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，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有利可图的全球机会，这些技术也可以回收能源和资源。 拟议的水精制和营养物和能源回收清洁技术是为了应对水和废水行业中广泛认可的老龄化劳动力，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。 该计划的主要目标是开发一个合作的综合跨学科研究和培训计划，建立在来自5所安大略大学和3所美国，苏格兰和以色列的国际机构的研究人员的不同专业知识的基础上。 该计划将包括基础，物理，社会和应用科学。 该计划的独特之处在于它整合了参与安大略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和多学科研究重点，以提供独特的定制个性化培训计划。 这一举措的预期成果将包括训练有素的全面的毕业生与健全的技术，科学，管理和创业技能磨练严格的研究培训，全面的多机构多学科课程，从工程，生物，化学，商业和社会研究，并动手现实世界的经验。 该计划还将为从业人员的专业发展提供终身学习的机会。 学生的流动性通过区域，国家和国际合作和交流得到加强。 研究重点，这已经制定了与工业（特洛伊，CH2M山，Stantec，CRA）和市政当局（多伦多，伦敦，温莎）协商解决四个广泛的领域，包括高速率废水处理，生物固体，结合下水道溢流处理，和水回用。 总体而言，该计划将在6年内为31名研究生和6名博士后研究员提供教育和培训。

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.