Federico Volpin, Postgraduate Student at ARC Research Hub, Energy efficient separation
About
Membrane Process Engineer with a special focus on forward and reverse osmosis, wastewater reuse and resource recovery.Currently based in Sydney, but willing to relocate even outside of Australia.
My current research interest includes:
- Energy and water production from commercial fertilizers - Objective: Build a prototype to quantify water and power output and density by end 2019.
- Fertilizer production from source-separated human urine via a combination of pervaporation coupled with crystallization. Lab scale design and optimization are currently on-going. Ultimately the designed pilot plant will be operated and the quality and safety of the fertilizer investigated.
- Hybrid forward osmosis-reverse osmosis pilot plant operation. Membrane fouling and process optimization are investigated when different wastewater (WW) are used e.g., municipal WW, dairy WW, impaired WW .
- System optimization and techno/economic feasibility study of Membrane Bioreactor coupled with Fertilizer Driven Forward Osmosis (FDFO) process.
Previously involved in the R&D department of Aquaporin A/S. My tasks covered from pilot-scale testing to system optimization, techno/economic analysis and process analysis.
Information
- Location: Sydney, Australia
Industry experience
Education: PhD
Years of experience: 1 to 5 years
Work experience
Postgraduate Student
ARC Research Hub, Energy efficient separation
2018-05 - Present
PhD Candidate
Experimental and modelling-based approach for novel applications of forward osmosis/pressureretarded osmosis and membrane pervaporation.University of Technology Sydney
2017-01 - Present
Research Assistant
Collaborative project on simultaneous nutrients recovery and micropollutants removals fromhuman urine via low-cost forward osmosis process.
This project is part of the ambitious project "The Science Walden" (http://sciencewalden.org/en/)Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
2017-09 - 2018-01
Assistant Researcher and Project Engineer
- Delivered a pilot scale forward osmosis plant for the up-concentration of dairy wastewater.
- Operated a hybrid Forward osmosis/reverse osmosis pilot plant to treat Dairy industry wastewater effluents.
2015-08 - 2016-12
Taxonomy
- Nanotechnology
- Water Quality
- Agricultural
- Filtration
- Chemistry
- Thin Film
- Nanocomposites
- Nanofiltration
- Simulation
- Water and Wastewater Manager
- ceramic water filters
- Data Science