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Join us for the Water Environment Federation 92nd Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Brown and Caldwell will be among today’s water visionaries, as well as the next generation of leaders, as we connect the dots, share Aha! moments, and ignite change – taking us from ideas to industry standards, from pilot testing to proven solutions, from today to tomorrow.

Let’s advance innovation together!

Presentations

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Refinery Wastewater Treatment 201 – Advanced Curriculum
Tom Schultz, Speaker | Everett Gill, Speaker
Workshop 01, Saturday, 8:30AM
Room S501d

Nutrient Removal Fundamentals: Relating the Science of Nutrient Removal to the Design and Operation of WWTPs
Henryk Melcer, Speaker
Workshop 02, Saturday, 8:30AM
Room S503a

Game Based Modeling
Mark Miller, Speaker
Workshop 03, Saturday, 8:30AM
Room S404a

History of Co-Digestion, with Focus on Early Adopters, Original Design Basis/Operating Criteria, and Lessons Learned
Chris Muller, Speaker
Workshop 08, Saturday, 9:30AM
Room S504d

Sunday, September 22, 2019

What If Clean Water is Just the Byproduct? Rethinking Resource Recovery at WRRFs
Lorena Croucher and Matt Gregg, Moderators
Workshop 26, Sunday, 8:30AM
Room S501a

Resilient Groundwater: Managing Aquifers for One Water
Kyle Logue, Speaker
Workshop 27, Sunday, 8:30AM
Room S504a

Turning RINS Into Money: Capitalizing on Biogas Recovery Projects and Generating Revenue at WTTPs
William Pevec, Speaker
Workshop 22, Sunday, 8:30AM
Room S504d

How are RINS Generated, Transferred and Used?
John Willis, Speaker
Workshop 22, Sunday, 8:40AM
Room S504d

Anaerobic Digestion Process Fundamentals
Chris Muller, Speaker
Workshop 17, Sunday, 9:00AM
Room S405a

Be a Hereo, Get to Zero: The Journey to Energy Neutrality
Nancy Andrews, Moderator
Workshop 21, Sunday, 9:30AM
Room S503a

Collection System/Sewer, Methanol, Combustion Slip Emissions
John Willis, Speaker
Workshop 07, Saturday, 11:30AM
Room S502a

Monday, September 23, 2019

Exploring Solutions Within the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Tom Sandy, Moderator
Session 101, Monday, 10:30AM
Room S401

Progressing to Class A Biosolids: A Guide to Thermal Hydrolysis Process Pre-Treatment Options
Jann Yamauchi, Speaker | Fran Burlingham, Speaker
Session 210, Monday, 1:30 PM
Room S501d

Setting Water Quality Goals to Protect Reservoirs from Harmful Algal Blooms: A New Flexible Framework
Clifton Bell, Speaker
Session 217, Monday, 1:30PM
Room S503b

Food Water Nexus
Lorena Croucher, Moderator
Session 222, Monday, 1:30PM
Room S503a

Pump Stations and Force Mains
Mark Courtney, Moderator
Session 214, Monday, 1:30PM
Room S404a

Running Downhill: Charlotte Water’s Steele Creek Pump Station and Force Main Provides Innovative Solution to Complex Sewer System Capacity Challenges
Jay Fulmer, Speaker | Andy Mitchell, Speaker
Session 214, Monday, 1:30PM
Room S404a

Interactions between Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal in EBPR Systems
Pusker Regmi, Speaker
Session 208, Monday, 1:45PM
Room N426a

Sensors Versus Analyzers: The Case for Ammonia-based Aeration Control
Mark Miller, Speaker
Session 204, Monday, 2:30PM
Room S403a

Sulfide Control for a Critical Florida Force Main: How a Traditional Technology Could Provide Additional Benefits
Rob Gaylord, Speaker
Session 207, Monday, 2:30PM
Room S402b

Commitment Meets Flexibility: How MCES Is Successfully Achieving I/I Reduction Through Clear Goals and Regional Partnerships
Andy Lukas, Speaker
Session 213, Monday, 3:30PM
Room S403b

Solutions and Ideas From Award Winning Industrial Experts
Jeremy Johnson, Moderator
Session 223, Monday, 3:30PM
Room S404c

Applying CFD Modeling to Establish Existing Secondary Clarifier Capacity to Handle Wet Weather Flows Without New Facilities
Lloyd Winchell, Speaker
Session 226, Monday, 3:30PM
Room S504a

ReNEW: Measuring Our Impact on Nutrient, Energy, and Water Recovery
Sarah Reeves, Moderator
Session 232, Monday, 3:30PM
Room N426b

How to Evaluate Controller Performance
Jose Jimenez, Speaker
Session 204, Monday, 4:00PM
Room S403a

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

More Than Hot Air: Optimizing Aeration Systems
Casey Gish, Moderator
Session 306, Tuesday, 8:30AM
Room S501a

Effective Utility Management in a Digital World
Kevin Stively, Speaker
Session 319, Tuesday, 8:30AM
Room S405b

Mainstream P Removal: Modeling to Operation
Mark Miller, Moderator
Session 307, Tuesday, 8:30AM
Room S504d

Impact of Hydrocyclone Based Wasting on Settling Characteristics and Nutrient Removal: Design Considerations, Startup And Performance
Pusker Regmi, Speaker
Session 304, Tuesday, 8:30AM
Room N426b

Knowledge Development Forum: Application of Selectors for Continuous Flow Granulation
Pusker Regmi, Moderator
Session 304, Tuesday, 8:30AM
Room N426b

A ‘Laser-Focused’ Approach to Protect M1W’s Land Outfall Pipe
Rachel Philipson, Speaker
Session 318, Tuesday, 8:30AM
Room S405a

Mobile Session: Wastewater 101
Maria Reed, Moderator
Session 329, Tuesday, 9:00AM
Room Booth 4807, Hall A

Introduction of an Integrated Methanogenic Aerobic Single Sludge (MASS) System
Houston Flippin, Speaker
Session 302, Tuesday, 9:30AM
Room S505b

Stakeholder Inclusive Planning for Sustainable Water Solution
Maria Reed, Moderator
Session 328, Tuesday, 10:30AM
Room S503a

Economic Advantages of Regionalized Industrial Treatment
Jonathan Sandhu, Speaker
Session 303, Tuesday, 11:00AM
Room S404c

Witnessing Factory Acceptance Tests in Accordance with the New ASME Wire-to-Air Performance Test Code for Blower Systems (ASME PTC 13)
Lloyd Slezak, Speaker
Session 306, Tuesday, 11:30AM
Room S501a

Getting the Most Out of Your Storage Basin: Optimization Strategies for Planning, Design, and Construction
Bryan Rogne, Speaker
Session 413, Tuesday, 1:30PM
Room S404a

Knowledge Development Forum: Interaction of the Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Cycles for Intensified Treatment and Resource Recovery
Pusker Regmi, Moderator
Session 401, Tuesday, 1:30PM
Room S401

Co-Digestion: Impacts of Adding Food Waste and FOG
Tracy Stigers, Moderator
Session 411, Tuesday, 1:30PM
Room S501d

The Old Dog and Its New Tricks: Approaches to Carbon Redirection and Primary Treatment Improvements
Ahmed Al-Omari, Moderator
Session 406, Tuesday, 1:30PM
Room S501ab

Carbon Cycling Approaches for Resource Recovery
Jose Jimenez, Speaker
Session 401, Tuesday, 2:00PM
Room S401

Nitrogen Cycling for Intensified Treatment with Energy Efficiency and Carbon Efficient Considerations
Pusker Regmi, Speaker
Session 401, Tuesday, 2:30PM
Room S401

Industrial Dis-Ease: The Multi-Sector General Permit and Industrial Stormwater
James Bachhuber, Moderator
Session 426, Tuesday, 3:30PM
Room S502a

Sludge Reduction Through Uncoupling: Treatability Surprise and Full-Scale Benefits
Kasey Moraveck, Speaker
Session 425, Tuesday, 3:30PM
Room S404c

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Principles of Suspended Solids Separation from Water
Tom Sandy, Speaker
Session 503, Wednesday, 8:30AM
Room S404c

Knowledge Development Forum: Operational Considerations for Low Dissolved Oxygen Operation in Water Resource Recovery Facilities
Jose Jimenez, Moderator
Session 504, Wednesday, 8:30AM
Room S401

Biogas Quality and Finance
Maria Reed, Moderator
Session 511, Wednesday, 8:30AM
Room S501d

Ozone/BAF: Proving the Technology for Direct and Indirect Potable Reuse Systems
Hannah Ford, Speaker
Session 521, Wednesday, 8:30AM
Room S404d

Going from Chloramines to Free Chlorine? Do you Know What Will Happen To Your Metals? (Corrosion Testing in Highly Chlorinated Water)
Graham Calciano, Speaker
Session 509, Wednesday, 9:30AM
Room S404a

Developing Effective Residual Solids Management for the CSO Facility Serving the Gowanus Canal
Tania Romero, Speaker
Session 507, Wednesday, 9:30AM
Room S504d

Biosolids Drying the Right Way
Maria Reed, Moderator
Session 526, Wednesday, 10:30AM
Room S501d

How to Slice Your CIP Pie: 3 Ways to Develop a Prioritized CIP
Matthew Gregg, Moderator
Session 530, Wednesday, 10:30AM
Room S503b

Mainstream Nitrite-Shunt Processes
Pusker Regmi, Moderator
Session 523, Wednesday, 10:30AM
Room S403a

Coping with Future Rain Events – City of Madison WI Multi-Faceted Approach
Jim Bachhuber, Speaker
Session 528, Wednesday, 11:00AM
Room S502a

Kinetic Considerations and Performance of Low DO Operation for Shortcut Nitrogen Removal
Jose Jimenez, Speaker
Session 504, Wednesday, 11:00AM
Room S401

SWEMA (Stormwater Equipment Manufacturers Association) Forum and Panel on Stormwater and Treatment Systems
Jim Bachhuber, Speaker
Wednesday, 12:15PM
Location S106

RESCUing Silicon Valley Clean Water’s Wastewater Conveyance System using Progressive Design-Build
Bernadette Visitacion-Sumida, Speaker
Session 614, Wednesday, 2:30PM
Room S503b

New GHG Methodology for Estimation of Methane Emissions from Digested-Biosolids Storage and Dewatering
John Willis, Speaker
Session 609, Wednesday, 2:30PM
Room S501d

A Sequencing Toolkit for Wastewater Process Design and Optimization: Amplicon Sequencing and Metagenomics
Varun Srinivasan, Speaker
Session 601, Wednesday, 3:00PM
Room S501a