ABSTRACT: Increasing challenges associated with environmental remediation projects has driven the development of new, efficient and effective separation materials, technologies and processes suitable for large scale deployment. This presentation will provide an overview to some of the work being conducted at the University of Melbourne in this area for soil and air pollution control. Namely the development of technologies for the remediation of metal and hydrocarbon contaminated sites in Antarctica and absorption systems for capture of carbon dioxide from large scale emission sources, such as Hazelwood Power Station, the largest brown coal facility in Australia.
Bio-sketch: Dr. Kathryn Mumford is a Lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Kathryn’s research interests are in the areas of separations processes, specifically ion exchange, solvent absorption and solvent extraction technologies. These interests range from the manufacture of novel materials, to the development of novel thermodynamic models to predict performance, and onto large scale implementation in the mining, energy, environmental and waste water processing fields.