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Since its foundation in 1990 UIT has been a competent partner for clients in Germany, Europe and world-wide. Several milestones demonstrate UIT’s development promoted by both tradition and innovation: 1990 Foundation - Environmental Technology
UIT establishes a successful business development in environmental technology in cooperation with Dresdner Grundwasserforschungszentrum e. V. (DGFZ) and its affiliates, focusing on field technique for in-situ measurement and sampling in groundwater and soil as well as laboratory facilities for environmental studies.
1993 – 2002 Uranium Remediation
UIT starts to develop remediation concepts for uranium mine and mill sites of Wismut GmbH in Saxony and Thuringia. In the years 1995 – 2002 UIT plays a key role in the engineering and implementation of projects for Wismut in the fields of automated monitoring within complex networks, water treatment on the basis of HDS technology, uranium recovery from mine flood water and processing, modeling and simulation of both mine flooding and remediation technologies for process optimization and licensing procedures.
1994 – 1996 Demilitarization Technologies
UIT is engaged by ISL Lübben GmbH as prime contractor for the engineering and construction of an incineration plant for demilitarization purposes (elimination of explosives, ammunition, propellants a. o.).
1998 – 2002 Chernobyl
UIT together with consortium partners from U.S.A., CH, D and UA is engaged in an EBRD-funded project to characterize fuel-containing material within the Chernobyl Shelter and to develop concepts for its recovery and disposal.
From 1998 Smart Environmental Monitoring
Based on the experience from earlier designs of water monitoring technique, UIT intensifies the R&D effort (including projects with several research institutes) to develop smart water monitoring technology (robust hydrological monitoring equipment, automated multi-sensor water probes) in combination with state-of-the-art data-communication and networking technology as well as data management systems. From 2005, UIT has been offering the standardized SENSOweb® – a web server based network technology – for efficient monitoring systems. SENSOweb® integrates UIT’s hydrological probes with measuring modules from partner organizations (hydrological, meteorological, chemical-toxic, a. o.) for customized solutions in the fields of general environmental monitoring, early warning, site surveillance and many others. The groundwater monitoring network in UIT’s hometown Dresden is an excellent reference, with many others in Germany and abroad.
From 1998 Eco-friendly Mining and Processing
Based on the know-how in the field of remediation in the mining and milling industry, UIT extends its business portfolio with regard to exploration, mining technology and hydrometallurgical processing and contributes to the development of eco-friendly mining technologies in Australia and U.S.A., strictly meeting high safety and environmental standards.
From 2002 Monitoring Networks
UIT is prime contractor in many EU-funded projects (Phare, TACIS) for the design, supply and implementation of complex hydrological and radiological monitoring networks in PL, BG, RO, RU and others.
From 2004 Water Technology for Industry and Mining
UIT develops water technology applications in specific and challenging projects in industry (solar, steel, ceramics a. o.), mining (acid mine drainage, heavy-metal contamination a. o.) and remediation (incl. in-situ technologies). UIT offers complete services – from technology development via all engineering stages to turnkey solutions (incl. plant construction, automation, commissioning and optimization).
From 2004 Radiological Monitoring and Early Warning Systems
UIT’s integrative monitoring solutions are extended by offering high-class radiological equipment developed and manufactured by UIT’s partner company RTS Instruments (I).
From 2004 Modeling and Software Development
After many years of customized software development for process simulation purposes in mining and industry, UIT starts to develop software tools in application fields like geochemistry, reactive transport models, hydrometallurgy, water treatment, radionuclide transport, (enhanced) natural attenuation (incl. biological processes) a. o. for process simulation purposes in environment and technology. Nowadays such model tools are used for technology development, process optimization, engineering, licensing procedures, expert reports.
From 2005 Biotechnology - Bioconversion
In close cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim, UIT as prime contractor builds a turn-key, industrial-scale pilot plant for the production of highly-pure lactic acid from biomass, completed in 2006.
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