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The
Urban Water Division (NES) of LNEC's Hydraulics and Environment Department undertakes programmed and contracted research and development in the fields of water supply, wastewater and solid waste.
Since its creation in 1975 (see history of NES), the
Urban Water Division has developed over 120 applied R&D projects, with intensive use of mathematical modelling and field and laboratory experimentation.
NES has developed numerous contracted studies in response to requests from public and private water and solid waste industry entities, as well as from local, regional and national administration bodies.
NES is equally involved in the development of technical regulations and standards in water supply and wastewater, namely through the Portuguese Technical Committee on Standardisation CT90 and the CEN/TC 164 and CEN/TC 165 Technical Committees of the European Standardisation Committee (CEN).
The programmed R&D topics for 2001-2004 are as follows:
- Performance indicators for water supply and wastewater utilities
- Water supply systems performance optimisation
- Wastewater drainage systems performance evaluation
- Computer techniques applied to the rehabilitation of water supply systems
- Mitigation of degradation-associated risk in water supply and wastewater infrastructure
- Methologies for the control of drinking water quality in transport and distribution systems
- Drinking water treatment processes and technologies
- Innovative methods for modelling drinking water quality in transport and distribution systems
- Methods for the control of wastewater systems' surplus discharge
- In-sewer pollutant transport and biodegrading processes
- Wastewater treatment processes and technologies
- Stormwater source control
- Wastewater metrology