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WMCC2020-Draft Program

The document provides a draft agenda for the Water Management in the Cold Climate conference to be held in Harbin, China from January 12-14, 2020. The agenda includes an opening ceremony, keynote speeches on water management challenges in cold climates, and sessions on emerging issues like micropollutants and microplastics, water supply, decentralized and industrial wastewater treatment, and innovative tools for the water sector. Presentations will cover topics such as contaminants of concern, wastewater treatment plant performance, and sustainable management approaches for cold weather regions. The conference aims to address current issues and solutions for water management in cold climates.

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WMCC2020-Draft Program

The document provides a draft agenda for the Water Management in the Cold Climate conference to be held in Harbin, China from January 12-14, 2020. The agenda includes an opening ceremony, keynote speeches on water management challenges in cold climates, and sessions on emerging issues like micropollutants and microplastics, water supply, decentralized and industrial wastewater treatment, and innovative tools for the water sector. Presentations will cover topics such as contaminants of concern, wastewater treatment plant performance, and sustainable management approaches for cold weather regions. The conference aims to address current issues and solutions for water management in cold climates.

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Water Management in the Cold Climate (WMCC-2020), Harbin, China: DRAFT AGENDA

Sunday 12th January 2020


12:00-17:00 Registration
17:00-18:30 Opening ceremony and reception
Welcome address, Nanqi Ren, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Address from the EWA, Bjørn K Jensen, President, Denmark
Address from the IWA, Kala Vairavamoorthy, Executive Director, UK/Netherlands
18:30-20:30 Visit to the Harbin International Ice Sculpture festival
20:30 Dinner
Monday 13th January 2020
09:00-09:30 Inaugural session
Welcome address, Nanqi Ren, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Address from the EWA, Bjørn K Jensen, President, Denmark
Address from the IWA, Kala Vairavamoorthy, Executive Director, UK/Netherlands
Conference history and program, Harsha Ratnaweera, Co-Chair of the organising committee, Norway
Practical issues, Yifan Li / Liyan Liu, Co-Chair of the organising committee, China
09:30-10:30 Opening keynotes
Water bodies in Europe: condition, trends and prospects, Johannes Lohaus, Germany
Water supply challenges in cold climates, Joachim Fettig, Germany
Wastewater management in cold climates, Harsha Ratnaweera, Norway
10:30-10:50 Tea Break
10:30-12:10 Emerging micropollutants and microplastics
Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in background and effluent waters from northern Europe and
the arctic, Roland Kallenborn, Norway
Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in background and effluent waters from northern Europe and
the arctic, Yifan Li, China
Rapid identification and quantification of microplastics by portable pyrolysis-mass spectrometry, Jie Jiang
Microplastic in wastewater treatment plants in a northeast city of China: distribution and characteristics,
Hongliang Jia
12:10-13:15 Lunch
13:15-15:00 Water supply
Biofiltration for water treatment at cold temperatures: BAC Vs. BIEX, Pierre Berube, Canada
Removal of nitrate from drinking water using chia seeds, Salah El Sadi, Palestine
Prediction of trihalomethanes formation potential in disinfection of drinking water in northern Europe,
Zakhar Maletskyi, Norway
Rapid characterisation of natural organic matter and precursors to disinfection by-products in cold climate
water sources, Taha Marhaba, USA
Integration of advanced physico-chemical processes (MPUV/PAA) for advanced oxidation process in cold
climates, Sun Wenjing, China/Canada
15:00-16:00 Tea break
15:20-16:00 Poster session (3 minutes presentations)
Phthalates in drinking water in cold climate: occurrence and implications for human exposure, Li Yan Liu,
China
Problems and countermeasures of utilisation of micro-polluted surface water resource in Tianjin Binhai
new area (TBNA), Gao Si, China/Sweden
Impact of chemical coagulant on phosphors removal and costs in advanced wastewater treatment of urban
sewage treatment plant, Liu Wei, China
An investigation of energy metabolism improvement in the anoxic-anaerobic-oxic process (reversed AAO):
a new insight, Changqing Liu, China
Degradation of bisphenol a by ozonation in rotating packed bed, Shao Lei, China
Prototyping an image analysis sensor for coagulation process in wastewater treatment, Nataliya Sivchenko,
Norway
Na2S modified spent li ion battery anode waste as adsorbents for removing Pb(II) ion from the aqueous
solutions, Yuchen Wang, China
Study on immobilisation of heavy metals contaminated sediments by (Ca(H2PO4)2), CaCO3, and
hydroxyapatite, Yuchen Wang, China
Water Management in the Cold Climate (WMCC-2020), Harbin, China: DRAFT AGENDA

Energy- and reagents-saving analytical systems for monitoring of water quality in cold climate, Stanislawa
Koronkiewicz, Poland
16:00-17:30 Managing emerging micropollutants
Distribution of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARBs) In wastewater
treatment plant, Lihua Cheng, China
A potential adsorbent ZIF-67 decorated with nanosheets for the removal of antibiotics, Cr (VI) ions and
organic dyes, Zhenggang Xiao, China
Solvothermal synthesis of carbonaceous material for degradation of organic pollutants in wastewater, Li
Zhou, Australia
18:30 Dinner
Tuesday 14th January 2020
08:30-10:00 Decentralised waste management
Vermi-composting for treatment of human faeces from urine diverting dry toilet (UDDT) in cold climate,
Mooyang Han, South Korea
Design consideration of urine reactor from UDDT at cold climate, Mooyang Han, South Korea
Source-separation and resource recycling - for improved resource management and sustainable
wastewater treatment in cold climate, Melesse Morges, Norway
10:00-10:20 Tea break
10:20-12:10 Industrial water and wastewater management
Produced water management in cold climates, Torleiv Bilstad, Norway
Oil spills under ice: kinetics of oil spreading as a function of ice cover characteristics, Vlad Tarabara, USA
Challenges in chemical cleaning of ultrafiltration membranes at low temperatures, Vitaly Gitis, Israel
The effect of temperature on the biosorption of dyes from wastewater, Lech Smoczynski, Poland
Study on immobilisation of heavy metals contaminated sediments by (Ca(H2PO4)2), CaCO3, and
hydroxyapatite, Yuchen Wang, China
12:10-13:15 Lunch
13:15-15:00 Domestic wastewater treatment
Looking into lipolytic potential of psychrophiles to develop anaerobic digestion in domestic wastewater
treatment, Reihaneh Bashiri, UK
An innovative method for improving cold-resistant of activated sludge by composite ferric in the biomass,
Xuejun Bi, China
Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) in cold and diluted wastewater, Blanca Gonzalez Silva,
Norway
Rapid formation of aerobic granular sludge for simultaneous removal of organics, nitrogen, and
phosphorus at low temperature, Yu Jiang, Singapore
Impact of temperature history on anammox process performance and ladderane lipid composition,
Vojtech Kouba, Czech Republic
THP advanced anaerobic digestion for compact and efficient biosolids management in cold climates, Liao
Zuliang, Norway
15:00-15:20 Tea Break
15:20-17:20 Innovative tools and concepts for the water sector
Applying holistic cost benefit analysis in the water sector: cold climates, Dino Ratnaweera, Norway
Sustainable wastewater treatment for the Norwegian context - Use of LCA for selection of chemicals and
comparison of processes, Kamal Azrague, Norway
New methods of internal calibration of water quality monitoring systems in cold climate, Slawomir
Kalinowski, Poland
A stepwise machine learning method for managing uncertainty of wastewater treatment plants caused by
snow melting in cold climate, Xiaodong Wang, China
A conductivity based soft-sensor for real-time estimation of phosphate concentration in a multi-stage bio-P
MBBR pilot plant, Abhilash Nair, Norway
Dosage optimisation of polyaluminum chloride by the application of convolutional neural network to floc
images taken in a jar-test, Hiroshi Tamamura, Japan
17:20-17:30 Closure
Johannes Lohaus, General Secretary, EWA
Yifang Li, HiT, Conference co-chair
Water Management in the Cold Climate (WMCC-2020), Harbin, China: DRAFT AGENDA

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