Aqueous Process Engineering and Chemistry Group

Congratulations to Runlin Yuan for receiving the George Harrap Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Chemical Engineering!

Congratulations to Noel Devaere for receiving the Philip H. Jones Award at the 2023 CAWQ conference!

Mitchell Zak, a Ph.D. student who is working on resource recovery using algae, presented at the 13th IWA Specialist Conference on Wastewater Ponds and Algal Technologies in Melbourne, Australia.

Congratulations to Mitchell Zak for receiving:

• The Professor Doug Reeve Engineering Leaders of Tomorrow Graduate Award (May 2022)
• The UofT Student Life Catalyst Award (June 2022)
• First place in the IWI Symposium Presentation Competition for Biological Processes category (June 2022)

APEC members attended the Conference of Metallurgists (COM 2020) online and presented. COM 2020 was moved online due to the COVID global pandemic. We took on the challenge gracefully; well done!

George Kolliopoulos, Jeffrey Martin and Professor Vladimiros G. Papangelakis attended the North American Membrane Society Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Martin for winning the ChemE Exhibition Poster Award in the Environmental Category on March 29th!

The 54th Annual Conference of Metallurgists (COM2015) was held on August 23-26 in Toronto, ON. At the conference, Dr. Georgiana Moldoveanu presented a talk entitled “Gypsum-Anyhdrite Conversion as Possible Means to Control Scale and Decrease Calcium Levels in Hydrometallurgical Processes”, Srinath Garg presented a talk entitled “Bioleaching of Pyrrhotite Tailings for Ni Extraction – Insights Into An Adaptive Evolution Study”, and Douglass Duffy presented a talk entitled “Mineralogical Characterization of Sudybury Pyrrhotite Tailings: Evaluating the Bioleaching Potential”. Also, Kurtis Judd presented his poster in the graduate student category.

• 7th international symposium on hydrometallurgy 2014 was held on June 23-25, 2014 in Victoria, BC. At the conference, Dr. Georgiana Moldoveanu presented a talk entitled “Investigation into Oxidative Dissolution of Enargite with Chloride Dioxide”. Also, 5 members of the APEC group presented their posters in the graduate student category.
• Congratulations to  Douglass Duffy (PhD student) and Nazanin Samadifard (Master,s student) on winning the best poster awards in 7th international hydrometallurgy symposium held in Victoria, BC.

Dr. Cheryl Washer joined the APEC group as a postdoctoral fellow.

• Congratulations to Wendy Zhou who has successfully defended her Master’s thesis.
• Kurtis Judd joined the APEC group as a Master’s student.