Professor Chandran's Involvement in Wastewater Treatment and Climate Change
05/07/2008
WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Assistant Professor Kartik Chandran of the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering is involved in research on engineered wastewater treatment technologies that are enabled by environmental microbiology adn biotechnology. He has recently received grants from the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF), Technical University-Delft in the Netherlands, and utilities nationwide to further research his concerns that biological nitrogen removal (BNR) process in wastewater treatment plants may, in fact produce gases that are environmentally hazardous. His preliminary research has shown that nitric oxide (NO), nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are often produced by standard BNR processes and that these nitrogen gases present an unacceptable environmental hazard.
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