Dilek Dustegor and Alexander Lazovik have been awarded a NWO Round Merian Fund Green Water Processes 2022 for research into Intelligent Wastewater Treatment: Distributed Digital Twin for Clean Water (DDTclean).

DDTclean focuses on the development of future-facing wastewater treatment technologies. These novel technologies can provide intelligent wastewater governance, including collection and treatment, with the help of electrochemical-membrane technologies and scalable Artificial Intelligence enhanced distributed Digital Twin framework. This project addresses the existing dilemma of low treatment efficiency of decentralised wastewater, while facilitating the communication and coordination of multiple stakeholders, aiming to improve the environmental quality, especially in remote areas, and to contribute to system-wide optimal operations.