Willy Hager Prize

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The Willy Hager Prize honors younger scientists for excellent work in the field of process engineering in the field of water or wastewater treatment . The award is named after the engineer Willy Hager (1905–1975) who founded the company Hager + Elsässer GmbH in Stuttgart-Vaihingen at the age of 27.

The prize, announced annually by the Willy Hager Foundation (founded on January 31, 1973), is endowed with € 6,000. Willy Hager determined the promotion of science through research in the field of environmental protection, in particular process engineering for the purification and treatment of fresh and wastewater, as the foundation's purpose. The winners will be honored at the annual conference of the Water Chemical Society . The award was also shared several times between two award winners.

The Willy Hager Medal is awarded every three years to people “who have made an outstanding contribution to scientific research into the principles and processes of water treatment and wastewater treatment. "

Winner of the Willy Hager Prize

  • 2019: David B. Miklos: Enhanced Removal of Trace Organic Chemicals from Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents Using UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes
  • 2018
    • Asya Drenkova-Tuhtan: Phosphorus Elimination and Recovery from Wastewater with Reusable Nanocomposite Magnetic Particles
    • Maximilian Weissbach: Technical implementation and development of control strategies to integrate the Coupled Aerobic-anoxic Nitrous Decomposition Operation (CANDO) process into existing wastewater treatment systems for simultaneous nitrogen elimination and energy recovery using nitrogen
  • 2017: Eduard Rott: Investigations into the elimination of phosphorus from industrial wastewater containing phosphonates
  • 2016: Maximilian Huber: Development and Evaluation of an Assessment Method for Decentralized Stormwater Treatment Systems for Runoff from Traffic Areas
  • 2015: Timo Pittmann: Production of bioplastics from material flows in a municipal sewage treatment plant
  • 2014: Sebastian Petzet: Phosphorus recovery in wastewater technology - New processes for sewage sludge and sewage sludge ash
  • 2013: Claudia Niewersch: Nanofiltration for Phosphorous Recycling from Sewage Sludge
  • 2012: Thomas Riethmann: Investigations into the sorption of mercury from combustion exhaust gases and by-products in desulfurization plants.
  • 2011: Clemens Fritzmann: Development of a micromixer to intensify the mass transfer in selected membrane processes.
  • 2010: Jochen Henkel: Oxygen Transfer Phenomena in Activated Sludge.
  • 2009
    • Florencia Saravia: Removal of organic trace substances and investigation of fouling processes in submerged membranes and hybrid processes.
    • Jens Haberkamp: Organic membrane fouling in the ultrafiltration of municipal sewage treatment plant processes: causes, mechanisms and measures to reduce them.
  • 2008: André Lerch: Top layer formation through flakes in ultrafiltration capillary membranes with flow from inside to outside .
  • 2007
    • Thomas Glauner: Water treatment of swimming pool water - formation and detection of disinfection by- products and their minimization with membrane and oxidation processes.
    • Christian Schaum: Process for future sewage sludge treatment - sewage sludge conditioning and recovery of phosphorus from sewage sludge ash.
  • 2006
    • Arne Genz: Development of a new adsorption technique to remove natural organic substances with granulated iron hydroxide.
    • Thomas Wintergens: Modeling of membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment taking into account endocrine disrupting substances.
  • 2005: Elmar Rother: Optimizing Design and Operation of the Biofiltration Process for Municipal Wastewater Treatment.
  • 2004: Claudia Weidlich: Development of an electrochemically switchable ion exchanger for water softening based on the conductive polymer polypyrrole.
  • 2002: Sven Thate: Investigation of electrochemical deionization for the production of ultrapure water.
  • 2001: Petra Koziollek: Cometabolic degradation of cis-1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride by ethene-utilizing bacteria.

Winner of the Willy Hager Medal

Web links

  1. ↑ Willy-Hager Prize 2019 - award ceremony postponed. In: willy-hager-stiftung.de. April 21, 2020, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Annual Conference of the Water Chemical Society 2019 (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: wasserchemische-gesellschaft.de. P. 4 , accessed April 5, 2019 .