Waste Water

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A critical review of the risks to water resources from unconventional shale gas development and hydraulic fracturing in the United States. 
  • A granular activated carbon/electrochemical hybrid system for onsite treatment and reuse of blackwater. 
  • A survey of crop-derived transgenes in activated and digester sludges in wastewater treatment plants in the United States. 
  • Accuracy of methods for reporting inorganic element concentrations and radioactivity in oil and gas wastewaters from the Appalachian Basin, U.S. based on an inter-laboratory comparison. 
  • Acetate promotes microbial reductive debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A during the startup phase of anaerobic wastewater sludge bioreactors. 
  • Assessing the effects of silver nanoparticles on biological nutrient removal in bench-scale activated sludge sequencing batch reactors. 
  • Biochar and activated carbon act as promising amendments for promoting the microbial debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A. 
  • Brine Spills Associated with Unconventional Oil Development in North Dakota. 
  • Detection of pharmaceuticals and other personal care products in groundwater beneath and adjacent to onsite wastewater treatment systems in a coastal plain shallow aquifer. 
  • Detection, characterization, and abundance of engineered nanoparticles in complex waters by hyperspectral imagery with enhanced Darkfield microscopy. 
  • Enhanced denitrifying phosphorus removal and mass balance in a worm reactor. 
  • 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. 
  • Evaluating the impacts of triclosan on wastewater treatment performance during startup and acclimation. 
  • Exploring the hydraulic fracturing parameter space: a novel high-pressure, high-throughput reactor system for investigating subsurface chemical transformations. 
  • Fate and transport of enteric microbes from septic systems in a coastal watershed. 
  • Fate and transport of phosphate from an onsite wastewater system in Beaufort County, North Carolina. 
  • Field testing of a household-scale onsite blackwater treatment system in South Africa. 
  • Groundwater and stream E. coli concentrations in coastal plain watersheds served by onsite wastewater and a municipal sewer treatment system. 
  • Halogenation Chemistry of Hydraulic Fracturing Additives under Highly Saline Simulated Subsurface Conditions. 
  • Impacts of shale gas wastewater disposal on water quality in western Pennsylvania. 
  • Implementation of UV-based advanced oxidation processes in algal medium recycling. 
  • Improved blackwater disinfection using potentiodynamic methods with oxidized boron-doped diamond electrodes. 
  • In situ transformation of ethoxylate and glycol surfactants by shale-colonizing microorganisms during hydraulic fracturing. 
  • Indications of Transformation Products from Hydraulic Fracturing Additives in Shale-Gas Wastewater. 
  • Iodide, bromide, and ammonium in hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas wastewaters: environmental implications. 
  • Microbial community response to silver nanoparticles and Ag+ in nitrifying activated sludge revealed by ion semiconductor sequencing. 
  • Modeling the Concentration of Volatile and Semivolatile Contaminants in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation (DCMD) Product Water. 
  • Monte Carlo simulations of the transformation and removal of Ag, TiO2, and ZnO nanoparticles in wastewater treatment and land application of biosolids. 
  • Natural Gas Residual Fluids: Sources, Endpoints, and Organic Chemical Composition after Centralized Waste Treatment in Pennsylvania. 
  • New tracers identify hydraulic fracturing fluids and accidental releases from oil and gas operations. 
  • Nitrification of anaerobic digester effluent for nitrogen management at swine farms. 
  • Occurrence of contaminants of emerging concern in mussels (Mytilus spp.) along the California coast and the influence of land use, storm water discharge, and treated wastewater effluent. 
  • Origin of Flowback and Produced Waters from Sichuan Basin, China. 
  • Phosphate treatment by onsite wastewater systems in nutrient-sensitive watersheds of North Carolina's Piedmont. 
  • Radium and barium removal through blending hydraulic fracturing fluids with acid mine drainage. 
  • Resources recovery from high-strength human waste anaerobic digestate using simple nitrification and denitrification filters. 
  • Soil-transmitted helminth eggs assessment in wastewater in an urban area in India. 
  • Sources of Radium Accumulation in Stream Sediments near Disposal Sites in Pennsylvania: Implications for Disposal of Conventional Oil and Gas Wastewater. 
  • Speciation Matters: Bioavailability of Silver and Silver Sulfide Nanoparticles to Alfalfa (Medicago sativa). 
  • The relationship of physicochemical properties to the antioxidative activity of free amino acids in Fenton system. 
  • Transformation of pristine and citrate-functionalized CeO2 nanoparticles in a laboratory-scale activated sludge reactor. 
  • Unconventional oil and gas chemicals and wastewater-impacted water samples promote adipogenesis via PPARγ-dependent and independent mechanisms in 3T3-L1 cells. 
  • Using laboratory-generated biosolids to evaluate the microbial ecotoxicity of triclosan in a simulated land application scenario. 
  • Water Availability for Shale Gas Development in Sichuan Basin, China. 
  • Water Use and Management in the Bakken Shale Oil Play in North Dakota. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Vengosh, Avner, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University Energy Initiative