Lab capabilities

Water and wastewater treatment technologies

  • Solid-liquid separation of particulate suspensions
  • Chemical removal from contaminated water supplies
  • Water and wastewater treatment sludge handling
  • Microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis
  • Forward osmosis, membrane distillation, electrodialysis, electrophoresis

Integrated urban water system modelling

  • Modelling centralised-decentralised systems and their interactions
  • Demand forecasting, water–energy–greenhouse gas nexus
  • Contaminant, transport and remediation
  • Stream water quality modelling

Facilities

  • Soils Lab (Department of Infrastructure Engineering)
  • Chemical Engineering Labs including wet labs and analytical labs (water toxicity, sludge rheology, solid-liquid separation, particle and surface characterisation).