Metallic iron (Fe) is often reported as a reducing agent for environmental remediation. There is still controversy as to whether Fe plays any significant direct role in the process of contaminant reductive transformation. The view that Fe is mostly a generator of reducing agents (e.g. H, H2 and Fe) and Fe oxyhydroxides has been either severely refuted or just tolerated. The tolerance is based o...

UNLABELLED Providing adequate indoor air quality while reducing energy consumption is a must for efficient ventilation system design. In this work, we study the transport of particulate contaminants in a displacement-ventilated space, using the idealized 'emptying filling box' model (P.F. Linden, G.F. Lane-serff and D.A. Smeed (1990) Emptying filling boxes: the fluid mechanics of natural ventil...

Water provision for developing countries is a critical issue as a vast number of lives are lost annually due to lack of access to safe drinking water. The presence and fate of inorganic trace contaminants is of particular concern. Trace inorganic contaminants have been found in elevated concentrations in drinking waters supplied directly from brackish groundwaters in developing countries. Desal...

Climate change may affect the ability of soil-based onsite wastewater treatment systems (OWTS) to treat wastewater in coastal regions of the Northeastern United States. Higher temperatures and water tables can affect treatment by reducing the volume of unsaturated soil and oxygen available for treatment, which may result in greater transport of pathogens, nutrients, and biochemical oxygen deman...

Contaminated groundwater is a widespread problem often requiring innovative technologies to remediate. In this study, physical models of the air-sparging process are developed, and contaminant recoveries are compared with predictions from a mathematical model. Initial tests used a very fine, porous media (a glass bead-packed column) to represent relatively homogeneous soil samples. Subsequent t...