Water project success story in London

UNSW PhD student Sina Moradi (supervised by Professor Rose Amal) is currently on sabbatical with the Research and Innovation Services team at South Australia Water. Sina recently travelled to London to present some of the research outcomes at the18th International Conference on Water Pollution and Treatment. Sina won best presentation award for a paper titled, “HPSEC Application as a new indicator of nitrification occurrence in water distributions systems”. The paper was authored by Sina Moradi (UNSW), Sanly Liu (UNSW), Christopher W.K. Chow, John van Leeuwen (UniSA), David Cook, Mary Drikas, and Rose Amal (UNSW).

The project was funded by Australian Research Council Linkage Project to examine different strategies to manage chloroamine decay and nitrification in water distribution systems.

Sina in action

Check out publications in this area:

  • Wonoputri V; Gunawan C; Liu S; Barraud N; Yee LH; Lim M; Amal R, 2015, 'Copper Complex in Poly(vinyl chloride) as a Nitric Oxide-Generating Catalyst for the Control of Nitrifying Bacterial Biofilms', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 7, no. 40, pp. 22148 - 22156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b07971
  • Ng M; Kho ET; Liu S; Lim M; Amal R, 2014, 'Highly adsorptive and regenerative magnetic TiO2 for natural organic matter (NOM) removal in water', Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 246, pp. 196 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2014.02.015
  • Liu S; Killen E; Lim M; Gunawan C; Amal R, 2014, 'The effect of common bacterial growth media on zinc oxide thin films: Identification of reaction products and implications for the toxicology of ZnO', RSC Advances, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 4363 - 4370, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3ra46177g
Sina best presentation

Sina Moradi was awarded best presentation at ICWPT 2016 for the nitrification project