Research Engineer
Degrees
- B.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, UCLA, 2016
- M.S. Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2017
Areas of Interest
Waste to Bioenergy
Nutrient Removal and Recovery
GHG Mitigation
Research Projects
Low-Energy Biomembrane Filtration Process – mainstream wastewater process intensification
Integrated Biochemical and Electrochemical Technologies – high-rate anaerobic co-digestion for renewable natural gas production
Fun Facts/Hobbies
Soccer, Running, and Hiking Enthusiast. COYG
Tim Fairley-Wax is a research area specialist co-managing two DOE-funded projects aimed at driving down cost and energy use for treatment of waste streams including municipal wastewater, food waste, and sludge. In these projects, he leads the development of patented dynamic membrane technology, which seeks to overcome key challenges with existing membrane separation approaches. In parallel to this work, he has pursued technology transfer opportunities through customer discovery work in the NSF I‑Corps and CleanTech Open programs.
Publications:
Fairley-Wax, Timothy, Lutgarde Raskin, and Steven J. Skerlos. “Recirculating anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor treatment of municipal wastewater.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2.5 (2022): 842-852.
Fairley-Wax, T., Skerlos, S., & Raskin, L. “Next Generation Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor for Low Temperature Domestic Wastewater Treatment.” (2022) Water Research Foundation
Conferences and Presentations:
IWA Anaerobic Digestion Conf. (AD17) Workshop Organizer (2022) “Can we use dynamic membrane bioreactors (DMBRs) to intensify and expand AD applications?”
IWA Biofilms Conf. Workshop Organizer (2021) “Harnessing biofilms for low-pressure filtration: Dynamic membrane bioreactor characterization, operation, and scale-up.”
WEFTEC Oral Presentation (2020) “Long-term performance of a recirculating anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor treating municipal wastewater”
WEFTEC Oral Presentation (2019) “Maximizing energy recovery in anaerobic membrane bioreactors by minimizing permeate dissolved methane and eliminating biogas sparging”
IWA Anaerobic Digestion Conf. (AD16) Oral Presentation (2019) “Treatment of domestic wastewater with recirculating anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor”
Fairley-Wax, T., Van Steendam, C., Sun, A., Pascoe, D., Hayter, L., Skerlos, S., Raskin, L. (2020) Long-term Performance of a Recirculating Anaerobic Dynamic Membrane Bioreactor (RAnDMBR) Treating Municipal Wastewater [Poster presentation]. Borchardt Conference
Fairley-Wax, T., Lee, J., Jalgaonkar, N., (2019) MagnaTree: Harnessing biofilms for increased bioreactor efficiency [Oral presentation]. NSF I-Corps
Fairley-Wax, T., Jalgaonkar, N., Skerlos, S., Raskin, L. (2019) Novel Anaerobic Dynamic Membrane Biofilm Reactor Addresses Disadvantages of Conventional Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors [Oral presentation]. AWWA/AMTA Membrane Technology Conference
Raskin, L., Van Steendam, C., Fairley- Wax, T., Jalgaonkar, N., Skerlos, S., (2018) Energy Recovery from domestic wastewater using anaerobic membrane
bioreactor treatment [Webinar presentation]. WEF/WRF
Raskin Research Group 