Renewable Energy And Water
Sustainable Energy and Water (SEW) research group as a multidisciplinary team, aims to use transdisciplinary approaches to develop impactful sustainable solutions in water, energy and waste management for communities, which will advance the UN SDGs.
Strength
- Clean water and sanitation – Supply safe drinking water to rural and urban communities in a changing climate by developing new technologies and web-based tools. Sewer infrastructure corrosion control technologies.
- Food-water-energy nexus – Treatment/management of solid waste and wastewater to recover water, energy, nutrient and useful by-products.
- Monitor and develop mitigation measures to manage emerging pollutants.
- Water for liveable cities – Climate smart urban stormwater infrastructure, flood risk and resilience modelling, rainfall forecasting, rainwater/ stormwater harvesting, urban green infrastructure.
- Sustainable house, solar car, and solar tiles.
- Optimisation of energy consumption within urban environment.
Selected projects
Smart Management of Disinfectant Residuals in Chloraminated Water Supply Systems
Chief Investigator: Sathasivan
Funded by Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project
(LP160100909), 2017-2022, $1,245,000
Development of self-temperature controlling concrete solar roof tiles and building blocks using waste materials to improve building energy rating
Chief Investigator: Samali, Tao and Alim
Funded by Funded by SmartCrete CRC
$1,253,159
Repurposing recovered organic materials as alternative raw materials for brick production
Chief Investigators: Dharma Hagare, Bijan Samali, Simon Clark, Zhong Tao, Maria Varua and Golanz Esgandani
Total funding: $505,000; External funding: $400,000
Treatment of winery wastewater - feasibility through microbial/algal community analysis
Chief Investigator: Sathasivan and Hagare
Industry Funded Project by Infratech Industries
2022, $76,275
Food/ Garden Organics Waste Management
Chief Investigators: Dharma Hagare, Vijay Jayasena, Zhonghua Chen and Sathaa Sathasivan
Total funding: $105,000; External funding: $60,000)
Corrosion control in sewer systems by catalytic oxidation
Chief Investigator: Sathasivan
Funded by Central Coast Council
2019-2023, $75,000
Use purple roof for stormwater management in Western Sydney
Chief Investigators: Ataur Rahman, Abdul Alim and Sathaa Sathasivan
Funded by Sydney Water, Green Roof Diagnostics, Evolvement Pty Ltd, Blacktown Council (Project value $111,000)
Field evaluation and enhancement of StormFilter, Filterra bioretention system and Ocean GuardTM pit as stormwater quality improvement devices
Chief Investigators: Ataur Rahman and Abdul Alim
Industry Funded Project by Protector Pty Ltd (Project value $15,000)
Research and development of stormwater quality improvement devices for sustainable stormwater management
Chief Investigators: Ataur Rahman and Abdul Alim
Industry Funded Project by Protector Pty Ltd (Project value $15,000)
Plastic Waste Recycling
Chief Investigators: Dharma Hagare, Zhong Tao and Sathaa Sathasivan
Total funding: $90,000; External funding: $45,000)