UMass Environmental Engineering Research Project

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UMass Environmental Engineering Research
ProjectDevelopment of a Chemical Treatment
Model for Desalting Membrane Residuals

• Principal Investigators
• Kenneth Mercer (PhD student), John Tobiason
• Sponsors
• NWRI-Cargill Fellowship
• Switzer Foundation Fellowship
• Duration 9/05 8/08
• Synopsis Bench-scale chemical treatment by
  coagulation and/or softening of high ionic
  strength concentrates produced by desalting
  membranes. Goal is removal of trace contaminants
  and organic matter. Chemical quilibrium modeling
  of treatment processes.
• Status Expected 08/08 completion

• Presentations at AWWA WQTC 2006, 2007
• Presentation at ASCE/EWRI Conference, Tampa, May
  2007
• Presentation at 12th Gothenburg Symposium on
  Chemical Treatment of Water and Wastewater,
  Ljublana, Slovenia, May 2007