Mark van Loosdrecht (born 1959) is a Dutch professor in environmental biotechnology at Delft University of Technology. [1] He was the creator of Nereda, a wastewater treatment technology developed by a cooperation between the Delft University of Technology, the Dutch Foundation for Applied Water Research (STOWA) and Royal HaskoningDHV. [2] [3] [4]
Van Loosdrecht was born in Loon op Zand in 1959. [2] [5] He studied environmental hygiene at Wageningen University and Research and obtained his PhD in 1988. He became a professor at Delft University of Technology in 1999. [2]
Van Loosdrecht is chief editor of the scientific journal Water Research . [6]
Van Loosdrecht was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. [7] In 2015 he was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States. [8] In 2019 he was elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. [9]
Van Loosdrecht was named Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2011. [10] [11] In 2012 Van Loosdrecht was nominated for the European Inventor Award in the Research category for a water purification technology. [12] In 2014 he was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2,5 million euro grant. [13] He received the award for his research and development on the field of the behaviour of biomass in dynamic conditions. [2] In March 2018 Van Loosdrecht won the Stockholm Water Prize for revolutionizing wastewater treatment. A second laureate in that year was Professor Bruce Rittmann. Their research demonstrated the possibilities to remove harmful contaminants from water, cut wastewater treatment costs, reduce energy consumption, and even recover chemicals and nutrients for recycling. [1]
Delft University of Technology, also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT.
Presented annually since 1991, the Stockholm Water Prize is an award that recognizes outstanding achievements in water related activities. Over the past three decades, Stockholm Water Prize Laureates have come from across the world and represented a wide range of professions, disciplines and activities in the field of water.
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The biological treatment of wastewater in the sewage treatment plant is often accomplished using conventional activated sludge systems. These systems generally require large surface areas for treatment and biomass separation units due to the generally poor settling properties of the sludge. Aerobic granules are a type of sludge that can self-immobilize flocs and microorganisms into spherical and strong compact structures. The advantages of aerobic granular sludge are excellent settleability, high biomass retention, simultaneous nutrient removal and tolerance to toxicity. Recent studies show that aerobic granular sludge treatment could be a potentially good method to treat high strength wastewaters with nutrients, toxic substances.
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