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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch & Learn-Denitrifying Polyphosphate Accumulating Organisms for Low Energy and Low Carbon Nutrient Removal: Where are we at, and where do we need to go?
7/13/2021 - 7/13/202112:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Event Description
Denitrifying Polyphosphate Accumulating Organisms (DPAOs) provide a promising means to couple resource efficient nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) removal in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal processes, in order to meet increasingly stringent effluent standards with minimal carbon and energy requirements. However, the contribution of DPAOs to P removal in full-scale bioprocesses is poorly understood, particularly when combined with emerging low energy N removal systems. This talk will highlight the current status of DPAO research and application from lab to full-scale. A summary of results from a recently completed WRF project that included a project team with a broad consortium of utilities, academics, and engineering firms will be provided. In addition, key unknowns will be highlighted that currently limit robust selection for high activity, high abundance DPAOs in practice, and identify promising applied research and development opportunities.
Dr. Wells will be joined by Fenghua Yang for the WRF project discussion. Fenghua Yang, P.E., BCEE is a Senior Environmental Research Scientist working in the Monitoring and Research Department of the Metropolitan Water reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Her research interests include, intelligent water systems, biological nutrient removal, energy efficient wastewater treatment, and meta-data analytics. She is the current Chair of the Intelligent Water Systems Committee of Illinois Water Environment Association
About the Speaker: George Wells is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, where he directs the Environmental Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology Laboratory. His primary research interests are microbial nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and shortcut biological nutrient removal processes, resource and energy recovery from wastewater, microbial ecology of engineered and impacted natural systems, sustainable biological wastewater treatment, and microbial greenhouse gas production. George received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and B.A. in Environmental Engineering from Rice University in 2004. After a short period working at BP Chemicals in Naperville, Illinois, George joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he completed his MS (2006) and PhD (2011) under Dr. Craig Criddle and Dr. Chris Francis. Prior to joining Northwestern University in the fall of 2013, George spent nearly 2.5 years as a postdoctoral scholar under Dr. Eberhard Morgenroth at Eawag-Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (near Zürich, Switzerland).
Earn 1 PDH/TCH. EPA Approved-Course ID provided at time of webinar.
Members $15/Non-Members $30 Students are free.
Dr. Wells will be joined by Fenghua Yang for the WRF project discussion. Fenghua Yang, P.E., BCEE is a Senior Environmental Research Scientist working in the Monitoring and Research Department of the Metropolitan Water reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Her research interests include, intelligent water systems, biological nutrient removal, energy efficient wastewater treatment, and meta-data analytics. She is the current Chair of the Intelligent Water Systems Committee of Illinois Water Environment Association
About the Speaker: George Wells is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, where he directs the Environmental Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology Laboratory. His primary research interests are microbial nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and shortcut biological nutrient removal processes, resource and energy recovery from wastewater, microbial ecology of engineered and impacted natural systems, sustainable biological wastewater treatment, and microbial greenhouse gas production. George received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and B.A. in Environmental Engineering from Rice University in 2004. After a short period working at BP Chemicals in Naperville, Illinois, George joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he completed his MS (2006) and PhD (2011) under Dr. Craig Criddle and Dr. Chris Francis. Prior to joining Northwestern University in the fall of 2013, George spent nearly 2.5 years as a postdoctoral scholar under Dr. Eberhard Morgenroth at Eawag-Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (near Zürich, Switzerland).
Earn 1 PDH/TCH. EPA Approved-Course ID provided at time of webinar.
Members $15/Non-Members $30 Students are free.
