About

The Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology (ACWEB) is a multidisciplinary centre, focusing on industry relevant problems, and supporting societal and industrial transition to sustainable water, energy, and resources.

Established within The University of Queensland in 1996, the Centre's research program initially focused on the challenges of the protection of waterways and the reduction of nutrients in the environment. The Centre led the world in nutrient removal, innovative processes and process control of wastewater treatment plants.The impact of this early work is still being applied today by water authorities both nationally and internationally, and local agri-industries.

More than 25 years on, the Centre still shows great relevance to the global water industry, covering most of the Australian urban water services cycle. Our particular strength is the close integration of biological science, process engineering and informatics. This unique combination forms the basis for ground-breaking research but also offers some exciting opportunities for development and application of user-specific solutions to challenging environmental problems.

ACWEB has grown to become a multidisciplinary centre, focusing on industry relevant problems, with the following broad research fields:

• Water supply
• Contaminant management
• Advanced municipal wastewater treatment
• Municipal organic solids management
• Green chemical industries
• Network infrastructure
• Sustainable agri-industry
• Digitalisation of water and wastewater
• Water-energy-carbon nexus