Buzz Hall (B1F), Bldg. #4, Wed, Oct 22^nd

10:00-10:30
Introduction of B-DASH project (National project for sludge treatment) in Japan

Mr. Hiroyuki ShigemuraNational Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Tsukuba, Japan

Mr. Hiroyuki Shigemura is Head of Wastewater and Sludge Management Division, Water Supply and Sewerage Department, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Tsukuba. He also serves as an Organizing Committee Member of the 19th IWA Conference on Sludge Management.
The main topics of his research focus on wastewater treatment, sewage sludge treatment; effective utilization of sewage and sludge resources, life cycle cost analysis of wastewater treatment and decarbonizing of wastewater treatment.

10:30-11:00
From Wastewater to Agricultural Soils: Tracking Microplastics Quantities, Types, Fate and Impact with Innovative Approaches

Prof. Banu ÖrmeciCarleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Dr. Banu Örmeci received her MS and PhD degrees from Duke University (USA). She is a professor and the Jarislowsky Chair in Water and Global Health in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Director of the Global Water Institute at Carleton University. She leads an internationally recognized research program on wastewater and biosolids treatment. Dr. Örmeci served on the Strategic Council of the International Water Association (IWA) and is the past Chair of the IWA Sludge Management Specialist Group and past Co-Chair of the IWA COVID-19 Task Force. She is the Canadian Focal Point for the Inter-American Network of Academies of Science (IANAS) Water Program. She has received over 25 prestigious research, teaching and mentoring awards.

11:00-11:30
The Sustainability Flowchart for efficient sludge/biosolids management strategies

Dr. Ludovico SpinosaISO/CEN Officer/Expert Member, Env. Cons. at ETS S.r.l., Bari, Italy

Graduated in Mech. Eng. in 1969, he carried out research activities for about 30 years at the National Research Council in Italy, coordinating the activities on Treatment and Disposal of Sludge.
He chaired the IWA-SGSM for several years, promoting since 1997 Specialist Conferences on sludge which are still ongoing.
He was Professor in Agricultural Hydraulics at University of Bari, in Ecology at University of Calabria, in Waste Engineering at University of Lecce, and Guest professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.
Currently Officer/Expert Member at ISO/CEN in sludge/biosolids standardization activities, and Scientific Consultant at Euro Tecno Service Srl, he has been awarded of the IWA-SGSM Specialist Medal in Residuals Research (2009), nominated as IWA Fellow (2015), and appointed as Distinguished Expert of the Sludge Innovative Technology Joint Laboratory in China (2024). Co-editor of the IWA book Sludge into Biosolids (2001), and Editor of two editions (2007, 2011) of Wastewater sludge: a global overview of the current status and future prospects, he is author of more than 270 publications.

Buzz Hall (B1F), Bldg. #4, Thu, Oct 23^rd

09:00-09:30
Optimized Sludge Digestion as a Strategy for Energy Self-Sufficiency in Wastewater Treatment

Prof. Pavel JenicekUniversity of Chemistry and Technologym Prague, Czech Republic

Prof. Pavel Jenicek is Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Technology at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague.
He also serves as a Management Committee Member of IWA Specialist Group on Sludge Management. Prof. Jenicek has co-authored about 70 research articles published in peer reviewed journals and his work has received over 4 000 citations.
The main topics of his research and educational activities focus on sewage sludge treatment and valorization, the biodegradability of organic substances and specific biomass activity assessments, microaerobic desulfurization of biogas, energy and raw material recovery from wastewater and sludge, intensification and upgrading of anaerobic digestion processes.

09:30-10:00
Nationwide Survey of the Properties and Composition of Dewatered Sludge

Dr. Kazuyuki OshitaKyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Dr. Kazuyuki Oshita is currently Associate Professor of Kyoto University, Japan. He was graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan in March 1999 and then entered Japan's NGK Insulators Ltd, a private company. He came back to Kyoto university as an assistant professor, in 2002. He got a Ph.D. degree in Engineering in March 2007 and was promoted to an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in October 2011. For the past 25 years, he has been conducting research on the efficient treatment and disposal of waste biomass, especially in sewage sludge and its effective utilization, including material and energy use. His research covers the processes of thickening, digestion, conditioning, dewatering, combustion and pyrolysis in sewage sludge treatment. He is a board member of the International Water Association (IWA) sludge management specialist group from 2019. Recently, he has been studying a biological biogas upgrading process with hydrogen addition based on the concept of "Power to Gas" and investigating the greenhouse gas emissions from sewage sludge treatment. Since 2015, he has been conducting nationwide surveys on the composition of sludge in Japan