October 5 – 9

Join us in New Orleans for WEFTEC 2024, the premiere conference for the water community. Brown and Caldwell will be among industry experts speaking about process intensification innovations that use fewer resources with better results, like BC:Ntensify™; how to adapt to what’s emerging with the latest practices to help manage PFAS; and how utilities are becoming more resilient for the future of our communities and the environment.

Workshops

Sunday, October 6

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Regulatory Update
Allegra Da Silva, Speaker
W13 Understanding and Applying Disinfection Fundamentals

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Oxygen Transfer Limitation and Transfer Options
Everett Gill, Speaker, Workshop Chair
W05 Refinery and Petrochemical Wastewater Treatment: Process Control Strategies

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Welcome & Introductions
Karri Ving, Co-Chair 
W18 Navigating the Water Sector’s Path to Net Zero

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Scope 1: GHG Emission Sources Across a WRRF
Shannon Cavanaugh, Speaker
W18 Navigating the Water Sector’s Path to Net Zero

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
VOC Mitigation around Oil/Water Separation
Tom Schultz, Speaker
W05 Refinery and Petrochemical Wastewater Treatment: Process Control Strategies

Presentations

Monday, October 7

2:30 PM
Re-Evaluating Established TMDLs: Applying True Adaptive Management to Improve Water Quality in High Value Receiving Waters
Clifton Bell, Speaker
Navigating Nutrient Dynamics: Modeling for Water Quality Excellence

3:30 PM
Selenium in Petroleum Refineries: Pervasiveness, Treatment Approaches, and Regulatory Status
Dominic Pontarolo, Speaker
Emerging Technical and Regulatory Issues in Petroleum Refinery Wastewater Management

3:30 PM
Working Towards a Sustainable Outlet for Maine Biosolids through a Regional Solution 
Tracy Chouinard, Speaker
Managing Biosolids for Tomorrow: Infinite Resources, Finite Uses

4:00 PM 
Application of Vacuum Extraction to Anaerobic Digestion for Process Intensification 
Christopher Muller, Speaker
Advances in Anaerobic Digestion

4:00 PM 
Developing a Regional Biosolids Master Plan for the North Shore Water Reclamation District
Joe Marino, Speaker
Managing Biosolids for Tomorrow: Infinite Resources, Finite Uses

4:30 PM
Performance Evaluation of Pilot Digestion Optimization Facility (PDOF) for Digestion Intensification of Metro Vancouver Anaerobic Digestion Facilities
Tyler Barber, Speaker
Advances in Anaerobic Digestion 

4:30 PM 
A Journey of Upgrades and Innovations to Achieve Capacity Improvements at Metro Water Service’s Central WRF
Mark Miller, Speaker
Optimizing Design for Increased Capacity

4:30 PM 
Everyone Wins- MMSD’s PipeCheck Program – Teaming with Public to Reduce I&I
Sean Kilpatrick, Speaker
Reducing Wet Weather Flows Using Public and Private I/I Removal Solutions

Tuesday, October 8

8:30 AM
Benzene Removal in a Petroleum Refinery Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor System
Jeffrey Allen, Speaker
Petroleum Refinery Problem Wastewater Constituent Removal Advances 

8:30 AM
Towards Sustainable WRRFs: Exploring the Potential of Internally Stored Carbon for Efficient BNR
Kayla Bauhs, Speaker
Internal Stored Carbon for Nutrient Removal

9:15 AM
Discussion of Climate Change’s Role in Utility Finance
Karri Ving, Speaker
Assessing Climate Risk and Its Impact on Utility Operations: Financial Resilience and Insurability

9:30 AM
Tale of Two WRRFs: Optimizing Internal Carbon for Meeting Low Nutrient Limits
Kayla Bauhs, Speaker
Internal Stored Carbon for Nutrient Removal

1:30 PM
Interactive I/I Program Development: WEF-Town Needs Your Help!
Andy Lukas, Speaker
Interactive I/I Program Development: WEF – Town Needs Your Help!

1:40 PM
Advancing Low-Energy Biological Nutrient Removal through Low Dissolved Oxygen Operation: Is Biological Selection the Key?
Jose Jimenez, Speaker
Microbial Ecology Selection Under Low DO Concentration

2:30 PM
How Columbus used Fugitive Methane Quantification to Implement Fugitive Methane Abatement Solutions as Part of a Major Bioenergy Program
Trung Le, Dante Fiorino, Speakers
Greenhouse Gas Strategies in Action: Measure to Mitigate

2:30 PM
Implications of the RCWQ on Utilities
Kati Bell, Speaker
How Could EPA’s 2023 Review of Recreational Water Quality Affect WRRFs?

3:00 PM
Closing the Loop: How Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Supports a Sustainable Circular Water Economy
Manel Garrido, Speaker
Distributed Infrastructure

3:30 PM
PFAS Data Guidelines and Implications to Fate through Thermal Processes
Lloyd Winchell, Speaker
PFAS in Biosolids: Remove it and Track it

3:30 PM
Thermal System Design and Construction
Krystal Perez, Speaker
Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD): Process Selection, Design, and Operations

4:00 PM
How WSSC Water Gets the Biggest Return for Digester Gas Energy
John Willis, Speaker
What Will You Make of Your Biogas?

4:30 PM
A Techno-Economic Analysis on Biogas Carbon Capture for Implementation at Water Resource Recovery Facilities
Alison Nojima, Speaker
What Will You Make of Your Biogas?

Wednesday, October 9

8:30 AM
Evaluating the Potential of Recovering Vivianite for Phosphorus Removal and Improving Class A Biosolids Applications
Naomi Guo, Speaker
Enhancing Digestion to Improve Operations and Resource Recovery: Capture of Control

9:00 AM
Invited Speaker Presentation
John Willis, Speaker
Air Quality Issues Beyond Odors: Bioaerosols and GHGs

9:30 AM
Reliable Wastewater Disinfection with Peracids: Integrating Batch Kinetics and Hydrodynamics 
Kati Bell, Speaker
Peracids Challenge Traditional Disinfectants

11:30 AM
Bye-Bye Railcars! Nashville’s 350 MGD UV Disinfection Facility is Online!
Doug Yarosz, Speaker
What’s New in UV?

1:30 PM
Comparing Modeling Tools Visual MINTEQ and OLI Studio to Evaluate Scaling Tendency of Aerated Anaerobically Digested Solids: A Pilot Study
Shubhashini Oza, Speaker
Innovations in Phosphorus Management: From Models to Solutions

2:30 PM
To the RESCU: Lessons from Using Progressive Design-Build to Deliver Agency’s Largest Program
Aren Hansen, Speaker
Partnerships and Collaboration: Cornerstones for Successful Collaborative Project Delivery

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