CALL FOR PAPERS
CHEMISTRY FOR A SUSTAINABLE WATER SUPPLY THEME
Co-Sponsored by
ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry
Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)
NSF Science and Technology Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with
Systems (WaterCAMPWS)
233nd American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting
March 25 - 29, 2007
Chicago, IL
Abstract submissions are invited for the following eight ACS symposia planned as part of the
Chemistry for a Sustainable Water Supply theme for the ACS National Meeting in Chicago on
March 25-29, 2007.
Occurrence, Formation, Health Effects and Control of Disinfection By-Products in
Drinking Water Symposium
Since their first discovery in the early 1970s, disinfection by-products (DBPs) have become one
of the major driving forces of drinking water regulations, research and water utility operations.
The list of DBPs that can occur in treated drinking waters has grown from a few trihalomethanes
to a long list of halogenated and non-halogenated organic or inorganic compounds. This list is
expected to continue to grow as the analytical techniques are improved, as more information on
their toxicity is developed, and as more occurrence studies are conducted.
Due to both regulatory and practical significance, it has been a tradition to periodically organize
a DBP session at the ACS meetings to exchange the state-of-the-art research findings on
DBPs. This tradition started with the “Water Chlorination Conferences” organized by Dr. Robert
L. Jolley. The last DBP meeting was held in 1999 at the 217th ACS Spring Meeting in Anaheim,
California.
The main purpose of this symposium is to exchange the current DBP research findings. Papers
on issues related to occurrence, analytical methods, precursor (i.e., Natural Organic Matter)
isolation and characterization, DBP formation chemistry from different oxidants, mechanistic
modeling, health effects, toxicity screening methods, DBP control and removal, including
precursor control techniques, DBP stability and transformation in water distribution systems,
emerging DBPs, and contribution of wastewaters to DBP formation are invited. As for the past
DBP symposiums, one of the goals is also to publish selected papers from this symposium in a
peer-reviewed book format.
Symposium Organizers:
Tanju Karanfil, Associate Professor, Clemson University, Environmental Engineering and
Science, 342 Computer Court, Anderson, SC 29625, phone: (864) 656-1005, Fax: (864) 6560672, E-Mail: tkaranf@clemson.edu
Stuart W. Krasner, Principal Environmental Specialist, Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California, 700 Moreno Avenue, La Verne, CA 91750, phone: (909) 392-5083, Fax: (909) 3925246, E-Mail: skrasner@mwdH2O.com
Paul Westerhoff, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering , Engineering Research Center Room ECG 252, G-Wing , Tempe,
AZ 85287-5306, phone: (480) 965-2885, Fax: (480) 965-0557, E-mail: p.westerhoff@asu.edu
Yuefeng Xie, Associate Professor, Penn State Harrisburg, Environmental Engineering, 777
West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057, phone: (717) 948-6415, Fax: (717) 948-6580, Email: yxx4@psu.edu
Membrane Technology for Water Reuse Symposium
Water is increasingly a limited resource in many areas of the world. Use of scarce water
resources for drinking water competes with many other water uses such as agriculture, mining,
industry, and wild life management. There is a need for the development of sustainable
approaches, including water reuse, that will minimize such resource competition. This
symposium will bring together a diverse group of scientists and engineers who are advancing
the science of membrane technology and investigating the application of membrane processes
to water reuse. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Novel membrane materials and membrane characterization techniques
Advances in membrane bioreactor design
Membrane fouling and scaling
Removal of emerging contaminants by membrane processes
Process modeling
Membrane technology applications for water reuse
Sustainability of membrane processes in water reuse applications
Symposium Organizers:
Benito J. Mariñas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 3230 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratories, MC 250, 205 N. Mathews
Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, marinas@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-6961 (Fax 217-333-6968).
Menachem Elimelech, Department of Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering
Program, Yale University, PO Box 208286, New Haven, CT 06520-8286,
menachem.elimelech@yale.edu, Phone: 203-432-2789 (Fax 203-432-2881).
Eberhard Morgenroth, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois
at Urbana Champaign, 3219 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, MC-250, 205 North
Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, emorgenr@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-6965 (Fax 217-3336968)
Adsorption Processes for Drinking Water Treatment Symposium
The use and reuse of increasingly scarce water resources for agricultural, mining, industrial and
other applications has resulted in most natural waters being contaminated at various levels with
a broad range of contaminants. Although many such contaminants are amenable to removal by
adsorption processes, compounding effects of increasingly stringent public health regulations,
and adsorption competition by co-contaminants and/or background compounds require the
development of more effective adsorbent materials and systems incorporating such new
materials. This symposium will bring together a diverse group of scientists and engineers who
are advancing the science of adsorption technology and investigating the application of
adsorption processes to drinking water treatment. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:
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Novel adsorbent materials
Advances in adsorption reactor design
Adsorption competition phenomena
Adsorbent regeneration
Removal of emerging contaminants by adsorption processes
Process modeling
Adsorption processes for water reuse
Sustainability of adsorption processes
Symposium Organizers:
Benito J. Mariñas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 3230 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratories, MC 250, 205 N. Mathews
Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, marinas@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-6961 (Fax 217-333-6968).
Qilin Li, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street,
MS-519, Houston, TX 77005, qilin.li@rice.edu, Phone: 713-348-2046 (Fax 713-348-2026)
Thanh H. (Helen) Nguyen, Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, Environmental
Engineering Program, 9 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, thanh.nguyen@yale.edu,
Phone: 203-432-4333 (Fax 203-432-2881)
Catalytic Control of Emerging Micropollutants Symposium
The use of increasingly scarce water resources for agricultural, industrial, mining, and municipal
applications compounded with various other point as well as non-point sources of contamination
has resulted in most water sources being contaminated at various levels with a broad range of
chemical contaminants. A number of emerging micropollutants are being identified in these
waters as a result of improvements in analytic chemistry, and treatment of this diverse group of
compounds is a growing challenge to utilities. Catalytic technologies currently available for
controlling these contaminants suffer from drawbacks such as inadequate selectivity,
incomplete oxidation or reduction with the formation of toxic products and interference from nontarget natural water constituents such as natural organic matter and sulfide. There is a need for
the development of new, more efficient, and safer catalytic processes that provide effective
barriers against a wide range of chemical contaminants without the formation of deleterious
products. This symposium will bring together a diverse group of scientists and engineers who
are advancing the science of catalysis and investigating the application of catalytic processes to
drinking water treatment. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Catalytic strategies for treating emerging contaminants of concern
Catalytic oxidation and/or reduction mechanisms
Novel catalyst materials
Process modeling
Catalytic processes for water reuse
Sustainability of catalytic processes
Symposium Organizers:
Benito J. Mariñas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 3230 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratories, MC 250, 205 N. Mathews
Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, marinas@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-6961 (Fax 217-333-6968);
Charles J. Werth, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 3215 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory - MC 250, 205 North Mathews
Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, werth@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-3822 (Fax 217-333-6968);
Timothy J. Strathmann, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratories, 205 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana,
IL 61801, strthmnn@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-244-4679 (Fax 217-333-6968);
Mark B. Mitchell, Department of Chemistry, Clark Atlanta University, 223 James Brawley Dr.,
SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, mmitchell@cau.edu, Phone: 404-880-6858 (Fax 404-880-6890)
Advances in Desalination of Sea and Brackish Water Symposium
Increasing demand for potable water compounded with competing use and reuse of scarce
water resources for agricultural, mining, industrial and other applications has resulted in many
water sources having salinity levels unacceptable for human consumption. There is a need for
the development of new desalination processes enabling the sustainable use of such waters
and advancing the use of sea water as a viable alternative source of fresh water. This
symposium aims to bring together a diverse group of scientists and engineers who are
advancing the science of desalination technology and investigating the application of
desalination processes to drinking water treatment. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:
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Novel materials
Thermal desalination processes
Membrane desalination processes
New pretreatment approaches or hybrid desalination processes
Fouling and scaling
Process modeling
Desalination processes for water reuse
Efficient methods for liquid discharge minimization
Symposium Organizers:
Benito J. Mariñas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 3230 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratories, MC 250, 205 N. Mathews
Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, marinas@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-6961 (Fax 217-333-6968).
John G. Georgiadis, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 2144 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, 1206 West Green Street, MC244, Urbana, IL 61801, georgia@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-244-7578 (Fax 217-333-1942)
How Pure is Our Drinking Water: Advances in Detection and
Quantitation of Water Contaminants Symposium (also co-sponsored by the
ACS Analytical Chemistry Division)
The use of increasingly scarce water resources for agricultural, industrial, mining, and municipal
applications compounded with various other point as well as non-point sources of contamination
has resulted in most water sources being contaminated at various levels with a broad range of
chemical and microbial contaminants. There is a need for the development of new analytical
techniques for their detection and quantitation. This symposium will bring together a diverse
group of scientists and engineers who are advancing the analytical science and investigating
their application to drinking water treatment. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Novel materials
Microfluidic devices
Detection and quantitation of waterborne pathogens
Detection and quantitation of chemicals
Sensor networks in drinking water distribution systems
Sensor application to water infrastructure security
Sustainability issues
Symposium Organizers:
Benito J. Mariñas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 3230 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratories, MC 250, 205 N. Mathews
Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, marinas@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-6961 (Fax 217-333-6968);
Yi Lu, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews
Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, yi-lu@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-2619 (Fax 217-244-3186);
Paul W. Bohn, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre
Dame, 301 Cushing Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, pbohn@nd.edu, Phone: 574-631-7058 (Fax
574-631-8366).
Advances in Drinking Water Disinfection Processes Symposium
The use of increasingly scarce water resources for agricultural, municipal and other needs has
resulted in most water sources being impacted by return water from these applications
contaminated at various levels with a broad range of contaminants including waterborne
pathogens. Although the use of chemical (e.g., chlorine) and physical (e.g., UV light,
coagulants) technologies can protect against some of these pathogens, they are unable to
provide universal protection, have operation safety concerns, and/or form disinfection byproducts of public health concern. There is a need for the development of new, safe and
sustainable disinfection processes providing effective barriers against all relevant waterborne
pathogens without the formation of DBPs of concern. This symposium will bring together a
diverse group of scientists and engineers who are advancing the science of disinfection
technology and investigating the application of disinfection processes to drinking water
treatment. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Novel disinfection materials
Chemical disinfection processes
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Physical disinfection processes
Disinfection mechanisms
Process modeling
Disinfection processes for water reuse
Disinfection processes for developing countries
Sustainability of disinfection processes
Symposium Organizers:
Benito J. Mariñas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 3230 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratories, MC 250, 205 N. Mathews
Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, marinas@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-6961 (Fax 217-333-6968).
Eric A. Mintz, Department of Chemistry, Clark Atlanta Univeristy, 223 James P. Brawley Dr.
S.W, Atlanta, GA 30314, emintz@cau.edu, Phone: 404-880-6886 (Fax 404-880-6890)
Advances in Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment Symposium
The use of increasingly scarce water resources for agricultural, industrial, mining, and municipal
applications compounded with various other point as well as non-point sources of contamination
has resulted in most water sources being contaminated at various levels with a broad range of
chemical contaminants. Oxidation technologies currently available for controlling these
contaminants suffer from drawbacks such as inadequate selectivity for certain target
compounds, incomplete oxidation with the formation of products with potential public health
concern, and interference of background organic matter. There is a need for the development of
new, more efficient, and safer oxidation processes providing effective barriers against a wide
range of chemical contaminants without the formation of deleterious products. This symposium
will bring together a diverse group of scientists and engineers who are advancing the science of
oxidation technology and investigating the application of oxidation processes to drinking water
treatment. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Novel materials
Homogeneous oxidation
Heterogeneous oxidation
Oxidation mechanisms
Process modeling
Oxidation processes for water reuse
Sustainability of oxidation processes
Symposium Organizers:
Benito J. Mariñas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 3230 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratories, MC 250, 205 N. Mathews
Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, marinas@uiuc.edu, Phone: 217-333-6961 (Fax 217-333-6968).
Urs von Gunten, Water Resources and Drinking Water, EAWAG, Ueberlandstrasse 133,
Duebendorf 8600 Switzerland, vongunte@eawag.ch, Phone: +41 1 8235072 (Fax +41 1
8235210)
Michael S. Elovitz, Treatment Technology and Evaluation Branch, Water Supply & Water
Resources Division, US Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West M.L. King Drive, Cincinnati,
OH 45268, elovitz.michael@epa.gov, Phone: 513-569-7642 (Fax 513-569-7658)
Juan L. Acero, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Extremadura, Facultad de
Ciencias, Avda de Elvas s/n, Badajoz 06071 Spain, jlacero@unex.es, Phone: +34-924-289384
(Fax +34-924-289385)
Abstract Submission
Presenters are required to submit a short abstract to the ACS by November 10, 2006 using
the ACS online system (OASYS) at http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm and click on the SUST
theme or ENVR division (abstract submission start date: August 28, 2006). The ACS Division of
Environmental Chemistry also requires an extended abstract of two or more pages that must
be submitted to the symposium organizer by November 17, 2006 using the instructions posted
on the web at http://envirofacs.org. The organizer prefers to receive extended abstracts as
attachments to e-Mail in MS Word or RTF file formats. Please label the extended abstract file
with the ACS abstract number and first author’s last name.