Dr Jill Robbie and Dr Elizabeth Lawson held an online workshop on 23rd February 2023 ,with members of Scottish local authorities, to discuss challenges and opportunities of existing decentralised water and wastewater systems. There was a total of 50 attendees, from 18 different organisations with a high level of engagement throughout the two-hour session. Themes …
The fourth plenary meeting of the EPSRC Programme Grant on Off-grid Water Technologies was held on the 21st February 2023. The event was held as a hybrid meeting, with some attending in-person at the Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow and others joining online via Zoom. The agenda included a welcome from our Principal …
Dr. Justin Sperling gave an oral presentation entitled ‘Optical tastebuds for water quality testing’ at SPIE Photonics West 2023 on 30 January 2023 in San Francisco, California (USA). His talk was part of the ‘Optical fibers and sensors for medical diagnostics, treatment, and environmental applications’ subsection of the conference.
Recently publicity on Professors Yu’s work to make 200-year-old heat pump technology even more efficient than it already is, potentially opening the door for much greater adoption of heat pumps worldwide. How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future / Knowable Magazine /11 January 2023 Which is Better: Heat Pump …
Professor Bill Sloan and Dr Jill Robbie joined a field trip to Barra on 30th November and 1st December 2022 with members of the Carbon Neutral Islands team. The Carbon Neutral Islands project is a Scottish Government commitment aimed at supporting 6 chosen islands to become carbon neutral by 2040. As communities on Barra are …
Dr Pritam Das has given an oral presentation in the international conference ‘Euromembrane’ on 20 – 24 November 2022, Naples, Italy. It was organised by European Membrane Society. Title: Visible light guided coating for sustainable membrane cleaning. Biofouling is one of the major challenges in membrane processes. Membranes get exposed to a wide range of …