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 Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recreation or many other uses, inc ...

to remove

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and phosphorus from used water. Barnard was elected as a member into the

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in 2021 for the development and implementation of biological nutrient removal in water treatment.

Biography

Barnard is recognized internationally for developing th
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 b
Black & Veatch
in Kansas City, MO USA. Barnard has done process design for more than 140 nutrient removal plants and extensions around the world and introduced BNR to North America with the design of the Palmetto plant in

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and the Kelowna plant in

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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

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, 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.

Education

* B.Sc. B.Ing.

University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch University ( af, Universiteit Stellenbosch) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant ...

, South Africa, 1956 * B.Sc. (Eng) (Hon)

University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria ( af, Universiteit van Pretoria, nso, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was established in 1908 ...

, South Africa, 1967 * M.S. Environmental Eng.

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, 1969 * Ph.D.

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

, 1971

Awards and accolades

Barnard's research has featured in 60 international publications. He was awarded the Camp Medal from the Water Environment Federation (WEF), the Imhoff/Koch award of the International Water Association and the Clarke Prize of the National Water Research Institute. He has been elected as a Distinguished Member of the

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, A Fellow of WEF and was the recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize at

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in 2011. Barnard has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the

University of Johannesburg The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa. The University of Johannesburg came into existence on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the ...

, Stellenbosch University and the

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. He is a member of the Distinguished Group of Professionals of the

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and has received a Gold Medal from th
South African Academy of Science and Arts
Barnard is also a member of the

(2021).

References

http://bv.com/Home/news/solutions/water/father-of-bnr-continues-his-pursuit-of-improved-water-treatment http://www.caee.utexas.edu/alumni/academy/49-alumni/academy/125-barnard {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnard, James Living people South African engineers University of Pretoria alumni Stellenbosch University alumni Cockrell School of Engineering alumni Vanderbilt University alumni University of British Columbia alumni Year of birth missing (living people)