Dr Manh Hoang: developing new membrane technology for desalination

Dr Manh Hoang leads the Advanced Water Treatment research project.

• 9 September 2009 | Updated 14 October 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications
• Achievements

Dr Manh Hoang's primary research areas include:

• water treatment technology
• industrial emission control
• environmental catalysis
• membrane technology.

Current activities

Dr Hoang leads the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship's Advanced Water Treatment project which is facilitating the development of alternative water supplies. 

The team is developing efficient, low energy water treatment processes using novel membrane technology to recover pure water from industrial, brackish and salt water resources.

Dr Hoang is also working on a low-temperature catalytic process for industrial emissions control.

Background

Dr Hoang joined CSIRO in 1985.

Before that, he worked for the National Centre for Natural Science and Technology in Vietnam.

Academic qualifications

Dr Hoang has been awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in 1996.

His thesis titled Oxidative Dehydrogenation of iso-butane to iso-Butylene related to how natural gas and associated gas can serve as potential feed stocks in the production of useful petrochemicals.

His doctoral research program has resulted in a highly selective catalyst (US Pat. 5 759 946), and he has published ten scientific papers related to his doctoral research program including an invited article to Chemtech.

Achievements

Dr Hoang has made valuable contributions to number of strategic and commercial research projects with industry and has numerous publications to his credit.

He is also a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Victoria University, Australia.

Read about the Advanced carbon nanotube technology research that Dr Hoang leads.