![]() |
![]() |
University of Birmingham > Talks@bham > Applied Mathematics Seminar Series > How magnets and mathematics can help solve the current water crisis
How magnets and mathematics can help solve the current water crisisAdd to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal
If you have a question about this talk, please contact David Smith. Although water was once considered an almost unlimited resource, population growth, drought and contamination are straining our water supplies. Up to 70% of deaths in Bangladesh are currently attributed to arsenic contamination, highlighting the essential need to develop new and effective ways of purifying water. Since arsenic binds to iron oxide, magnets offer one such way of removing arsenic by simply pulling it from the water. For larger contaminants, filters with a spatially varying porosity can remove particles through selective sieving mechanisms. Here we develop mathematical models that describe each of these scenarios, show how the resulting models give insight into the design requirements for new purification methods, and present methods for implementing these ideas with industry. This talk is part of the Applied Mathematics Seminar Series series. This talk is included in these lists:
Note that ex-directory lists are not shown. |
Other listsMolecular and Medical Physics Seminar Series Applied Topology Colloquium Centre for Systems Biology Coffee MorningsOther talksTBC Quantum simulations using ultra cold ytterbium Extending the Lax type operator for finite W-algebras Provably Convergent Plug-and-Play Quasi-Newton Methods for Imaging Inverse Problems Geometry of alternating projections in metric spaces with bounded curvature Ultrafast, all-optical, and highly efficient imaging of molecular chirality |