Interview: Membrane technology under discussion

gwf: In the meantime, the membrane symposia in Aachen have well established in the agenda of the water professionals. What makes the conference so special this year?

Prof. Pinnekamp: We arrange this conference on membrane technology for many years now as a joint conference of the Institute for Environmental Engineering (ISA) and the Institute for Chemical Process Engineering (AVT) here at the RWTH Aachen. Prof. Robert Rautenbach, who sadly already passed away, and Prof. Max Dohmann have started this series. In the meantime Prof. Thomas Melin and Prof. Matthias Wessling from the AVT and I have taken over responsibility for this task. Since the beginning of the series, eight conferences have already been held, but only at a national scale. However, it soon become clear that this topic also has international relevance and, therefore, we gradually increased the proportion of lectures in English language. The next step towards a more international presentation was undertaken two years ago at the conference of the International Water Association (IWA) in Beijing: the candidature for the follow-up event in 2011. Indeed, not as elaborate as for a candidature for the Olympic Games, but yet with a wellfi lled application fi le containing information about event, city of Aachen, RWTH Aachen and hotel capacity. Finally, the RWTH Aachen was successful in Beijing and has been elected.

 

 

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