Garver has hired Dr. Michael
Watts as Water Team senior process engineer to serve in our Water Design
Center. Michael is proficient in cutting-edge physical-chemical water and
wastewater treatment. His experience includes training and supervising future
engineers in their research and coursework on water treatment unit process and
plant design, water conveyance, water reclamation, and publication in respected
journals for water treatment engineering and environmental science.
Michael earned both his Master of Science and Doctor of
Philosophy in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South
Carolina and Duke University, respectively. He holds his professional
engineering license in Florida, where he taught at engineering at Florida State
University. Michael is an active member of the American Water Works
Association, the Association of Environmental Engineering Scientists and
Professors, the International Ultraviolet Association, and the Water
Environment Federation.
He has published articles in multiple peer-reviewed
journals, the most recent of which is the current edition of Environmental
Technology. The article, entitled “A bench-scale assessment of ozone
pre-treatments for landfill leachates,” discusses how low doses of dissolved
ozone (less than the instantaneous ozone demand) were applied to stabilized
landfill leachate (a.k.a. ‘garbage juice’) prior to anaerobic biological
treatment (bench-scale laboratory testing). The concentrations of three organic
micropollutants common to landfill leachates were monitored through both
treatment processes. Significant improvement to the rate of biodegradation of a
known endocrine disrupting compound, ethinyl estradiol, was observed in ozone
pre-treated leachates vs. leachates that did not receive pre-oxidation. This
work has implications for design of small-footprint, advanced
chemical-biological water reclamation processes for on-site treatment of
landfill leachates.
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Michael has given presentations and lectures at various
conferences and for a variety of organizations. He’ll be presenting next week
in Las Vegas at the 2013 World Congress of the International Ultraviolet
Association and the International Ozone Association. If you plan on attending
the conference, we’ll hope you’ll stop in to meet Michael and hear him discuss
“O3 and O3/H2O2 Oxidation of Piroxicam, Ketoprofen, and Naproxen in Surface
Waters” on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 11:30 a.m.
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