UQ Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology

Congratulations to Cassady Swinbourne on winning the 2024 ACWEB 3MT Heat!
Congratulations also to Runner Up M. Adib Ghazali Abdul Rahman, and People's Choice Winner Yujie Li

This year's competitors were (L -R):
Song Cao, Suicao Wang, Ni Made Sri Suliartini, Yujie Li, Mohammad Adib Ghazali Abdul Rahman, Cassady Swinbourne, Rebecca Hall, Mingyue Hu

If you are at in Melbourne stop by booth K30 to chat with us, and don't miss our presentations in the Program.
Jiuling Li and Zhetai Hu are presenting today Tuesday 30 April, and
Kaili Li, Liu Ye, and Andrew Ward are presenting tomorrow Wednesday 1 May.

New open access publication in Water Research journal "Coupling Partial Nitritation, Anammox and n-DAMO in a membrane aerated biofilm reactor for simultaneous dissolved methane and nitrogen removal" https://ow.ly/9kgt50R6crQ

Coupling Partial Nitritation, Anammox and n-DAMO in a membrane aerated biofilm reactor for simultaneous dissolved methane and nitrogen removal Anaerobic technologies with downstream autotrophic nitrogen removal have been proposed to enhance bioenergy recovery and transform a wastewater treatm…

Join us tomorrow at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Ji Lu on understanding roles of non-antibiotics on the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance.
https://ow.ly/vMqe50QNgJh

Congratulations to Prof Steven Kenway and the Urban Design Challenge Team on winning the "Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning" in the Australian Awards for University Teaching by Universities Australia. Prof Kenway's team will be running another Urban Design Challenge on 11 March as part of the award-wining WATR6105 Integrated Urban Water Management Course at UQ.

https://ow.ly/zJ4s50QIZ8U

PhD Project Opportunity: Development and application of distributed sensors for digitalisation of sewer systems
The supervisory team will be Prof Damien Batstone, a world-leading researcher in the area of biological and urban water process modelling, including machine learning and Dr Jiuling Li, an early career academic, and emerging expert in mechanistic and empirical modelling in sewer systems.
https://ow.ly/NxVC50QA3LV

The University of Exeter (United Kingdom) and The University of Queensland (Australia) are collaborating on a 3.5 year project aimed at investigating opportunities to improve water and energy efficiency in residential properties.

This 2-hour free online workshop (22nd Feb 2024) aims to bring stakeholders (e.g. water utilities, researchers, and consumers) together and provide an opportunity to share recent developments in the domain and discuss key challenges, opportunities, drivers, and barriers to reach net zero in water sector and identify priority actions.
Register for the workshop here https://ow.ly/Hof050QzqSQ

Join us tomorrow at 9:30am to hear a seminar from Damien Batstone on "Thermal transformation of biosolids and organics".
Thermal technologies for transformation of biosolids is rapidly emerging due to contaminant management issues and potential future beneficial use options for by-products such as char. In this seminar Prof Batstone will discuss the history and developing options for thermal conversion of biosolids, including the rapidly emerging option of pyrolysis, as well as how this applies to other organic waste streams. This work is the subject of the current Transforming Biosolids Training Centre, and relates to a number of major research programmes at ACWEB.
https://lnkd.in/dQfjs84g

New PhD opportunity available with Prof Jianhua Guo : Development of sequencing-based surveillance monitoring of antimicrobial resistance in the environment

Development of sequencing-based surveillance monitoring of antimicrobial resistance in the environment Project summary Program PhD Location St Lucia Research area Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences Project description The One Health approach recognises that the environment plays a vital role in health protection. In particular, engineered or natural aquatic environments may prov...

Congratulations to Zhetai Hu for winning the Australian Water Association 2023 Qld Student Water Prize

Supercharged poo-eating algae are being used to speed up waste treatment times in an Australian-first trial in south-east Queensland.

After you flush the toilet, it takes up to 60 days to break down the waste. A trial in regional Qld could change that As regional communities continue to grow, the need to safely treat wastewater increases. One trial in Queensland has reduced the treatment time from 60 days to two weeks.

ACWEB's Andrew Ward joins Jo Tarranto on Season 6 of the Australian Water Association podcast series to outline the benefits of utilising high-rate algae ponds correctly to form part of a net zero approach to reduce overall greenhouse gases.

Podcast - Andrew Ward discusses transforming regional wastewater treatment using high-rate algae ponds How do we solve a complex issue like sludge, greenhouse gases and wastewater? The answer may lie in high-rate algae ponds.