Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB

Liao, Kuan-Po

Water Technologies, Resource Recovery and Scale-up

Kuan-Po Liao started as a research assistant at Fraunhofer IGB in 2022. Originally from Taiwan, he received his Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering at the National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) in Taichung, Taiwan. Afterwards, he completed his Master's degree in Environmental Engineering at the renowned Technical University Munich (TUM) in Germany, specializing in Urban Water Engineering and Water-Food-Energy Nexus. In 2022, he became a PhD candidate at the IGVP institute of the University of Stuttgart.

Due to his great interest in research and development, Liao has been working on interdisciplinary research projects in various labs for several years. As a scientist in the Water Technologies, Resource Recovery and Scale-up innovation field, his work focuses on the characterization of waste streams, the modification and optimization of phosphorus recovery technologies from lab-scale to pilot-scale and the development of innovative recovery processes. He supports the ongoing project BW2Pro. Simultaneously, he also transfers the scientific discoveries to other industrial projects in the field of nutrient recovery.

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    • Water and wastewater treatment
    • Waste valorization and biorefinery
    • Circular economy
    • Nutrient recovery
    • Phosphorus recovery
    • Characterization and pretreatment of waste streams
    • Wet-chemical precipitation
    • Electrochemical precipitation
    • Struvite precipitation and crystallization

  • Projekttitel Projektinhalt Förderung Laufzeit
    BW2Pro Biowaste to Products Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector October 2021 – March 2024
    RoKKa Sewage sludge as a source of raw materials and climate protection at wastewater treatment plants Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector, EU October 2021 – March 2024
    Cométha SIAAP Syctom innovation partnership for the treatment of organic waste and sewage sludge in the greater Paris area Le Syctom (l’agence métropolitaine des déchets ménagers) and SIAAP (service public de l’assainissement fracilien) March 2018 – August 2019

    • Maria L. Bonatelli, Thore Rohwerder, Denny Popp, Yu Liu, Caglar Akay, Carolyn Schultz, Kuan-Po Liao, Chang Ding, Thorsten Reemtsma, Lorenz Adrian, and Sabine Kleinsteuber (2023). Recently evolved combination of unique sulfatase and amidase genes enables bacterial degradation of the wastewater micropollutant acesulfame worldwide. Frontiers in microbiology, 14, 1223838. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1223838
    • Shu-Chi Chang, Kuan-Po Liao, Meng-Rung Ho, Hung-Wie Chen, and Chuan-Mu Wang (2019). Decomposition method for organic halogen compound and other oxidative pollutants (Taiwan Patent No. I636966). Taiwan Intellectual Property Office. https://twpat1.tipo.gov.tw/twpatc/twpatengkm?!!FRURL201922625