Piezocatalysis, an evolving catalytic technology built on the piezoelectric properties of
catalysts, breaks down the barrier between mechanical energy and chemical energy. The …

Over time, industrialization, population expansion, building, and other human-related
activities have made water contamination a major problem. As a result, steps towards waste …

The field of radiation chemistry has been intensively investigated for more than 100 years.
However, there is a basic change in the approach. Until the 1950's and 1960's the main aim …

Cyanobacterial/harmful algal blooms (HABs) are a serious and growing threat to water
resources. This project evaluated cavitation fields generated from four different nozzle …

Public concern about the significant concentrations of antibiotics and their metabolites
remaining in wastewater after standard treatments is motivating the study of additional …

This project evaluated the KRIA water treatment system (also know under the trade name
ECOSOAR) for treatment of three environmental contaminants: diesel fuel, PCBs (arochlor …

The majority of the wastewater treatment facilities in the United States treat to secondary
treatment, as required by the Clean Water Act. However, because of the growing list of …

The increased challenges in ensuring healthy, fresh water worldwide are linked to rising
populations, more complex anthropogenic chemicals, numerous outdated water and …

A wastewater management system includes a series of holding tanks in combination with a
membrane bioreactor treatment subsystem connected to one or more autoclaves and/or …

Antibiotic contamination in environmental waters has led to the emergence of antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs) in bacteria, which now poses one of the greatest threats to global …