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and Technology for<br>
Sustainable Water Supply”</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mj-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mj-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US"><br>
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Elimelech, Ph.D.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mj-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mj-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US"><br>
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of Chemical Engineering<br>
Environmental Engineering Program<br>
Yale University <br>
Member, National Academy of Engineering<br>
Friday,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>February 20, 2009</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mj-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mj-cs; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US"><br>
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Energy Center, Room A235</span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">Increasing global water scarcity and degradation
in the quality of available water supplies present a grave challenge to the present and future health, welfare, and prosperity of the world’s people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Desalination of seawater and saline aquifers and reuse of industrial or municipal wastewaters are viable avenues to increase water availability beyond that attainable from the
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cycle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Traditional methods for water purification, however, are chemical and energy intensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Highly effective, low-cost, robust technologies for augmenting water supplies are needed, with minimal impact on the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Recent advances in the science and technology of water purification are presented, focusing on desalination and water reuse technologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Major developments in these technologies are made possible due to recent advances in materials science, nanotechnology, and the fundamental understanding of the physics/chemistry of the solid-water interface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Among the topics discussed in this presentation are the development of fouling-resistant membranes for water treatment, use of interfacial force measurements to elucidate the antifouling mechanism of water treatment membranes, highly permeable reverse
osmosis membranes incorporating </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">nanomaterials</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">,
bio-inspired high flux desalination membranes, robust systems for wastewater reuse, and novel desalination technologies that may dramatically alter the energy/water nexus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>These technologies are discussed in the context of the global challenges in water supply and energy.</span></p>
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Menachem Elimelech</span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">Menachem Elimelech is the Roberto
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">Goizueta</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">
Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. Professor Elimelech received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1989.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Professor Elimelech was the recipient of the 2005 </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">Athalie</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">
Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for excellence in water research and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 “</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">for
contributions to the theory and practice of advanced filtration technologies for the treatment and reuse of potable water</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>His research interests center on problems involving physicochemical and biophysical processes in aquatic systems, including (1) environmental applications and implications of
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">nanomaterials</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">,
(2) membrane separations for desalination and water quality control, (3) microbial transport and adhesion, (4) engineered osmosis for sustainable production of water and power, and (5) water and sanitation in developing countries. Professor Elimelech serves
on the Editorial Advisory Boards of </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">Colloids
and Surfaces A, Desalination</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">,
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Engineering Science, Langmuir, </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">and
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Science and Technology</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US">.
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Laura R. Brunson</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">University of Oklahoma</font></div>
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