Water and Wastewater Treatment

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Water and Wastewater research focuses on advancing methods and technologies to ensure the availability of clean, safe water and sustainable wastewater management. This field encompasses a range of studies from water quality monitoring and pollutant detection to developing new filtration, treatment, and recycling processes. Researchers work on understanding and mitigating environmental contaminants, optimizing resource recovery, and improving infrastructure resilience. Addressing challenges like population growth, climate change, and aging water systems, Water and Wastewater research plays a crucial role in protecting public health, ecosystems, and promoting sustainable urban and rural development worldwide.

Researchers

 

Dr. M. Dagnew (mdagnew@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Advancing wastewater treatment processes and technologies
  • Water and nutrient recovery from point and non-point sources
  • Urban water infrastructure
  • Numerical and data-based process modeling
  • Drinking water in first nation and small communities 

For further information: Martha Dagnew - CEE - Western University

 

Dr.  H. Gomaa (hgomaa@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Photocatalytic membrane reactors (PMR)
  • Preparation of Pickering emulsions using metal organic frameworks (MOF)
  • Functionalized membranes applications using MOF
  • Controlled release of drugs using magnetic nanoparticles (MNP)
  • Oscillatory motion process intensification
  • Supported liquid membranes (SLM) in bio-separation
  • Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes (EDBP)

For further information: Hassan Gomaa - CBE - Western University

 

Dr. A. K. Ray (aray@eng.uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Advanced oxidation processes for water treatment
  • Solar photocatalysis for water treatment
  • Enhanced oxidation of micropollutants by ferrates, Fe(VI)
  • Novel water treatment reactor design
  • Mathematical modeling and optimization

For further information: Ajay Ray - CBE - Western University

 

 

Dr. C.T. DeGroot (cdegroo5@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Computational fluid dynamics modelling of wastewater unit processes
  • Optical simulations of UV photoreactors and microalgae photobioreactors
  • Uncertainty/sensitivity analysis of wastewater biokinetic models
  • Wastewater-based epidemiology
  • Physics of gas-liquid mass transfer
  • Mechanics of active fluid suspensions

For further information: Chris DeGroot - MME - Western University

 

Dr. J. E. Herrera (jherrer3@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Heterogeneous catalysis for environmental engineering
  • Lead chemistry in drinking water distribution
  • Aquatic chemistry

For further information: Jose Herrera - CBE - Western University

 

Dr. M. B. Ray (mray@eng.uwo.ca; mbhowmic@uwo.ca)                                                        

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Novel applications of adsorption, coagulation, and membrane separation
  • Advanced oxidation processes for organics removal
  • Enhanced anaerobic digestion
  • Recovery of resources from wastes
  • Environmental modeling

For further details: Mita Ray - CBE - Western University