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，将导致全球为创新的水精炼和再利用技术提供有利可图的机会，这些技术也可以回收能源和资源。拟议的净水精炼和营养和能量回收技术是为了应对水和废水行业公认的老龄化劳动力，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协作的综合跨学科研究和培训计划，建立在来自5所安大略省大学和3个位于美国、苏格兰和以色列的国际机构的杰出研究人员的不同专业知识的基础上。该计划将涵盖基础科学、物理科学、社会科学和应用科学。该计划的独特之处在于，它结合了参与的安大略省大学提供的广泛课程、强制性工业实习、强制性研究交换计划和多学科研究重点，以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训练有素的全面发展的毕业生，他们拥有经过严格的研究培训磨练出来的健全的技术、科学、管理和创业技能，工程、生物、化学、商业和社会研究的综合多机构多学科课程，以及实际操作经验。该计划还将为从业者的专业发展提供终身学习机会。通过地区、国家和国际合作和交流，学生的流动性得到了增强。研究重点是与工业界(特洛伊、CH2M Hill、Stantec、CRA)和市政当局(多伦多、伦敦、温莎)协商制定的，涉及四个广泛的领域，包括高速废水处理、生物固体、联合下水道溢流处理和水再利用。总体而言，该计划将在6年内为31名研究型研究生和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.