Environmental Electrokinetics Workshop

Monday, November 10, 2014 8:30 am - 5:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

The Ecohydrology Research Group, Geosyntec Consultants, and University Lille 1 with support from the French-Canada Research Fund are organizing a joint workshop on Environmental Electrokinetics: Advances in soil and water treatment. 

The workshop will bring together researchers and remediation practitioners who are actively advancing environmental electrokinetics applications. The complete program is available below. 

The workshop will be held at the Davis Centre on the campus of University of Waterloo, room DC 1302, from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. Information for out-of-town visitors is available here: Accommodations and Transportation. 

Lunch and coffee breaks are included. To attend you must register (for free) with Erin Jones (emaileljones@uwaterloo.ca)

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Workshop Program

Location: DC 1302

Time Speaker Affiliation Topic
8:30 Registration (in DC 1301)
9:00 Welcome Address: Philippe Van Cappellen and Bridget Moloney
9:15

Akram 

Alshawabkeh

Northeastern University, Boston, MA) EK Fundamentals, successes and failures: What have we learned?
10:00

Lisbeth 

Ottosen

Technical University of Denmark (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) Wide applicability of EK in environmental remediation and engineering 
10:45 Coffee Break (in DC 1301)
11:15

Denis 

O’Carroll

University of Western Ontario (London, ON) EK and nanometals for site remediation
11:45

Carol 

Ptacek

University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON) Emerging contaminants:  New potential for EK?
12:15 Lunch (in DC 1301)
1:15

Sibel 

Pamukcu

Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA) EK recovery/treatment of oil and non-aqueous phase liquids (oils and NAPLs)
2:00

Annette 

Hofmann

University of Lille (Villeneuve d'Ascq, France) EK Applications for Redox Sensitive Metals (RSMs)
2:30 Maria Elektorowicz Concordia University (Montreal, QC) EK Treatment of Contaminant Mixtures in Soil, Sludge and Wastewater
3:00

                               Coffee Break (in DC 1301)

3:30 David Reynolds Geosyntec Consultants Modeling of EK processes & Field Design
4:00 David Gent Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers (USA) Field considerations for electrode and infrastructure design – lessons learned from 2 years of full scale EK-BIOTM  
4:30 Evan Cox Geosyntec Consultants (Waterloo, ON) Real World Site Applications & Results  
5:00 Ana Lima University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON) EK Challenges, Opportunities and Future Research Needs