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The mission of the
WaTeR Center is to advance technologies of water production in
order to develop new and economical alternative sources of
potable, irrigation, and consumptive water uses.
Science-based innovation, technology evaluation, advanced
education, and rapid information dissemination.
A comprehensive approach focused upon:
Affiliates, Project Collaborators and Sponsors:
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Research highlights:
August, 2007: The EXSOD
scale observation monitor is successfully tested at the Zuckerberg Water
Research Institute (Ben-Gurion University, Israel).
High recovery brackish water desalination process developed in
collaboration with MWD.
A new ex-situ scale
observation detector developed for early mineral scale detection,
kinetic studies study of
mineral scale formation and evaluation of antiscalant effectiveness. |
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News and Events |
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Honors & Awards |
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Soo-Young Lee - Vice
President/Business Strategy Team for KOLON visited the Water Center on
January 31, 2008.
William Clark - Special
Advisor to the President, Sekisui Chemical Co. visited the UCLA WaTeR
Center on January 30, 2008.
John Norton (Senior
Engineer with MWH) gave a seminar on "Integrated Water Systems: Research
versus Reality", January 25, 2008.
Mr. Walter Wang,
President and CEO of JM Eagle gave a seminar on CEO and President of JM
Eagle gave a seminar on "What Good Is Clean Water if There’s No Reliable
Way to Transport It?" at UCLA to about 200 of our undergraduate and
graduate students on November 30, 2007.
WaTeR Center team visited
the California DWR, San Joaquin District, on Sept 10, 2007 to discuss
research progress and tour the Red Rock Ranch Field research facility.
California DWR team (Dr. Fawzi Karajeh, Nancy King and Jennifer Wong) visited the UCLA WaTeR
Center (June 18, 2007) to review Proposition 50 funded research
projects.
Professor Francesc
Giralt (URV, Catalunya) visited UCLA in June 2007 to as part of a
collaborative research effort with the WaTeR Center on RO plant control
and membrane module hydrodynamic studies.
A delegation from the
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
(CSIRO), Victoria University, Deaking University and Melbourne
University visited the UCLA WaTeR Center on March 19, 2007.
Dr. Chen I-Ming of the
Nanyang Technological University of Singapore visited the WaTeR Center
on March 2, 2007
The WaTeR Center
workshop on water systems research
was held at UCLA on February 23, 2007.
Dr. Cohen gave an
invited presentation on high recovery brackish water desalination at the
ECI Conference on Water Treatment and Reuse II which was held at Tomar,
Portugal, February 8-11, 2007.
The WaTeR Center is co-sponsoring and co-organizers the
2008 International Congress on Membranes (ICOM) which will be
held in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 12-18,
2008. Details will be posted
at the
North
American Membrane Society
web site
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WaTeR Center Students
(Click Photo to enlarge)
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Mike Uchymiak has been awarded the 2007-2008 "Channabasappa
Memorial Scholarship from the International Desalination Association in
support of his research on real-time mineral scale monitoring and
feed-flow reversal operation of membrane desalination.
Hsiao-Yu (Nancy) Lin was awarded the first NWRI-Southern
California Salinity Coalition Fellowship for her work on the development
of fouling resistant RO membranes.
The Global Water Intelligence and Global
Water Report Publishers awarded a Global Water Awards 2007 Distinction
under the Innovation of the Year Award category to Dr. E. M.V. Hoek for
the development of a thin film nanocomposite RO membrane
Dr. Myung-man Kim was awarded the North
American Society (NAMS) 2007 Travel Award.
Andi Rahardianto received the 2007 NAMS
Elias Klein
Award.
Eric Lyster was an invited speaker at the
First Annual NWRI Graduate Fellowship Research Conference,
April 12, 2007, Orange County, Orange, California. He presented a
talk on "Concentration
Polarization and Mineral Scaling in Membrane Desalination".
Dr. Cohen was a plenary speaker at the
233rd ACS National Spring Meeting in Chicago at the Division of Sustainability
of Energy, Food, and Water Session on "Advanced Membrane Technology for
Water Reuse". He will speak on ""High recovery membrane RO
desalination of brackish water: Opportunities and limitations" (March
27, 2007).
Dr. Cohen was an invited panelist at the "Danger on the Delta"
conference, Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, CA, March 13, 2007.
Dr. E. M.V. Hoek gave a
plenary address,
“Nanotechnology for Advanced Membrane Processes,” at the
Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment Workshop, Houston, Texas,
February 25 - 27, 2007.
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Sustainable
water production technology in harmony with the environment.
Multidisciplinary
research & development teams.
Advanced
zero-discharge water production processes through integration with
energy generation, membrane and thermal desalination and concentrate
utilization.
Rapid
information dissemination and public access to new scientific,
technical, economic, and environmental knowledge.
Training
the next generation of water technology experts for the State of
California.
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Water pretreatment processes for
foulant removal and mineral salt scale inhibition.
Advanced
fouling and scaling resistant membranes for water
desalination.
Toward
zero liquid discharge water production via high recovery membrane
processes.
Enhancing and
integrating advanced disinfection technologies.
Recycling
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We are a
multidisciplinary team
of Faculty from different
academic institutions and center affiliates from industry, State and
Federal Agencies and the National Laboratories.
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University of California, Los Angeles
Los
Angeles, California
Research at the WaTeR Center is funded by a number of
water agencies including the California Department of Water Resources,
the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the USEPA and industrial sponsors that are
listed in the Members Section.
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