FWEA 2025 Biosolids Seminar

Thursday, September 18, 2025 – Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida
411 Mercy Drive, Orlando, FL 32805 | 8:00AM – 3:30 PM

Friday, September 19, 2025 – Plant Tour Demonstrating 374Water°’s AirSCWO System
Orlando’s Iron Bridge WRF | 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Thursday, September 18, 2025 – Seminar Schedule

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Breakfast Gathering & Registration

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Victoria Botto, PE & David Socha, PE
Lessons Learned from Designs of Various Regional Biosolids Resource Recovery Facilities with Thermal Hydrolysis Plants

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Mohammad Abu-Orf, PhD; Micah Blate, PE & Kamruzzaman Khan, PhD
Lessons Learned from the Fate of PFAS in Full-Scale Gasification Facility

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Rob Whiteman, PhD
Sustainable Sludge Management Using Nature-Based Solutions To Shift Microbial Population Dynamics

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Morning Networking Break

10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
Dustin Craig, PE
Anaerobic Digestion of Organics: Overview of Two Case Studies for CHP and RNG Resource Recovery

11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Panel Discussion
Biosolids Management in Florida: Current Practices, Challenges, and Future Outlook

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch Break

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
K. Richard Tsang, PhD, PE, BCEE & Nory Hancock
Regional Biosolids Solution to Tackle Uncertain Regulatory Climate

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Sumaiya Sharmin, MSc & Daniel Meeroff, PhD
Anaerobic Co-Digestion to Enhance Methane Yield using High-Strength Organic Feedstocks Diverted from Landfills

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Afternoon Networking Break

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Adrian Romero, PhD & Daniel Thewes
Got Options? A Case Study on Biosolids Adaptive Planning

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Alexander Kraemer & Steffen Ritterbush, PhD
Decentralized Thermal Processing for Sustainable Biosolids Management: PFAS Destruction, Landfill Diversion, and Phosphorus Recovery via the SludgeReformer™ System

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM
374Water
SCWO for Orlando: A Case Study on Commissioning Supercritical Water Oxidation for the Treatment of Biosolids

Friday, September 19, 2025 – Plant Tour

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
374Water’s AirSCWO System Demonstration
Orlando’s Iron Bridge Regional Water Reclamation Facility​