Contact Professor Bruce Jefferson

Areas of expertise

  • Water Science and Engineering

Background

Professor Bruce Jefferson is a chemical engineer with a BEng and PhD from Loughborough University and joined the staff in Water Sciences in 1997. He was subsequently appointed to the post of Senior Research Fellow in 2003 and the Senior Lecturer in 2006. Current posts include visiting positions at RMIT (Australia), University of New South Wales (Australia).

Current activities

Professor Jefferson's research interests involve understanding how the underlying process pathways can be better managed to deliver a paradigm shift in how we apply technology for sewage treatment and drinking water production. Current activities involve work on:

Resource recovery

Anaerobic sewage treatment

Low energy wastewater processes for nutrient removal

NOM, algae and micropollutant control in catchments and treatment

Advanced oxidation processes.

Clients

  • ACO Technologies PLC
  • Anglian Water
  • Northumbrian Water
  • Scottish Water
  • Thames Water
  • United Utilities Group PLC
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Wessex Water
  • Yorkshire Water
  • Severn Trent PLC
  • Southern Water
  • Welsh Water
  • Bluemethane

Publications

Articles In Journals

Conference Papers

Books