The symposium "Innovative Technologies and Application on Water & Sludge Treatment & Management" took place on April 21 within the framework of the largest environmental trade fair in Asia, IE-Expo Shanghai 2021. The aim was to inform about the technologies, materials and management tools developed in the projects of the Sino-German Mega Water Cooperation and thus to support their further dissemination. The symposium was jointly organized by the BMBF project office "Clean Water", Tongji University Shanghai and the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science (CRAES).

One goal of the DAMAST project is to investigate the sediments in the Jvari Reservoir. Before the dam construction the Enguri river had the characteristics of a mountain river. Due to the dam construction the Jvari reservoir developed and with time big and small pieces of rock gravel and sediments fill the reservoir. If this material is mobilized by earthquakes or landslides it could endanger the dam construction. Thus the goal is not only to investigate the bathymetry but also the sediment layers and the composition of the sediments.

More and more people around the world are exposed to natural hazards, especially in densely populated cities and conurbations. Effective risk management can save lives here.

Based on the on-site household survey assessment performed in February 2020 within the framework of the project ÖkoFlussPlan, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI) investigated the roadmap to reduce the space heating demand of rural Kyrgyz houses. The simulation-based results show that the proposed suggestions help to save a considerable amount of space heating demand.

In cooperation with our Ghanaian partner, the last measurement campaign was carried out at four pilot sites in Accra, Ghana.

In November 2020, a team from EnerSHelF’s industry partner WestfalenWIND travelled to Ghana to install a Photovoltaic-Hybrid System at the health facility in Kologo, Ghana.

The field trip from August to end of October 2020 included a variety of installations and measurements concerning borehole drilling for stress analysis, installation of seismometers to detect the tectonic and induced seismicity, field campaigns for regional deformation detection and many more.

In regular interviews published on the EnerSHelF website, project partners and researchers are giving insight into their work within the project.

Within the scope of SIGN2, membrane modules from Inge were coated with the innovative layer-by-layer technology from Surflay. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the further developed membranes could not be installed as planned at the location of the pilot plant at the waterworks in Wujiang (China), which had previously been sampled several times. Nonetheless, in order to test the new membranes on a pilot scale, an alternative site in Germany was selected.

A team of German and Ghanaian researchers and technicians installed equipment for collecting meteorological data at the health facilities in Kumasi, Akwatia and Kologo.