Events

Our IWES program is scheduled for 1-5 July 2024.
The 2024 IWES program will feature daily networking drinks and an exclusive IWES networking evening. All of which is included in your registration price.

Mainstream wastewater accounts for an estimated 80% of the nitrogen load in municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The ongoing urbanization has significantly increased the burden on these WWTPs, necessitating the development of innovative solutions to intensify wastewater treatment processes.

PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) encompass a large and diverse group of chemicals known for their robustness and persistence, leading to significant environmental persistence and bioaccumulation concerns.

Since the turn of this century, wastewaters are no longer merely viewed as the source of environmental pollution but rather as source of various valuable resources, such as purified water, nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus), precious metal (lithium, palladium, etc.), and renewable energy.

Manure management emissions contribute an estimated 7% of Australia’s agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Fugitive methane from effluent storage is a major portion of these emissions and is a logical target for reduction efforts. This talk will provide an overview of approaches to reduce manure management methane, including biogas for energy recovery, emissions avoidance by manure separation, and developments of low-cost manure additives, and short hydraulic retention time systems. Opportunities, limitations, and suggested further research are outlined.

In the quest for sustainable waste management solutions, anaerobic digestion (AD) has been identified as a critical method for managing waste activated sludge (WAS). Despite its potential, AD is challenged by issues related to efficiency and stability.

Antimicrobial resistance is claiming at least 1.27 million lives every year. Current research on antimicrobial resistance heavily focuses on the clinical setting and mainly attributes the spread of antimicrobial resistance to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics.

This Friday (10:30 am-11:30 am - AIBN Seminar Room), Yujie Li will have her confirmation presentation for the ACWEB seminar. Please join us to support Yujie in this important milestone. If you cannot join in person, you are also welcome to participate via ZOOM: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/86011228617

Thermal technologies for transformation of biosolids is rapidly emerging due to contaminant management issues and potential future beneficial use options for byproducts such as char.

This Friday (11:30 am- 1:00 pm – AIBN Seminar Room), we are delighted to have Professor Xavier from the Technical University of Denmark present for the ACWEB seminar.

Throughout workshops, interactive activities, field trips and group sessions with experts and leading academics, multidisciplinary teams work together on a case study to improve sustainable city design and liveability.

The Sustainable Cities Design Challenge successfully promotes collaboration and interdisciplinary work to design the cities of tomorrow.

The ‘Urban Design Challenge’ took off at The University of Queensland on 21 June 2021. It taught participants the value of multidisciplinary teamwork in addressing complex urban issues through integrated water and energy design for sustainable and resilient cities.

The Urban Design Challenge Winter School challenges multidisciplinary teams of planners, architects, engineers and others, to create new urban developments that are more liveable, sustainable, resilient and resource efficient.