Water Purification
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Subject Areas on Research
- A granular activated carbon/electrochemical hybrid system for onsite treatment and reuse of blackwater.
- Access to Household Water Quality Information Leads to Safer Water: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in india.
- Alumina Depyrogenates F 18 Fludeoxyglucose Injection during Purification Processes.
- Analyzing trends in ballasting behavior of vessels arriving to the United States from 2004 to 2017.
- Application of a moving bed biofilm reactor for tertiary ammonia treatment in high temperature industrial wastewater.
- Assessing the effects of silver nanoparticles on biological nutrient removal in bench-scale activated sludge sequencing batch reactors.
- Assessment of water quality management with a systematic qualitative uncertainty analysis.
- Biochar and activated carbon act as promising amendments for promoting the microbial debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A.
- Biological assessment of bisphenol A degradation in water following direct photolysis and UV advanced oxidation.
- Biological assessments of a mixture of endocrine disruptors at environmentally relevant concentrations in water following UV/H2O2 oxidation.
- Cellulose nanomaterials in water treatment technologies.
- Changes in blood lead levels associated with use of chloramines in water treatment systems.
- Changing mesophilic wastewater sludge digestion into thermophilic operation at Terminal Island Treatment Plant.
- Children drinking private well water have higher blood lead than those with city water.
- Cholera prevention with traditional and novel water treatment methods: an outbreak investigation in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar.
- Communicating Arsenic's Risks.
- Comparative study on the pretreatment of algae-laden water by UV/persulfate, UV/chlorine, and UV/H2 O2 : Variation of characteristics and alleviation of ultrafiltration membrane fouling.
- Comparison of conventional and integrated fixed-film activated sludge systems: attached- and suspended-growth functions and quantitative polymerase chain reaction measurements.
- Consumer preferences for household water treatment products in Andhra Pradesh, India.
- Cost-benefit comparisons of investments in improved water supply and cholera vaccination programs.
- Discovery of Welcome Biopolymers in Surface Water: Improvements in Drinking Water Production.
- Disinfection Byproducts in Rajasthan, India: Are Trihalomethanes a Sufficient Indicator of Disinfection Byproduct Exposure in Low-Income Countries?
- Drinking water disinfection by-product exposure and duration of gestation.
- Drinking water disinfection by-product exposure and fetal growth.
- Drinking water disinfection by-products and time to pregnancy.
- Effect of point-of-use disinfection, flocculation and combined flocculation-disinfection on drinking water quality in western Kenya.
- Effects of integrated fixed film activated sludge media on activated sludge settling in biological nutrient removal systems.
- Enhanced formation of disinfection byproducts in shale gas wastewater-impacted drinking water supplies.
- Environmental biodegradability of [¹⁴C] single-walled carbon nanotubes by Trametes versicolor and natural microbial cultures found in New Bedford Harbor sediment and aerated wastewater treatment plant sludge.
- Environmental implications and applications of carbon nanomaterials in water treatment.
- Epidemiology. Ensuring safe drinking water in Bangladesh.
- Evaluating the impacts of triclosan on wastewater treatment performance during startup and acclimation.
- Evaluating the role of total organic carbon in predicting the treatment efficacy of biosand filters for the removal of Vibrio cholerae in drinking water during startup.
- Exposure to drinking water disinfection by-products and pregnancy loss.
- Factors influencing flux decline during nanofiltration of solutions containing dyes and salts.
- Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trial.
- Improved blackwater disinfection using potentiodynamic methods with oxidized boron-doped diamond electrodes.
- Inactivation of bacteriophages via photosensitization of fullerol nanoparticles.
- Isotope and ion selectivity in reverse osmosis desalination: geochemical tracers for man-made freshwater.
- Laboratory Demonstration and Preliminary Techno-Economic Analysis of an Onsite Wastewater Treatment System.
- Laboratory assessment of the mobility of nanomaterials in porous media.
- Modeling the Concentration of Volatile and Semivolatile Contaminants in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation (DCMD) Product Water.
- Nitrifying trickling filters and denitrifying bioreactors for nitrogen management of high-strength anaerobic digestion effluent.
- Odor and volatile organic compound removal from wastewater treatment plant headworks ventilation air using a biofilter.
- Perchlorate reduction by autotrophic bacteria attached to zerovalent iron in a flow-through reactor.
- Perchlorate reduction by autotrophic bacteria in the presence of zero-valent iron.
- Potential concerns in fullerene application to water treatment related to transformation, cellular uptake and intracellular catalysis.
- Preparation of ultrafine magnetic biochar and activated carbon for pharmaceutical adsorption and subsequent degradation by ball milling.
- Processes of particle deposition in membrane operation and fabrication.
- Progress towards the responsible application of nanotechnology for water treatment.
- Protozoal agents: what are the dangers for the public water supply?
- Regulated and unregulated halogenated disinfection byproduct formation from chlorination of saline groundwater.
- Solving the problem at the source: Controlling Mn release at the sediment-water interface via hypolimnetic oxygenation.
- Sorption of 243Am(III) to multiwall carbon nanotubes.
- Supercritical water oxidation of a model fecal sludge without the use of a co-fuel.
- The effect of water disinfection by-products on pregnancy outcomes in two southeastern US communities.
- The healthy men study: an evaluation of exposure to disinfection by-products in tap water and sperm quality.
- Transformation of pristine and citrate-functionalized CeO2 nanoparticles in a laboratory-scale activated sludge reactor.
- Ultraviolet photolysis of chlorpyrifos: developmental neurotoxicity modeled in PC12 cells.
- Water quality risks of 'improved' water sources: evidence from Cambodia.
- Why "improved" water sources are not always safe.
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Keywords of People
- Deshusses, Marc, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University Energy Initiative