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Treatment Processes
Current research encompasses the three main categories of treatment
processes: separations, biological transformations, and chemical
transformations. Applications including drinking water treatment,
municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, hazardous waste management
and treatment, soil remediation, and industrial process waters.
The objectives of specific projects include understanding fundamental
molecular-scale mechanisms, developing new treatment processes,
and improving performance and economics of existing treatment processes.
Faculty: Katz, Lawler,
Liljestrand, Loehr,
Malina, Speitel
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Water
Resources
Current research encompasses surface and ground water
hydrology and water resources planning and management. Applications
include hydrologic modeling using geographic information systems;
computer and statistical methods in water resources; spatial water
balances; flood mapping; water resources systems analysis; groundwater
modeling and management; multiphase flow; and optimization, uncertainty,
and reliability analysis.
Faculty: Charbeneau,
Hodges, Maidment,
McKinney
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Environmental
Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, and Ocean Engineering
This area encompasses computational, laboratory, and
field research relevant to basic and applied fluid flow phenomena
in the environment and oceans. Current projects include laboratory
studies of flow through highway culverts, computational studies
of cavitation around ship propellers and wave-body interactions,
field studies linked to modeling of transport processes in lakes,
and modeling of circulation in estuaries. The objectives of the
research are improving our understanding of the fundamentals of
fluid-flow processes, development of techniques for improved modeling,
and application of laboratory, field, and modeling studies to the
solution of engineering problems.
Faculty: Charbeneau,
Hodges, Kinnas
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Water
Quality Management
Research on water quality management focuses on the
processes and engineering systems that control the quality, transport,
and fate of surface and subsurface waters. Applications include
stormwater quality management and control, estimation of receiving
water total maximum daily loads, assessment of effects of transport
processes on water quality in lakes and reservoirs, and characterization
and modeling of chemical releases from contaminated soils and their
impact on remediation endpoints.
Faculty: Armstrong,
Charbeneau, Hodges,
Loehr, Maidment,
Malina, McKinney
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Air Resources
Research in the air resources field is an interdisciplinary
effort that encompasses atmospheric chemistry, ambient air quality
monitoring and modeling, indoor air quality, and air pollution control.
Projects currently underway in this area include characterization
and control of hazardous air pollutants in both indoor and outdoor
environments, acid deposition modeling, ozone and fine particulate
matter field studies, indoor air quality assessments in schools,
indoor air chemistry, and vapor phase bioreactor development.
Faculty: Corsi,
Kinney, Liljestrand,
Allen
Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering Program
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Environmental Engineering Science
To determine the fate and transport of pollutants,
an understanding of the fundamental chemical and biochemical reactions
is required. Projects currently underway in this area include sorption
and speciation of metals in soil, interactions of organics with
expansive soils, complexation of heavy metals by biopolymers, and
partitioning of endocrine disrupting compounds into membrane systems.
Faculty: Katz,
Liljestrand, Speitel
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