New Insights and Innovations for Advanced Water Treatment

Water and wastewater treatment processes aim for removing contaminants from water sources and convert it into effluent qualified for desired end-use. The end-uses include drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recreation, and returning to the water cycle, and so on.

Speakers will present new insights, challenges and emerging technologies (e.g., locally enhanced electric field treatment, advanced oxidation process, and reverse osmosis) that require attention in future advanced water treatment processes. Specifically, this webinar will be structured to cover the following topics:

• Application of chemical oxidants for enhanced wastewater treatment, by Prof. Urs von Gunten.
• Locally enhanced electric field treatment (LEEFT) for drinking water disinfection, by Prof. Xing Xie.
• The Open Membrane Database (OMD): An openaccess, user-sourced library of water purification and desalination membranes, by Dr. Rhea Verbeke.

Publications:

• Zhou, J., Hung, Y. C., & Xie, X. (2021). Making waves: Pathogen inactivation by electric field treatment: From liquid food to drinking water. Water Research, 207, 117817.
• Ritt, C. L., Stassin, T., Davenport, D. M., DuChanois, R. M., Nulens, I., Yang, Z., … & Verbeke, R. (2022). The open membrane database: Synthesis–structure–performance relationships of reverse osmosis membranes. Journal of Membrane Science, 641, 119927.
• Morrison, C. M., Hogard, S., Pearce, R., Gerrity, D., von Gunten, U., & Wert, E. C. (2022). Ozone disinfection of waterborne pathogens and their surrogates: A critical review. Water Research, 118206. Panelists
• Yumeng Zhao, https://twitter.com/YumengzhaoH Harbin Institute of Technology, China (moderator)
• Urs von Gunten, https://www.eawag.ch/en/about-us/portrait/organisation/staff/profile/urs-von-gunten/show/ Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Xing Xie, https://twitter.com/Xing_Xie_GT Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
• Rhea Verbeke, https://w https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhea-verbeke-6852a291ww.linkedin.com/in/natalie-hull-34bb5554/ KU Leuven, Belgium

Academics and researchers, engineers, utilities.

Following this session, participants will be able to:

• Gain deeper understanding of ozonation process for advanced water treatment
• Expand knowledge of new water disinfection technology: locally enhanced electric field treatment
• Familiarise with the concept and functionality of Open Membrane Database for water purification and desalination membranes