Investigates the ramifications and implementation requirements of new urban infrastructures, to the purpose of achieving a circular economy regarding the resource utilization in the urban context. Specifically, this research line investigates alternatives
to recover thermal energy from gray waters, increasing the efficiency of air conditioning mechanisms, and recovery of chemical nutrients and energy from dark waters, among others.
The Topic Spokespersons of Topic I are Dr. Witold-Roger Poganietz at KIT and Dr. Ana Lucia Prieto at UCH.
poganietz_at_kit.edu
Integration of innovative urban water-energy systems into water and local energy systems, sustainable assessment of the urban water-energy nexus, socio-technical drivers of transformation processes
Dr. Witold-Roger Poganietz is Topic Speaker of Topic I and deputy member of the Steering committee of the Graduate School for Climate and Environment at KIT.
Fuss, M.; Poganietz, W.R.; Ekener, E. (2019): Broadening the awareness and communicating long term strategies towards sustainability - Some insights from the REFLEX project. Brüssel EU Horizon 2020 2019
Fuss, M., Barros, R.T.V., Poganietz, W.R. (2018): Towards a framework for assessing the sustainability of municipal solid waste management in developing countries: the Belo Horizonte case study. Journal of Cleaner Production 178, S. 655-664. [doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.051]
Friedrich, J., Poganietz, W.R., Lehn, H. (2018): Life Cycle Assessment of the Water-Energy Nexus (WEN) in the urban building stock: The case of Heidelberg, Germany. EcoBalance 2018. Tokyo, 09.-12.10.2018: Nexus of ideas: Innovation by linking through life cycle thinking.
Further projects and publication at: http://www.itas.kit.edu/mitarbeiter_poganietz_witold-roger.php
ana.prieto_at_uchile.cl
CURRENT PROJECT
Reuse and revaluation of sanitary water
Flexible technology for "tailored reuse"
Piloting A2MBR and natural systems
Evaluating operation for safe reuse
Implementation and technology transfer
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sustainable use of water and energy in an urban context
Wastewater reuse
Sustainability in technology implementation
International collaboration
Technology and knowledge transfer
Renewable Energy
PROFILE
PUBLICATIONS
Rodríguez, M. , Bolivar V., Poganietz W., and Prieto A.L., 2022. Sustainability Assessment of Advanced Treatment Technologies for Wastewater Reuse in Chile: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. In Eco-Industrial Development as an industrial Strategy. Springer Books. In review.
Boese I., Díaz F., and Prieto A.L., 2022. Biocatalytic membrane reactor modeling for fermentative hydrogen production from wastewater: a review. Int. Journal. of Hydrogen Energy. In review.
Palma-Behnke, R., Abarca del Río, R., Agostini, C., Alvear, C., Amaya, J., Araya, P., Arellano, N., Arriagada, P., Avilés, C., Barría, C., Berg, A., Buchuk, D., Cardemil, J. M., Dall’Orso, F., Domínguez, M. P., Escauriaza, C., Feijoo, Figueroa, A., Prieto A.L., Flores, C., Vicuña, S., 2021. The Chilean Potential for Exporting Renewable Energy. (Mitigation and Energy Working Group Report). Santiago: Comité Científico de Cambio Climático; Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación. 10.13140/RG.2.2.35296.15366.
Prieto A.L., Sigtermans L.H., Mutlu B.R., Aksan A., Arnold W.A. and Novak P.J., 2016. Performance of a composite bioactive membrane for H2 production and capture from high-strength wastewater. Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2, 848 - 857.
Prieto, A.L., Futselaar H., Lens P., Bair. R, and Yeh D.H., 2013. Development and start-up of a gas-lift anaerobic membrane bioreactor (GL-AnMBR) for converting sewage to energy, water and nutrients. J. Membrane Science.; 441, 158–167.
Prieto A.L., Vuono D., Holloway R., Benecke J., Henkel J., Cath T.Y., Reid T., Johnson L., Drewes J.E., 2013. Decentralized Wastewater Treatment for Distributed Water Reclamation and Reuse: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Experience from a Case Study. In Novel Solutions to Water Pollution (pp 251-266). ACS Books. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2013-1123.ch015.
aerlwein_at_uach.cl
Market study of the use of Digestate from anaerobic digestion plants in Chile(``Estudio de mercado de la utilización de Digestato proveniente de plantas de digestión anaeróbicas en Chile''). Program "Promoting the development of biogas energy in selected small and medium-sized agribusinesses". For United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Project Manager. 2018-2019
Evidence-based navigation of SDG synergies and conflicts: Renewing Environmental Monitoring and Assessment for a more effective role in Agenda 2030. Program: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Sustainable Development Goals, Goal Conflicts and Synergies, Bioeconomy, Food-Energy-Water Nexus. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences-Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, financiado por FORMAS (The Swedish Research Council, Swedish Energy Agency and Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development). 2018-2019
Research Project, PhD Thesis “Interactions Between Land Use and Bioenergy Potentials on Designing a Bioenergy Area in Los Ríos Region, Chile”, developed within the framework of the Research project “Sustainable use of bioenergy: bridging climate protection, nature conservation and society program, creating a bridge between climate protection, nature conservation and society.” of the Interdisciplinary Center for Sustainable Development of the University of Goettingen, IZNE, Germany. 2011-2016
Sustainable use of energy (biofuels technology, ecological and carbon footprint of energy use - solid and liquid, organic waste management, bioenergy and climate change, circular economy), ecosystemic land use planning of rural territory (farm land use planning, power and territory autarky, cognition and territory, landscape ecology, ecological design, rural ecosystem services).
Dr. Alfredo Erlwein is Topic Speaker of Topic I.
Erlwein, A., Oliva, I., Fuders, F., Donoso, P., 2019. Towards a transdisciplinary ecological economics: a cognitive approach. In: Fuders, F., Donoso, P. (Ed), “Ecological economic and socio ecological strategies for forest conservation - with special focus on Chile and Brazil: A transdisciplinary approach”. (in press) Springer, Germany
Erlwein, A., 2016 (Editor): Biogas from Agriculture Residues in Los Ríos Region: General Aspects, Experiencies and Production Potential (“Biogás de Residuos Agropecuarios en la Región de Los Ríos; Aspectos Generales, Experiencias y Potencial de Producción”) Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP) y Gobierno Regional de Los Ríos. INDAP – GORE Los Ríos, Osorno, Chile.
Mustapha Haruna, Julio Rojas-Mora, Karla Maass, Cristian Mondaca, Álvaro Palacios, Alfredo Erlwein, 2014. Expanding the knowledge on adaptation on climate change for sustainable development: a multicriteria approach to indicator studies. Vulnerability serie, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, USA.
damare.araya_at_kit.edu
Sustainability assessment of water technologies, development of scenarios for dry areas, water management, climate change
Dámare Araya Valenzuela (Chile) is a doctoral candidate at ITAS, member of the water-energy-nexus group, working on the development of a decision-making support system for the implantation of desalination technologies in arid areas.
Dámare Araya is a researcher at Topic I.
Lehn, H.; Steiner, F.; Friedrich, J.; Araya Valenzuela, D. (2018): The challenge of transforming urban supply and disposal infrastructure to more resource and energy efficiency. Vortrag auf der REALCORP Conference 2018, Wien, Österreich, 04.-06.04.2018
Further projects and publications at: https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_araya_damare.php
juergen.kopfmueller_at_kit.edu
Concept and operationalization of sustainable development, governance for sustainable development; climate and energy policy, socioeconomic causes and impacts of environmental problems.
Jürgen Kopfmüller is the Head of the Research Area of Sustainability and Environment at the Institute of Technology Assessment and System Analysis and a researcher in Topic I.
Rösch, C.; Bräutigam, K.-R.; Kopfmüller, J.; Stelzer, V.; Fricke, A. (2018): Sustainability assessment of the German energy transition. Energy, Sustainability and Society 8(2018)12, publ. online, DOI: 10.1186/s13705-018-0153-4
Nayono, S.; Lehmann, A.; Kopfmüller, J.; Lehn, H. (2016): Improving sustainability by technology assessment and systems analysis: the case of IWRM Indonesia. Applied Water Science 6(2016)3, S. 279-292, DOI: 0.1007/s13201-016-0427-y
Kopfmüller, J. (2015): Sustainable development. A global model - universal and contextual. In: Enders, J.C.; Remig, M. (Hrsg.): Theories of sustainable development. London New York: Routledge 2015, S. 112-125. (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development)
Further projects and publications at: https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_kopfmueller_juergen.php
andrea.pino_at_uach.cl
Impact assessment of family farming in forest patchs. Appropriate technologies for sustainable intensification of family farming.
Biodiversity conservation, public policies
Andrea Pino Piderit is the Director the Transdisciplinary Center of Environmental and Development Human Studies (CEAM) at the Austral University of Chie. She is interested in nature conservation and restoration. She investigates the relationships between nature and human beings, specifically in forest and wetland ecosystems, at local and landscape scales. She has studied environmental history and land use change, landscape ecology and livelihood agriculture in Temperate Rainforests of the Southern Andes biosphere reserve in Chile, to the purpose of influencing public policies for biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing.
Sepúlveda Luque, C., Pérez, S., Rodríguez, C., Lara Sutulov, M., Guerra, F., Pino, A. (2018). De la invisibilidad a la multiplicidad: movilizaciones, ontologías e imaginarios urbanos en torno a la defensa de los humedales de Valdivia. Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales. Núm. 35.
Pino Piderit, A., Cardyn Degen, P., Grupo de Trabajo Panguipulli (GTP). (2014): La Reserva de la Biosfera de los Bosques Templados Lluviosos de los Andes Australes y las singularidades territoriales de la comuna de Panguipulli. In Andrés Moreira-Muñoz & Axel Borsdorf Eds. Reservas de la Biosfera de Chile – Laboratorios para la Sustentabilidad. http://www.mountainresearch.at/index.php/en/institute/publications/82-institute-en/347-reservas-de-la-biosfera-de-chile-en.html
Pino Piderit, A., Lara Sutulov, M., Novoa-Melson, R., Díaz-Hormazábal, I. (Accepted): A 13 años (2004-2017) de la crisis ecológica del Santuario de la Naturaleza del Río Cruces: trazando disputas ontológicas en los instrumentos de planificación urbana y su expresión espacial en la ciudad de Valdivia, Chile. Revista de Geografía Norte Grande.
Further projects and publication at: http://www.ceam-uach.cl/
volker.stelzer_at_kit.edu
Sustainable energy balance, sustainable energy plans, sustainability of energy-water-projects
Dr. Volker Stelzer is a researcher in Topic I.
Albiez, M.; Stelzer, V. (2019): Energy transformation in dialogue. Vortrag auf dem ForDigital Workshop "The effects of Information Systems on the Individual Social Consequences of the Energy Transition", Karlsruhe, 06.03.2019
Rösch, C.; Bräutigam, K.-R.; Kopfmüller, J.; Stelzer, V.; Lichtner, P.; Fricke, A. (2018): Indicator-based sustainability assessment of the German energy system and its transition. Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing 2018, DOI: 10.5445/KSP/1000082161
Rösch, C.; Bräutigam, K.-R.; Kopfmüller, J.; Stelzer, V.; Fricke, A. (2018): Sustainability assessment of the German energy transition. Energy, Sustainability and Society 8(2018)12, publ. online, DOI: 10.1186/s13705-018-0153-4
Further projects and publication at https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_stelzer_volker.php
danny.troeger_at_kit.edu
Use of industrial residues for social housing within an urban Eco-Industrial development strategy:
Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats from San Martin, Buenos Aires Assessment on the influence of land use on soil indicators for erosion and landslide risks: a biogeomorphic approach with emphasis on exotic forestry plantations (Pinus spp.) and native secondary forests (Nothofagus pumilio) in Chilean Patagonia Natural hazards or vulnerability - what do people actually perceive?
A grounded theory on Risk perception in the Aysén-Fjord, Chilean Patagonia.
Land use change, Risk perception (Natural hazards), Urban Eco-Industrial development strategies, Circular economy (construction industry)
Institute of Technology. He has a Master's degree in Regional Science and a Master's degree in geoecology from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He completed parts of his Master studies at the Universidad de Concepción in Chile and conducted several field research campaigns in Patagonia (Chile). There he obtained data on the environmental impacts of land use change with a focus on forest plantations and risk perception of natural hazards. He also has several years of working experience in Germany as expert for building pollutants, decontamination and selective deconstruction. Danny Tröger is a researcher in Topic IV and Topic V.
plantation forestry on plant biodiversity: A comparison of sites in Central Chile and Chilean Patagonia. Global ecology and conservation,
10, 159–172. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2017.03.006
Multiple Umweltauswirkungen der kommerziellen Plantagenwirtschaft in Zentralchile – Zwischenbericht einer deutsch-chilenischen Lehr- und Forschungskooperation Andreas Ch. Braun, Callum C. Banfield, Pablo Jaramillo, Iris Meyer, Claudia Schmidt-Cotta, Danny Tröger, Violeta Volceski, Gunhild Hansen-Rojas und Joachim Vogt 2014. FORUM GEOÖKOL. 25 (3)
Blog post of the "Research Blog" of the "Center for Humans and Technology:
https://www.mensch-und-technik.kit.edu/oekoindustrielle-entwicklung.php
Presentations and conference papers
Presentation at the start of the project in the context of the lecture series "Coroanctivity & quot; of the Universtity UTN (Argentina): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76SQjldQBk
07/2014
Arbeitskreis Biogeographie, Karlsruhe
02/2014
Applications of Remote Sensing to Risk - Open Issues in Technology, Image Understanding and Vulnerability Research, Karlsruhe
09/2013
43 annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Potsdam
Further projects and publication at: http://www.ifr.kit.edu/mitarbeiter_5144.php
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