Browsing Scholarly Works, Civil and Environmental Engineering by Title
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Lead release to potable water during the Flint, Michigan water crisis as revealed by routine biosolids monitoring data
(2019-09-01)Routine biosolids monitoring data provides an independent and comprehensive means to estimate water lead release pre-, during and post-Flint Water Crisis (FWC). The mass of potable plumbing-related metals ( i.e., lead, ... -
Light-driven nitrous oxide production via autotrophic denitrification by self-photosensitized Thiobacillus denitrificans
(2019-06)N2O (Nitrous oxide, a booster oxidant in rockets) has attracted increasing interest as a means of enhancing energy production, and it can be produced by nitrate (NO3-) reduction in NO3--loading wastewater. However, ... -
Liquefaction Hazard in the Groningen Region of the Netherlands due to Induced Seismicity
(2020-08-01)The operator of the Groningen gas field is leading an effort to quantify the seismic hazard and risk of the region due to induced earthquakes, including overseeing one of the most comprehensive liquefaction hazard studies ... -
Listeria monocytogenes in Retail Delicatessens: An Interagency Risk Assessment-Risk Mitigations
(2016-07)Cross-contamination, improper holding temperatures, and insufficient sanitary practices are known retail practices that may lead to product contamination and growth of Listeria monocytogenes. However, the relative importance ... -
Long-term performance of a 200 liter modularized microbial fuel cell system treating municipal wastewater: treatment, energy, and cost
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016-02-04)Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have been intensively studied at a bench scale and the further development of this technology requires system scaling up and understanding of their performance under non-laboratory conditions. ... -
A Machine Learning Framework to Infer Time-of-Use of Flexible Loads: Resident Behavior Learning for Demand Response
(IEEE, 2020-06-26)Load shapes obtained from smart meter data are commonly utilized to understand daily energy use patterns for adaptive operations in applications such as Demand Response (DR). However, they do not provide information on the ... -
Management Options for Reducing the Release of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes to the Environment
(Us Dept Health Human Sciences Public Health Science, 2013-08-01)Background: There is growing concern worldwide about the role of polluted soil and water environments in the development and dissemination of antibiotic resistance. Objective: Our aim in this study was to identify ... -
Mathematical modeling based evaluation and simulation of boron removal in bioelectrochemical systems
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mD-Resilience: A Multi-Dimensional Approach for Resilience-Based Performance Assessment in Urban Transportation
(MDPI, 2020-06-15)As demonstrated for extreme events, the resilience concept is used to evaluate the ability of a transportation system to resist and recover from disturbances. Motivated by the high cumulative impact of recurrent perturbations ... -
Mechanical Properties of Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator (MSWI) Bottom Ash as Alternatives of Subgrade Materials
(Hindawi, 2020-01-30)The rapid development of industrialization, urbanization, and population of the society augments the rising amount of municipal solid waste (MSW). With the advantage of considerably reducing mass and volume of solid wastes ... -
Mechanistic insights into the effect of humidity on airborne influenza virus survival, transmission and incidence
(Royal Society Publishing, 2019-01-16)Influenza incidence and seasonality, along with virus survival and transmission, appear to depend at least partly on humidity, and recent studies have suggested that absolute humidity (AH) is more important than relative ... -
Mechanistic understanding of the NOB suppression by free ammonia inhibition in continuous flow aerobic granulation bioreactors
(2019-10)A partial nitritation continuous flow reactor (CFR) was operated for eight months demonstrating that partial nitritation granular sludge can remain stable under continuous flow conditions. The ammonia oxidizing bacteria ... -
MetaCompare: a computational pipeline for prioritizing environmental resistome risk
(2018-07)The spread of antibiotic resistance is a growing public health concern. While numerous studies have highlighted the importance of environmental sources and pathways of the spread of antibiotic resistance, a systematic means ... -
Metagenomic Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Dairy Cow Feces following Therapeutic Administration of Third Generation Cephalosporin
(PLOS, 2015-08-10)Although dairy manure is widely applied to land, it is relatively understudied compared to other livestock as a potential source of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) to the environment and ultimately to human pathogens. ... -
Metagenomic profiling of historic Colorado Front Range flood impact on distribution of riverine antibiotic resistance genes
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016-12-05)Record-breaking floods in September 2013 caused massive damage to homes and infrastructure across the Colorado Front Range and heavily impacted the Cache La Poudre River watershed. Given the unique nature of this watershed ... -
A Micro-Scale Investigation on the Behaviors of Asphalt Mixtures under Freeze-Thaw Cycles Using Entropy Theory and a Computerized Tomography Scanning Technique
(MDPI, 2018-01-23)The thermodynamic behavior of asphalt mixtures is critical to the engineers since it directly relates to the damage in asphalt mixtures. However, most of the current research of the freeze-thaw damage of asphalt mixtures ... -
Microbial composition of purified waters and implications for regrowth control in municipal water systems
(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015-08-25)The limits of water treatment to control microbial regrowth were examined using highly purified waters. Measurable microbial genetic material was detected in the product water in a survey of thirteen laboratory pure water ... -
Microbiota and Antibiotic Resistome of Lettuce Leaves and Radishes Grown in Soils Receiving Manure-Based Amendments Derived From Antibiotic-Treated Cows
(Frontiers Media, 2019-04-10)Cattle are commonly administered antibiotics, resulting in excretion of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). The aim of this study was to determine if the use of dairy ... -
Mitigation of bidirectional solute flux in forward osmosis via membrane surface coating of zwitterion functionalized carbon nanotubes
(Elsevier, 2019-07-08)Forward osmosis (FO) has emerged as a promising membrane technology to yield high-quality reusable water from various water sources. A key challenge to be solved is the bidirectional solute flux (BSF), including reverse ... -
Modeling the Effects of Turbulence on Hyporheic Exchange and Local-to-Global Nutrient Processing in Streams
(2018-09)New experimental techniques are allowing, for the first time, direct visualization of mass and momentum transport across the sediment-water interface in streams. These experimental insights are catalyzing a renaissance in ...
