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Summer school on “Modelling Membrane Bioreactor Processes” July 15-17, a Summer School on Modelling Membrane Bioreactor Processes was held in Ghent (Belgium) under the organization of BIOMATH (Ghent University) and supported by the Marie Curie Early Stage Research Training Project MBR-Train financed by the European Commission. 35 participants, mainly PhD students from 16 different countries and 4 continents participated in the summer school providing an excellent platform for networking besides acquiring a deeper knowledge of different aspects of MBR modelling. Among the topics that were highlighted were basic and advanced biological process modelling of MBR and introduction to data acquisition, process control, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and population balance models (PBM). Some practical CFD applications for MBR were given as well. In addition, hands-on exercises with the latest available biological and filtration models using the modelling and simulation platform WEST allowed the participants to apply the acquired knowledge at once to a practical case. The event was closed with a half day technical visit to the full scale MBR wastewater treatment plant Schilde operated by Aquafin.  |
