Session: Trace Contaminants in the Water (2009 Annual Meeting)

Thursday, November 12, 2009: 3:15 PM

Tennessee B (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

Description:

The objective of this session is to bring together lead researchers and speakers to discuss the progress made on issues pertaining to organic, inorganic and pharmaceutical trace contaminants, their genesis and engineered processes. Both fundamentals and applied contributions are sought in these areas of research and development.

Sponsor:

Water

Co-Sponsor(s):

Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals (01)

Chair:

Arup K. Sengupta
Email: aks0@Lehigh.EDU

Co-Chair:

Tapas K. Das
Email: tdas@stmartin.edu

3:15 PM

(639a) Occurrence of Fluoride in Alluvial Shallow Aquifers of Semiarid Region of Punjab, North-West India
H. S. Hundal, Kuldip Singh, Dhanwinder Singh and Mandeep Hundal

3:40 PM

(639b) Continuous Column Modeling of Copper Biosorption Using Pretreated Aspergillus Niger Biomass
Mausumi Mukhopadhyay, Tejinder Kaur and Richa Khanna

4:05 PM

(639d) Low Aqueous Solubility Measurement (down to 10-12 in molar fraction) of a 5 Arenes Polycondensed Hydrocarbons Using Dynamic Saturation Method
Joseph Saab, Ilham Mokbel, Cecile Lindemann, Juliette Stephan, Georgio Bassil, Naim Ouaini and Jacques Jose

4:30 PM

(639c) Magnetic EDTA: Coupling Heavy Metal Chelators to Metal Nanomagnets for Rapid Removal of Cadmium, Lead and Copper From Contaminated Water
Fabian M. Koehler, Evagelos K. Athanassiou, Michael Rossier, Markus Waelle, Robert N. Grass, Detlef Günther and Wendelin J. Stark

4:55 PM

(639e) Pharmaceuticals in Our Water Supply
Martha J. M. Wells

5:20 PM

(639f) Modeling Waste Water Treatment Plant Efficiency “An Integrated Approach"
Anjali K. Khambete and R.A. Chrisitan

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