Hybrid: 9th IWA Odour and VOC/Air Emissions Conference

9th IWA Odour Conference

Hosted by International Water Association and organized by the website Olores.org, the 9th IWA Odour and VOC/Air Emissions Conference will be held in Euskalduna Conference Centre from October 26 th to 27 th,2021.
This will be the first IWA Odour Conference to be held in Bilbao in this series, but the second one in Spain after Barcelona in 2008. After the success of previous events in Australia, Singapore, Spain, Brazil, USA, France (cancelled due to Terrorist attack), Poland and China, the organization committee is glad to hold the 9th IWA conference on odours and is willing to welcome you in Bilbao.

Thematic areas

Wastewater Systems (small scale), Industrial Water and Wastewater, Wastewater Systems (large scale), Water and Health, Treatment Technologies

Event topics

Policy and associated regulations for odour and air quality

Odour/VOC measurement, monitoring&sensor technologies

Odour/VOC perception, impact, formation and dispersion

GHG emissions particulate matter and industrial emissions

Source characterisation and odour/VOC mapping

Odour/VOC abatement, mitigation and neutralisation

Odour/VOC from waste water, sewer systems and livestock

Air emissions and sustainable solutions for waste handling

Community engagement, social media and citizen action

Big data/data analytics

Organizing Committee

Ainhoa Antón

Olores.org

Spain

Cyntia Izquierdo

Olores.org

Spain

Carlos Diaz

Olores.org

Spain

Yes

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Yes

Programme Committee

Carlos Nietzsche Diaz Jimenez

Olores.org

Spain

Yes

German Aroca

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Chile

Yes

Michael Assal

The Odour Unit Pty Ltd

Australia

Yes

Jennifer Barclay

Atmospheric Science Global Ltd

New Zealand

Yes

Radoslaw Barczak

Warsaw University of Technology

Poland

Yes

Ilse Bilsen

VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research

Belgium

Anna Bokowa

Environmental Odour Consulting Corporation

Canada

Yes

Laura Capelli

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Ian Cranshaw

Stantec

United Kingdom

Yes

Christelle Escoffier

Wood Group

United Kingdom

Anders Feilberg

Aarhus University

Denmark

Franz-Bernd Frechen

University of Kassel

Germany

Yes

Eva Gallego

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Spain

Jean-Michel Guillot

IMT Mines Ales

France

Takaya Higuchi

Yamaguchi University

Japan

Yes

Bart Kraakman

Jacobs

United Kingdom

Yes

Jacek Koziel

Iowa State University

United States Of America

Raquel Lebrero

University of Valladolid

Spain

Yes

Weifang Li

National Key Laboratory on Environment and Odour Pollution Control of China, Tianjin

China

Yes

Dezhao Liu

Zhejiang University

China

Yes

Asier López Etxebarria

Consorcio de Aguas Bilbao Bizkaia

Spain

Yes

Bettina Mannebeck

Olfasense GmbH

Germany

María Martín

Laboratori d’Enginyeria Química i Ambiental (LEQUIA)

Spain

Michael McGinley

St.Croix Sensory

United States Of America

Raul Muñoz

University of Valladolid

Spain

Yes

Robin Ormerod

Envirosuite

Australia

Yes

Vincenzo Naddeo

University of Salerno

Italy

Yes

Philippe Najean

OPAM Consulting

Australia

Yes

Monika Paduch

Association of German Engineers

Germany

Laura Pastor

DAM-Aguas

Spain

Yes

Martin Piringer

Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics

Austria

Guillermo Quijano Govantes

Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM

Mexico

Yes

Anne Claude Romain

University of Liege, Arlon

Belgium

Glòria Sànchez Santos

Àrea Metropolitana Barcelona

Spain

Jane Meri Santos

Department of Environmental Engineering

Brazil

Yes

Lidia Sauco

DAM-Aguas

Spain

Gunther Schauberger

University of Veterinary Medicine

Austria

Yes

Selena Sironi

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Izabela Sówka

Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Poland

Yes

Richard Stuetz

University of New South Wales Australia

Australia

Yes

Mel Suffet

University of California, Los Angeles

United States Of America

Yes

Veronica Valdenebro

University of Basque Country (UPV-EHU)

Spain

Magnun Maciel Vieira

University of South Santa Catarina

Brazil

Yes

Ton van Harreveld

Odournet

Spain

Yes

Herman Van Langenhove

Ghent Universiteit

Belgium

Yes

Jes Vollertsen

Aalborg University

Denmark

Yes

Jay Witherspoon

CH2M HILL

United States Of America

Yes

Peter Winter

Thames Water Utilities Limited

United Kingdom

Yes

Cheng Yan

China University of Geosciences

China

Yes

Tiziano Zarra

University of Salerno

Italy

Yes

Previous editions of this event

8th IWA conference on odour and VOC/air emissions, Hangzhou, China (2019)
7th IWA Odours and Air Emissions Conference, Warsaw, Poland (2017)
6th IWA Odour and Air Emissions Conference (cancelled), Paris, France (2015)
5th IWA Odour and Air Emissions Conference, San Francisco, California - 2013
4th IWA Conference on Odours and Vocs, Vitoria, Brazil - 2011
3rd IWA International Conference on Odours and VOCs, Barcelona - 2008
2nd IWA International Conference on Odour & VOCs: Measurement, Regulation and Control Techniques, Singapore - 2003
First IWA Conference on Odours: Measurement, Regulation and Control Techniques, Sydney - 2001