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IMSTEC 2025
7 December 2022
8.00 - 9.00 am
Registration
Foyer G81
9.00 am
Plenary 4
Dr Lidietta Giorno
Institute on Membrane Technology of the National Research Council of Italy
“Bio” for membranes: perspectives and challenges
Chair: Dr Zongli Xie
G81
10.00 am
Morning Tea
Session 6a
Applications
Room G81
Chairs: Elvis Saric and Kecheng Guan
10.40 am
Elvis Saric (Invited)
Veolia Environmental Services
11.00 am
Maedeh Nadimi
Victoria University
11.20 am
Fanmengjing Wang
Monash University
Homochiral polymer-graphene oxide nanocomposite membrane for enantioselective separation
11.40 am
Kecheng Guan
Kobe University
Composite membrane structure with asymmetric wetting properties for membrane distillation
Session 6b
Gas Separation and Materials
Room G03
Chairs: Noreddine Ghaffour and Aaron Thornton
10.40 am
Noreddine Ghaffour (Invited)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
11.00 am
Aaron Thornton (Invited)
CSIRO
Discovering direct air capture materials using computational modelling
11.20 am
Seungju Kim
The University of Melbourne
11.40 am
Yi-Chen Lin
The University of Sydney
High nitrogen impermeabiliy of polyetherimide (PEI) membrane via interfacial nanoconfinement effect
Session 6c
Materials
Room 101
Chairs: Ludovic Dumee and Matthew Hill
11.00 am
Ludovic Dumee (Invited)
Khalifa University
Photo-responsive functional membrane-adsorbents for water desalination - advances and challenges
11.20 am
Noel Kaleekkal
National Institute of Technology Calicut
11.40 am
Yumin Oh
Pusan National University
Optimization of gold nanoparticle-plasmonic membrane fabrication for membrane distillation process
12.00 pm
Lunch
Session 7a
Water
Room G81
Chairs: Johannes Vrouwenvelder and Mihail Barboiu
1.00 pm
Johannes Vrouwenvelder (Kenynote)
KAUST
Reverse Osmosis Biofouling: Emerging Assessment Tools and Control
1.30 pm
Mihail Barboiu (Keynote)
Institut Europeen des Membranes
Artificial Water Channels - towards Biomimetic Membranes for Desalination
2.00 pm
Arash Zamyadi
The University of Melbourne
Assessing Algae-based Desalination Technologies Using WaterVal National Validation Framework
2.20 pm
Ralph Gonzales
Research Center for Membrane and Film Technology
2.40 pm
Wangxi Fang (Remote)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Session 7b
Applications
Room G03
Chairs: Ranil Wichramasinghe and Sally El Maeragawi
1.00 pm
Ranil Wickramasinghe (Keynote)
University of Arkansas
Promoting a circular economy through sustainable wastewater and agricultural residue management
1.30 pm
Tiezheng Tong (Invited Remote)
Colorado State University
1.50 pm
Sally El Meragawi
Monash University
2.30 pm
Maryse Drouin
Aix-Marseille University
SiC membrane performances for marine scrubber water treatment
Session 7c
Materials
Room 101
Chairs: Joe da Costa and Rakesh Joshi
1.00 pm
Joe da Costa (Keynote)
The University of Queensland
Membrane Percrystallisation of Mineral Brines, Food and Pharmaceutical Compounds
1.30 pm
Rakesh Joshi (Invited)
University of New South Wales
1.50 pm
Matthias Hesselmann
RWTH Aachen University
2.10 pm
Gongping Liu (Invited Remote)
Nanjing Tech University
New approach to fabricate PDMS thin-film composite membrane toward CO2 capture
2.30 pm
Shouliang Yi (Invited)
US Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory
Advanced Membranes for Selective Ion/Molecular Separation and Bio-electrochemical CO2 Conversion
2.50 pm
Afternoon Tea
2.50 - 3.20 pm
Registration
Foyer G81
Session 8a
Applications
Room G81
Chairs: Geoffrey Johnston-Hall and Andrea Merenda
3.30 pm
Geoffrey Johnston-Hall (Invited)
DuPont
Energy Savings with Membrane Technologies in Wastewater Treatment
3.50 pm
Andrea Merenda (Invited)
RMIT University
Catalytic membrane reactors: current challenges and future outlook in water treatment technologies
4.10 pm
Weonjung Sohn
University of Technology Sydney
4.30 pm
Dongjin Sim
Pusan National University
4.50 pm
Kaiqiang He
Monash University
Ultrathin carbon-nanoporous metal oxide composite molecular sieve membrane for hydrogen separation
Session 8B
Fouling
Room G03
Chairs: Stephen Gray and Filicia Wicaksana
3.50 pm
Juyoung Lee
Kookmin University
4.30 pm
Mikel Duke
Victoria University
4.50 pm
Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran
University of Technology Sydney
Fouling Reduction by Membrane Bioreactor Used as a Pre-treatment in Desalination
Session 8c
Gas Separation
Room 101
Chairs: Ryan Lively and Qiang Fu
3.20 pm
Ryan Lively (Keynote)
Georgia Institute of Technology
3.50 pm
Qiang Fu
University of Technology Sydney
4.10 pm
Yiming Zhang
Massey University
Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) using an emerging metal-organic framework (MUF-15) for CO2 separation
4.30 pm
Muhammad Zulkifli
University of Queensland
Metal Organic Framework Glass Composite Membranes for Gas Separation
4.50 pm
Nicholas Low (Remote)
Monash University