Sino-Iranian Workshop on Water Environment

Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), CAS () Tarbiat Modares (Iran)

2-6 May 2018 XIAMEN CHINA PROGRAM

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Key Conference Vence: Xinglinwan Hotel Address: Xingbin Road 301, Jimei District, Xiamen, Province, China Taxi Fares About 40 RMB (From the Airport/Railway Station to the Hotel) Contact  Register: Dr. Huirong Lin: +86-18850331603  Conference: Dr. Wenfang Lin: +86-13959251603  Hotel: Mrs. Jingjing Li: +86-15080314709  Traffic: Mrs. Xi Li: +86-18350283207

Plan of Conference Area

Key The conference room is located in the 201, Building 9

Conference Program 2 May 2018 (Wed) 14:00 ‐ 21:00 Registration and Reception（Building No. 9）

3 May 2018 (Thur) 08:30 ‐ 09:00 Opening Ceremony & Group Photo 09:00 ‐ 12:00 Scientific Program 12:00 ‐ 14:00 Lunch 14:00 ‐ 18:00 Scientific Program 18:00 ‐ 20:00 Welcome Dinner

4 May 2018 (Fri) 08:30 ‐ 12:00 Scientific Program 12:00 ‐ 14:00 Lunch 14:00 ‐ 17:00 Scientific Program 17:00 ‐ 18:00 Round Table Discussion 18:00 ‐ 20:00 Dinner

5 May 2018 (Sat) Technical Tour（Chinese participants can participate voluntarily）

6 May 2018 (Sun) Cultural Tour （Voluntary participation, at your own expense） Topics covered in the workshop  Drinking water quality and treatment technologies  Industrial wastewater treatment technologies and wastewater reclamation  Desalination technologies  Water saving agriculture  Water environmental monitoring and wetland protection  Water Environmental Modeling  Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifer

Organizing Committee

Prof. Xin Yu, IUE, Chinese Academy of Sciences [co‐chair] Assistant Prof. Mohammad Mahdi Rajabi, Tarbiat Modares University [co‐chair] Prof. Hossein Ganjidoost, Tarbiat Modares University Associate Prof. Shenghua Zhang, IUE, Chinese Academy of Sciences Associate Prof. Huirong Lin, IUE, Chinese Academy of Sciences Assistant Prof. Wenfang Lin, IUE, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Associate Jingjing Li, IUE, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Associate Chengsong Ye, IUE, Chinese Academy of Science

Scientific Committee Prof. Yang Min, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences [co‐chair] Prof. Hossein Ganjidoost, Tarbiat Modares University [co‐chair] Dr. Bita Ayati, Tarbiat Modares University Prof. Seyed Mehdi Borghei, Sharif University of Technology Prof. Shaohua Chen, IUE, Chinese Academy of Sciences Dr. Nader Mokhtarani, Tarbiat Modares University Dr. Ali Mori, Shahid Beheshti University Prof. Dongru Qiu, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Hong He, IUE&RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Jun Xia, Wuhan University Prof. Xin Yu, IUE, Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Baoling Yuan, Prof. Yongguan Zhu, IUE, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Organizational unit

Sponsor  Chinese Academy of Sciences ‐ Iranian Science and Technology Vice President Office Sino‐Iranian the Belt and Road Fund  Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences  Xiamen City Water Environment Safety and Water Quality Engineering Research Center  CAS‐TWAS Centre of Excellence for Water and Environment

Scientific Program (Day 1)

THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018

Time Speaker/Organization Topic Chair

Prof. Hong He/CAS 08:30‐09:00 Welcome & Announcements & Group photo Prof. Ganjidoust/TMU

09:00‐09:30 Prof. Jun Xia/WHU Key challenges for IAHS "Panta Rhei" and Case in China Prof. Xin Yu 09:30‐10:00 Prof. Min Yang/RCEES, CAS South‐South Cooperation to Tackle Environmental Challenges

Prof. Seyed Mehdi Borghei/Sharif Trends in Advance Wastewater Treatment for Water Reuse and 10:00‐10:30 Univ. Recycling

10:30‐10:50 Coffee Break

Associate Prof. Amir Hossein 10:50‐11:20 Research on Water and Environment, Sino‐Iran Cooperation Hamidian/Tehran Univ. Prof. 11:20‐11:40 Prof. Baoling Yuan/HQU From “Sponge Campus” to “Sponge City” Dongru Qiu Associate Prof. Akbar The effect of saline water spraying on crust formation of soil 11:40‐12:00 Ghazifard/Isfahan Univ. and its stability against wind erosion

12:00‐14:00 Lunch Break

14:00‐14:20 Prof. Omid Bozorg‐Haddad/DoE Iran’s Water and Environmental Issues and Challenges

Harmful algae and antibiotic resistance genes in river and 14:20‐14:40 Prof. Jun Yang/IUE, CAS reservoir ecosystems of Xiamen Assistant Prof. Alireza 14:40‐15:00 Oil and Gas Fields Produced Water management in Iran Pendashteh/Guilan Univ. Prof. Dong Xu Extracellular polysaccharides and widespread PEP‐CTERM 15:00‐15:20 Prof. Dongru Qiu/IH, CAS proteins are both required for floc formation of Zoogloea resiniphila and other activated sludge bacteria Assistant Prof. Karim Oilfield produced water treatment, Challenges and 15:20‐15:40 Ghasemipanah/RIPI Opportunities

15:40‐16:00 Coffee Break

Research and Engineering Application of Constructed 16:00‐16:20 Prof. Dong Xu/CEETWB Wetlands and Wetlands Restoration in China Remediation Technologies for Petroleum Hydrocarbons 16:20‐16:40 Prof. Mahmoud Shavandi/RIPI Prof. Contaminated Groundwater Omid Prof. Xuguang Huang/Minnan Research progress of water quality monitoring and treatment Bozorg‐ 16:40‐17:00 Normal Univ. in Minnan Normal University Haddad Ziqiu Zhang/Lihe Technology Co. The application of online monitoring system in ecological 17:00‐17:20 Ltd. environment protection of china

18:00‐20:00 Welcome Dinner

Scientific Program (Day 2)

FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018

Time Speaker/Organization Topic Chair

08:30‐09:00 Prof. Hong He/CAS Formation Mechanism and Control Strategies of Haze in China

09:00‐09:30 Associate Prof. Ali Moridi/SBU State of Iran water resources

Assistant Prof. Mohammad Mahdi Incorporating Imprecise Data in Parameter Estimations: An 09:30‐10:00 Rajabi/TMU Example from Groundwater Modeling Prof. Min Yang Modeling urban water‐energy nexus: a case study of Xiamen, 10:00‐10:20 Prof. Jianyi Lin/IUE, CAS China Assistant Prof. Hamed Optimal Decision Models for Coastal Groundwater 10:20‐10:40 Ketabchi/TMU Management

10:40‐11:00 Coffee Break

Source Water Pollution and Drinking Water Advanced 11:00‐11:20 Prof. Xin Yu/IUE, CAS Treatment Prof. Assistant Prof. Nader Removal of Nitrate from Groundwater Using PRB Containing Hossein 11:20‐11:40 Mokhtarani/TMU Modified Activated Carbon Ganjidoust 11:40‐12:00 Amir Ganjidoust/FARAB Co. Use of solar energy in desalination of brackish water

12:00‐14:00 Lunch Break

Associate Prof. Abolghasem Survey and zoning of nitrate‐contaminated groundwater in 14:00‐14:20 Alighardashi/SBU Iran; with focus on sources and new treatment methods Simultaneous nitrogen removal and phosphorus recovery in 14:20‐14:40 Dr. Yanlong Zhang/XMU the treatment of anaerobic digestion wastewater Assistant Mohammad Ali Hosseinian Removal contaminants from Groundwater Using Permeable Prof. 14:40‐15:00 Sarajehloo/TMU Reactive Bio Barrier Zhi‐long Ye 15:00‐15:20 Sarah Sadeghi Lafmejani/TMU Past, Present and Future of Industrial pollution control in Iran

High‐Voltage Electrospun Nanofiber Materials for Pollution 15:20‐15:40 Prof. Yumin Zheng/IUE, CAS Control

15:40‐16:00 Coffee Break

Davood Mahmoodzadeh/Tehran Conceptualization of Flooding Effects on Seawater Intrusion in 16:00‐16:20 Univ. Coastal Aquifers Assistant Prof. Associate Prof. Zhi‐Long Ye/IUE, Struvite recovery from livestock wastewater: the story of 16:20‐16:40 Mohammad CAS antibiotic transport and control Mahdi Water productivity and waste minimization practice in Iranian Rajabi 16:40‐17:00 Sepideh Mohammadi Sepasi/TMU Industries

17:00‐18:00 Round Table Discussion

18:00‐20:00 Dinner

Technical Tour（Chinese participants can participate voluntarily）

SATURDAY, 5 MAY 2018

09:00-12:00 Institute of Urban Environment, CAS Visiting

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:30 Wastewater treatment plant Visiting

17:00-18:00 Dinner

Cultural Tour（Voluntary participation, at your own expense）

SUNDAY, 6 MAY 2018

08:00 Meet in the Xinglinwan Hotel Lobby

Charming Gulang Island (Kulangsu) 08:00-18:00 Xiamen Island Ring Boulevard Zhongshan Road

Xiamen Island Ring Boulevard

Xiamen University

Gulang Island (Kulangsu)

Invited Speakers Key challenges for IAHS "Panta Rhei" and Case in China

Jun Xia The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University, China Working Group on Representation of Developing Countries(WGRDC) International Association of Hydrologic Sciences (IAHS)

Prof. Jun Xia is the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chair & Director, The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University, also Director, Center for Water Resources Research, CAS. He was severed as the President of International Water Resources Association (IWRA, 2009‐2012), Vice President of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS, 2004‐ 2007). He was appointed as Honorary Vice‐President of IAHS, and Chair of the Working Group on Representation of Developing Countries (WGRDC) for IAHS, 2015‐2019. He was awarded “2014’s International Hydrological Prize ‐Volker Medal”, given by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO on April 24, 2014 and awarded 2017 State Natural Science Award in China.

Formation Mechanism and Control Strategies of Haze in China

Hong He Center of Excellence in Regional Atmospheric Environment, CAS

Hong He is the Chief Scientist of the CERAE, Deputy Director of the Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), and Deputy Director of the Research Center for Eco‐ Environmental Sciences (RCEES), CAS. Professor He received his doctorate in chemistry (Ph.D) at the University of Tokyo in 1994. He studied and worked in Japan, the United States, and Canada for 11 years, and thereafter joined RCEES through the “Hundred Talents Program” of the CAS in 2001. His work has focused primarily on fundamental and applied research in environmental catalysis and heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry, with a series of achievements in areas of diesel emission control technologies, catalytic indoor air purification, and haze formation mechanisms. He is also the Chief Scientist of the “Formation Mechanism and Control Strategies of Haze in China” project as part of the Strategic Priority Research Program of the CAS. Professor He was awarded the National Technology Invention Award (China) in 2011, the National Science and Technology Progress Award (China) in 2014 and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in 2017. He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017. South‐South Cooperation to Tackle Environmental Challenges

Min Yang Research Center for Eco‐Environmental Sciences, CAS

Professor and deputy director of Research Center for Eco‐Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now focusing on the following research topics: identification and control of harmful pollutants in drinking water and industrial wastewater. Except for academic research, he is also active in governmental and industrial consulting activities. His group has published over 250 papers in international journals, applied for over 100 patents, and provided technological support to over 20 wastewater treatment engineering projects. He created North Research Center for Rural Area Wastewater Treatment affiliated with the Ministry of Urban‐Rural Development in 2008, CAS‐TWAS Center of Excellence for Water and Environment in 2013, and National Engineering Lab for Industrial Wastewater Treatment Technologies in 2016. He is also the director of the last two institutions.

Iran‐China Scientific Win‐Win Cooperation

Hossein Ganjidoust Tarbiat Modares University

Hossein Ganjidoust received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas in 1976, 1st MS in Industrial Management from Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri in 1977 and 2nd MS in Sanitary Engineering from the University of Missouri‐Columbia in 1978 and PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Missouri‐Rolla in 1988. From March 1995 to April 1996, he was on a Year of Sabbatical Leave At The National Institute for Resources & Environment (NIRE), Tsukuba Science City, Tsukuba, and Ibaraki, Japan. He has over 30 years’ experience in teaching and research in graduate levels and is presently engaged as Full Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty, at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, I.R. Iran. Dr. Ganjidoust’s research interests include water & wastewater, industrial and hazardous waste handling, treatment and disposal. He has supervised more than 20 research projects, and many PhD and MS students’ thesis. At present time, he has supervisor of 6 PhD theses and 8 MS thesis. He has published over 120 papers in scientific national and ISI Journals and over 150 conference proceedings on his research. He is co‐author of the book entitled: "Application of Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) in Sanitary & Industrial Wastewater Treatment", Tarbiat Modares Univ. Published in February 2011 and a chapter on: “Hazardous Waste Management in Islamic Republic of Iran, HWM Policies and Practices in Asian Countries” published by Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Tokyo in October 2001.

Trends in Advance Wastewater Treatment for Water Reuse and Recycling

Seyed Mehdi Borghei Sharif University of Technology

Seyed Mehdi Borghei is professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology. He joined Sharif University of Technology as a faculty member in 1977. Dr. Borghei's main field of interest is water and wastewater engineering and has been working in this field for 40 years. He is currently the head of “Biochemical and Bio‐environmental Research Centre” at Sharif University. He is a member of environmental engineering branch of "Iranian Academy of Science", and has been a consultant to different organizations including "Ministry of Industry and mines", "Ministry of Water and Energy" and many large industries. His research interests include "water pollution control", "water and wastewater treatment" and "water management and re‐use".

Sino‐Iran Cooperation on water and environment

Amir Hossein Hamidian University of Tehran

Amir Hossein Hamidian is an Associate Professor in the University of Tehran. He is the Director of the International Research Center for Water and Environment (IRCWE) and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Natural Environment, University of Tehran. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Tehran, Iran followed by a Ph.D. (2009) from the University of Otago, New Zealand in environmental engineering. Then, he started his career as an Assistant Professor in the University of Tehran, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. He has worked in several national and international projects, including CLIVAR, and awarded several awards including research fellowship in the USA and China. He is the member of the editorial board of several international journals, and has been the supervisor of more than 40 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. He has published more than 100 research papers and three books in the University of Tehran. In Cooperation with the Research Center for Eco‐Environmental Sciences‐ Chinese Academy of Sciences he established the IRCWE in 2016.

State of Iran water resources

Ali Moridi Shahid Beheshti University, Head of Water and Soil Dept.

Manager of Soil and water office, Department of Environment organization Assistant professor, civil water and environment faculty, Shahid Beheshti University Ph.D., Water Resources Management (Civil Engineering), Amirkabir University of technology (Tehran polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. An international consultant on the application of systems engineering in urban water engineering and management, and he has developed many state‐of‐the‐art computer‐modeling packages and decision‐support systems for large‐scale water resource systems. Solid background as a project manager for river basins IWRM investigations, dam building, flood control, and groundwater artificial recharge projects Broad experience in national, international and World Bank projects Involved in more than 20 projects including national, international and World Bank projects Publishing 1 international text book and more than 19 technical papers.

Incorporating Imprecise Data in Parameter Estimations: An Example from Groundwater Modeling

Mohammad Mahdi Rajabi Tarbiat Modares University

Dr. Rajabi is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at Tarbiat Modares University, Iran. He received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. His research interests include numerical modeling of flow and contaminant transport in porous media, uncertainty analysis, Monte Carlo methods and data assimilation. He has over nine years of experience as a consultant and project manager in hydrogeologic investigations, water quality modeling studies and integrated water resources management. Dr. Rajabi serves as the co‐chair of the organizing committee for the “Sino‐Iranian Workshop on water Environment”.

Oral Presentations From “Sponge Campus” to “Sponge City”

Baoling Yuan Huaqiao University

Dr. Baoling Yuan is a professor in the Department of Municipal Engineering at Huaqiao University. In 2002, she received her Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from Research Center on Eco‐Environmental Science, CAS. Dr. Yuan worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Structural and Environmental Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana ‐ Champaign. Dr. Yuan's interests are driven by the desire to understand the role of microbes and manage interfaces between microbiological and chemical processes to provide service to interdisciplinary nexus of waste (water)‐environment‐sustainability with focus on: • Advanced oxidation processes technology (photocatalytic oxidation technology, ferrate, Fenton reagent etc.) for or the remediation of contaminants from drinking water, wastewater or soil. • Development of phosphorus adsorbent and high efficient coagulation technology for cleaning up of the polluted urban river, stream or lake. Dr. Yuan’s research has been supported by government agencies (NSFC, Environmental Protection Agency, Construction Agency), and industrial funds (Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant, Waste Management Inc.). Dr. Yuan has published more than 100 peer‐reviewed journal articles as first author or corresponding author.

The effect of saline water spraying on crust formation of soil and its stability against wind erosion (Case study: Segzi Plain of Isfahan, Iran)

Akbar Ghazifard Isfahan University, Geology Department

Education: B.Sc. Geology: University of Missouri‐Rolla (USA), Geological Engineering, 1983, M.Sc. Geology: University of Missouri‐Rolla (USA), Geological Engineering, 1985, Ph.D. Geology: University of Missouri‐Rolla (USA), Civil Engineering, 1990 Experience: Faculty member of Department of Geology, University of Isfahan since 1990. Expertise Areas: Engineering Geology, Environmental Engineering, Waste Management, Soil and Water, Pollution. Research Interest: Water Pollution and Water Quality, Subsidence Due to Groundwater withdrawal, Wind Erosion and Dust Control, Site Selection and Waste Disposal. Publication: Over 100 papers were presented at different Iranian conferences in Farsi on various subjects. Over 20 papers are published in international and domestic journals in different subjects.

Iran’s Water and Environmental Issues and Challenges

Omid Bozorg‐Haddad University of Tehran

Dean of the College of the Environment, DoE Director of Research Center for Environment and Sustainable Development, DoE Dr. Omid Bozorg‐Haddad is a distinguished professor at the University of Tehran, Iran. His teaching and research interests include water resources, energy, and environmental systems analysis, engineering, planning, and management as well as application of simulation techniques and optimization algorithms in water related systems. He has published more than 40 books and book chapters, 300 journal and 200 conference papers. He has also supervised more than 100 M.Sc. thesis and Ph.D. dissertations.

Harmful algae and antibiotic resistance genes in river and reservoir ecosystems of Xiamen

Jun Yang Institute of Urban Environment, CAS

Dr Jun Yang has over 18 years of research experience in plankton ecology, and currently leads a research group in aquatic ecology at Institute of Urban Environment. He received PhD from Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. From 2006 to 2008, he worked as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Earth Sciences Department, Dalhousie University. He has published 44 first‐author/corresponding‐author peer reviewed SCI papers in international journals including ISME Journal and Water Research. Yang’s research has been focusing on microbial plankton diversity and ecology in the urban environment, from drinking water and landscape water to waste water. Scientific topics include the aquatic ecological safety and microbial food web.

Oil and Gas Fields Produced Water management in Iran

Alireza Pendashteh University of Guilan

Alireza Pendashteh was born in 1972 in Astaneh Ashrafieh, Iran. He got his Bachelor Degree in chemical engineering in 1995 from Petroleum University of Technology, Ahwaz, Iran. He received his MSc. Degree in chemical engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran in 1998. After graduation, he worked in the department of environment (DOE), Rasht, Iran, as an inspector of industries. In 2000, he joined Environmental Research Institute of ACECR (Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research), Rasht, Iran as a member of educational board and designer of industrial wastewater treatment plants. In 2007, he enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He received his PhD in 2009. After graduation continued working in ACECR. In 2015, he joined university of Guilan. Now he is doing research and consulting in the field of sanitary and industrial wastewater treatment. His interest is wastewater treatment, membrane technology and produced water treatment. He is also consultant of Rasht industrial city (Rasht‐Iran).

Extracellular polysaccharides and widespread PEP‐CTERM proteins are both required for floc formation of Zoogloea resiniphila and other activated sludge bacteria

Dongru Qiu Center for Water Environment Engineering, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Degrees and Career Preparation Doctor of Science, Hydrobiology, 2002, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Supervisors: Prof. Jiankang Liu (CAS Member and IHB Honorary Director) and Zhenbin Wu) Ph.D, Bioinformatics and Microbiology, 2005, Keio University, Japan (Supervisors: Prof. Masaru Tomita and Mitsuhiro Itaya) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005‐2008, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Joan Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Scientist, April, 2008‐Feburary, 2011; October, 2011‐Feburary, 2012, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Research Experience Research Assistant and Research Associate, 1992‐2001, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Professor and Principal Investigator, March, 2011~, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Research Directions Microbiology, Biotechnology, and Environmental Sciences Recent Publications PNAS, Water research, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology

Oilfield produced water treatment, Challenges and Opportunities

Karim Ghasemipanah Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Petroleum Ministry

Karim Ghasemipanah is an assistant professor of (RIPI) and head of of water and wastewater treatment and reuse group from 2009. In 2009, he obtain a PhD in Water and wastewater engineering University of Tehran (UT).He is the project manager of 8 industrial wastewater treatment and reuse plant. He obtained the top researcher in RIPI, NIOC in 2012 and top technology provider in Petroleum Ministry in 2013. He has published 6 ISI papers and 11 conference papers. He has supervised 8 MSc. and 1 PhD. Students. Research interests: 1. Membrane Technologies for water and wastewater treatment; 2. Water and wastewater treatment plant design; 3. Environmental studies and researches; 4. Using solar energy in water and wastewater treatment; 5. Bench and pilot research on new technologies in water and wastewater treatment.

Research and Engineering Application of Constructed Wetlands and Wetlands Restoration in China

Dong Xu Center of Ecological Engineering Technology for Water Bodies, Hubei Province

Ph.D.,Chief Engineer, Assocaiate Professor, 1994.9 – 1998.7, Xi’an University of Architecture & Technology University, environmental and municipal engineering, Bachelor. 2000.9 – 2003.7, Wuhan University, environmental science,Master. 2003.9 – 2007.2, IHB,CAS, environmental science, Doctoral. 2007.2‐2010.12, Assistant Research Fellow, IHB,CAS. 2011.1‐ to date, Associate Professor, IHB,CAS. 2012.3‐ to date, Chief Engineer, Center of Ecological Engineering Technology for Water Bodies, Hubei Province Research Interest Water pollution control engineering,Water environment system planning and design. Photochemical degradation of organic pollutants in water environent. Modification and characterization of the environment nano‐meter material. Recent Publications Bioresource Technology, Water Reseach, Ecological Engineering, Journal of Environment Sciences. Recent Projects Over 90 projects were designed and constructed under his guidance, such as project of the Constructed Wetlands in Beijing Olympic Forest Park to improve the water quality etc.

Remediation Technologies for Petroleum Hydrocarbons Contaminated Groundwater

Mahmoud Shavandi Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI)

Education: Tarbiat Modares University, Doctorate in Ph.D. in Biotechnology, July 2008, University of Tehran, Master of Science in Biotechnology, September 2003, University of Isfahan, Bachleor of Science in Biology, February 2000 Research Interests: Biological removal of VOCs from air streams, Remediation of soil pollutions, Remediation of ground water pollutions using PRBs, Studying the effect of environmental pollutions on microbial ecosystems. Work Experience: Head of Ecology & Environmental Pollution Control Research Group, RIPI, Since 2013. Research Associate: Agriculture and Agri‐Food Canada (AFCC), London, Ontario, Canada, 2012. Project Manager & Scientific Board Member, RIPI, 2002‐2011 Publications: 19 Journal Papers and 40 Abstracts in National and International Conference Proceedings. Honors & awards: Ranked 6th in the 5th National Scientific Olympiad for University Students of IRAN, July 2000, Bou Ali University, Hamadan, IRAN. Five years PhD fellowship of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), 2004‐2008.

Research progress of water quality monitoring and treatment in Minnan Normal University

Xuguang Huang Minnan Normal University; Key Laboratory of Pollution Monitoring and Control （Minnan Normal University）

Xuguang Huang, born on June 19th, 1979, is an associate professor in School of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Minnan Normal University. The main research areas include: (1) The biological and ecological effects of the bioavailability of trace metals in the water body; (2) the study of the ecological toxicology of the pollutants and their evaluation methods. He has published 26 research papers in famous journals related to environmental science, such as Chemosphere,Aquatic Toxicology, Marine Pollution Bulltein, Journal of Plankton Research，Hydrobiologia，Environmental Pollution，Journal of Applied Phycology，Journal of Agricultural and food chemistry，Journal of Hazardous Materials and so on. The application of online monitoring system in ecological environment protection of china

Ziqiu Zhang LIHE technology (HUNAN) CO., LTD

Zhang ziqiu got his Bachelor degree in Environmental protection from Nanjing TECH Universiy in 2005, Master degree in chemical engineering from BeiJing forest University in 2010. During his master degree, his research topic is about the HAAs in drinking water. This topic is organized by Ministry of Housing and Urban‐Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China. And the sense of this project is to get the condition and regularity of distribution of HAAs all over china. Besides that, during the period of working in LiHe company, he took charge of some research projects about applications of online monitoring equipments in environment protection for surface water. Some of the projects are organized by national engineering laboratory for advanced technology and equipment of water environment pollution monitoring. Besides that, he also joined in research projects for other kinds of environmental monitoring such as underground water,waster water and so on.

Modeling urban water‐energy nexus: a case study of Xiamen, China

Jianyi Lin Institute of Urban Environment, CAS

Research Professor of Environmental planning and management. Dr. Lin’s research interest is Integrated Management of Urban Resources and Complex System Modeling. Dr. Lin joined IUE in 2007, after he graduated from Dalian University of Technology. Dr. Lin authored/co‐authored over 30 English publications, including in Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Environmental Research Letters.

Optimal Decision Models for Coastal Groundwater Management

Hamed Ketabchi Tarbiat Modares University

Hamed Ketabchi is currently the faculty member of Water Resources Engineering Department at Tarbiat Modares University and Water Engineering Research Institute, Tehran, Iran. He was awarded his Ph.D. in civil engineering ‐ in the field of water resources and environmental engineering ‐ from Sharif University of Technology, in November 2014. His main research interest involves discovering new perspectives to the problems of groundwater resources engineering with special concern on simulation, management, and soft computing in the context of decision models development. His main objective is taking into account the complexities of real‐world applications in this field to develop sustainable strategies in groundwater resources management. He has more than 15 publications with high impact factors while he was the main author of two review papers in the field of coastal groundwater optimization, seawater intrusion and sea‐level rise impacts on coastal aquifers in 2015 and 2016. Also, He has more than 20 professional experiences in several countries such as Iran, Qatar, Oman, Sri Lanka, and Iraq. He is the member of several national and international research associations and invited peer reviewer for various scientific journals and publications. More information About Dr. Hamed Ketabchi is available at his personal website (www.hketabchi.ir).

Source Water Pollution and Drinking Water Advanced Treatment

Xin Yu Institute of Urban Environment, CAS

Prof. Xin Yu got his Bachelor degree in Environmental Biology from Nanjing Universiy in 1996, Master degree in Environmental Science from Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999, and Ph.D degree in in Municipal Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2003. From then on, he joined inSchool of the Environment, Nanjing University as an assistant professor. From 2005，he worked as a visiting scholar and postdoc fellow in Michigan State University (U.S.) and University of Waterloo (Canada), respectively. From 2008 onwards, he joined Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a professor. His research interests include biological and advanced treatment of drinking water, principles of drinking water safety, health‐related microbiology and molecular ecology of water environment and water treatment. He was the PI for more than 30 grants from NSFC, national Hi‐Tech program and other sponsors. He has published more than 120 peer‐reviewed papers. He is the member of 100 Talents program of CAS. He also serves as the board member of drinking water advanced treatment society of China, microbial ecology society of China. Removal of Nitrate from Groundwater Using PRB Containing Modified Activated Carbon

Nader Mokhtarani Tarbiat Modares University

Education: Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, 2005. M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, 1997, B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Petroleum University, Ahwaz, Iran, 1990 Experiences and Positions: Official Judiciary Expert (since 2012), Assistant Professor, Civil & environmental Eng. Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University (since 2008), invited Lecturer in “Tarbiat Modares University” and “K.N. Toosi University” (2005‐ 2008), Chief of Board, Jahesh Kimia Company (Since 2004), Managing Director, Jahesh Kimia Company (2001‐2004), Senior Process Engineer, Jahesh Kimia Company (1998‐2001), Design Engineer, National Iranian Gas Company (N.I.G.C.), (1990‐1995) Areas of Interest: Water and Wastewater Treatment, Hazardous Waste Management, Underground Water Remediation, Leachate Treatment, Waste Minimization, Biodegradable Polymers. Teaching Experiences: Environmental Geotechnics, Wastewater Treatment, Hazardous Waste Management, Cognition and Management of Environment, Sustainable Development, and Wastewater Treatment Lab. Publications: 65 published article in various academic journals and conference proceedings; and compilation of two books. Research & Development Projects: Conducting more than 30 research projects in the areas of Leachate treatment, Water and wastewater treatment, Hazardous waste management, Solid waste management, etc.

Use of solar energy in desalination of brackish water

Amir Ganjidoust Farab Company

Amir received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Solid Mechanics from Sharif University of Technology, the most high‐ranked technical university in Iran, and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at K.N. Toosi University of Technology. He Ranked 1st among all the Mechanical Eng. Graduate Students in the First Year, and totally Ranked 3rd at the End of M.Sc. Period, 2008. At the graduate program in KNTU, He was able to work with that excelled at sharing the excitement of their respective field. They opened the doors to let me explore my abilities and talents even more. Thus, He received PHD Full scholarship from Waterloo University in system design engineering, Nanotechnology, in 2014, but because of his job as a project manager preferred to continue his responsibility. Hence, now, he is a professional project manager with lots of honors especially in renewable energy like hydraulic power plant. During 17 years (2001‐2018), He participated in more than 50 multi‐disciplinary projects, and worked with 7 companies. As a project manager, Executive Counselor, Manager of Manufacturing Engineering Department, Director of Mechanical Engineering Department, Consulting Engineer, and designer. These projects, including design and manufacturing of special machines, automation, robotics, fixed and rotary equipment and etc.

Survey and zoning of nitrate‐contaminated groundwater in Iran; with focus on sources and new treatment methods

Abolghasem Alighardashi Shahid Beheshti University

Dr. Abolghasem Alighardashi was born on December 1972, in Iran. He received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering‐Water Eng. at Iran University of Science & Technology, M.Sc. in Civil Engineering‐Environmental Eng. at University of Tehran and Ph.D. in Processes and Products Engineering; at Laboratory of Chemical Engineering Sciences (INPL‐France). He started his professional work from 2000 in Research Niroo Institute (NRI, Iran) as research expert. He was academic staff (assistant professor) from 2006 at Power and Water University of Technology (PWUT) and next Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran‐IRAN. He was head of Water & Wastewater Engineering Department at PWUT (from 2010 to 2014). He is deputy of research, Faculty of Civil, Water and Environmental Engineering (from October 2014) and head of industry‐university collaboration office (from 2107) at SBU. He published over 25 papers at international scientific journals and 60 articles in national and international scientific conferences mainly in water quality, water and wastewater treatments subjects. His researches domains principally are: • Nitrate pollution and its removal from water • Fate of pharmaceutical and personal care products in water body and their removal from wastewater treatments plants • Hydrodynamic modelling and simulation of water and wastewater unis.

Simultaneous nitrogen removal and phosphorus recovery in the treatment of anaerobic digestion wastewater

Yanlong Zhang College of the Environment ＆Ecology, Xiamen University

Dr. Yanlong Zhang is a Post‐doctoral Researcher in the College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, China (International Postdoctoral Exchange Program). He received his Ph.D. at Tohoku University, Japan. Before obtaining this present position, Dr. Zhang had two years technical development experience as a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellow. His research interests are wastewater treatment, solid waste management and nutrient recovery, especially the anaerobic biotechnologies including anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) and anaerobic digestion. He has published 18 journal papers in English and Japanese (Bioresource Technology, RSC advances, Biochemical Engineering Journal, Ecological Engineering, International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, Chemosphere, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, etc.). He is also a reviewer of Bioresource Technology.

Removal contaminants from Groundwater Using Permeable Reactive Bio Barrier

Mohammad Ali Hosseinian Sarajehloo Tarbiat Modares University

Mohammad Ali Hosseinian Sarajehloo was born on March 1988, in Iran. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering‐Water Eng. from Tabriz University in 2012, and M.S. in Civil Engineering‐Environment Eng. from Amirkabir University of Technology in 2014. He was the top student in M.S. course. His thesis supported by the Industrial Parks Organization of Alborz Province and registered as an industrial design in Amirkabir University. He has started his PhD at Tarbiat Modares University in Civil Engineering‐Environment Eng. since September 2016. At present time, he is a PhD candidate. His thesis is about removing contaminants from groundwater using Permeable Reactive Bio Barrier (PRBB). His main research interest involves water and wastewater treatment, groundwater treatment and solid waste management. He has several papers in the national and international scientific conferences. On September 2014, his article full supported by the Japan’s government in "The 11th International Symposium on Southeast Asian Water Environment".

Past, Present and Future of Industrial pollution control in Iran

Sarah Sadeghi Lafmejani Tarbiat Modares University

Sarah Sadeghi Lafmejani received her B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Amirkabir University in Tehran in 2013. She got her master degree in Environmental Engineering from K.N.Toosi University in Tehran. Her thesis was on “Prediction of air emissions coming from wastewater treatment basins”. She was attended the first student in Ph.D. entrance exam in 2017. She has presented 6 papers in conferences which were published in the conference proceedings. Her interests are in the area of water and wastewater, industrial and hazardous waste treatment.

High‐Voltage Electrospun Nanofiber Materials for Pollution Control

Yu‐Ming Zheng Institute of Urban Environment, CAS

Dr. Yu‐Ming Zheng, professor of Environmental Engineering in IUE and awardee of CAS “Hundred Talents Program”, is Deputy Director of CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, the Key Talent of CAS Center for Excellence in Regional Atmospheric Environment, and Deputy Director of the National Labor Insurance Industry Expert Committee of China Textile Commerce Association (CTCA). Professor Zheng obtained his BSc in Applied Chemistry in 2001 and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 2006, from University of Science and Technology of China. From 2006 to 2012, he worked as a research fellow in Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at National University of Singapore. His research interest focuses on “Materials and Technology for Pollution Prevention”: electrospun nanofiber membranes and their applications (fine particle filtration, forward osmosis, and membrane distillation), high‐efficient adsorptive and catalytic functional materials, zero discharge of industrial wastewater, and rapid detection of micro‐pollutants. Professor Zheng has published over 40 papers in SCI journals, attracting over 1,500 citations (H‐index: 23), and applied for over 40 patents (20 authorized). He also developed the receipt and production line for high‐efficiency electrospun PM2.5 protective mask, and drafted Group Standard for “PM2.5 Protective Mask” and the National Standard for “Specifications for Daily Protective Mask”. He received CTCA “Industry Contribution” (Y2015‐2016) award.

Conceptualization of Flooding Effects on Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers

Davood Mahmoodzadeh University of Tehran

Davood Mahmoodzadeh is Ph.D. Candidate of environmental engineering under supervision of Prof. Mohammad Karamouz, in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. He was awarded his M.Sc. in civil engineering in the field of environmental engineering from Sharif University of Technology in December 2013. His main field of interest is groundwater modeling considering the climate change effects and the quality management aspects such as seawater intrusion in coastal regions. Currently, his research is focused to assess some important factors such as the aquifer heterogeneity, bed and land‐surface slope, boundary conditions, storm effects, game theory implementation, and environmental externality estimations, in this field. He has 5 international publications with high impact factors. He is member of several national and international research associations.

Struvite recovery from livestock wastewater: the story of antibiotic transport and control

Zhi‐Long Ye Institute of Urban Environment, CAS

Dr. Zhi‐Long Ye is an associate professor in the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include nutrient recovery from wastewater, landfill leachate treatment, and solid waste management. At present, he focuses on the research of phosphorus recovery from wastewater, and the main outcomes includes the development of thermal dynamics, process optimization, pioneered method of determining crystalline aggregation and centimeter‐scale granulation, antibiotic transport and control in struvite recovery, and full‐scale demonstration etc. The performance of his works was reported by the European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform twice (Scope Newsletter 114, 2015:15‐16; Scope Newsletter 123, 2017:30‐31). Prof. Ye has undertaken several research projects, including the China National Key Research Project, China Hi‐Tech Research and Development Program (863) and Fujian Science and Technology Plan Project. He published more than 40 articles in the international journals, such as Water Research, Chemical Engineering Journal and Journal of Hazardous Materials, and 9 patents are authorized.

Water productivity and waste minimization practice in Iranian Industries

Sepideh Mohammadi Sepasi Tarbiat Modares University

Sepideh Mohammadi Sepasi recieved her B.Sc. in 2010 and MSc degrees in 2012 in Civil Engineering both from University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. After considerable working in this area, she has started continuing her further studies in environmental engineering field as a PhD student in Tarbiat modares university, Tehran, Iran from 2016. She has published a scientific paper, presented 5 papers in conferences which were published in the conference proceedings and accepted in IAESTE Spain internship program. Her interests are in the area of wastewater treatment, soil remediation, industrial and hazardous waste treatment.