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Health
Biological activity
VO Eyes and ears for Chemical Safety 2019-2020 (LDIR and biofilm)

The regrowth and biofilm formation of micro-organisms on pipe material and membranes lead to problems in drinking water systems. To combat biofilm formation, a knowledge of the dynamics…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Clearer picture of the formation of transformation products during drinking water treatment thanks to integrated strategies

During drinking water production, biotic and antibiotic processes can form transformation products (TP) from organic micropollutants (OMP). How these substances behave in water treatment and how toxic they…

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Enabling technologies
New materials and technologies
Improved prioritisation and fragmentation improve the identification of unknown substances with non-target screening

Non-target screening (NTS) is based on the combination of liquid chromatography in conjunction with high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). In addition, tailored data analysis, with target and suspect screening,…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Survey of drug waste emission pathways and relevance for the drinking water sector

The Netherlands has a thriving illegal industry for the production of synthetic drugs such as amphetamine (speed), MDMA (XTC) and “designer drugs”. It releases all kinds of waste…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Integration of non-target screening, statistical analyses and bioassays for the global assessment of chemical water quality

Thanks to developments in screening methods based on high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), the detection of chemicals in water now not only allows for the detection of specific substances…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
New chemical analysis methods

The world around us is changing rapidly and new techniques emerge regularly. The ongoing assessment of detection technologies (instrumental and otherwise) makes it possible to identify their possible value for the water sector in good time. BTO…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
An integrated approach for the detection of undesirable perfluorinated substances in the water cycle

The presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment, and specifically in the water cycle, is considered a hazard for humans and the environment. The presence…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Impact of substances of very high concern in the environment

The water sector is being increasingly confronted with substances of very high concern and new emission pathways for those substances. Substances of very high concern are a threat…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Non-target screening

The steady growth in the production and use of chemicals is leading to an increased presence of these compounds in drinking water and drinking water sources. Target screening is no longer sufficient for the monitoring of all…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Instruments – Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis

The Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis is equipped with specialised instruments, the most important of which are described in this page. Mass Spectrometry Mass spectrometry is…

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Health
Biological activity
PFAS: A Threat for the Dutch Drinking Water Cycle?

Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a broad group of anthropogenic organic substances which have been extensively used since the 1940s. Due to their persistency, bioaccumulation and toxicity, PFAS are a threat…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Non-target screening: quantitative and on time

The confident identification of a compound followed by accurate quantification of its concentration in a water sample is a prerequisite for risk assessment. In recent years, chemical water quality monitoring has developed…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Shale Gas and Water

Before the Netherlands can initiate shale gas extraction, answers must be given to the question of the possible environmental risks involved for the water system. The Shale Gas and Water programme is focused on issues in the…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Nitrogen labelling

Among the reasons analytical chemistry is important for the drinking water sector, is the latter’s need for unequivocal identification of nitrogenous by-products and for toxicological risk assessment of the formed products. The objective of this project is…

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Experts

Audrey Biesmans
Technician
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Audrey Biesmans

Technician

Audrey Biesmans began working as a chemical analyst in the Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis (LMC) in April 2021. She works primarily with liquid chromatography coupled with mass…

030-6069615

audrey.biesmans@kwrwater.nl

06-46916047

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Nienke Meekel MSc
Scientific researcher
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Nienke Meekel MSc

Scientific researcher

Nienke Meekel is a researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. In July 2020, she completed the Analytical Sciences track of the Master Chemistry at both the University…

030-6069622

nienke.meekel@kwrwater.nl

06-15187495

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Frederic Béen PhD
Senior scientific researcher
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Frederic Béen PhD

Senior scientific researcher

Frederic Béen works as a researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. His research activities focus on the implementation of analytical and sampling techniques to monitor emerging contaminants…

030-6069748

frederic.been@kwrwater.nl

06-11365219

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Pascal Kooij BSc
Senior technician
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Pascal Kooij BSc

Senior technician

Over the past years, Pascal Kooij worked as an HLO analyst at the Materials Research and Chemical Analysis Laboratory (LMC). He mainly focuses on organic analyses. For this, he developed…

030-6069730

Pascal.Kooij@kwrwater.nl

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Ton van Leerdam BSc
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Ton van Leerdam BSc

Scientific researcher Project manager

As a researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team, Ton van Leerdam puts more than thirty years of experience into guaranteeing the (chemical) quality of the water cycle…

030-6069624

Ton.van.Leerdam@kwrwater.nl

06-15189535

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News

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Research helps to reduce the impact of Substances of Very High Concern on drinking water supplies

11 May 2023 — More knowledge about the toxicity and behaviour in soil and treatment of Substances of Very High Concern helps…

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News

Intelligent data acquisition method is a prize-winner

16 November 2020 — The identification of toxic compounds in drinking water is an important issue for the drinking water sector. KWR…

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Water Sector

Second Willem Koerselman Award for Emke and De Voogt

11 April 2017 — Erik Emke and Pim de Voogt have won the 2016 Willem Koerselman Award for the article, ‘Spatial differences…

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Water Sector

Van Leerdam and De Voogt in special publication American Chemical Society

27 January 2016 — An article by KWR researchers Ton van Leerdam and Pim de Voogt, together with 19 other trend-setting pieces,…

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Enabling technologies

New materials and technologies

Detecting and removing emerging contaminants calls for advanced materials and technologies. KWR develops knowledge about…

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Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis

Mass spectrometry

VO Eyes and ears for Chemical Safety 2019-2020 (LDIR and biofilm)

Clearer picture of the formation of transformation products during drinking water treatment thanks to integrated strategies

Improved prioritisation and fragmentation improve the identification of unknown substances with non-target screening

Survey of drug waste emission pathways and relevance for the drinking water sector

Integration of non-target screening, statistical analyses and bioassays for the global assessment of chemical water quality

New chemical analysis methods

An integrated approach for the detection of undesirable perfluorinated substances in the water cycle

Impact of substances of very high concern in the environment

Non-target screening

Instruments – Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis

PFAS: A Threat for the Dutch Drinking Water Cycle?

Non-target screening: quantitative and on time

Shale Gas and Water

Nitrogen labelling

Research helps to reduce the impact of Substances of Very High Concern on drinking water supplies

Intelligent data acquisition method is a prize-winner

Second Willem Koerselman Award for Emke and De Voogt

Van Leerdam and De Voogt in special publication American Chemical Society

New materials and technologies