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Drinking The Same Water Twice -- Potable Water From Waste

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"We tend to focus in a big city on the fact that we have to reduce our water use in the home. In actual fact, if we concentrated more on industry we would make big water savings." - Prof Peter Scales

Prof Peter Scales

Peter Scales is Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

The research interests of Peter Scales are in the area of particulate flow and particulate (colloidal) interfacial phenomena, electrokinetics, flocculation, compressive and shear rheology, hydrometallurgy and nanoparticle synthesis and dispersion. The industrial focus of the research is primarily in the area of thickening, filtration and centrifugation of minerals, water, waste water and other industrial sludges.

Peter leads an internationally recognised solid-liquid (sludge) separation group in the Department and is a member of the Particulate Fluids Processing Special Research Centre.

Prof David Fox

David Fox is Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

David is an Environmental Statistician. His research involves the application statistical methods for robust assessment of environmental condition including design of monitoring programs, detection of trends in space-time, detection and estimation of environmental impacts, compliance monitoring. 

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USEFUL LINKS

Prof Peter Scales

Publications

  • AD Stickland, LR White, PJ Scales, “Modeling of solid-bowl batch centrifugation of flocculated suspensions,” AIChE Journal, Vol 52(4), 1351-1362 (2006).
  • AD Stickland, RG deKretser, PJ Scales, SP Usher, P Hillis and MR Tillotson, “Numerical modelling of fixed cavity plate and frame filtration: Formulation, validation and optimisation,” Chem.Eng. Sci., 61: 3818-3829 (2006).
  • AD Stickland, RG deKretser and PJ Scales, “Nontraditional constant pressure filtration behavior,” AIChE Journal, Vol. 51, No. 9, 2481-2488 (2005).

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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Prof David Fox

  • Etchells, T and Fox, D. (2004) Protocols for the optimal measurement and estimation of nutrient loads in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment. Proc. HEALTHY RIVERS, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES 2004 conference. http://www.gbcma.vic.gov.au/downloads/HRHC2004/etchells_abstract.pdf
  • Fox, D (2001) Environmental Power Analysis - A new perspective. Environmetrics(12) 437-449

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

CREDITS

Host: Dr Shane Huntington
Producers: Kelvin Param, Eric Van Bemmel and Dr Shane Huntington
Audio Engineer: Craig McArthur
Theme Music performed by Sergio Ercole. Mr Ercole is represented by the Musicians' Agency, Faculty of Music
Voiceover: Paul Richiardi

Series Creators: Eric van Bemmel and Kelvin Param

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