2014 Americas Regional Conference Sunday, October 26, 2014 Breakfast Exhibitor Setup 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 PM Committee Meetings Board of Directors Meeting (Tentative) Introducation to UV: Water and Wastewater Applications Pre-Workshop Registration Exhibition Open Welcome Reception Monday, October 27, 2014 7:00 AM 7:30 AM 8:00 AM 8:30 AM 9:00 AM Coffee Welcome & Opening Plenary Session Keynote: Marvin R. DeVries, Trojan Technologies President Computational Fluid Dynamics Optimization of a Continuous Flow Point of Use UV LED Disinfection Reactor Richard Jenny North Carolina State University 9:30 AM Special Features of UV LEDs for UV Reactor Design Fariborz Taghipour University of British Columbia 10:00 AM UV Oxidation for Recalcitrant Chemical Contaminants - Successes, Challenges and Future Applications Terry Keep Trojan Technologies Treatment of 1,4 Dioxane Advanced Oxidation at Artesian Water Company's Llangollen Wellfield John Civardi Hatch Mott MacDonald 10:30 AM Closing the (Vertical) Loops on UVDGM Piping Geometry Guidelines Christopher Schulz CDM Smith Break 10:45 AM 11:15 AM Registration 12:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:30 PM Exhibition Open 11:45 AM 2:00 PM Bacillus Pumilus as a High Resistance Surrogate for High Dose UV Reactor Validation Shawn Verhoeven GAP EnviroMicrobial Services Ltd. Biodosimetry Validation of a High Power UV Disinfection System to Achieve Regulatory Approval for Large Wastewater Applications Bruno Ferran Ozonia North America Implementing Low-Pressure High-Output (LPHO) Ultraviolet (UV) Disinfection for Treatment of Groundwater for Small and Medium Size Utilities Traci Brooks Carollo Engineers Scavenging Factor Monitoring Using Rhodamine B for the Efficient Operation of the UV-H2O2 Process Seonbaek Kim Yonsei University Evaluating a Rapid Response Automatic Control System for Vancouver's Coquitlam UV Disinfection Facility Christopher Schulz CDM Smith Determination of Efficient Operating Conditions for the UV-Chlorine Process According to Water Conditions and Target Compounds Minhwan Kwon Yonsei University Online UV-Transmittance Measurements - The Key to Cost Saving Dan Shaver Aquionics, Inc. Site-Specific UV Validation for the Melbourne Western Treatment Plant Chengyue Shen HDR Removal of Taste and Odor Causing Compounds by UV-H2O2 - Effect of Water Matrix Yness March Slokar UNESCO-IHE Pulsed and Continuous UV LED Reactor for Advanced Oxidation Michael Miller Air Force Institute of Technology Lunch UV Disinfection Performance Testing - Planning Ahead Gary Hunter Black & Veatch 2:30 PM Pathogen Specific UV System Sizing for Wastewater and Reuse Disinfection Kristen Meyer Xylem Inc. 3:00 PM Biodimetry Using MS2 Phase to Perdict Decal Coliform Inactivation by UV Reactors Varun Gandhi Carollo Engineers Demonstrating Advanced Oxidation Biofiltration to Remove Emerging Contaminants from Wastewater Karl Linden University of Colorado at Boulder Improving the Performance of UV Advanced Oxidation Processes for the Removal of Pesticides by Adding an Upstream Ozonation Process Jens Schiedeler Xylem Unknown Title Adel Guirgis University of Calgary Characterization of UV Light Emitting Diodes for Water Disinfection Gordon Knight Trojan UV Optimization of the Cat/Del UV Disinfection Facility Brian Kearney CDM Smith Photodegradation of Iodinated Trihalomethanes in Aqueous Solutions by UV and UV-H2O2 Treatment Yongjun Xiao Public Utilities Board, Singapore Enhanced CDPH Spot-Check Bioassy to Expand Operating Chengyue Shen HDR 3:30 PM 3:45 PM Break 4:00 PM Variation in Response of Viral Biodosimeters to Ultraviolet Light Ian Mayor-Smith Imperial College London UV Photolysis of Explosive Contaminated Groundwater Ken Kershner Aquionics, Inc. 4:30 PM A Genomic Exploration of Viral Surrogates for UV Biodosimetry Ian Mayor-Smith Imperial College London Low Cost De-Centralized UV System for Hospital Rooms Paul Lorcheim ClorDiSys Solutions, Inc. 5:00 PM Theoretical Analysis of Placing UV Reactors in Series for Second Order Kinetics Yuri Lawryshyn University of Toronto Applying Germicidal Irradiation to HVAC Heat Exchangers to Reduce Biofouling and Improving Heat Transfer Capabilities Julia Louongo University of Colorado at Boulder 5:30 PM 6:00 PM 6:30 PM 7:00 PM 7:30 PM Are we there yet? The Current and Future State of UV-LED Technology Workshop Exhibitior Reception Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:45 AM Specialized Operation and Controls for MWRA's Carroll Water Treatment Plant UV System Gary Jacobson CH2M Hill Low Wavelength Sensing Technology for Polychromatic Irradiance Measurement Gordon Knight Trojan UV 9:15 AM How an Operational Audit can Improve UV Reactor Reliability and Reduce Costs Varun Gandhi Carollo Engineers Minimizing Collimated Beam Uncertainty Shawn Verhoeven GAP EnviroMicrobial Services Ltd. 9:45 AM Large UV Systems for Secondary Effluent Disinfection June Leng HDR Round Robin Test of the IUVA UV Lamp Efficiency Testing Protocol (Revised) James Bolton Bolton Photosciences, Inc. 10:15 AM 10:30 AM Exhibition Open Fundamental Aspects Concerning Data Analysis from Polychromatic UV Experiments James Bolton Bolton Photosciences, Inc. Registration 8:15 AM UV System Design for Drinking Water in Southern California - A Decade of Counting Bryan Townsend Black & Veatch Break Large Scale UV Pilot at the Trinity River Design and Operating Flexibilities of Cincinnati's Authority's Central Regional Wastewater UV System System Plant Ramesh Kashinkunti Katherine Bell Greater Cincinnati Water Works CDM Smith 11:00 AM Incorporating Innovative Approaches unto New UV Disinfection Systems Todd Elliott CH2M Hill Inclusion of Variability in Design and Validation of UV Disinfection Systems Ernest R. Blachley III Purdue University 11:30 AM Balancing Cost-Effectiveness and Conservatism in UV Disinfection Design Paul Swaim CH2M Hill Update on NSF International's UV Standards for Water Treatment Equipment Bruce Bartley NSF International 12:00 PM Planning for the Future - Maintaining LT2 and Stage 2 Compliance with UV Disinfection Amy Gao CH2M Hill Breaking Down the Average DOSE Barrier Ken Kershner Aquionics, Inc. 12:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:30 PM Lunch Cat/Del UV Disinfection Facility Tour The State of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) Workshop Lunch Ultraviolet Disinfection for Wastewater—Low Dose Application Guidance for Secondary and Tertiary Effluent Wednesday, October 29, 2014 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM Cal/Del UV Disinfection Facility Tour