Call for papers for the 5th IWA Specialist Conference: Oxidation Technologies for Water & Wastewater Treatment

This conference is the first-ever joint conference of the International Water Association and the
International Ozone Association aimed at the exchange and the discussion of the latest information
on Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) in the field of water, wastewater and groundwater.

This conference will be held in Berlin (Germany) in the period 30 March - 03 April 2009.

AOPs are progressing rapidly all over the world as they have proved to be successful in meeting
increasingly stringent global regulations as well as protecting public health and the environment.
Thus AOPs are strong alternatives to conventional treatment techniques in many applications for
complete elimination of recalcitrant compounds in water and to improve the biodegradation of wastewaters by partial oxidation.

Continuous basic and applied R&D already helped to improve the effort-benefit ratio of AOP in
many applications as well as exploring and consolidating new fields of application and concepts of
AOPs. The conference will bring together both experts from research and development as well as
from industry. The discussion about novel developments of models, measurements, reactors and
processes together with experience in recent full-scale applications including operational problems
should promote the further progress of AOP.

TOPICS
All contributions on AOP-processes and technologies such as ozone based, UV based, photo-catalysis,
iron based and plasma discharge technologies or their combination with other technologies like
in biological and membrane technologies related to the following areas are welcome.
■ Water and wastewater treatment
Industrial wastewater treatment, water re-use, disinfection, by-products
■ Sludge treatment
Improved sludge degradation, sedimentation, dewatering
■ Soil treatment
Remediation, multiphase reactors, leaching of contaminants
■ Treatment of emerging contaminants
Occurrence and treatment of micro-pollutants (e.g. PPCPs) and recalcitrant substances
■ Fundamentals
Generation of radicals, design and operation of AOP-systems, modelling, reaction kinetics,
hydrodynamics, mass-transfer, reactor engineering
■ Innovations and applications
Combination of AOPs with other physical and (bio)chemical processes, process improvement,
full scale technical studies, novel applications and processes, health care protection

Abstract Deadline: May 31 2008.