2014 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Treatment of Emerging/Hazardous Contaminants

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.

Chair

Robert W. Peters, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Co-Chairs

Ramesh Chawla, Howard University
Eunsung Kan, University of Hawaii

Presentations

08:30 AM

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

08:48 AM

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

09:06 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, Jihyun R. Kim

09:24 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, Raul Ocampo-Perez

09:42 AM

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