Water Purification
This npj Clean Water collection is dedicated to the purification of alternative (impaired) water sources, identifying the gaps and needs for freshwater provisions, state-of-the-art technologies and processes, and advances needed to reduce cost and energy of treating such waters. The published papers coved the fields of brackish groundwater and seawater desalination, municipal water recycling as well as industrial and agricultural water reclamation, recycling and reuse, with guest co-Editors-in-Chief Professor Meagan Mauter, Stanford University, and Professor Arne Verliefde, Ghent University
Editors
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Arne Verliefde
Ghent University
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Meagan Mauter
Stanford University
About the Guest Editors
Arne Verliefde obtained his PhD in at Delft University of Technology on the topic of “Removal of organic micro-pollutants by NF/RO membranes” and followed by a post-doc at the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology in Sydney. A professor at Ghent University since February 2011, his research mainly focuses on interfacial phenomena in drinking and process water treatment with a major focus on membranes. His interest also expands to adsorptive and ion exchange processes, and more energy-efficient processes for selective separations between organics and inorganics.
Meagan Mauter received her PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale University. She served as an Energy Technology Innovation Policy Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and as an Associate Professor of Engineering & Public Policy, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. As director of Water and Energy Efficiency for the Environment Lab at Stanford Univerisity, her research efforts focus on water treatment technology, optimization of water management practices, and redesign of water polices with a mission of providing sustainable water supply in a carbon-constrained world.
