Research Theme
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The Photochemistry of Rivers, Lakes and Engineered Low-Energy Treatment Systems
This April sees the next talk in the monthly 'Water Colloquium' series organised by WIRC @ Bath exploring the breadth of water research being undertaken at the University of Bath. Title: The Photochemistry of Rivers, Lakes and Engineered Low-Energy Treatment...
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Improving water treatment using chemical oxidants
Dr Jannis Wenk, Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering, explains how research at the Water Innovation and Research Centre at the University of Bath (WIRC @ Bath) is investigating how chemical oxidants can be used to improve water treatment...
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Thinking Catchments: moving beyond physical asset management
Research by Chrysoula Papacharalampou, a PhD Research Student in the Sustainable Energy Research Team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is featured in both Water Active and the Institute of Water Journal this month. Her research currently being undertaken in collaboration...
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Anaerobic Digestion overview in Water Active
Dr Tom Arnot, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Ian Law, Technical Manager at GENeco, Wessex Water, give an overview of the collaborative work being done in the area of advanced anaerobic digestion in the latest issue...
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A review on emerging contaminants in wastewaters and the environment
A paper has been published by Bruce Petrie, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bath and Ruth Barden from Wessex Water in Water Research: Bruce Petrie, Ruth Barden, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, A review on emerging contaminants...
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Safeguarding the UK’s Water, Energy and Food Resources
EPSRC is investing £4.5 million to safeguard the UK’s water, energy and food security. With the world’s population due to grow to eight billion by 2030, humanity is facing a crisis with predictions of increasing demand and shortages of water,...
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Researchers to use algae to clean up mine water
We can announce today that our researchers are part of a ground breaking GW4 research project that aims to clean up water from a Cornish tin mine, using algae to harvest the precious heavy metals and produce biofuel at the...
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Electric bugs used to detect water pollution
In a new report out today, a team of researchers from our Department of Chemical Engineering have developed a low-cost device that could be used in developing countries to monitor the quality of drinking water in real time without costly...
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Water shortages still likely to affect UK food security
A new piece of research from the University has found that despite us experiencing the wettest winter for 250 years, water shortages are still likely to be a problem in Britain. The paper, published today in Climate Research journal by...
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Waste seashells can solve waste water problem
Today the University has announced the results of a new research paper by Dr Darrell Patterson that find you can use waste seashells to clean waste water. The thousands of tonnes of waste seashells created by the edible seafood sector...