The lectures will be provided by the following people
| Prof. dr ir Gerrald Bargeman Gerrald Bargeman is a researcher with almost 40 years of experience in scientific and industrial process technology research & development. During his career, he held expert, project & program management, and leadership roles in several organizations. He is currently employed by Nobian Industrial Chemicals as Process Technology Specialist. His scientific expertise ranges from fundamental description of transport phenomena in (membrane) separation technology to technology development and introduction of industrial (membrane) process applications. During the course, he will present current and future membrane applications with a focus on the chemical and food industry, and he will show how some of these industrial implementations have been developed. |
| Prof. dr ir Nieck E. Benes Nieck is an academic researcher and teacher with over 25 years of experience in the field of membrane science and technology. He is an expert on membrane synthesis and (in-situ) characterization, and multicomponent mass transport. He will teach you how mass transport occurs towards and inside membranes, and how this leads to membranes' selective molecular separation abilities. In particular, he will explain which different driving forces for mass transport exist (gradients in composition, pressure, electric potential, etc.) and how these play a role in various membrane processes, such as reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, and gas separation. |
| Dr ir Sander Haase Sander Haase is a researcher and teacher with 10 years of experience in scientific and industrial research & development related to process technology. His current research focuses on the development of new and optimization of existing membrane-based separation processes. In this course, he will teach the principles of designing membrane processes and discuss their use in several applications. |
| Dr ir Antoine Kemperman Antoine Kemperman is a senior researcher with more than 30 years of experience in Membrane Science and Technology. He started his membrane career in the manufacturing of membranes and their characterization. Currently, he is focusing on the use of membrane processes in water purification, for wastewater treatment, as well as for the production of drinking water. For one day a week is a senior advisor at Wetsus, the European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology (Leeuwarden). In this course he will discuss the different types of existing membrane modules. |
| Prof. dr ir Rob Lammertink Rob Lammertink is an academic researcher and teacher with interest in mass transport phenomena near interfaces. He is actively teaching chemical engineering and applied physics on topics related to physical chemistry, colloid chemistry, membrane processes, and numerical methods. In this course, he will discuss size-exclusion-based separations in micro- and ultrafiltration processes. The strong accumulation of retained compounds in these processes leads to transport limitations that will be key to understanding and designing the most optimal separation processes in water, food, and chemical industries. |
| Prof. dr ir Walter van der Meer Walter van der Meer has over 30 years of experience in scientific and industrial water process technology. He has been the CEO of drinking water company Oasen from 2012 to February 2024. Under his leadership the company is innovating and working on realizing the drinking water supply of the future, based on membrane filtration. He commenced his carrier in 1992 as a Process Engineer at drinking water company Vitens in 1992, where he served in different capacities such as Manager Process Technology, Director Water Technology, and COO until 2012. His research focuses on the application of membrane filtration in water purification, for wastewater treatment, as well as the production of potable water. In the course, he will present current and future membrane applications in the drinking and wastewater sector. |
| Dr Hannah Roth Hannah Roth is an academic researcher and teacher. Her research focuses on developing hollow fiber membranes to separate components from liquid or gaseous mixtures. In the course, she teaches gas separation and pervaporation. The influence of membrane materials, molecular interactions, and their translation to processes in gas separation and pervaporation will be discussed. |
| Prof. dr ir Wiebe de Vos Wiebe de Vos is an enthusiastic academic researcher and teacher with a strong interest in membrane materials and the interactions that take place at membrane interfaces. He connects the demanding physical and chemical material properties required for the long-term operation of membranes with the common methods of membrane production. Moreover, he links the membrane surface and materials properties to their separation mechanisms and demonstrates how membranes can be tuned to obtain desired separation properties. This includes designing membranes with additional functionalities, such as anti-fouling properties, responsive behavior, or highly specific selectivities. |
| Dr Jeffery Wood Jeff is an enthusiastic researcher and teacher with over 15 years of experience in the (sometimes complicated) world of ion-transport phenomena. He is an expert on the physics and engineering of electric-driven processes, with a background in chemical engineering and interface science. By using the driving forces you’ve learned about from Nieck, mass transport from Rob, and insights from other lectures in combination with simple transport relationships, you will (begin to) understand how electrodialysis and bipolar electrodialysis stacks operate in practice. |
