NSERC CREATE in Clean Technologies for Water Refining and Nutrient and Energy Recovery

全球水资源短缺和新兴经济体生活水平的提高，再加上工业化国家基础设施的老化，将为创新的水精炼和再利用技术带来利润丰厚的全球机会，这些技术也可以回收能源和资源。提出水精炼、营养物质和能量回收的清洁技术是对水和废水工业中广泛认识的劳动力老龄化以及开发下一代可持续水处理技术所需的多学科和跨学科研究的需求的回应。该计划的主要目标是建立一个协作的综合跨学科研究和培训计划，以安大略省5所大学和美国，苏格兰和以色列的3个国际机构的有成就的研究人员的不同专业知识为基础。该计划将包括基础科学、物理科学、社会科学和应用科学。该计划的独特之处在于，它整合了安大略省参与大学提供的广泛课程，强制性工业实习，强制性研究交流计划，以及多学科研究重点，提供独特的量身定制的个性化培训计划。这一计划的预期成果将包括经过严格的研究训练、具备良好的技术、科学、管理和创业技能的全面发展的毕业生，以及工程、生物、化学、商业和社会研究等多机构、多学科的综合课程，以及实际的实践经验。该项目还将为从业人员的专业发展提供终身学习的机会。通过区域、国家和国际合作与交流，加强了学生的流动性。研究重点是在与工业（Trojan, CH2M Hill, Stantec， CRA）和市政（多伦多，伦敦，温莎）协商后开发的，涉及四个广泛的领域，包括高速废水处理，生物固体，综合下水道溢流处理和水再利用。总体而言，该项目将在6年的时间内为31名研究型研究生和6名博士后提供教育和培训。

Global water shortages and improved standards of living in emerging economies, coupled with aging infrastructure in the industrialized world will lead to lucrative global opporuntities for innovative water refining and reuse technologies, that can also recover energy and resources. The proposed Clean Technologies for Water Refining and Nutrient and Energy Recovery is in response to the widely recognized aging workforce in the water and wastewater industry and the need for multi-and cross-disciplinary research required to develop the next generation of sustainable water processing technologies. The key objective of this program is to develop a collaborative integrated trans-disciplinary research and training program, building on the diverse expertise of accomplished researchers from 5 Ontario universities, and 3 international institutions in the US, Scotland, and Israel. The program will encompass basic, physical, social, and applied sciences. The program is unique in that it intgerates broad coursework offered at the participating Ontario universities, mandatory industrial internships, compulsory reserach exchange programs, and multi-disciplinary research focus to provide unique tailored individualized training programs. The expected outcomes of this initiative will include trained well-rounded graduates with sound technical, scientific, managerial, and entrepreneurial skills honed by rigorous reserach training, comprehensive multi-institutional multi-disciplinary coursework from engineering, biology, chemistry, business, and social studies, and hands-on real-world experience. The program will also provide life-long learning opportunities for professional development of practitioners. Student mobility is enhanced through regional, national, and international collaboration and exchanges. The research focus, which has been developed in consultation with industry (Trojan, CH2M Hill, Stantec, CRA) and municipalities (Toronto, London, Windsor) addresses four broad areas inclduing high-rate wastewater treatment, biosolids, combined sewer overflow treatment, and water reuse. Overall, the program will provide education and training for 31 research-based graduate students and 6 postdoctoral fellows over a 6-year period.