Associates
DAVID E.G. BROMLEY, M.Eng., P.Eng.
1402 Chippendale RD
West Vancouver, BC
V7S2N6
Home: 604 9260244; Office: 604 9220137
davidbromley@shaw.ca
EDUCATION
B.A.Sc. (Hon.), Civil Engineering, 1974, University of Toronto
Master of Engineering, 1975, McMaster University
(Specialization: Water and Wastewater Engineering)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta
Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario
Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia
Former Chapter Chairman for the American Filtration Society
FORMER BOARD OF DIRECTOR POSITIONS
Marshall Macklin Monahan Ltd. (engineering consulting) - private company
Realm Communications Inc. (media management) – public company
InterGlobal Waste Management Inc. (waste management) – private/public company
Clow Water Treatment Inc
Vice President - Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta
Alberta Round Table for the Environment and the Economy
TEACHING POSITIONS
Former part time professor at the Northern Alberta Institute for Technology
Ongoing guest lecturer for water and waste water treatment at
Texas A and M
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
President, David Bromley Engineering Ltd., 1980 to Present
Consulting Practice involved in municipal and industrial water treatment
Specialized in the review of new technologies and businesses involved in the water treatment industry, development of sustainable communities and the technology to service those communities
Project Director , Rampart Avenir Communities Ltd., 1.8 billion dollar - 15 year project in the Capital Region of Alberta regarding the development of a sustainable community and investment platform for new technology regarding services for water, energy, advanced building materials and food supply. Project partners include the National Institute for Nanotechnology/University of Alberta, MaRs Discovery from the University of Toronto, and Enertech Capital -one of North America's largest Clean Technology Venture Fund Managers.
President, Clow Water Treatment Inc., 2005 to 2009
Existing Company acquired in 2005 to launch a new water treatment technology
Chief Technical Officer, Interglobal Waste Management Inc. 2002-2003
Start up company -responsible for the development of a new waste water technology
President, Triwaste Inc. 1992 to 1994
Start up company for waste recovery- grew to $30 million in revenue in 2nd full year of operation- Industrial and Oil and Gas reclamation
Premier of Alberta Appointment to the
Alberta Round Table on the Environment and Economy 1990-1991
Initiated the Company of David Bromley Engineering Ltd. 1980
Instructor , Northern Alberta Institute of Technology 1980
Assistant Manager Western Canada James F MacLaren Ltd. 1977-1980
Project Engineer, Steel Company of Canada, 1974-1975
Project Engineer, Wimpey Contractors, 1973- 1974
GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE
Project Director of North America's largest Market Validation project for Clean Technology opportunities
Undertaken over 50 evaluations of various water treatment technologies for a variety of clients
Design and construction of numerous municipal water and sewerage facilities.
Recognized as one of the leading engineers in North America for providing water treatment systems to small communities.
Designed numerous water reuse systems for small communities
High level of experience with municipal water treatment and the need for total organic carbon removal and pathogen removal from potable water systems
Project manager for the Construction of numerous water treatment plants
Project Manager for a study of private water systems within Alberta for purchase and operation as a utility.
Design and Operation of Sediment and Oil Water Separation Systems for Numerous Private Sector Entities
Technical Review and Responsible for The Development of Numerous New Filtration And Entrapment Technologies specifically “the Martin Filter” the Graduated Density Filter, the “Fluid Clear Media” and a Filter for the cleaning of solvents in Parts Washers
Project manager for the sanitary sewer upgrading project for Northeast Edmonton.
Project monitor for the St. Kitts Frigate Bay Sewerage project.
Project manager on the privatization of water and sewerage utilities in Canada.
Developed a new and innovative concept suitable for sewerage servicing in small communities, work camps, industrial complexes and recreational areas.
Responsible for the development of numerous capital management plans for communities throughout Alberta.
Responsible for the monitoring and value engineering of a large water and sewerage project in northern Alberta.
Design responsibility for a reverse osmosis process required for water treatment in Saudi Arabia.
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Oversaw the design build and operate of numerous industrial wastewater treatment systems
Project managed numerous industrial site reclamation projects
Undertaken numerous projects for water reuse in industrial locations
Project Manager for the Review of Animal Feed Operation Technology- responsible for the overview of various methods to treat the liquid component of waste from Animal feed operations throughout the world.
Developed a treatment concept for the treatment of animal waste.
Development of various permitted waste management and industrial wastewater treatment facilities, site remediation of projects in United States and Canada
American Petroleum Institute and Canadian Petroleum Association -
Project Manager for the Development of the North American Waste
Minimization Strategy for the Petroleum Industry.
Project Manager for the Market and Technology Assessment of Post Consumer Plastic Recovery Processes.
Project Manager and author of the "Hazardous Waste Volumes and Residual Wastes in the Province of Alberta" report used as the expert testimony for the Public Hearings on the expansion of the Alberta Special Waste Treatment Centre in Swan Hills, Alberta.
Project Manager on the development of the Environmental Operating Guidelines Handbook for the Petroleum Industry.
Air and Waste Management Association of North American - Curriculum development with the Tennessee Valley Authority for Environmental Audits. Courses to be provided by the Association throughout North America.
Project Manager for the Identification and Review of Industrial Waste Management Technologies available in North America.
Evaluation of medical waste technology
Market assessment of environmental services
Project manager for the evaluation of sludge dewatering concepts.
Project manager into research on sludge dewatering and transportation.
Project manager for the Empress Gas Plant sludge dewatering project.
Project manager for match factory waste management systems.
Project manager for waste handling and site contamination of wastes from fire fighting school.
Principal Author of the Environmental Operating Guidelines Handbook for the Alberta Petroleum Industry.
Project Manager on numerous special projects including research, economic analysis, design, construction and operation.
Responsible for the design, construction and operation of the first ion exchange water treatment plant used for a municipal water supply in Western Canada.
Responsible for the design and construction of a large pilot water treatment plant to be used for high technology water treatment of boiler feed water for the largest boiler feed system in North America.
Responsible for a study on organic fouling of ion exchange resins for a large tar sands development north of Fort McMurray.
Responsible for the set up and development of an environmental permit auditing system for Shell Canada Resources Ltd.
Selected by the Canadian International Development Agency to represent Canada on hazardous waste management for Canadian funded projects.
Involved in the expansion of a water treatment plant serving Toronto, Ontario.
Project engineering involvement with Environmental Impact Assessments on expansion of the Dalhousie Thermal Generating Station and construction of the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station for the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission.
TECHNICAL PAPERS
Bromley, D.E.G., D.M. Gorber. "Wastewater Management at a Thermal Power Plant", presented at the Sixth Environmental Engineering and Science Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, 1977.
Bromley, D.E.G., D.B. Gorber. "Recycle, Reuse and Flow Equalization of Liquid Wastes at a Thermal Power Plant", presented at the Ninth Mid-Atlantic Industrial Waste Conference, Pennsylvania, 1977.
Bromley, D.E.G., A. Benedek. "Reduction of Potable Water Demand in the Arctic by Water Reuse", presented at the Water Reuse Symposium, Washington, D.C., 1978.
Bromley, D.E.G., A.R. Pick, R. Kent. "The Monitoring and Optimization of Sewage Treatment Plant Performance", presented at the Western Canada Water and Sewage Conference, 1980.
Bromley, D.E.G. "The Central Tile Field Concept for Sewage Treatment in Small Communities Industrial Work Camps and Recreational Areas", presented at the Alberta Government Department of Labour, 1980.
Bromley, D.E.G., Selann, J.F., Kaupp, D. "Organic Waste Treatment by Fluid Extraction", Haztech Conference, Edmonton, 1988.
Bromley, D.E.G., "Breaking the Paradigm", Municipalities and the Environment Conference, Fairview, Alberta, 1991.
Bromley, D.E.G., "The Alberta Round Table on the Environment and the Economy", Environmental Regulations Course, Calgary, Alberta, 1991.
Bromley, D.E.G., Waste Management Trends and the New Regulations for the Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, Environmental Regulations Course, Calgary, Alberta, 1991.
Bromley, D.E.G., Martin J.D., Glass- Bed Precision Filter, A Radial Flow Fluidizable Bed Filter, American Filtration Society, Anaheim, California, 2000
Bromley, D.E.G., Storm Water As A Resource, Issues and Technology for Sediment Management In The Lower Mainland, Environmental Conference, Vancouver B.C. 2001
Bromley, D.E.G. Smith, D; Baxter C, New product- Preliminary investigation of a radial-flow fluidizable filter unit for drinking water filtration, American Filtration Society, Galveston TX, April, 2002
Bromley, D.E.G; Mohamed Gamal El-Din, PhD , A low cost treatment process to reduce phosphorus and suspended solids in liquid wastes from animal farm operations, International Livestock Waste Management Symposium, Malaysia, May 2002
Bromley, D.E.G.; K. Zhu; Mohamed Gamal El-Din, PhD;Physical and Chemical Processes for Removing Suspended Solids and Phosphorus from Liquid Swine Manure, Environmental Technology Vol 25 pg 1177-1187, June 2004
Bromley, D.E.G ; P.Singh; Mohamed Gamal El-Din, PhD; Alum Settling and Filtration Treatment of Liquid Swine Manure, Structures and Environment Division of ASABE, August 2006
Bromley, D.E.G; We have been baffled……Why would any one use membranes for a microfiltration application when there are better alternatives? September 2007, published in Canadian Environmental Protection
Bromley, D.E.G; Better alternatives to membranes for microfiltration alternatives November 2007 published in Water and Waste Digest and Water Technology November 200
Bromley, D.E.G.; Recent Studies Question the value of MF and UF Membranes, published in World Water Feb 2010
Bromley, D.E.G; Craig Patterson, P.E.1, Roy Haught1, Rajib Sinha, P.E.2, Nur Muhammad, Ph.D., P.E.2, Radha Krishnan, P.E.2 Comparison of Garnet Bead Media Filtration and Multimedia Filtration for Turbidity and Microbial Pathogen Removal, presented at AWWAWQTC in Cincinnati November 2008
Bromley David, P.E., Enprotec-Clow Water Treatment, Inc., Hebron, KY, dbromley@enprotec-clow.com; Craig Patterson, P.E., U.S. EPA, Cincinnati, OH, patterson.craig@epa.gov,Radial Flow Fluidized Filter Finds Niche as a Pretreatment System for Surface Water in Small Communities , published in EWRI Currents Emerging Technology News, December 2008
Bromley, D.E.G, P.E.; David Bromley Engineering Ltd., 12 billion Dollars Spent Annually on Throw away filters- There is a better technology, Cleantech Conference Houston May 2009
Bromley, D.E.G. P.E. Pretreatment of Membranes Course - Water Issues and Technologies: Process Water, Wastewater and Desalination- Texas A and M University, August 2-4, 2009 Chapter 9
Bromley, D.E.G., P.E., Membrane PreTreatment Inappropriate, World Water ( WEF ) Journal , January-February, 2010