Water & Wastewater
Water & Wastewater Research Cluster. W&W Current Projects
This Cluster covers new approaches for all aspects of water and wastewater treatment, and associated issues including:
- Water treating for municipal (drinking) and industrial (cooling; boiler feed) uses.
- Industrial and municipal wastewater treating
Targeted research topics include:
Municipal and Industrial Wastewater.
- Treatment processes – biological, chemical, physical, thermal etc).
- Unique streams and specific contaminants e.g. metals, high/low pH.
- Biological waste sludge reduction.
- Minimize generation by controlling wastewater plant operating modifications.
- Chemical/physical/biological conditioning of generated sludge.
- Dry digestion.
- Novel flocculation materials.
- Nutrients (N & P): Removal, recovery and reuse.
- Public Health Issues.
- Toxicity testing.
- Sustainability including LCA, economics etc.
- Energy efficiency and energy efficient treatment systems.
- Development of chemical free treatment systems.
- Low carbon treatment technologies and associated methodologies.
Drinking water.
- Treatment processes (chemical, physical).
- Trace contaminants (pesticides, endocrine disruptors, etc) – detection, treatment/removal, destruction.
- Ways to substitute lower quality waters for fresh water.
- Novel flocculation materials.
- Public Health Issues including pathogen detection, removal and tracking.
- Sustainability including security of supply, LCA, economics etc.Toxicity testing.
- Low carbon treatment technologies and associated methodologies.
Cross-cutting themes with other Clusters.
- Extraction of high value compounds from waste.
- Effects of discharges on the environment.
- Reuse and recycling (e.g. regeneration of aluminium hydroxide).
- Energy generation and recovery.
- Microbial source tracking.
- Low carbon treatment technologies and associated methodologies
