MORNING SESSION
NETWORKING BREAKFAST IN EXHIBIT HALL
MEMBRANE DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
8:00–9:00
Track
ROOM 254 ROOM 238 Room
THU01—APPROACH TO REMOVAL OF SPECIFIC
CONTAMINANTS—PART I THU02—OPERATOR TRAINING—WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW Session Title
Moderator: Zohreh Movahed
Moderator: Rebecca Wilder
Minimizing Brine Volume at the Valencia Advanced Water
Treatment Plant Operator Skills for Working With Membranes: What Agencies Need
Their Operators to Know
Dustin Whynman, Carollo Engineers, Don Drorbaugh,
Thomas Seacord, Brandon Yallaly Eric Larsen, East Bay Municipal Utility District, Mr, Troy Walker,
Brad Reisinger, Richard Salas, Shelly Masuda
Studying the Mass Transfer of 1,4-Dioxane in a Nanofi ltration
and Reverse Osmosis Membrane Process Operator Training on MF/UF and RO—Understanding Critical
Operating Points
Carlyn Higgins, University of Central Florida, Steven Duranceau Elise Chen, Trussell Technologies, Inc., Juan Guerreiro, Aleks Pisarenko,
Rodrigo Tackaert
NETWORKING BREAK & EXHIBIT HALL EDUCATION SESSIONS (SEE PAGE 33 FOR DETAILS)—
LAST CHANCE TO VISIT THE MTC EXHIBITS!
9:00–9:30
9:30–10:00
10:00– 10:30
MEMBRANE DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION MEMBRANE FILTRATION APPLICATIONS Track
ROOM 254 ROOM 255 Room
THU05—APPROACH TO REMOVAL OF SPECIFIC
CONTAMINANTS—PART II THU08—MEMBRANES IN WASTEWATER APPLICATIONS Session Title
Moderator: Zohreh Movahed
Membrane Filtration for Arsenic Removal from Groundwater
in Industrial Applications
Libbie Linton, WesTech Engineering Inc., Dan Dye,
Carson Judy, Nate Rogers
In-Line Coagulation Upstream Ultrafi ltration—Comparison
of Continuous vs. Intermittent Addition
Peter Berg, inge GmbH, Denis Vial, Patrick Buchta,
Alexandra Schweiger, Roland Winkler
Pilot Testing RO to Remove PFOS and Other Emerging
Contaminants from a Surface Water Supply
Jorge Arevalo, CDM Smith, Trenton Jackson, Jonathan Treadway
Moderator: Paula Monaco
Fully Carbon Membrane for Wastewater Reclamation
10:30–11:00
Carlo Alberto Amadei, Harvard University, (USBR-AMTA
Fellowship Awardee)
Analysis and Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concerns
from WWTP Primary Effl uent by Novel MF/RO Treatment Process
Pilot Study
11:00–11:30
Mojtaba Farrokh Shad, Carollo Engineers, Inc., Saied Delagah,
Graham Juby, Brian Noh, Ali Sharbat
GWRS Expansion with New Membranes: Design and Operational
Considerations When Expanding with New Membranes to
Installed Capacity
11:30–noon
Lee Portillo, Black & Veatch, Jeff Neemann, Sandy Scott Roberts,
Srinivas Veerapaneni
CONFERENCE NETWORKING LUNCHEON—LA NOUVELLE ORLEANS BALLROOM (TICKET REQUIRED)
FOOD SERVED UNTIL 12:40 P.M.
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noon–1:30