Workshop for Developing Evaluation Metrics to Advance a National Water Resource Recovery Facility Test Bed Network

1622770Mihelcic废水被认为是一种有价值的资源，可以提供水、能量和营养物质。然而，水务部门的创新者通常认为，缺乏测试设施是开发有助于解决水务基础设施挑战的创新技术的障碍。最近的研讨会报告，包括能源积极的水资源回收研讨会和强化资源回收研讨会建议政府，学术界，非政府组织，技术供应商和市政处理设施合作，形成一个全国性的试验台设施网络，以推进这一领域的创新步伐。实现一个有影响力的国家水资源回收设施试验台网络的愿景将支持将创新技术转化为实践的努力，促进可持续性和废水资源回收。本次研讨会将有助于推动建立一个有影响力的国家试验台网络，促进将废水资源回收的创新技术转化为一个国家研究空间，市合作伙伴。一个全国性的试验台网络预计将吸引创造性的想法和人才，使广泛的合作伙伴参与基础研究向新的创新发展。试验台网络还将促进教师和学生的创新，促进区域协调和联系，并发展以技术为基础的研究人员网络。一个试验台网络也应该作为一个“创新引擎”，并有助于扩大国家的独创性的历史声誉。为了成功地鼓励创新，测试平台网络应该在缩短产品进入市场的时间轴方面发挥有意义的作用。它还应该降低产品开发的成本。该研讨会的主要目标是确定在国家试验台网络评估的新技术应测量和报告的关键指标。研讨会的第二个目标是确定在国家试验台网络中建立一个分享创新技术数据的中央报告系统是否必要和是否可以实现。如果是这样，与会者将确定这种报告制度的初步设计条件。研讨会将由大约50名专业人员组成，其中包括来自大学，公用事业研究计划和国家实验室的研究人员。此外，它还将接待技术提供商，企业家和水部门风险投资家，WERF LIFT计划，NSF SBIR计划的成员，以及其他对促进创新感兴趣的公用事业经理，工程顾问，以及来自EPA，DOE，NSF，USDA和其他感兴趣的机构的联邦官员。预计致力于从废水中回收宝贵资源的国家试验台网络将通过增强创新能力带来环境、经济和社会效益。四个支持的职位是预留给早期职业科学家（高级博士生和博士后研究助理）和计划委员会有计划，以实现代表性不足的群体的适当代表。

1622770MihelcicWastewater is considered a valuable resource that can provide sources of water, energy, and nutrients. However, innovators in the water sectors commonly cite a lack of access to test facilities as an impediment to the development of innovative technologies that can help address water infrastructure challenges. Recent workshop reports, including the Energy-Positive Water Resource Recovery Workshop and the Intensification in Resource Recovery Workshop recommended that government, academia, nongovernmental organizations, technology vendors, and municipal treatment facilities collaborate to form a national network of test bed facilities to advance the pace of innovation in this area. Achieving the vision of an impactful National Water Resource Recovery Facility Test Bed Network will support efforts to translate innovative technologies to practice that promote sustainability and resource recovery from wastewater.This workshop will help advance the creation of an impactful national test bed network that promotes the translation of innovative technologies for resource recovery from wastewater into a national research space that engages academic, industrial, and municipal partners. A national test bed network is expected to attract creative ideas and talents by engaging a wide range of partners for the progression of basic research into new innovations. The test bed network will also foster innovation among faculty and students, promote regional coordination and linkages, and develop technology-based networks of researchers. A test bed network should also serve as an "engine of innovation" and help to extend the Nation's historical reputation for ingenuity. To successfully encourage innovation, a test bed network should make a meaningful difference in shortening the timeline of moving products into the marketplace. It should also reduce costs of product development. This workshop's primary objective is to define key metrics that new technologies evaluated at the national test bed network should measure and report. A second workshop objective is to determine whether or not a central reporting system to share data on innovative technologies in a national test bed network is necessary and achievable. If so, the participants will set the preliminary design conditions for such a reporting system. The workshop will consist of approximately 50 professionals that can include researchers from universities, utility research programs, and national laboratories. In addition, it will also host technology providers, entrepreneurs, and water sector venture capitalists, members of WERF's LIFT program, NSF's SBIR program, and other utility managers interested in fostering innovation, engineering consultants, and federal officials from EPA, DOE, NSF, USDA, and other interested agencies. It is expected that a national test bed network devoted to recovering valuable resources from wastewater will lead to environmental, economic, and social benefits from enhanced innovation capacity. Four supported positions are set aside for early career scientists (senior doctoral students and post-doctoral research associates) and the program committee has plans to achieve appropriate representation of under-represented groups.