2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Environmental Advances in Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Treatment

Sponsored by Environmental Division and co-sponsored by Nuclear Engineering Division, this session covers the following topics: • Waste processing/treatment • Pollution (air, water, soil, radiation) • Groundwater modeling • Performance assessment • Environmental impact study • Life cycle assessment

Chair

Dr. Robert W. Peters, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Co-Chairs

Thong Hang, Savannah River National Laboratory
Ramesh Chawla, Howard University
Eunsung Kan, University of Hawaii

Presentations

12:30 PM

(528a) Density Functional Theory Study of the Hydrolysis of a Sodium Borosilicate Glass
Denise C. Ford, Peter Zapol, Haiying He

12:55 PM

(528b) Pore Saturation Model for Capillary Imbibition and Drainage Pressures
James Laurinat

01:20 PM

(528c) Technetium Leaching Cementitious Materials
J.C. Seaman, S.P. Simner, H.S. Chang, F. Coutelot

01:45 PM

(528d) Remediation of Uranium-Contaminated Groundwater By Functionalized Magnetic Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles
Dien Li, Shani Egodawatte, Dan Kaplan, Steven Serkiz, Sarah Larsen, John Seaman, Kirk Scheckel

02:10 PM

(528e) Kinetics of Simultaneous Transformation of Co-Existing Mixed Contaminant Media of Cr(VI) and TCE Using Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron (nZVI)
Daniel Attoh, Aadarsh Shah, Ramesh Chawla

02:35 PM

(528f) Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Environmental Treatment Design Using Parallel Computational Methods: Theory and Application
Larry M. Deschaine