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Filtration and Separation in Water Treatment

August 1, 2023, Tuesday

8:00am-10:00am, ET Canada & US

$USD 350

$USD 175 (Member Only)

Course Objectives:

In many producing sectors water is one of the most important resources interacting with several steps of the value-added chain. Here, pressure-driven membrane processes usually offer reliable and resource-efficient solutions. The objective of this course is to help get a high-level understanding of operating principles, possibilities, and limitations of these membrane processes for the treatment of water, process fluids, and wastewater.

Upon completion, the participants of this course, in close cooperation with experts, will be able to identify and design the adequate processes that can be used to resolve production-specific / product-relevant tasks in their respective water-related problems.

Using a technological approach based on a phenomenological oriented methodology, fundamentals, and application examples will be discussed.

1. General aspects of water treatment with membrane technology

2. Technological fundamentals of the pressure driven membrane processes microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO)

3. Membranes as well-defined barriers

4. Strategies in water management and application examples for membrane processes in selected areas of water treatment

    4.1  Production

    4.2  Reuse

    4.3  Protection

5.  Example for improving operation of membrane processes

6.  Future developments

7.  New opportunities and trends (panel discussion)

Instructor Biography
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Dr.-Ing. Thomas Peters

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Peters is an internationally renowned expert in membrane technology and environmental engineering. He has over 40 years of experience in the field of pressure-driven membrane processes for the treatment of water, process fluids, and wastewater. Related pioneering work was focused between others on the use of reverse osmosis for desalination of seawater, for the purification of landfill leachate and water reuse in different areas. He earned his Ph.D. in 1980 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg on the subject "Production of drinking water from seawater with reverse osmosis“. After leading management functions in a middle-sized and multinational company, he has been a high-level independent technology consultant since 1986, authored more than 100 publications and more than 50 oral presentations. He is co-editor of a landfill compendium. He received the Stanley Gray Award - Marine Technology 2000/2001 of the IMarEST, London, and the ATCP Award 2007, Concepción, Chile.

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Panelist

Dr. Kuo-Lun (Allan) Tung, Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University (NTU), Deputy Director, WInnER Center, NTU

Dr. Kuo-Lun (Allan) Tung is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in 1991, 1994, and 1998, respectively, from the NTU, all in chemical engineering. Before joining NTU in August 2012, he was the Director of the R&D Centre for Membrane Technology at Chung Yuan University from 2009 to 2012, with a specialty in research and development on membrane filtration applications for water and wastewater treatment for 20 years. He is now serving as the editor of the Separation and Purification Technology journal and the Vice-Chair of the Membrane Technology Specialist Group in the International Water Association (IWA). He has been a fellow of IWA since 2019.

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Panelist

Mr. Nikolay Voutchkov, PE, BCEE 

President, Water Globe Consultants, LLC, USA

Mr. Nikolay Voutchkov is a Senior Expert Adviser to the Saline Water Conversion Corporation of Saudi Arabia & Member of Saudi Desalination Roadmap Committee. He is a worldwide expert in desalination and brine mining. He is a Professional Engineer and Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He recieved 2022 Award of the International Desalination Association for Beneficial Reuse of Brine. Mr. Voutchkov has a Master of Science in Engineering from UCLA.

Filtration and Separation in Water Treatment

Filtration and Separation in Water Treatment

August 1, 2023, Tuesday

8:00am-10:00am, ET Canada & US

$USD 350

$USD 175 (Member Only)

Business Meeting
Course Objectives:

In many producing sectors water is one of the most important resources interacting with several steps of the value-added chain. Here, pressure-driven membrane processes usually offer reliable and resource-efficient solutions. The objective of this course is to help get a high-level understanding of operating principles, possibilities, and limitations of these membrane processes for the treatment of water, process fluids, and wastewater.

Upon completion, the participants of this course, in close cooperation with experts, will be able to identify and design the adequate processes that can be used to resolve production-specific / product-relevant tasks in their respective water-related problems.

Using a technological approach based on a phenomenological oriented methodology, fundamentals, and application examples will be discussed.

Course Outline:

1. General aspects of water treatment with membrane technology

2. Technological fundamentals of the pressure driven membrane processes microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO)

3. Membranes as well-defined barriers

4. Strategies in water management and application examples for membrane processes in selected areas of water treatment

    4.1  Production

    4.2  Reuse

    4.3  Protection

5.  Example for improving operation of membrane processes

6.  Future developments

7.  New opportunities and trends (panel discussion)

Instructor Biography

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Dr.-Ing. Thomas Peters

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Peters is an internationally renowned expert in membrane technology and environmental engineering. He has over 40 years of experience in the field of pressure-driven membrane processes for the treatment of water, process fluids, and wastewater. Related pioneering work was focused between others on the use of reverse osmosis for desalination of seawater, for the purification of landfill leachate and water reuse in different areas. He earned his Ph.D. in 1980 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg on the subject "Production of drinking water from seawater with reverse osmosis“. After leading management functions in a middle-sized and multinational company, he has been a high-level independent technology consultant since 1986, authored more than 100 publications and more than 50 oral presentations. He is co-editor of a landfill compendium. He received the Stanley Gray Award - Marine Technology 2000/2001 of the IMarEST, London, and the ATCP Award 2007, Concepción, Chile.

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Panelist

Dr. Kuo-Lun (Allan) Tung, Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University (NTU), Deputy Director, WInnER Center, NTU

Dr. Kuo-Lun (Allan) Tung is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in 1991, 1994, and 1998, respectively, from the NTU, all in chemical engineering. Before joining NTU in August 2012, he was the Director of the R&D Centre for Membrane Technology at Chung Yuan University from 2009 to 2012, with a specialty in research and development on membrane filtration applications for water and wastewater treatment for 20 years. He is now serving as the editor of the Separation and Purification Technology journal and the Vice-Chair of the Membrane Technology Specialist Group in the International Water Association (IWA). He has been a fellow of IWA since 2019.

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Panelist

Mr. Nikolay Voutchkov, PE, BCEE 

President, Water Globe Consultants, LLC, USA

Mr. Nikolay Voutchkov is a Senior Expert Adviser to the Saline Water Conversion Corporation of Saudi Arabia & Member of Saudi Desalination Roadmap Committee. He is a worldwide expert in desalination and brine mining. He is a Professional Engineer and Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He recieved 2022 Award of the International Desalination Association for Beneficial Reuse of Brine. Mr. Voutchkov has a Master of Science in Engineering from UCLA.

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