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- Water treatment
- Developing national validation guidelines for MBRs in water recycling
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Our research
- Membrane material development
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Water treatment
- Study of floc strength and stability during direct filtration of surface water
- Mass and heat transfer in submerged vacuum membrane distillation and crystallization
- Development of novel membrane integrity tests for virus sized particles
- Reuse of old reverse osmosis membranes used in desalination plants | UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology - UNSW Sydney
- Optimisation of hybrid coagulation/submerged membrane bioreactor treatment of wastewaters | UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology - UNSW Sydney
- Developing national validation guidelines for MBRs in water recycling
- Assisted forward osmosis for energy savings in RO desalination
- Characterising nanostructure functionality of conventional and advanced polymeric membranes using electrical impedance spectroscopy
- Optimising low-pressure membrane pre-treatment for desalination | UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology - UNSW Sydney
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Process design & modelling
- Computational fluid dynamics modelling of Membrane Bioreactors
- Resilience modelling of advanced water treatment plants
- Mechanical reliability of microporous membranes in water recycling applications
- Optimisation of Membrane Distillation Processes
- Feedback Destabilizing Control of Electro-osmotic Flow
- Greenhouse gas technology
- Bio-separations
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Food & agriculture
- Membrane facilitated subsurface drip irrigation
- Milk ultrafiltration
- Protein recovery from potato processing water using ultrafiltration membrane
- Phosphorus recovery from wastewater
- Sequential chemical and enzymatic cleaning of ultrafiltration membranes in dairy applications
- Application of membrane separation process in concentration and separation of polyphenol compounds for evaluation of their health benefits
- Optimising low-pressure membrane pre-treatment for desalination
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Archived research projects
- Composite biocatalytic nanoflower
- Superhydrophobic Membranes for Membrane Distillation Applications
- Polymers for Isoporous and Functional Membranes
- Separation performance of dip-coated microporous hollow fibre polymer inclusion membranes (PIM)
- Improvement in Fouling Release Properties of Ultrafiltation PVDF Membranes
- Thin Film Nano-composite Membrane Fabrication for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Flue Gas
- MOF based highly efficient gas separation membrane
- Biocatalytic membrane reactors for greenhouse gas capture
- Evaluation of CO2 Capture with High Performance Hollow Fiber Membranes from Flue Gas: A Pilot Scale Study
- Improved Carbon Dioxide Separation Performance with Additives of PEO/PDMS Copolymer in PPO Membranes
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Our research
Water treatment
- Study of floc strength and stability during direct filtration of surface water
- Mass and heat transfer in submerged vacuum membrane distillation and crystallization
- Development of novel membrane integrity tests for virus sized particles
- Reuse of old reverse osmosis membranes used in desalination plants | UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology - UNSW Sydney
- Optimisation of hybrid coagulation/submerged membrane bioreactor treatment of wastewaters | UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology - UNSW Sydney
- Developing national validation guidelines for MBRs in water recycling
- Assisted forward osmosis for energy savings in RO desalination
- Characterising nanostructure functionality of conventional and advanced polymeric membranes using electrical impedance spectroscopy
- Optimising low-pressure membrane pre-treatment for desalination | UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology - UNSW Sydney
Process design & modelling
- Computational fluid dynamics modelling of Membrane Bioreactors
- Resilience modelling of advanced water treatment plants
- Mechanical reliability of microporous membranes in water recycling applications
- Optimisation of Membrane Distillation Processes
- Feedback Destabilizing Control of Electro-osmotic Flow
Food & agriculture
- Membrane facilitated subsurface drip irrigation
- Milk ultrafiltration
- Protein recovery from potato processing water using ultrafiltration membrane
- Phosphorus recovery from wastewater
- Sequential chemical and enzymatic cleaning of ultrafiltration membranes in dairy applications
- Application of membrane separation process in concentration and separation of polyphenol compounds for evaluation of their health benefits
- Optimising low-pressure membrane pre-treatment for desalination
Archived research projects
- Composite biocatalytic nanoflower
- Superhydrophobic Membranes for Membrane Distillation Applications
- Polymers for Isoporous and Functional Membranes
- Separation performance of dip-coated microporous hollow fibre polymer inclusion membranes (PIM)
- Improvement in Fouling Release Properties of Ultrafiltation PVDF Membranes
- Thin Film Nano-composite Membrane Fabrication for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Flue Gas
- MOF based highly efficient gas separation membrane
- Biocatalytic membrane reactors for greenhouse gas capture
- Evaluation of CO2 Capture with High Performance Hollow Fiber Membranes from Flue Gas: A Pilot Scale Study
- Improved Carbon Dioxide Separation Performance with Additives of PEO/PDMS Copolymer in PPO Membranes
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Research is being conducted to address the major barriers preventing streamlined implementation of membrane bioreactors (MBRs) in water recycling schemes. As a result, appropriate, transparent and informed validation protocols will be developed for MBRs in Australia.
Status
Ongoing
Research Area
Water treatment
Email
p.le-clech@unsw.edu.au
- Research team
- Funding body
- Publications
Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence (AWRCoE)
Trang T; Branch A; van den Akker B; Le-Clech P; Drewes JE; Khan SJ, 2014, 'Impacts of hazardous events on performance of membrane bioreactors', in Hai FI; Yamamoto K; Lee CH (ed.), , IWA PUBLISHING, pp. 207 - 221