Residence Kansas City, USA Occupation Water engineer | Nationality South African | |
Books Gammaridean Amphipoda in the Collections of Bishop Museum Alma maters University of Pretoria, Vanderbilt University, University of Texas at Austin | ||
James L. Barnard is a South African born engineer living in the United States who is known globally as the pioneer of biological nutrient remover, a non-chemical means of water treatment to remove nitrogen and phosphorus from used water.
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Biography
Barnard is recognized internationally for developing the BARDENPHO Process (BARnard DENitrification and PHOsphorus removal), Phoredox (later AO and A2O), the Modified Balakrishnan/Eckenfelder (later called the MLE) process and the Westbank Process. He is currently employed as Global Practice and Technology Leader by Black & Veatch in Kansas City, MO USA.
Barnard has done process design for more than 100 nutrient removal plants and extensions around the world and introduced BNR to North America with the design of the Palmetto plant in Florida and the Kelowna plant in British Columbia for nitrogen and phosphorus removal. Most designs for high efficiency nitrogen removal in the USA are now based on these models.
He served as External Examiner for Ph.D. candidates from the Universities of Cape Town, Pretoria, British Columbia, Queensland, Manitoba, Purdue and Stavanger in Norway. He also served as Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and taught courses in biological nutrient removal at the University of Queensland Winter School for ten consecutive years.
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Awards and accolades
Barnard’s research has featured in 45 international publications. He has been elected as a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and was the recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize at Singapore International Water Week in 2011. Barnard has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Johannesburg, Stellenbosch University and the Iowa State University. He is a member of the Distinguished Group of Professionals of the International Water Association and has received a Gold Medal from the South African Academy of Science and Arts.