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The 21st International Conference on
Advanced Oxidation Technologies for
Treatment of Water, Air and Soil
(AOTs-21)
The conference also covers in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO), in-situ chemical
reduction (ISCR) for treatment of contaminants in soil and groundwater and
in the regeneration of the spent sorbents (i.e. carbon).
Call for Papers: Deadline – Tuesday, June 30, 2015
(Website: www.redoxtech.com)
Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Diego, California, USA
November 16-19, 2015
International Scientific Committee
Hussain Al-Ekabi, Redox Technologies, Inc., Canada Stephen Mezyk, California State University, USA
Shin-ichi Aoqui, Sojo University , Japan
Aida Liliana Barbosa, Cartagena University,
Colombia
Miray Bekbölet, Bogazici University, Turkey
Ronny Brandenburg, INP Greifswald e.V., Germany
Nito A. Debacher, Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina, Brazil
Santigo Esplugas, University of Barcelona, Spain
Anett Georgi, Helmholtz-Zentrum für
Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ, Germany
Aracely Hernández Ramírez, Universidad
Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico
Akira Mizuno, Toyohashi University of Technology,
Japan
Yasushi Nishida, National Cheng Kung University,
Taiwan
Natasa Novak Tusar, University of Nova Gorica,
Slovenia
Sherine O. Obare, Western Michigan University,
USA
Shigeru Ono, Tokyo City University, Japan
Eduardo Pino, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Slavcho Rakovsky, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Catalysis, Bulgaria
Yifan Huang, Zhejiang University, China
Antoine Rousseau, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Scott G. Huling, U.S.EPA, USA
Avelino Eduardo Saez, University of Arizona, USA
Nilsun H. Ince, Bogazici University, Turkey
Kohki Satoh , Muroran Institute of Technology,
Japan
Vladimir Jirku, Institute of Chemical Technology,
Czech Republic
Joon-Wun Kang, Yonsei University, Korea
Christian Schoeneich, University of Kansas, USA
Adrian M. T. Silva, Porto University, Portugal
Ahmed Khacef, CNRS-Université d'Orléans, France Sharmin Sultana, Ghent University, Belgium
Rominder Suri, Temple University, USA
Hyun-Ha Kim, National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Michael Kirkpatrick, Supélec, France
Frederic Thevenet, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Mines de Douai, France
Willem Koppenol, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Switzerland
E. J. M. Van Heesch, Technical University of
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Lev N. Krasnoperov, New Jersey Institute of
Technology, USA
Karen Van Wesenbeeck, University of Antwerpen,
Belgium
T. David Waite, University of New South Wales,
Tomoyuki Kuroki, Osaka Prefecture
Australia
University, Japan
Xinyong Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Shaobin Wang, Curtin University, Australia
Mingce Long, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy, China Yongbing Xie, Institute of Process Engineering,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Selma Mededovic Thagard, Clarkson University,
Koichi Yasuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
USA
Japan
Dan Meyerstein, Ben-Gurion University of the
Man-Xia Zhang, Dalian Maritime University, China
Negev, Israel
Conference Correspondence
Hussain Al-Ekabi, Ph.D.
President, Redox Technologies, Inc., The University of Western Ontario Research Park
100 Collip Circle, Suite 110, London, Ontario N6G 4X8, Canada
Phone: (519) 858-5055; Fax: (519) 858-5056
E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www.redoxtech.com
Confirmed Invited Speakers and the Titles of their Talks
Shin-ichi Aoqui, (Co-Authors: Fumiaki Mitsugi, Hiroharu Kawasaki, Tamiko Ohshima) Sojo
University, Japan
 Analysis of Discharge Characteristics of Atmospheric Pressure Serpentine Plasma and
Its Bio-Application
Aida Liliana Barbosa, Cartagena University, Colombia
 Development Iron-Molybdenum/C Materials for Photocatalytic Sulfur Removal
Miray Bekbölet, Bogazici University, Turkey
 Application of Photocatalysis in Drinking Water Treatment
Ronny Brandenburg, INP Greifswald e.V., Germany
 Physics and Chemistry of Barrier Discharges for Pollutant Degradation
Nito A. Debacher, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
 Organic Dye Removal from Aqueous Solution by Electric Discharge Non-Thermal
Plasma Reactor
Santigo Esplugas, University of Barcelona, Spain
 Key Aspects in the Ozonation of Municipal Wastewater Effluents
Anett Georgi, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ, Germany
 Multifunctional Catalysis for Accelerated Fenton-Like Reactions
Aracely Hernández Ramírez, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico
 Synthesis and Photocatalytic Behavior of WO3/TiO2-N under Simulated Solar
Radiation
Yifan Huang, Zhejiang University, China
 Environmental Applications of Non-Thermal Plasma
Scott G. Huling, U.S.EPA, USA
 TBA
Nilsun H. Ince, Bogazici University, Turkey
 Sonolytic Immobilization of Platinum Nanoparticles on TiO2 to Improve the Activity
of the Semiconductor Under UV- Irradiation
Vladimir Jirku, Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic
 TBA
Joon-Wun Kang, Yonsei University, Korea
 Evaluation of Ozone, Electrolysis, and UV for Seawater Treatment
Ahmed Khacef, CNRS-Université d'Orléans, France
 Atmospheric Pressure Non-Thermal Plasma - Catalysis for Gaseous Pollutants
Removal
Hyun-Ha Kim, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
 Plasma Driven Catalytic Reactions
Michael Kirkpatrick, Supélec, France
 The Role of Oxidative Processes in Various Situations: From Plasma Treatment of
Biological Systems to Field Emission Under Vacuum
Lev N. Krasnoperov, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
 Chemistry in Non-Thermal Plasma: Fundamentals
Tomoyuki Kuroki, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
 Recent Development of Flue Gas Cleaning Technology Using a Plasma and Chemical
Hybrid Process
Xinyong Li (Co-Author: Baojun Liu), Dalian University of Technology, China
 Photocatalytic Degradation of Gaseous Toluene with Multiphase TixZr1-XO2
Synthesized Via Co-Precipitation Route
Mingce Long, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy, China
 The Critic Role of Al in Mesoporous Silica Nanocomposite for Heterogeneous FentonLike Catalysis
Selma Mededovic Thagard, Clarkson University, USA
 Plasma-Based Water Treatment: Scale-up Considerations and Removal of Emerging
Contaminants
Dan Meyerstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
 The Role of Carbonate in Catalytic Oxidations
Stephen Mezyk, California State University, USA
 TBA
Akira Mizuno, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
 Combination of Non-Thermal Plasma and Catalyst for Gas Cleaning
Yasushi Nishida, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
 Decomposition of Hydrogen from Hydrocarbons by Changing the Discharge Pulse
Width for Determining the Best Decomposition Efficiency
Natasa Novak Tusar, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
 Sustainable TiO2/SiO2 Composite Photocatalyst for Decomposition of Volatile
Organic Compounds in Air Cleaning Devices
Sherine O. Obare, Western Michigan University, USA
 Elucidating the Mechanistic Pathways for Decontamination of Microorganisms via
Nanoscale Drug Delivery Agents
Shigeru Ono, Tokyo City University, Japan
 Measurement of Oxygen Atom Radical Density by Current Heating Catalytic Probe
Eduardo Pino, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
 Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Heterogeneous System using
TiO2-AuNP Supported and UV/Visible Irradiation. Kinetic Parameters, Intermediate
Products and Time Resolved Spectroscopy Study of Intermediates
Slavcho Rakovsky (Co-authors: V. Iliev, A. Elias, M. Anachkov), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Catalysis, Bulgaria
 Advance Oxidation Systems for Water and Air purification
Antoine Rousseau, Ecole Polytechnique, France
 How to Optimize VOC Abatement using Plasma-Catalyst technology?
Avelino Eduardo Saez, University of Arizona, USA
 Removal of Trace Organics in Wastewater-Impacted Waters by Solar Photolysis
Kohki Satoh , Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
 Production Characteristics of ROS/RNS in Water After Discharge Plasma Exposure
Christian Schoeneich, University of Kansas, USA
 Selective Free Radical Mechanisms During Photochemical and Metal-Catalyzed
Oxidation of Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins
Adrian M. T. Silva, Porto University, Portugal
 Structured Carbon-Based Catalysts and Membranes for Advanced Oxidation
Processes
Sharmin Sultana, Ghent University, Belgium
 Plasma-Catalysis of TCE Using CeO2 Catalysts
Rominder Suri, Temple University, USA
 TBA
Frederic Thevenet, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Douai, France
 Plasma-Catalysis for VOC Oxidation : Comparison between Continuous and Sequential
Processes
E. J. M. Van Heesch, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
 Pulsed Power Applications Research at TU/e: From Super Critical Switches to
Pollution Control and Renewable Fuel Synthesis
Karen Van Wesenbeeck, University of Antwerpen, Belgium
 Plasma Catalysis for Indoor Air Treatment
T. David Waite, University of New South Wales, Australia
 New Insights into the Oxidative Degradation of Contaminants using Zero-Valent Iron
Nanoparticles
Shaobin Wang, Curtin University, Australia
 Magnetic Fe and Mn Nanomaterials for Generation of Sulfate Radicals Toward
Organic Oxidation
Yongbing Xie, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 The Function of Ag+ and Cu2+ Doping on TiO2 Photocatalytic Degradation of Oxalic
Acid
Koichi Yasuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 Application of Discharge in Water
Manxia Zhang, Dalian Maritime University, China
 UV Photocatalysis on Alga Cysts
The Scope of the Conference
This international conference has been bringing together interested parties from universities,
research institutions and industry to exchange information, views, experience and perspectives.
The scope of AOTs-21 is now broadened to include in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO)/in-situ
chemical reduction (ISCR) technologies for treatment of soil and groundwater and the
regeneration of spent sorbents (i.e. carbon) by chemical oxidation. Thus, AOTs-21 presents the
most current findings generated at the laboratories of universities and research institutions, as
well as in the field by the practitioners. Abstracts are being solicited in the following areas:
1. Chemical Oxidation:
 Ozone/H2O2
 Fenton
 Permanganate
 Persulfate
2. Chemical Reduction:
 Zero-Valent Iron
 Other Reducing Agents
3. UV- Based Oxidation:
 UV/H2O2
 Vacuum UV
 Photo-Fenton
 Other Photochemical Processes
4. Regeneration of Spent Sorbents (i.e. Carbon)
5. Non-Thermal Plasma Technologies
6. Electrohydraulic Discharge Technologies
9. In-Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO) for Treatment of Soil and Groundwater
10. In-Situ Chemical Reduction (ISCR) for Treatment of Soil and Groundwater
11. Radiation Chemistry: Electron Beam & Gamma Irradiation
12. Supercritical and Subcritical Water Oxidation
13. Catalytic Oxidation and Reduction Technologies
14. Electocatalytic and Electrochemical Oxidation and Reduction Technologies
15. Nanotechnology and AOTs
16. Combined AOTs for Water Reuse
17. AOTs and Sustainability
18. AOTs in Energy Production
19. Biological Oxidation and Reduction Technologies
20. UV - Disinfection / Chemical Disinfection
21. Integration of Oxidation with Biological Processes
Call for Abstracts
Scientists, engineers, and business professionals who are interested in AOTs-21 (including ISCO
and ISCR) are invited to submit abstracts of up to 500 words in English describing their work.
All abstracts are due by Tuesday, June 30, 2015. In addition to the invited lectures (25 minutes
each) listed above, additional abstracts will be chosen for short talks (15 minutes each) and the
rest of abstracts will be presented in the poster session. Each poster will have 1.2 m x 1.2 m of
display space.
Guidelines to Prepare Abstracts
Please follow the following guidelines in preparing your abstract(s):
 Type single space using, if possible, Times New Roman 12-point font (preferred);
 Keep all material within a one-inch margin on all sides;
 The title should be typed in boldface (Title Case, 14- points) centered at the top of the page;
 Leave a double space between the title and the names of the author(s);
 The names of the authors should be typed in boldface in single space, followed by the addresses
of the authors in single space; underline the name of the presenting author;
 Leave a double space between the end of the addresses and the opening paragraphs;
 Abstracts should be sent, in Microsoft Word format, to Dr. Hussain Al-Ekabi (E-mail:
[email protected]).
Call for Exhibits
Companies conducting business related to the themes of AOTs-21 are invited to exhibit their products
and/or services. Exhibits will be displayed throughout the conferences in a central area near the
registration desks, coffee breaks, poster sessions and lecture rooms. The cost of an 8-ft x 10-ft
exhibiting space is $1,750.00US if payment is received on or before Tuesday, June 30, 2015, and
$2,000.00US if payment is received after that date. The exhibition fee includes two free registrations.
Please, reserve early, as space is limited, and will be served on a first come first serve basis.
Registration
The deadline for the early registration is Tuesday, June 30, 2015. The on-site registration for
the conference is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, November 15, 2015 between 2:00 7:00pm.
All registration fees are set in US dollars. The registration fees can be paid either by credit cards
(Visa, Master Card or American Express) or by “Encoded Checks” in US funds drawn on a US bank
account made payable to “Redox Technologies, Inc.” Payment made by Visa will be converted, at our
end, into their equivalents in US Dollars Using the exchange rate of Bank of Canada. Payments
made by a Master Card or an American Express Card will be converted, at our end, into their
equivalents in Canadian dollars using also the exchange rate of Bank of Canada. As a result,
depending on the fluctuation of the exchange rate and potential fees that your credit card financial
institution may apply for the conversion, payments by credit card may turn to be slightly higher
than the actual amount stated on the registration form. Participants are also allowed to pay by
cash for on-site registration only.
Meeting Site and Accommodation
AOTs-21 will be held at the Crowne Plaza of San Diego, California, USA. A block of rooms with discounted
conference rates has been reserved for the participants until Wednesday, October 28, 2015. The block
is reserved under Redox Technologies, Inc. The rate is $110US for a single-bed or double bed rooms.
For online reservation please click on the link: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/RedoxTechnologiesInc.
It will take you directly to the block of Redox Technologies, Inc. You can also make a reservation by
phone: 1-888-233-9527 and then ask to be booked at the conference rate of Redox Technologies, Inc.
Dates to Remember
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Deadline for receiving abstracts
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Deadline for receiving payments of early
registration
Friday, August 14, 2015
Notification of the authors regarding their abstracts
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015
2:00 – 7:00pm
On-site registration for the Conference
Monday, Nov. 16, 2015
8:30am – 5:30pm
Technical sessions
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015
8:30am – 5:30pm
Technical sessions
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015
8:30am – 5:30pm
Technical sessions
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015
7:00 – 9:00pm
Banquet Dinner
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015
8:30am – 4:00pm
Technical Sessions
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015
4:00pm
Adjourn