Research Focus Areas
The range of research sub-specializations within CEERE are broad. The current focus areas include:
- industrial and hazardous waste management technology
- water pollution assessment and control
- geo-environmental engineering
- air pollution assessment and control, and
- clean air and clean water technology.
Faculty members and multidisciplinary groups within CEERE are pursuing research projects on a wide range of environmental topics. Research project areas include:
Clean Air
* air pollutant characterization and control
* aerosol technology
* aerodynamic particle focusing
* climate change and its relationship with air emissions
* fate and transport of primary and secondary pollutants in the atmosphere
* development of temporal and spatial models for predicting air quality and emissions
* temporal and spatial variations in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
* real-time and/or time-resolved models for emissions from power plants, oil refineries, flare stacks, sulfur plants, etc.
* development of new analytical techniques and smart sensors for atmospheric pollutants
* human exposure to air pollutants and establishing cause-effect relationships
* development of innovative and cost-effective technologies for air pollution control
* probabilistic and deterministic formulation of solutions for environmental problems, and greenhouse gas emission assessment and control.
Green Energy
* clean coal technology
* biodiesel
* micro and nanotechnology solutions
* reaction engineering involving water-soluble and oil soluble compounds
* in site energy
Waste Disposal
* wastewater treatment and soil remediation
* hydrocarbon contaminated soil / sludge treatment
* pyrolysis of contaminated soil
* composting of municipal solid waste and hydrocarbon contaminated soil
* biological removal of nutrients
* cover design for cold climates
* methane oxidation in soils
* transport phenomenon of pollutants
* numerical modeling of geomaterials as filters
* fluid flow in soils