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Bernhard Wett is a researcher affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with a considerable emphasis on pollution, water science and technology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Wett's research encompasses key areas related to wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal. Their expertise extends into membrane separation technologies and constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment. Additional topics include ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, water treatment and disinfection, carbon dioxide capture technologies, and medical imaging and pathology studies.

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Operational and structural A-stage improvements for high-rate carbon removal (2020, Water Environment Research)
  • Primary sludge fermentate as carbon source for mainstream partial denitrification-anammox (PdNA) (2020, Water Environment Research)
  • Biological and physical selectors for mobile biofilms, aerobic granules, and densified-biological flocs in continuously flowing wastewater treatment processes: A state-of-the-art review (2023, Water Research)
  • Microbial response on the first full-scale DEMON® biomass transfer for mainstream deammonification (2022, Water Research)
  • Biological process architecture in continuous-flow activated sludge by gravimetry: Controlling densified biomass form and function in a hybrid granule-floc process at Dijon WRRF, France (2021, Water Environment Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wett include Sudhir Murthy, Charles Bott, Haydée De Clippeleir, Ahmed Al-Omari, and Peter Aichinger.

Wett has published extensively in venues such as Water Environment Research and Water Research, with additional contributions in Chemosphere, the Journal of Water Process Engineering, and the SSRN Electronic Journal.

Their publishing record also includes book chapters with the Water Environment Federation, featuring titles like Full-Scale Demonstration of Continuous AvN Control: What Did We Learn for BNR Optimization? (2020) and Carbon & Energy Management in High-Rate Contact-Stabilization through Dynamic Oxygen Uptake Rate Control (2020).

Best Publications

  • Control of aeration, aerobic SRT and COD input for mainstream nitritation/denitritation.

    Pusker Regmi;Mark W. Miller;Becky Holgate;Ryder Bunce

  • Development and implementation of a robust deammonification process.

    B. Wett

  • The role of inorganic carbon limitation in biological nitrogen removal of extremely ammonia concentrated wastewater.

    Bernhard Wett;Wolfgang Rauch

  • High-rate activated sludge system for carbon management – Evaluation of crucial process mechanisms and design parameters

    Jose Jimenez;Mark Miller;Charles Bott;Sudhir Murthy

  • Going for mainstream deammonification from bench to full scale for maximized resource efficiency.

    B. Wett;A. Omari;S. M. Podmirseg;M. Han

  • Solved upscaling problems for implementing deammonification of rejection water.

    B. Wett

  • Environmental sustainability of an energy self-sufficient sewage treatment plant: improvements through DEMON and co-digestion.

    Thomas Schaubroeck;Haydée De Clippeleir;Haydée De Clippeleir;Norbert Weissenbacher;Jo Dewulf

  • Modelling nitrite in wastewater treatment systems: a discussion of different modelling concepts.

    Gürkan Sin;David Kaelin;Marlies J. Kampschreur;Imre Takács

  • Bioflocculation management through high-rate contact-stabilization: A promising technology to recover organic carbon from low-strength wastewater

    Arifur Rahman;Francis A. Meerburg;Shravani Ravadagundhi;Bernhard Wett

  • Expanding DEMON Sidestream Deammonification Technology Towards Mainstream Application.

    B Wett;S M Podmirseg;M Gómez-Brandón;M Hell

  • Synergistic co-digestion of solid-organic-waste and municipal-sewage-sludge: 1 plus 1 equals more than 2 in terms of biogas production and solids reduction

    Peter Aichinger;Tanush Wadhawan;Martin Kuprian;Matthew Higgins

  • Uncoupling the solids retention times of flocs and granules in mainstream deammonification: A screen as effective out-selection tool for nitrite oxidizing bacteria

    Mofei Han;Siegfried Vlaeminck;Siegfried Vlaeminck;A Al-Omari;B Wett

  • Identification of anammox bacteria in a full-scale deammonification plant making use of anaerobic ammonia oxidation

    Gerd Innerebner;Heribert Insam;Ingrid H. Franke-Whittle;Bernhard Wett

  • Syntrophy of aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidisers.

    B. Wett;M. Hell;G. Nyhuis;T. Puempel

  • Impact of carbon source and COD/N on the concurrent operation of partial denitrification and anammox.

    Tri Le;Tri Le;Bo Peng;Bo Peng;Chunyang Su;Arash Massoudieh

  • Adaptation of Methanogenic Communities to the Cofermentation of Cattle Excreta and Olive Mill Wastes at 37°C and 55°C

    Marta Goberna;Marta Goberna;Maria Gadermaier;Carlos García;Bernhard Wett

  • Population dynamics at digester overload conditions

    Michael A. Schoen;Daniel Sperl;Maria Gadermaier;Marta Goberna

  • Mesophilic and thermophilic co-fermentation of cattle excreta and olive mill wastes in pilot anaerobic digesters.

    M. Goberna;M.A. Schoen;D. Sperl;B. Wett

  • Systematic comparison of mechanical and thermal sludge disintegration technologies.

    B. Wett;P. Phothilangka;A. Eladawy

  • Impact of carbon to nitrogen ratio and aeration regime on mainstream deammonification

    M. Han;H. De Clippeleir;A. Al-Omari;B. Wett

Frequent Co-Authors

Sudhir Murthy
Sudhir Murthy Columbia University
Siegfried E. Vlaeminck
Siegfried E. Vlaeminck University of Antwerp
Mark W. Miller
Mark W. Miller Boston University
Kartik Chandran
Kartik Chandran Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Heribert Insam
Heribert Insam University of Innsbruck
Marta Goberna
Marta Goberna Spanish National Research Council
Pascal Boeckx
Pascal Boeckx Ghent University
Ingmar Nopens
Ingmar Nopens Ghent University
Jo Dewulf
Jo Dewulf Ghent University
Wolfgang Rauch
Wolfgang Rauch University of Innsbruck

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