Municipal Wastewater Proceedings
Municipal Wastewater Subcommittee Meeting
Final Subcommittee Meeting Minutes (PDF, 9 pp, 103 KB)
Welcome and Introductions
Subcommittee Co-Chairs
- Brief introduction of meeting participants
- Review minutes/action items from previous subcommittee meeting
- Review of meeting goals and/or agenda adoption
Country/Area Updates
Country Updates
- Brief updates on sector-specific activities within each country/area
- Dominican Republic (PDF, 17 pp, 402 KB)
- Finland (PDF, 11 pp, 1 MB)
- Japan (PDF, 10 pp, 1.16 MB)
- Turkey (PDF, 15 pp, 385 KB)
- United States (PDF, 7 pp, 91 KB)
Project Network Updates
- Environmental Protection Agency of Taiwan (PDF, 35 pp, 4.28 MB)
Action Items for the Year
Subcommittee Co-Chairs and Partner Country Delegates
- Review of Wastewater fact sheet
- Resource Assessments
- Sector/Country Action Plans
- Coordination with CCAC
Summary of Action Items Discussed at the Meeting
Subcommittee Co-Chairs
- Meeting action items
- Specific tasks meeting participants agree to accomplish and report on by next meeting
- Possible agenda topics for the next subcommittee meeting
Other Subcommittee Business
Municipal WasteWater Technical Sessions
(Note: links not provided for presentations that did not have supporting slides)
Municipal Wastewater Technical Breakout: Session 1 - Biogas Modeling and Measurement
Mass Flow Measurement for Bio-Methane Gas Applications
Stephen Cox, Fluid Components International, LLC
The Collection of Biogas Utilization Data in the United States
Bill Toffe, Mid-Atlantic Biosolids Association (PDF, 24 pp, 1.26 MB)
First Results of the On-line Methane Measurement at Viikinmäki WWTP
Mari Heinonen, Helsinki Regions Environmental Services Authority HSY (PDF, 27 pp, 2.60 MB)
Municipal Wastewater Technical Breakout: Session 2 - Wastewater Biogas, Part 1 - Energy Recovery
Summary of WERF Methane and Biogas-CHP-Related Research
John Willis, Brown and Caldwell (PDF, 36 pp, 2 MB)
An Approach for Energy Recovery from Sewage Sludge Using a Steel Plate Digestion Tank
Keizo Fukuzawa, Japan Institute of Wastewater Engineering Technology (JIWET) (PDF, 29 pp, 2.67 MB)
Municipal Wastewater Technical Breakout: Session 3 - Wastewater Biogas, Part 2 - Unique Applications
Municipal Wastewater Treatment in Latin-America: A Zoom to Mexico with Emphasis in GHG Emissions from Municipal Wastewater Treatment
Adalberto Noyola, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (PDF, 29 pp, 2.86 MB)
Co-digestion at the Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant: Metro Vancouver's Path to Increase Energy Rich Biogas for Plant Use
Echo Lin and Paul Lam, Metro Vancouver (PDF, 16 pp, 1.1 MB)
Wastewater Biogas for Town Gas Manufacture & Upgrade to Natural Gas Quality: A Chilean Experience
Jorge Bonilla Beckmann, Aqualogy Environment Chile (PDF, 16 pp, 2.22 MB)