Research partner
Adelaide University
Hydro2050 collaborates with the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure and Resource Management, SIRM, on research and validation of the Hydro technologies, and on research projects run with university students.
The centre, the researcher and the work
The centre
SIRM is one of Australia's leading applied research centres working on water, infrastructure and environmental problems. It runs multidisciplinary research in water, environmental restoration, sustainable infrastructure and resource management.
Who leads it
SIRM is led by Professor Chris Chow, Professor of Water Science and Engineering and Director of the centre.
His research expertise spans water quality monitoring, water treatment, advanced oxidation, membrane filtration, disinfection control, cyanobacteria, distribution systems, infrastructure management and applied water industry research. Advanced oxidation is one of his key water treatment fields, and it is the reaction Hydro2050's own process turns on.
What the collaboration covers
Hydro2050 has worked with SIRM on research and validation activities involving:
- Advanced oxidation processes, AOPs
- Wastewater treatment optimisation
- Water quality improvement
- Emerging contaminant treatment, including PFAS investigations
- Industry-focused honours and student research projects associated with Hydro2050 technologies and applications
Where it sits in the validation chain
Water reuse and wastewater treatment optimisation, aeration efficiency, process optimisation, biological treatment enhancement and emerging contaminant management are established areas of investigation within both the Adelaide University and the Monash University research programs, and within other leading international water research universities. Hydro2050's work in wastewater and reuse systems sits alongside that research rather than apart from it.
Professor Chow is also one of the researchers whose published work on cyanobacteria, harmful algal blooms and treatment optimisation underpins the scientific case set out on the research page.
The other three partners
Monash University and UNSW.
Algal bloom mitigation at Monash, and cyanobacterial toxin oxidation at UNSW. The full scientific case is on the research page.