Water and Resilience Research Group

Research

Explore our current graduate research projects in fields of energy, water, sustainability and resilience.

Water treatment and adsorption

• James Aremu – Arsenic removal from raw water sources
• Daniel Bernstein – Biological activated carbon for organics removal
• Steven Wu - Large scale continuous manufacture of molecularly imprinted polymers
• Nilakshi Dissanayake - Measurement of UV penetration in floc and floc properties using fluorescence techniques

Effluent and solid waste treatment

• Asaf Rachmani – Endocrine disruptors in dairy shed effluent
• Muhammad Majeed - Effect of dairy farm effluent management on endocrine disruptors in surface and ground water
• Marianne Hull - Systems approach to dairy farm effluent management
• Tim Ng – Protein recovery from green wastes
• Daren Yang – Plug flow anaerobic digestion of dairy shed effluent
• Kendal Buchanan – Dairy shed effluent treatment modelling
• Jiaoying Wei - Rendering koi carp
• Sohaib Al Shawakik - Solar pyrolysis of municipal sludges

Chemical production

• Heidi Ruegg - Hydrogen peroxide research

Resilience

• Steven Raynor - Multi-hazard mapping and resilience assessment of Tauranga city
• Resilience Hamilton