IUVA Announces New President/Officers, Board Members
The International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA) is pleased to announce that Ted Mao, chief technology officer, Evercloak, has assumed the role as president of the group for a two-year term. Ernest (Chip) Blatchley, Purdue University, has been named president-elect; and Jennifer Osgood, with CDM Smith, now is immediate past president, with each serving to help lead the IUVA Executive Operating Committee and Board. IUVA members elected a slate of officers and new board members at the biennial World Congress, held in September 2023, in Dubai, UAE.
Additional elected Executive Operating Committee officers include Richard Joshi, Evoqua, secretary; Gary Hunter, Black and Veatch, treasurer; Ron Hofmann, University of Toronto, co-VP Americas; Oliver Lawal, AquiSense Technologies, co-VP Americas; Kumiko Oguma, The University of Tokyo, VP Asia; Hadas Mamane, Tel Aviv University, co-VP EMEA and Ian Mayor-Smith, University of Brighton, co-VP EMEA.
In addition, the IUVA elected a slate of new Board members, including Dianne Poster, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Curtis Donskey, Prof. of Medicine at Case Western Reserve; Kate McPhaul, Univ. of Maryland Public Health Aerobiology Lab; Ran Yin, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Ashish Mathur, UltraViolet Devices, Inc.; Dan Spicer, Light Sources, Inc.; Hadas Mamane, Tel Aviv University; John Maiyo, The University of Memphis and Mengkai Li, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Exhibit Sales Open for 2024 IUVA Americas Conference
The 2024 IUVA Americas Conference will take place May 20-22, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Orlando in Orlando, Florida, and exhibit sales are open for booth space reservations. The event will be co-located with the 2024 RadTech UV+EB Technology Conference & Exhibition, and an IUVA Pavilion will be featured on the exhibition floor. More than 1,200 attendees are expected. For details on exhibit pricing and availability, visit https://iuva.org/2024-IUVA-AC-Exhibit-Sales or contact Mickey Fortune at mfortune@iuva.org.
IUVA Education Committee Launches Resource Center
The Education Committee has created the IUVA Education Resource Center, a broad-based archive and knowledge base. Each segment of the site will be curated by senior experts and professionals who guide the selection of materials, explain their significance and rate them for usefulness and completeness. The Education Resource Center will provide both those who need information and those who want to provide education and correct information about UV with a central, reliable place to go and contribute their expertise. While strict moderators will enforce community behavioral standards and forbid negativity, contributions from vendors, educators, engineers, consultants and regulators alike will be welcomed. The IUVA Education Resource Center will include a Curated Research Repository to promote the most up to date information and collaboration throughout the industry. For more information, visit https://iuvaeducationresourcecenter.org/.
IUVA Presents Achievement Awards at 2023 World Congress
The International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA) honored innovation, accomplishments, volunteers and the Jim Bolton Student Presentation Awards at its 12th biennial World Congress, September 10-13, 2023, in Dubai, UAE.
At the event, honors were extended to:
- Lifetime Achievement: Karl Linden, professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Colorado Boulder
- Outstanding Volunteer: Nathan Moore, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
- “Rising Star,” Young Professional’s Contributions: Ran Yin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- IUVA Outstanding Organizational Collaborator: The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institutes of Standards and Technology; Dr. Cameron Miller and Dr. Dianne Poster
- Most Impactful UV Solutions Magazine Article: Aquisense Technologies, “SARS-CoV-2 Dose Response Research Update”
- Most Impactful Peer-Reviewed UV Journal Article, published period 2021-present (tie): Lianfeng Zhang from the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, “Measurement of the UV Output of an Underwater Monochromatic (254 nm) Low-Pressure-Mercury UV Lamp” and Milad Raeiszadeh & Babek Adeli, Acuva Technologies, “A Critical Review on Ultraviolet Disinfection Systems Against COVID-19 Outbreak: Applicability, Validation and Safety Considerations”
- Outstanding Classic Paper, most influential, frequently referenced paper prior to 2021: Fluence (UV Dose) Required to Achieve Incremental Log Inactivation of Bacteria, Protozoa, Viruses and Alga
- Innovation, the Most Unique and/or Game-Changing Commercial UV Product: Michael Tiberi, Deep Light Photonics, Inc.
- Innovation, the Most Unique and/or Game-Changing Commercial UV Application: AquiSense, in partnership with the Las Vegas Valley Water District
- Best UV Engineering Project of the Year: UV/H2O2 AOP system installed at the Shuanglonghu Drinking Water Treatment Plant (DWTP) in Qingyun, Shandong Province
- Sustainability, the Most Sustainable UV Innovation: Jérôme Le Corre, UV Boosting
See a complete list of winners and images at https://iuva.org/WC-2023-Achievement-Awards/.
Students Win Awards at IUVA World Congress
Submitted by Ron Hoffman
The 2023 IUVA World Congress had tremendous participation from students from all over the world. There were 16 presentations by students on topics ranging from drinking water disinfection to innovations in LED technology to applications in advanced oxidation. The technical information presented was outstanding, and it often led to some lively debate and new opinions and ideas shared over coffees in the hallways after the sessions.
As is custom at these conferences, the biennial “Jim Bolton Student Presentation Award” was given to the best student presentations, as determined by a panel of judges representing different parts of the UV industry. The award honors the tremendous mentorship that Jim offered countless students in their UV research at academic institutions worldwide. This year, the winner of the award was Tianyi Chen, a PhD student at the University of Toronto exploring how breakpoint chlorination reactions following RO in water reuse systems could affect UV-chlorine AOP performance. Tied in second place were Priya Dharwadkar from Cranfield University, who reported on UV-LED chlorine AOP performance for pesticides, and Yu Zhong from the National University of Singapore, who spoke on UV-LED/chlor(am)ine treatment of micropollutants in reuse applications.
The quality of the student presentations confirms that the industry has an up-and-coming generation of outstanding contributors to UV innovation and technology.
2023 IUVA Beijing Symposium Held in September
The 2023 IUVA Beijing Symposium: Innovation and Practice was held in Beijing on September 15, 2023, together with the 9th National Symposium on Water Disinfection and Disinfection By-Product Control. The Symposium was hosted by the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and IUVA. This symposium focused on scientific forefront and development direction in the research field of disinfection and disinfection by-products, with a goal to share challenges and successful experiences in the practices of UV technology for water treatment, under the theme of “Challenges and Opportunities for UV Disinfection in the Post-Pandemic Era.”
At this Symposium, speakers from 22 institutions delivered 27 presentations, attracting over 200 attendees from both academia and industry. At the opening ceremony, the IUVA president Ted Mao delivered a welcoming speech. Throughout the symposium, the topics includes emerging light sources, dose determination methods, new mechanisms and engineering practices. All attendees and participants actively engaged in discussions, sharing their insights, experiences and perspectives on the research and application of UV disinfection technology. At the closing ceremony, Professor Zhimin Qiang, the chairman of 9th National Symposium on Water Disinfection and Disinfection By-Product Control, provided a comprehensive summary of the event.
This symposium successfully enhanced the communications between China and the world in both academia and industry regarding hot topics, such as COVID-19 pandemic control, air disinfection and surface disinfection. In addition, the symposium included a comprehensive introduction of IUVA, which will increase its influence in China and inspire more Chinese researchers to become part of the IUVA community. Overall, this was a successful symposium that is of great significance for the development and improvement of research and application of UV disinfection technologies.
