Page 14 - Yucaipa Valley Water District

PRESS RELEASE

TO: Membrane Industry & Media Publications
FROM: Harold Fravel, AMTA Executive Director

CONTACT: hfravel@amtaorg.com / 772-463-0844
DATE: February 28, 2019
SUBJECT: MTC19 Papers and Posters Awards

The 2019 Membrane Technology Conference and Exposition were held in New Orleans, LA and during the
Concluding Awards Ceremony, the following awards were presented on Thursday, February 28, 2019:

MTC19 BEST PAPER AWARD:

• James Vickers, P.E., Separation Processes, Inc., was presented with this year's Best Paper Award for his
Paper Presentation on: "Overcoming Compliance Challenges for RO Pathogen Removal Using
Conductivity Profiles"

MTC19 BEST POSTER AWARD
• Ruel Conn, P.E., J-U-B Engineers, Inc., was presented with this year's Best Poster Award for his Poster
Presentation on: "City of Post Falls, Idaho - Membrane Tertiary Treatment Pilot Study for Low-Phosphorus
and Reuse"

MTC19 STUDENT BEST PAPER AWARD
• Quantum Wei, MIT, was presented with this year's Student Best Paper Award for his Paper Presentation
on: "Batch Reverse Osmosis: Experimental Results, Model Validation, and Design Implications"
• Carlyn Higgins, M.S., E.I., University of Central Florida, was presented with this year's Student Best Paper
Award for her Paper Presentation on: "Studying the Mass Transfer of 1,4-Dioxane in a Nanofiltration and
Reverse Osmosis Membrane Process"

MTC19 STUDENT BEST POSTER AWARD
• Hannah Ray, Arizona State University, was presented with this year's Student Best Poster Award for her
Poster Presentation on: "Urea Recovery from Fresh Urine by Forward Osmosis and Membrane Distillation"

Formed in 1972, the American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) is headquartered in Stuart, FL; this
nonprofit scientific and educational association vision is solving water supply & quality issues through the
widespread application of membrane technology. AMTA's mission is to promote, advocate and advance the

Yucaipa Valley Water District - March 5, 2019 - Page 14 of 127