Dr. Justin Sperling gave an invited talk entitled ‘Plasmonic tastebuds for the optical assessment of drinking water’ as part of the Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment, and Environmental Applications during SPIE BiOS 2024 in San Francisco. The talk focused on his most recent publication as part of the Decentralise Water Technologies project. …
Dr Pritam Das has won the EPSRC IAA innovation competition of £2500. He will be using this amount to prototype a visible light guided self-cleaning device under lab scale Sun light simulator. More information about the EPSRC IAA competition
We are pleased to publish the second annual report for the EPSRC Programme Grant in Decentralised Water Technologies. Please click on this link to access the PDF: EPSRC Decentralised Water Technologies – Annual Report 2023 – Year 2
The “Herald” published an article by Prof William Sloan on: Why the right to water is an issue for us today under their ‘Agenda’ section. You can read the article here
On 8th November 2023, Dr Jill Robbie gave the Arthur T. Kornblut Memorial Lecture to the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, based in Troy, New York. RPI is America’s oldest technological research university. Dr Robbie shared her perspective on de-centralised water technologies and the importance of the governance of these technologies for the …
As part of the EPSRC programme grant and in collaboration with Scottish Water Horizons, we are conducting a septic tanks’ experiment at a Scottish Water treatment facility in Fife. The aim of the experiment is to study and understand the emissions produced by septic tanks and the subsequent environmental impact. This experiment is the first …