Feature Article
Annual Research Day attracts interest
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The Centre's members are:
City of Edmonton
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Message from the Executive Manager
As one of our excellent staff pointed out recently, the past month seems to have been one of making and renewing contacts. In Mexico, Darryl Seehagel and I were able to renew some previous contacts and develop a number of new ones. Hopefully, we will see some of them in Edmonton for our conference--Waste: The Social Context '08--in May next year and, with others, we can move forward into cooperative ventures in a number of different areas.
Other international contacts have been active, too, as we have heard from some of our friends in China. Here it seems we're about to enter a new phase of active cooperation and I look forward to more detailed announcements over the next month or two. At home we have continued to meet with a number of companies to discuss and initiate a range of new projects and, finally, our recent Research Day provided us with an opportunity to connect with a whole lot of people who are interested in the research aspect of our activities. However, an equally important part of the day was providing an opportunity for contacts to be made among the attendees. This is an important aspect of a Centre such as ours and, judging from the spirited discussions over coffee and lunch, we achieved a healthy measure of success!
As this is our last edition of E-news for 2007, I'd like to extend warm wishes for your holiday season.
Regards,
Dr. Jerry Leonard, P.Eng., Executive Manager |
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Highlights
- The Centre of Excellence has published a new project fact sheet: Red Deer Biogas Study. The study evaluated the technical and economic feasibility of biogas and energy production in Red Deer County. Please click here to view the fact sheet in PDF.
- On November 13, the Centre held its first Annual Research Day. For an electronic version of the presentations, please click here.
- In the coming weeks, the EWMCE along with the City of Edmonton and the Alberta Water and Wastewater Operator Association will sign an agreement regarding the delivery of the Wastewater Operator Training program. In the mean time, the third module is set to be delivered early in the new year. Look for details in January's issue of E-news.
- Darryl Seehagel attended the Border States Trade Mission to Houston, Texas in October. The mission was organized by the federal, Alberta, and Saskatchewan governments. After meeting with trade associations, Darryl noted, "there's a lot of opportunity for the Centre's services in the region."
While in Texas, Darryl submitted an abstract for the Texas Association of Environmental Professionals conference in February 2008. The paper would be jointly presented by Alberta Environment and the EWMCE and would cover innovations in Alberta's technical and social waste systems.
- Dr. Jerry Leonard attended EnviroPro in Monterrey, Mexico, where he renewed contacts with the Water Institute of the State Nuevo Leon with whom the Centre has a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation.
- Visit the EWMCE booth at the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) conference in Calgary, or catch Dr. Jerry Leonard at the Canadian Waste and Recycling Expo in Vancouver, British Columbia. Both events will run the last week of November.
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Project Updates
- Dr. Wa Gao of Lakehead University will join the Centre in January to investigate sludge pre-treatment methods for enhanced methane and hydrogen production.
- Air Space in Composting Research: A Literature Review, a paper resulting from the Compost Free Airspace study, has been accepted for publication in Compost Science and Utilization. The joint authors include Jose Alburquerque, Daryl McCartney, Shouhai Yu, Lisa Brown and Jerry Leonard.
- Darryl Seehagel attended WEFTEC in San Diego, California for the kick-off of the WERF (Water Environment Research Foundation) co-digestion study. The study is led by CDM, a consulting firm, and involves the City of Lethbridge, King County in Washington, USA, the University of Washington, and the EWMCE. The objective of the study is to develop a practical procedure to assess the potential impacts of a particular organic waste in a co-digestion feedstock on an anaerobic digestion system. The Centre will be heading up the pilot-scale phase which will begin in 2009.
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"At-the-Centre" Technical Seminars
Thank you everyone for attending this years series of technical seminars. Watch for our exciting new line-up in early 2008. |
Upcoming Conferences & Trade Shows
November 28-29, 2007
Vancouver, British Columbia
November 28-30, 2007
Calgary, Alberta
March 12-14, 2008
Vancouver, British Columbia |
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Edmonton Waste Management
Centre of Excellence
Site 310, 13111 Meridian Street
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6S 1G9
Telephone: (780) 496-7316
Fax: (780) 944-5709
Email: ewmce@edmonton.caWeb: www.ewmce.com |
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