Peters, Thomas (Germany)

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Peters is an internationally renowned independent consultant for membrane technology and environmental engineering. He has over 40 years of experience in the field of pressure driven membrane processes for the treatment of water, process fluids and wastewater. Related pioneering work was focused between other on the use of reverse osmosis for desalination of sea water, for the purification of landfill leachate and for water reuse in different areas. He studied chemical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) at the Technical University Clausthal in Germany and earned his Ph.D. in 1980 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg on the subject „Production of drinking water from seawater with reverse osmosis“. After leading management functions in a middle sized and a multinational company he is high level independent technology consultant since 1986, authored more than 100 publications, co-authored different books, contributed to different membrane technology related guidelines published by professional associations in Germany and is co-editor of a landfill compendium. He received the Stanley Gray Award - Marine Technology 2000/2001 of the IMarEST, London, and the ATCP Award 2007, Concepción, Chile.