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The KAUST Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC) held the KAUST Research Conference: Changing Paradigms of Wastewater Treatment – From Waste to Resource from March 27 to 29 on the University’s campus.
The University’s Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC) held the KAUST Research Conference: Changing Paradigms of Wastewater Treatment – From Waste to Resource from March 27 to 29 on the University’s campus, with the event focusing on recent developments in efficient and innovative technologies and microbes to recover resources such as water, nutrients and energy from wastewater in a safe and sustainable manner.
The KAUST Research Conference: Changing Paradigms of Wastewater Treatment – From Waste to Resource featured over 30 speakers from academia and global industry.
Pascal Saikaly, KAUST associate professor of environmental science and engineering, acted as chair of the KAUST Research Conference: Changing Paradigms of Wastewater Treatment – From Waste to Resource.
Bruce Rittmann, director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, gave a keynote address at the Changing Paradigms of Wastewater Treatment conference.
Bruce Logan, director of the Engineering Energy & Environmental Institute at Penn State University, highlighted new developments in cathode material for scale up of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) in his conference keynote talk.
Jurg Keller, the director of the Advanced Water Management Centre at the University of Queensland, gave a keynote address during the Changing Paradigms of Wastewater Treatment conference.
Ana Otero, associate professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, discussed microalgal biotechnology used for wastewater treatment in her WDRC conference presentation.
Jeremy Guest, an assistant professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, outlined the use of microalgal bioprocesses for nutrient recovery from wastewater in his conference talk.
Wen-Tso Liu, professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, presented recent developments in the anaerobic digester microbiome in his WDRC conference presentation.
Amy Pruden, a professor at Virginia Tech, discussed the public health component of wastewater treatment in her WDRC conference talk.
Celia Manaia, an assistant professor at the Portuguese Catholic University, discussed antibiotic resistance in her conference presentation.
The WDRC conference featured a poster session and competition; winners of the competition were KAUST Ph.D. students Hong Cheng (first prize); David Mantilla Calderon (second prize); and Dario Rangel Shaw (third prize).