Training placements

The Cranfield Water Science Institute offers students from the European Union and overseas the opportunity to study as a Visiting Student on a research project with members of academic staff and full-time researchers. Each visiting student research placement can be for a period of up to 12 months.

All projects are closely linked to ongoing research activities within the Cranfield Water Science Institute. The Institute will cover bench costs for the proposed training period; however, a visiting student must be able to cover their own expenses for the full duration of the placement. Upon completion of their placement it is sometimes possible for visiting students to undertake a Masters' degree or PhD within Water Science. Visiting students who returned to Cranfield to undertake further studies included Pierre Le-Clech, Eve Germain, Marc Pidou, Max Mergen, and most recently Olivier Autin and Francesco Ometto.

Potential projects for 2011/2012 include:

Membranes
Floc formation
Nano-particles
Advanced oxidation processes
Sewage works of the future.

Examples of previous placement projects:

Optimisation of an MCR for industrial wastes treatment
Disinfection by-product formation
Development of a membrane gas absorber system
Coagulation of NOM.

Previous placement students come from a number of participating European institutions:

France; Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR); Ecole Superieur d'Ingénieur de Poitiers; University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse; University of Montpellier; University of Nantes; Ecole des Mines, Nantes; LaSalle, Institut Polytechnique, Beauvais; Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille

Italy; University of Salerno; University of Padova

Germany; Dresden University of Technology; RWTH Aachen University; Technical University Berlin; Fachhochschule Osnabrück

Spain; Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; CEBAS-CSIC

Selected publications that originated from placement projects:

Philippe KK, Hans C, MacAdam J, Jefferson B, Hart J, Parsons SA (2010) Photocatalytic oxidation of natural organic matter surrogates and the impact on trihalomethane formation potential, Chemosphere: in print (DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.08.035)

McAdam EJ, Eusebi AL and Judd SJ (2010) Evaluation of intermittent air sparging in an anoxic denitrification membrane bioreactor. Water Science and Technology 61: 2219-2225.

Goslan EH, Gurses F, Banks J, Parsons SA (2006) An investigation into reservoir NOM reduction by UV photolysis and advanced oxidation processes. Chemosphere 65 (7): 1113-1119.