Research areas
- Risk assessment and characterisation of chemical substances
- Development of ecotoxicological tests: aquatic and terrestrial ecotoxicology
- Ecotoxicity assessment of soil, water and sediments and of chemical substances
- Planning and demonstration of soil remediation technologies
- Enhanced bioremediation
- Cyclodextrines in environmental technologies
- Emerging pollutants: monitoring, measurement of the effects, removal from water and soil
- Soil amelioration with wastes
- Landfill covers from wastes
- Soil improvement with the application of industrial wastes (fly ash, red mud) and agricultural biomass waste (compost, biochar)
- Complex management of contaminated sites:
- Sites contaminated with organic pollutants (petroleum hydrocarbons and aliphatic hydrocarbons)
- Gyöngyösoroszi abandoned mining area contaminated with base metal sulphides
- Ajka area further to the red mud spill
- Complex re-use technologies for red mud
- Dissemination and teaching of environmental scientific knowledge
- Development of the ENFO environmental and engineering database (ENFO)
