Biography

14-gen-2014

Alida Cosenza is Assistant professor at Department of Engineering of Palermo University. In 2006 she obtained a degree in Environmental Engineering, cum laude, with the thesis: Mathematical modelling of NDEBPR plants: application at the case study of Gela’s plant”. In 2011 she obtained her PhD in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (XXII course) from the Palermo University with the defence of the thesis: Modelling of the nutrient removal processes in UCT-MBR systems. In 2010 she has been guest PhD student at Laval University in the research team ModelEAU, under the supervision of prof. P.A. Vanrolleghem. Her research activities deal with:

Advanced treatment processes for municipal and industrial wastewater.
Greenhouse gas emissions from municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants: monitoring and measurement techniques, evaluation of operational and process conditions affecting nitrous oxide (N₂O) production, and mathematical modelling.
Analysis of fouling mechanisms in ultrafiltration membranes: monitoring, investigation of the factors affecting membrane fouling, and mathematical modelling.
Development of integrated mechanistic and simplified mathematical models at plant scale, as well as decision support systems for the optimization of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plant operation.
Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of complex environmental mathematical models: application of local and global methods to complex environmental systems.
Wastewater-based epidemiology.
Circular economy in the wastewater sector: reduction and reuse of sewage sludge; water reuse; reduction of carbon footprint; production of volatile fatty acids through sewage sludge fermentation.
Environmental and human health risk assessment.
Municipal solid waste management: determination of biological stability of waste; monitoring of composting and mechanical-biological treatment processes; process optimization.

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