Engineering Tools for Environmental Risk Management

Katalin Gruiz is Associate Professor at Budapest University of Technology, Budapest, Hungary. She graduated in chemical engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1975, received her doctorate in bioengineering and her Ph.D. in environmental engineering. Her main fields of activities are: teaching, consulting, research and development of engineering tools for risk-based environmental management, development and use of innovative technologies such as special environmental toxicity assays, integrated monitoring methods, biological and ecological remediation technologies for soil and water, both for regulatory and engineering purposes. Prof. Gruiz has published 70 scientific papers, 25 book chapters, 43 conference papers, and edited 9 books and a special journal edition. She has coordinated a number of Hungarian research projects and participated in European ones. Gruiz is a member of the REACH Risk Assessment Committee of the European Chemicals Agency. She is a full time associate professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics and heads the research group of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology. Tamás Meggyes is Research Coordinator in Berlin, Germany. He is specialising in research and book projects in environmental engineering. His work focuses on fluid mechanics, hydraulic transport of solids, jet devices, landfill engineering, groundwater remediation, tailings facilities and risk-based environmental management. He has contributed to and organised several international conferences and national and European integrated research projects in Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom and USA. Tamás Meggyes was Europe editor of the Land Contamination and Reclamation journal in the UK and a reviewer of several environmental journals. He was invited by the EU as an expert evaluator to assess research applications and by Samarco Mining Company, Brazil, as a tailings management expert. In 2007, he was named Visiting Professor of Built Environment Sustainability at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published 130 papers including 14 books and holds a doctor’s title in fluid mechanics and a Ph.D. degree in landfill engineering from Miskolc University, Hungary. Éva Fenyvesi is senior scientist and founding member of CycloLab Cyclodextrin Research and Development Ltd, Budapest, Hungary. She graduated as a chemist and received her Ph.D. in chemical technology at Eötvös University of Natural Sciences, Budapest. She is experienced in the preparation and application of cyclodextrin polymers, in environmental application of cyclodextrins and in gas chromatography. She participated in several national and international research projects, in the development of various environmental technologies applying cyclodextrins. She is author or co-author of over 70 scientific papers, 10 chapters in monographs, over 50 conference presentations and 14 patents. She is an editor of the Cyclodextrin News, the monthly periodical on cyclodextrins.

1. Contaminated site remediation, role and classification of technologies
2. In situ soil remediation – the reactor approach
3. Natural attenuation in contaminated soil remediation
4. Ecoengineering tools – passive artificial ecosystems
5. Biodegradation-based remediation – overview and case studies
6. Traditional and innovative methods for physical and chemical remediation of soil contaminated by organic matter
7. Leaching, bioleaching and acid mine drainage: case study
8. Remediation technologies for metal-contaminated soil and sediment – an overview and a case study of combined chemical and phytostabilization
9. Electrochemical remediation for contaminated soil, sediments and groundwater
10. Elemental iron and other nanotechnologies for soil remediation
11. Planning, monitoring, verification and sustainability of soil remediation