NOVEMBER NEWS 2009

Welcome to Dr Tom Bond

Welcome to Dr Thomas Bond who joined EWRE section recently from Cranfield University. Tom is working with Dr Mike Templeton  as a Post-Doc Research Associate on "The Formation and Occurrence of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) and Other N-Nitrosamines in UK Drinking Water" 

   Profesor Cedo Maksimovic reports that the EC/EA funded project "Decentralised Integrated Analysis and Enhancement of Awareness through Collaborative Modelling and Management of Flood Risk (DIANE-CM) " has officially started on the 1st October 2009. The project will last 22 months and in addition to our team there are two other patners form Germany (Luphana university) and UNESCI-IHE Delft (The Netheralnds). 

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He was invited to Sao Paulo, Brazil to provide expert advice on strategies in mitigating problem of frequent surface flooding in the city centre. The consultations are part of implementation of the Drainage Master plan of the Upper Tiete river. He is also invited to deliver a "state-of-the-art" lecture in Rio de Janeiro in Jan 2010 to mark the inception phase of this project.

 Professor Howard Wheater presented a keynote address to an international Worshop on Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources, Amman,Jordan, 24-26th November

Dr Chris Cheeseman gave the Conferencia Inaugural lecture at Rmat 09, the 1st Conferencia Nacional sobre Avances en el Reciclado de Materiales y Eco Energia, held at the Eduardo Torroja Institute in Madrid on 12-13 November 2009. The lecture was on the ‘Role of Materials Development in Resource Efficiency'.

Shane Donatello successfully defended his PhD at a viva examination on November 30th . The thesis was entitled ‘Characterisation of incinerated sewage sludge ashes: potential for phosphate extraction and re-use as a pozzolanic material in construction products'. The project was supervised by Dr Chris Cheeseman and Dr Mark Tyrer. The examiners were Professor Stephen Smith (ICL) and Dr Glynn Skerratt from Staffordshire University.

Recent Publications

Templeton, MR, Graham, N, Voulvoulis, N, Emerging chemical contaminants in water and wastewater INTRODUCTION, PHILOS T R SOC A, 2009, Vol: 367, Pages: 3873 - 3875, ISSN: 1364-503X

Hoult, N, Bennett, PJ, Stoianov, I, Fidler, P, Maksimovic, C, Middleton, C, Graham, N, Soga, K, Wireless sensor networks: creating ''smart infrastructure'', P I CIVIL ENG-CIV EN, 2009, Vol: 162, Pages: 136 - 143, ISSN: 0965-089X

Smith, KM, Fowler, GD, Pullket, S, Graham, NJD, Sewage sludge-based adsorbents: A review of their production, properties and use in water treatment applications, WATER RES, 2009, Vol: 43, Pages: 2569 - 2594, ISSN: 0043-1354

Abbe, OE, Grimes, SM, Fowler, GD, Boccaccini, AR, Novel sintered glass-ceramics from vitrified oil well drill cuttings, J MATER SCI, 2009, Vol: 44, Pages: 4296 - 4302, ISSN: 0022-2461

Chaudhary, AJ, Hassan, MU, Grimes, SM, Simultaneous recovery of metals and degradation of organic species: Copper and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), J HAZARD MATER, 2009, Vol: 165, Pages: 825 - 831, ISSN: 0304-3894

Onof, C, Consciousness and its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?, J MIND BEHAV, 2009, Vol: 30, Pages: 79 - 91

Lateef, H, Grimes, SM, Chaudhary, AJ, Goswami, NC, Opportunity to recycle chromium(VI) by in situ electro-oxidation, J CHEM TECHNOL BIOT, 2009, Vol: 84, Pages: 584 - 588, ISSN: 0268-2575

Smith, SR, Organic contaminants in sewage sludge (biosolids) and their significance for agricultural recycling, PHILOS T R SOC A, 2009, Vol: 367, Pages: 4005 - 4041, ISSN: 1364-503X

Donatello, S, Tyrer, M, Cheeseman, CR, EU landfill waste acceptance criteria and EU Hazardous Waste Directive compliance testing of incinerated sewage sludge ash., Waste Manag, 2009, ISSN: 1879-2456

Roether, JA, Daniel, DJ, Amutha Rani, D, Deegan, DE, Cheeseman, CR, Boccaccini, AR, Properties of sintered glass-ceramics prepared from plasma vitrified air pollution control residues., J Hazard Mater, 2009, ISSN: 1873-3336

Tudor, TL, Townend, WK, Cheeseman, CR, Edgar, JE, An overview of arisings and large-scale treatment technologies for healthcare waste in the United Kingdom, WASTE MANAGE RES, 2009, Vol: 27, Pages: 374 - 383, ISSN: 0734-242X

Zhang, Y, Collins, C, Graham, N, Templeton, MR, Huang, J, Nieuwenhuijsen, M, Speciation and variation in occurrence of HAAs in three water supply systems in England, Water and Environment Journal (accepted for publication), 2009

Shaheed, A, Templeton, MR, Matthews, RL, Tripathi, SK, Bhattarai, K, Disinfection of waterborne coliform bacteria using Luffa cylindrica fruit and seed extracts, Environmental Technology, 2009, Vol: 30, Pages: 1435 - 1440