Affiliates, Project Collaborators and Sponsors:
Surfx Technologies, Carollo Engineers, CiTQ, Koch Membrane systems, Hydranautics, BASF, Separation Dynamics, WaterEye Corporation, EE&T, Inc.,Zuckerberg Water Research Institute, SIMPPLE, Sea Recovery, Argonne National Laboratory, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, USBR Water Quality Improvement Center, Long Beach Water Department , Orange County Water District, Municipal Water District of Orange County, National Water Research Institute.

Water Center filed for a number of new patents: (a) RO process scaling and fouling monitoring, (b) surface graft polymerization, and surface nano-structuring for membrane and chemical sensor applications, (c) Highly Sensitive and Selective Nano-Structured Grafted Polymer Layers for Chemical Sensors, (d) Method and System for High Recovery Water Desalting, (e) Fouling and Scaling Resistant Surface Nano-Structured Membranes, (f) Advanced monitoring, optimization and control of Membrane Desalination, and (g) Method and system for Monitoring Reverse Osmosis Membranes. Contact the UCLA IP Office for information.

High recovery brackish water desalination process developed in collaboration with MWD.

WaTeR Center students gave 10 research papers presentations at the annual AIChE Meeting in Philadelphia (November 16-21, 2008).

The Water Technology Research Center will be contributing to the research activities of the newly established UCLA/NSF Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN). WaTer Center members, Y. Cohen, F. Giralt, R. Rallo and J. Grifoll, who are also CEIN members, will lead the CEIN in developing its research thrust on the development of data-driven models for nanoparticle toxicity in aquatic media and for the transport of nanomaterials in the aquatic environment.  WaTeR Center member E. M. V. Hoek, is leading the CEIN effort in the development of nanoparticle standards and physicochemical characterization of nanomaterials. Postdoctoral and graduate research positions are now available at the CEIN.

July 2008: WaTeR Center and the Zuckerberg Institute of Water Research (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) receive a Leshin Foundation grant for collaborative research on brackish water desalination.

The WaTeR Center co-sponsored and co-organized the 2008 International Congress on Membranes (ICOM) which will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 12-18, 2008.  Details are posted at: North American Membrane Society.

WaTeR Center students presented over a dozen a series of research papers in two special University Sessions: (a) RO Analysis and Modeling Session, and (b) RO Membrane Process Development and Novel Membranes, at the CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008).

Dr. Cohen was an invited speaker at the UC System-Wide Technology Transfer Forum on Clean Technology, UCOP, April 3, 2008, Burlingame, California.  His presentation focused on "the ., The Water-Energy Nexus: Smart Water systems: Monitoring, Process Control, Membranes, and Nanotechnology for Advanced Water Treatment and Desalination,”

Dr. Cohen gave an invited presentation on “Advanced Water Technology Research and Opportunities for Technology Transfer,” at the  Caltech/MIT Entrepreneur Forum, Caltech, March 8, 2008

Soo-Young Lee - Vice President/Business Strategy Team for KOLON visited the Water Center on January 31, 2008.

William Clark - Special Advisor to the President, Sekisui Chemical Co. visited the UCLA WaTeR Center on January 30, 2008.

John Norton (Senior Engineer with MWH) gave a seminar on "Integrated Water Systems: Research versus Reality", January 25, 2008.
 
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Richard Zhu has been awarded the 2008-2009 "Channabasappa Memorial Scholarship from the International Desalination Association in support of his research on the development of a theoretical/modeling framework for minimizing the cost of water desalination.

Nancy Lin, Gregory Lewis  and Myung-man Kim and Y. Cohen received a Poster Award for their research on “High Performance Surface Nano-Structured RO/NF Membranes,”  International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Myung-man, R. Rallo, E. Lyster and Y. Cohen received a Poster Presentation Award for the work on "Optical Monitoring and Real-Time Digital Image Analysis of Mineral Scale Formation on RO Membranes,” presented at the

International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Dr. Y. Cohen received the Ann C. Rosenfield Distinguished Community Partnership Prize (2008)

Anditya Rahardianto, Brian McCool and Y. Cohen received a First Place Poster Award for their research work on "High recovery inland water desalination via RO integrated with accelerated chemical demineralization – Laboratory and Pilot studies," presented in the RO Membrane Process Development and Novel Membranes Session, 2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008)

Mike Uchymiak has been awarded the 2007-2008 "Channabasappa  Memorial Scholarship from the International Desalination Association in support of his research on real-time mineral scale monitoring and feed-flow reversal operation of membrane desalination.

Hsiao-Yu (Nancy) Lin was awarded the first NWRI-Southern California Salinity Coalition Fellowship for her work on the development of fouling resistant RO membranes (2007-2009).

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Research at the WaTeR Center is funded by a number of water agencies including the California Department of Water Resources, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the USEPA and industrial sponsors that are listed in the Members Section.