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Education Session III:
Emerging Technology and More…
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Join us as we take a look at how emerging desalination technology becomes accepted or not accepted, the path to market, and how the media reports on desalination technology.
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 Moderator Dawn Guendert
specializes in the planning and design of membrane systems for drinking water, potable and non-potable recycled water, and desalination applications. She has approximately 20 years of extensive experience in all aspects of the development of membrane treatment plants including feasibility studies, pilot studies, preliminary and final design and equipment procurement. Ms. Guendert has been involved in a number of proposed seawater desalination projects in California including: San Diego County Water Authority Camp Pendleton Seawater Desal project, Bay Area Regional Seawater Desal project, West Basin Seawater Desal project and currently manages a team that serves as the Technical Advisor to NSC Aqua for the Rosarito Seawater Desal project.
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 Panelist Tom Pankratz
is an independent desalination consultant and the editor of GWI’s weekly Water Desalination Report. He has served as an expert advisor on some of the world’s largest and most technically complex desal projects and has been appointed to serve on committees by the National Academy of Sciences, World Health Organization, Middle East Desal Research Center and Australia’s Nation Center of Excellence in Desalination. A former vice president of CH2M Hill, and the director of corporate projects for US Filter/Veolia Water, he has authored five water-related books, and has been the chapter author of numerous others.
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 Panelist Jeff Green
is an experienced venture-backed technology entrepreneur. He is currently founder and CEO of NanoH2O, a global provider of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes that leverage nanotechnology to lower the cost of desalination. Since 2007, Mr. Green has overseen the rapid development of nano-composite membranes from bench-scale research to next-generation commercial technology with over 150 installations in 36 countries in the 3 years since market launch. In April of 2014, NanoH2O was acquired by LG Chem, the $22 billion leading global chemical company of the LG Group. Previously, as a software entrepreneur, Mr. Green founded Archive, Inc. (sold to Cyclone Commerce) and Stamps.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: “STMP”). In both companies, Mr. Green co-wrote the original business plan and, as Vice President of Marketing, directed the company’s strategy, business model and marketing operations. Prior to his career as an entrepreneur, Mr. Green garnered marketing and strategy experience at leading companies such as Mitchell Madison, Hewlett Packard and Ziff-Davis. Mr. Green holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.
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 Panelist Eric Hoek, PhD,
is an engineer, inventor, educator, author, entrepreneur and philanthropist. All these activities derive from Dr.Hoek’s passion for protecting human health and the environment and his expertise in water purification. Dr.Hoek is currently on leave from the UCLA Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering to serve as chief executive officer of Water Planet Engineering, LLC (waterplanet.com). Water Planet is a water treatment solution-provider focused on oil and gas produced water de-oiling, filtration and desalination. Previously, Dr.Hoek’s UCLA research and inventions lead to the formation of Nano H2O Inc. (nanoh2o.com), which produces QuantumFlux® reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. LG Chem of South Korea recently acquired Nano H2O. Before leaving UCLA, Dr.Hoek’s university research focused on membrane formation and application to desalination,
drinking water treatment, waste water reclamation and O&G produced water treatment. Dr.Hoek was a member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability and the California Nano Systems Institute. Also, Dr.Hoek helped create the Water Technology Research Center (watercenter.ucla.edu), the UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (cein.ucla.edu) and the KAUST-Cornell Center for Energy & Sustainability (kaust-cu.cornell.edu). In the past 12 years, Dr.Hoek co-authored over 100 scientific publications, and is a former editor of the international journal, Desalination (ees.elsevier.com/des/) and was editor of the Encyclopedia of Membrane Science &Technology
(wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470906871.html). Dr.Hoek has served as an advisor on municipal water reuse and desalination projects in California,and has consulted on membrane technology, water treatment, waste treatment and environmental remediation for a range of private companies, US federal, state and local agencies, law firms, private research foundations, non-profit foundations, NGOs and foreign national research agencies. Dr.Hoek recently embarked on a 5-year collaboration with Global Classrooms for Peace (globalclassroomsforpeace.org) to improve sanitation and water issues for villages and settlements on remote islands of Fiji.
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 Panelist Brent Alspach
holds both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Brent joined ARCADIS in 1997 and serves as a Principal Environmental Engineer specializing in potable water treatment and reuse. He is an internationally recognized authority on membrane processes, and in this capacity has given invited presentations at Sandia National Laboratories, the China Water Show, American Society of Civil Engineers, WateReuse Association, the Urban Water Institute, and the Multi-State Salinity Coalition, among others. In addition, Mr. Alspach has authored or co-authored over 100 publications on membrane treatment, including the USPA Membrane Filtration Guidance Manual and several AWWA manuals of practice. He is a past Chair of the AWWA Membrane Processes Committee and is a 2014 recipient of the AWWA’s Golden Spigot award. He currently works in Carlsbad, CA, many hundreds of miles from the snowy winters of his beloved alma mater in upstate NY.
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