Alexander Szabo and Oscar Engle - Svenskt Vatten

Acknowledgements
This report is a result of a project which has been carried out both in Sweden and in Malaysia. In Sweden
we were part of the Water and Environmental Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering
where we started and completed our project. In Malaysia where the field study of our project was
performed we were part of the Environmental Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering
(IPASA).
We are proud to participate in the cooperation between LTH in Sweden and UTM in Malaysia. We are
only the “second generation” of Swedish students going away to this friendly and multicultural country.
Therefore we would like to give our sincere greetings to Prof. Dato’ Ir. Dr. Zaini bin Ujang for
introducing us to his university from his guest lectures in Sweden, spring 2009.
A warm thanks goes to our supervisor in Sweden, Ass. Pr. Karin Jönsson, for her professional support
and guidance during the whole project. Your help and feedback has made this project a lot easier and the
project would not have been possible without your co-operation between LTH and UTM in Malaysia.
We would like to give our supervisor in Malaysia Ass. Pr. Azmi Bin Aris our sincere greetings for his
relentless help at IPASA in Malaysia. Your help and support at UTM was necessary for us in a
completely new country and environment. We hope to see you again in the future, both in Malaysia and in
Sweden.
We are also very grateful to Civ. Eng. Rozlan Md Shariff for his support with maps and data of the
treatment pond. A special thanks goes to PhD student Chow Ming Fai at IPASA for his help and support
at the laboratory. We thank PhD student Mohd Noor Asyraf bin Amirruddin for his help with
precipitation data from the university area. Another special thanks goes to the staff at IPASA for your
service and helpfulness when we needed it the most.
We are grateful to our examiner Prof. Jes la Cour Jansen for his useful viewpoints during our project.
We wish to express our warm gratitude to Prof. Dr. Zulkifli Yusop for professional help and for
introducing us further into the Malaysian gastronomy with its very tasteful dishes, especially the Satay
chicken.
Finally, we would like to thank Ångpanneföreningen, Helsingkrona nation, Rotary Ängelholm and
Lundabygdens sparbanks stiftelse for your financial support. Without your help this project would never
had been possible to carry out.
Alexander Szabo and Oscar Engle
Lund, April 2010
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