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Department of Built Environment

Wastewater treatment technologies

The group focuses on sustainable wastewater treatment. Valuable resources must be reused safely while committing to climate change mitigation. Aalto Donation Professorship 2018 – 2028.
Wastewater Treatment Technologies

Aalto Donation Professorship 2018 – 2028

The Donation professorship's field is wastewater treatment, and it is funded by several Finnish water utilities,  associations, and foundations working in the water sector. The work started in 2018 with Prof. Anna Mikola in the Department of Built Environment at Aalto University. In April 2023, Henri Haimi was appointed a part-time Professor of Practice.

Research themes

Our research themes are resource recovery, removal of micropollutants, and energy and GHG optimization – all this in wastewater treatment and especially in cold climate conditions.  

Resource recovery

The role of wastewater treatment is moving from the removal of substances to the recycling of resources.

Nutrient recovery and removal system

Emerging pollutant management

The load of different pollutants in the Baltic Sea is a problem we need to solve.

Micropollutants research system in water laboratory

Climate impact of WWTP

Wastewater treatment plants are among the big energy consumers in our societies and they have a significant carbon footprint.

Carbon sink

Processes at cold temperature

In Finland and in the Baltic Sea region wastewaters and natural waters are relatively cold during the major part of the year. This affects treatment processes.

Wastewater plant in snowy winter time

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IWA LET 2023 presentation

Conferences

Presented topics at international conferences in the field of water and wastewater engineering.

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Wastewater treatment research group photo

Student stories about internships

Read here stories from students about working in the Water and Wastewater Engineering group.

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Logos of the funding companies

Funding

Here you can find more information about the organizations funding our research.

School of Engineering

Master's theses done in the Group

Related news

HSY wastewater treatment plant from inside

Digital twin for optimizing the carbon balance in wastewater treatment

Researchers at Aalto are creating a digital model for automatic continuous predictive process simulations supporting wastewater treatment plant operation in a new project called DIGICARBA. The proposed digital tool will have a wastewater treatment process model connected to continuous data transmission from the Helsinki wastewater treatment plant.

News
Henri Haimi

FCG Project Manager Henri Haimi appointed as Professor of Practice at Aalto University

His expertise is in mitigating climate change in the wastewater sector, digital solutions and the recovery of resources from wastewater.

News

Publications

Here you can find our recent publications.

Oona Kinnunen, Antonina Kruglova, Marlene Mark Jensen, Anna Kuokkanen, Barth F. Smets, Anna Mikola 2025 Environmental Research

Lobna Amin, Raed A. Al-Juboori, Fredrik Lindroos, Mansour Bounouba, Kati Blomberg, Melissa Lopez Viveros, Marina Graan, Sam Azimi, Johan Lindén, Anna Mikola, Mathieu Spérandio 2024 Science of the Total Environment

D. Bansfield, K. Spilling, A. Mikola, J. Piiparinen 2024 Bioresource Technology Reports

M Sieranen, H Hilander, H Haimi, T Larsson, A Kuokkanen, A Mikola 2024 Water Science and Technology

Petri Ukkonen, M. Mulas, A. Mikola 2024 Journal of Water and Climate Change

D. Bansfield, K. Spilling, A. Mikola, J. Piiparinen 2023 BMC Microbiology

Elisangela Heiderscheidt, Anna Mikola 2023 Vesitalous

Sofia Högstrand, Juho Uzkurt Kaljunen, Raed A. Al-Juboori, Karin Jönsson, Hamse Kjerstadius, Anna Mikola, Greg Peters, Magdalena Svanström 2023 Journal of Cleaner Production

Anna Mikola, Saijariina Toivikko, Paula Lindell 2023 Vesitalous

N Rautiainen, PL Rantanen, M Jalava, A Mikola 2023 Water Science and Technology
More information on our research in the Aalto research portal.
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