affected by digitalisation. This is associated with new business models that also require a new technical understanding of systems.

We support you in analysing the subject area with our many years of entrepreneurial experience and show you which opportunities may arise.

• Recognising and prioritising digital business potential
• New business models - development and implementation of product and service offerings
• Digital transformation - platform for challenges and solutions
• Project and process support - business consulting based on empirical data
• Digial natives / readiness - company analysis