Environmental Lab

Technical Expertise

  • Fate and transport of pollutants in air, soil and water
  • Industrial wastewater engineering
  • Waste-to-resource conversion
  • Long-range transport of air transport

Environmental Lab Capability

  • pH, Oxygen, Solids (total, dissolved, volatile, and fixed), Alkalinity, BOD, COD, TOC, Ammonium Nitrogen, Nitrate & Nitrite, Total Nitrogen, TKN, Phosphorous, Turbidity, VFA, Bacteria Counts, Toxicity, SOUR, and most other wet chemistry characterization techniques
  • HPLC; TOC analyzer; Inverted Microscope for bright field, dark field, phase contrast and epi-fluorescence microscopy; SEM; Flow Injection Analyzer (FIA); IC; Cryo Micro-Slicer; PCR for DNA amplification; UV-VIS; Incubator, Autoclave, Temperature Control Shaker for general microbiology work
  • Bench Scale Activated Sludge and Anaerobic Digestion Plant
  • Computer Hardware Towers & Software dedicated to Biokinetic Modeling

Facilities

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Demonstration Sites

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System in Operation

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Aeration Assessment

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Aeration Simulations

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Modeling Capability

  • Multivariate linear and nonlinear model fitting
  • Cluster and factorial analysis
  • Neural network modeling
  • Biokinetic model development and application
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