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Water Quality Processes - Graduate Program
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Water Quality
Graduate Program |
The water quality
processes program focuses on the
fundamentals, design, and operation of physical, chemical and biological processes used in
the treatment of water and wastewater.
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Program Faculty |
Paul
Bishop (Professor; Ph.D. 1972 Purdue University) Dr. Bishop's teaching
interests include hazardous waste management, biological treatment, and pollution
prevention. His research interests include stabilization/solidification of hazardous
wastes, development and evaluation of leaching test procedures, biofilm-based wastewater
treatment processes, and transport mechanisms in biofilms.
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Dionysios D. Dionysiou (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2001 University of Cincinnati)
Professor Dionysiou teaches courses on advanced unit operations for water and wastewater treatment and physical-chemical technologies for water quality control. His research interests include advanced oxidation technologies for water treatment, membrane processes, activated carbon adsorption, preparation of environmentally benign materials, physicochemical phenomena on particle-water interfaces, and development of innovative photocatalytic reactors for water purification. Recently funded research projects include the use of ionic liquids in environmental applications (National Science Foundation) and the treatment of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) using the Fenton's and Photo-Fenton's reagent (U.S. EPA).
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Margaret J. Kupferle
(Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2002, University of Cincinnati)
Dr. Kupferle's teaching interests include solid waste
management, hazardous waste treatment and application of numerical methods to engineering problems. Her research interests include
biological, chemical and electrochemical remediation of wastewaters, leachates, soils and sediments;
bioelectrochemistry/bioelectromagnetics; and quality assurance of measurements and data.
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Daniel B. Oerther (Assistant Professor
Ph.D.2000,
University of Illinois,UC)
Professor Oerther teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of water quality biotechnology and molecular microbial ecology. His research interests include the development and implementation of molecular biology-based techniques to identify, enumerate, and quantify the growth kinetics of microorganisms in biological treatment systems for drinking water, wastewater, and bioremediation. By coupling quantitative results from analytical molecular biology with dynamic solutions to mathematical models of unit operations, Professor Oerther's research team improves the public safety, performance, and reliability of biological treatment systems.
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Pasquale
V. Scarpino (Professor; Ph.D. 1961 Rutgers University) Dr. Scarpino's
teaching interests include the area of environmental microbiology, bioaerosols,
sanitation, disinfection, and biodegradation of solid and hazardous wastes. His research
interests include disinfection of microbes in water and wastewater, microbial air
pollution (both outdoor and indoor - sick building syndrome), ultraviolet disinfection of
airborne microbes (bacteria and fungi), laser sterilization and identification of microbes
in solid wastes and leachates.
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George
A. Sorial (Associate
Professor and Chemical Hygiene and Safety Director; Ph.D. University
of Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K.) Dr. Sorial has 20 years of
experience in bench scale and pilot scale research and chemical
analysis with various analytical instruments. His research
interests include: electrochemical processes for destruction of
organic contaminants, activated carbon adsorption (micropollutant
removal from drinking water, adsorption of micropollutants by
activated carbon and alternative adsorbents, characterization of
adsorbent materials and natural organic matter, interactions between
micropollutants and humic substances), modeling of adsorption
systems (equilibrium and dynamics), remediation of contaminated
soils, modeling of mercury speciation and chemical interactions in
sediments and aquatic systems, air biofiltration, development of analytical methods for analysis, and
development of protocols for US EPA in effectiveness of surfactants
on oil spills.
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Makram
T. Suidan (Professor; Ph.D. 1975 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Dr. Suidan teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of water and wastewater
treatment, and the physical-chemical fundamentals of environmental engineering and
science. His research interests include biokinetics and biofilm processes, the development
of innovative processes for the treatment of industrial and hazardous wastes, fundamental
aspects of adsorption on activated carbon, and mathematical modeling of treatment
processes.
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