Advanced Wastewater Treatment Laboratory
Water is a critically important ‘raw material’ with less than 0.01% of Earth’s total supply being readily available. The provision of sufficient potable water will soon be one of the most daunting challenges facing the world. To attempt to alleviate this looming crisis the effective treatment and recycling of industrial wastewater must become the norm with economic pollutant recovery being seen as integral to the solution. The ‘once through’ utilisation of this resource is no longer an acceptable industrial practise.
The central aim of the Advanced Wastewater Treatment Laboratory is to develop robust treatment technologies to enable the remediation/reuse of industrial wastewater to address the significant issue of securing future water security. Viable options should be low-cost, applicable on a range of scales for a diversity of effluents and allow recovery of pollutants that have economic value.
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News Flash
June 2009 - Postgraduate researcher Andrew Gadd is shortlisted for the Young Water Scientist Award.
April 2009 - The Advanced Wastewater Treatment team deliver three presentations at the Workshop on innovative technologies for the remediation and reuse of wastewater from molasses distilleries hosted by TEERI in New Delhi, India.
October 2008 - Postgraduate researcher Andrew Gadd receives the Sydnovate Innovation Award and the Tom Svetiev Memorial Award for best postgraduate poster presentation at the Engineering Sydney Research Conversazione.
September 2008 - Postgraduate researcher Andrew Gadd delivers a presentation entitled “Design Development of an Electrocoagulation Reactor for Industrial Wastewater Treatment” at IWA Aquatech: Conference on Industrial Water Treatment Systems in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
February 2008 - Laboratory staff member Dr Ryan delivers a keynote presentation entitled “Process Integration for the Effective Treatment of Organic Wastewaters” at the Water Crisis – Challenges and Opportunities conference in Nagpur, India.