Doctoral theses

Doctoral theses


Below you will find a list of interesting doctoral theses on water. At this time this list contains only theses from German and Dutch Universities. We are working to extend this list with theses from other European universities shortly.

 Title

Topic 
'Analysis of the sustainability of bank filtration in Berlin´s water cycle', Doerte Ziegler, Technical University Berlin, January 2001. Language: German, Summary in English. (summary and download)

waste water treatment
'Assessment of the effects of climate variability and land use changes on the hydrology of the Meuse River Basin', M. Tu, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, September 2006. Language: English. (summary and download)

 Hydrology river basins
'Resilience and flood risk management', Karin Marianne de Bruijn, Delft Technical University, October 2005. Language: English. (summary and download)

 Flood risk management
'Treated sewagewater use in irrigated agriculture', Mohammed Duqqah, Wageningen University, December 2002. Language: English. (summary and download)

 Waste water and agriculture
'Water governance and institutional change', Stefanus Maria M. Kuks, Twente University, November 2004. Language: English. (summary and download)

 Water governance
'Improving operation of drinking water treatment through modelling', Louis Cornelis Rietveld, Delft Technical University, February 2005. Language: English. (summary and download)

 Drinking water treatment
'Filtration characteristics in dead-end ultrafiltration of wwtp-effluent', Jelle H. Roorda, Delft Technical University, April 2004. Language: English. (summary and download)

 Filtration
‘Contamination of drinking water reservoirs in Saxonia and Thuringia with hygienically relevant microorganisms’, Kathrin Bischoff, Technical University Berlin, March 2006. Language: German, Summary in Engllish. (summary and download)

 Drinking water contamination
‘Formation of organic bromine compounds in surface waters as well as studies concerning the behaviour during bank filtration’, Alexandra Hutteroth, Technical University Berlin, January 2007. Language: German, Summary in Engllish. (summary and download)

 Organic bromine compounds
‘The hydrogen concentration as a parameter to identify natural degradation of volatile chlorinated hydrocarbons (CVOC) in groundwater’, Marcus Daniel Alter, Technical University Berlin, September 2006. Language: German, Summary in Engllish. (summary and download)

 Groundwater
Influence of algogenic organic matter on coagulation and adsorption in water treatment processes, Mania Mirko, Technical University Berlin, January 2007. Language: German, Summary in Engllish. (summary and download)

 Waste water
 Factors influencing the mobilization of PCB and PAH in soil samples of a former waste water infiltration site, Romy Becker, Technical University Berlin, December 2006. Language: German, Summary in Engllish. (summary and download)

 Waste water
Advanced treatment of wastewater treatment plant effluent using ozonation, Jochen Schumacher, Technical University Berlin, February 2006. Language: German, Summary in English. (summary and download)

 Waste water
Life Cycle Assessment as a tool for green chemistry: Application to different advance oxidation processes for wastewater treatment, Munoz Ortiz Ivan, Autonoma de Barcelona, 2005. Language: English. (summary and download)

Waste water
Modelling biological organic matter and nutrient removal processes from wastewater using respirometric and titrimetric techniques, Guisasola Canudas Albert. Autonoma de Barcelona, 2004. Language: English. (summary and download)

 Waste water
Tailored chemical oxidation techniques for the abatement of bio-toxic organic wastewater pollutants: an experimental study, Magdalena Paradowska, Rovira y Virgili University, 2003. Language: English. (summary and download)

Waste water
SBR Technology for wastewater treatment suitable operational conditions for nutrient removal, M. Teresa Vives Fabregas, Universitat de Girona, 2004. Language: English. (summary and download)

Waste water
Identifiability and calibration of water network models, Ramon Perez Margrane, Universitat Politecnica de Caalunya, June 2003. Language: English (summary and download)

 Water modelling
Alfredo Perez Paricio, Integrated modelling of clogging processes in artificial groundwater recharge, Technical University of Catalunya, November 2000. Language: English. (summary and download)

 groundwater