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Dr Vasanthadevi Aravinthan

Name :	Dr Vasanthadevi Aravinthan
Position :	Lecturer (Environmental Water Engineering)
Section :	Faculty of Engineering and Surveying Agriculture, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office :	z406
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	61 7 4631 2299
Extension :	2299
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BScEng Peradeniya MEng, PhD Tokyo

Professional Memberships

Member of the Engineers, Australia (EA)
Member of Australian Water Association (AWA)
Member, Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE)
Associate Member, Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL)
Member, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLASS)

Research Interests

Advanced wastewater treatment processes
Wastewater reclamation and reuse
Emerging new contaminants, their occurrence and fate in the treatment processes
Source control for sustainable potable reuse
Drinking water quality
Pressure management as a strategy of water conservation
GIS as a tool for environmental modelling

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Craig I., Aravinthan V., Baillie C., Beswick A., Barnes G., Bradbury R., Connell L., Coop P., Fellows C., Fitzmaurice L., Foley J., Hancock N., Lamb D., Morrison P., Misra R., Mossad R., Pittaway P., Prime E., Rees S., Schmidt E., Solomon D., Symes T. and Turnbull D.,"Evaporation, seepage and water quality management in storage dams: a review of research methods", Environmental Health, Vol 7:3, pp. 84-97, 2007

Aravinthan V., “Potable Reuse of Reclaimed Wastewater: Challenges for Sustainable Water Management”, Proc. ENVIRO 06 Conference and Exhibition on “Building Sustainable Cities”, May 2006, Melbourne

Aravinthan V., “Reclaimed Wastewater as a Resource for Sustainable Water Management”, Proc. Southern Engineering conference on “Managing Resources for a Sustainable Future”, pp 3-13, October 2005, Toowoomba.

Porter M., Brodie I., Achmad M., and Aravinthan V., “Researching Sustainable Future Urban water supplies”, Proc. of Southern Engineering conference, pp 49-61, October 2005, Toowoomba.

Most notable :

Aravinthan V, Mino T., Takizawa S., Satoh H. and Matsuo T., “Sludge Hydrolysate as a Carbon Source for Denitrification”, Water Science Technology, Vol. 43 No.1 pp. 191-199, 2000.

Aravinthan V, Takizawa S., Fujita K. and Komatsu K., “Factors Affecting Nitrogen Removal from Domestic Wastewater Using Immobilized Bacteria”, Water Science Technology, Vol.38., pp. 193-202, 1998.

Aravinthan V., Mino T., Satoh H., Takizawa S. and Matsuo T., “Alkaline, Acid and Thermal Solubilization for Minimization of Waste Sludge”, Env. Eng. Research. Vol. 35, pp. 189-198, 1998.

Aravinthan V., Komatsu K., Takizawa S., Ohgaki S. and Otaki M., “Denitrification of Sludge Hydrolysate by Immobilized Microorganisms”, Proc. of 6th IAWQ Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, pp. 822-829, Seoul, May 1997.

Takizawa S., Aravinthan V. and Fujita K., “Nitrogen Removal from Domestic Wastewater Using Immobilized Bacteria”, Water Science Technology, Vol. 34, pp. 431-440, 1996.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

Examiner, ENV4204 – Environmental Technology
Examiner, ENV4203 - Public Health Engineering
Examiner, ENV3904 - Environmental Engineering Practice
Examiner, ENV5205 - Solid and Liquid Waste Treatment
Assistant Examiner, ENV3104 - Hydraulics 11

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 6 years
Other : 9 years