Water Treatment and Advanced Oxidation Technologies Laboratory
Director: Dr. Dionysios D. Dionysiou
Location: 781 Engineering Research Center
Location: 781 Engineering Research Center
- Drinking water quality, supply, treatment and purification,
- Wastewater and industrial wastewater treatment using physical/chemical processes,
- Transition metal catalysis,
- TiO2 photocatalysis, UV-enhanced technologies, Fenton's and Photo-Fenton's hydroxyl-radical based processes,
- Other radical-based (i.e., superoxide, sulfate) destructive chemical oxidation technologies, and
- Membrane processes for drinking water, wastewater, and industrial water purification.
- Novel UV/TiO2 suspension-type and immobilized-type photocatalytic reactors for water treatment;
- UV and UV/H2O2 flow through photoreactors for water treatment and disinfection (Trojan UVLogic),
- Transition metal-based reactors for water treatment,
- Reactors for dark and UV-enhanced oxidation of organics using the Fenton's reaction,
- Reverse osmosis systems,
- Membrane systems for studying the effect of fouling and biofouling in membrane processes for water purification, and
- Typical instrumentation and devices for determining drinking water quality and UV radiation properties.
Environmental Catalysis, Nanotechnology and Green Engineering Laboratory
Director: Dr. Dionysios D. Dionysiou
Location: 751 Engineering Research Center
Location: 751 Engineering Research Center
- Preparation of nanostructures for environmental applications,
- Synthesis of Nanomaterials with controlled pore size distribution,
- Fundamental and properties of "Ionic Liquids Green Solvents",
- "Green Chemistry" in the preparation of advanced materials and chemicals,
- "Green Engineering" in the design and application of environmental remediation processes, and
- Environmental catalysis and chemistry,
- Agilent 1100 HPLC with Auto Injection for the determination and quantification of organic species in water,
- Dionex DX 500 Ion Chromatography System for the determination and quantification of inorganic species in water,
- Hewlett Packard 8452A Diode Array Spectrophotometer for determination and quantification of chemical species in water and other solvents,
- Photoreactors for in situ degradation of organics in room temperature ionic liquid solvents, and
- Equipment and designs (ovens, dip-coating devices) for the sol-gel preparation of TiO2 photocatalytic coatings and nanoparticles.
- Instrumentation for Pose Size Distribution, Surface Area, and Chemisoprtion Analysis.