660 Treatment of Emerging/Hazardous Contaminants

Thursday, November 20, 2014: 8:30 AM
M303 (Marriott Marquis Atlanta)
Description:
This session addresses treatment systems and performance of emerging contaminants (such as personal care products, pharmaceutical chemicals, endocrine disrupting compounds, etc.) using various physical/chemical/biological treatment systems, either in laboratory-scale studies, pilot-scale investigations, or full-scale remediation activities, including case histories.

Sponsor:
Hazardous Waste
Co-Sponsor(s):
Legislation and Regulation (09E), Chemical Engineering & the Law Forum (24), International Committee (18I)

Chair:
Robert W. Peters
Email: rwpeters@uab.edu

Co-chairs:
Ramesh Chawla
Email: rchawla@howard.edu

Eunsung Kan
Email: ekan@hawaii.edu


8:30 AM
(660a) Removal of Cadmium Ions from Aqueous Solution Using a New Low-Cost Biosorbent
Alireza Saraeian, Atefe Hadi and Abbas Ghassemi

8:48 AM
(660b) Environmental Remediation of Dense Non-Aqueous-Phase Liquids Using Multifunctional Iron-Carbon Nanocomposites
Yang Su, Bhanukiran Sunkara, Owoseni Olasehinde, Yueheng Zhang, Jingjing Zhan, Gary McPherson and Vijay T. John

9:06 AM
(660c) Adsorption and Oxidative Degradation of Bisphenol a on Surface Modified Iron-Amended Activated Carbon: Effects of Temperature on Adsorption and Fenton Oxidation
Eunsung Kan and Jihyun R. Kim

9:24 AM
(660d) Removal of Metronidazole and Dimetridazole from Aqueous Solution By Adsorption on Multiwalled and Singlewalled Carbon Nanotubes
Roberto Leyva-Ramos, Damarys H Carrales-Alvarado and Raul Ocampo-Perez

9:42 AM
(660e) Synthesis of Zirconium Nanoparticles Doped Activated Carbon Fiber for Optimized Adsorption for Arsenic Removal
J. Paul Chen
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