VEGAS Research Facility for Subsurface Remediation, Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University Stuttgart

URL http://www.vegas.uni-stuttgart.de


The research facility for subsurface remediation, VEGAS, the only one of its kind in Germany, is affiliated to the Universität Stuttgart. The main research topic of VEGAS is the remediation of contaminations in soil and groundwater as well as brownfield redevelopment. VEGAS was founded in 1995, jointly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of the Environment Baden-Württemberg. VEGAS is characterized by national and international interdisciplinary cooperation between natural scientists and engineers. VEGAS research projects include fundamental research as well as the development of prototypes and remediation technologies. Experiments are conducted from the lab scale to the technical scale using large containers. The knowledge and technology derived from VEGAS projects are put into practice in pilot applications, training sessions and conferences. The VEGAS facility is available for research and development projects to the public and private sectors both in Germany and abroad. Users bear the costs of their individual research projects carried out in VEGAS.