Career
Karl Imhoff was the driving force in the development and invention of the technical apparatuses and methods of sewage treatment (the trickling - and activated sludge process). Imhoff provided not only significant technical innovations, but also design rules derived from experience in the operation of sewage treatment plants. He wrote a book Handbook of Urban Drainage in 1906, which today is released in new editions.
In its 100-year history, the book has been translated 40 times.
lieutenant has appeared in a total of 20 languages. From 1906 Imhoff was the Emscher Society served as head of the Office wastewater.
1907, where he developed the Emscher fountain with an anaerobic sludge treatment. From 1922 to 1934, Imhoff was managing director of the Ruhrverband, where he planned five Ruhr dams, until he was replaced by the Nazis.
On May 10, 1948 on his initiative and to the Director of the Ruhr Association, Max Prüss, the Wastewater Technical Association.
Founded eV (ATV) in Düsseldorf Imhoff was at that time in Germany, the largest capacity for wastewater treatment. Handbook of Urban Drainage. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1906th 30 Edition (the 100th anniversary of the first edition), Oldenbourg industry Verlag, Munich 2006.
English edition: Karl Imhoff"s Handbook of Urban Drainage and Wastewater Disposal.
Wiley, New York 1989. (With G M Fair): Sewage treatment.
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1949. (With West J Müller, Doctorate K B Thistlethwayte): Disposal of Sewage and other Water-borne Wastes.
2nd Education, Butterworths, London, 1971.
William Husmann (1974), "Imhoff, Karl", Neue Deutsche Biographie (Neue Deutsche Biographie) (in German) 10, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp.