讲座人:Ching-Hua Huang, Ph.D
讲座时间:2014年5月28日下午4:00
讲座地点:address
讲座内容:摘要介绍：Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs)encompass a wide range of chemicals and materials that may include pharmaceuticals, personal care products, new disinfection by-products, industrial chemicals, and nanomaterials. Many CECs pose potential health and ecological risks to the environment due to their known higher toxicity or potential adverse effects individually or in a mixture. Impact of wastewater discharges in urban areas has led to contamination of surface and ground waters with numerous CECs. Moreover, there is a growing need to reuse municipal wastewater for potable supplies due to growing populations and scarcity and unreliability of existing fresh water sources. A better understanding of the fate of CECs and development of effective treatment technologies for their removal are critically needed. Dr. Ching-Hua Huang has devoted much of her research career thus far to the study of CECs. In this presentation, she will highlight several recent studies from her group including: (1) the environmental hydrolytic and photolytic transformations of ionophore antibiotics, the second most selling veterinary pharmaceutical group in the U.S.; (2) advanced oxidation treatment technologies for mitigating CECs; and (3) formation and control of nitrogenous disinfection by-products during water treatment. Particularly, the research efforts to elucidate the fundamental reaction kinetics and mechanisms, advance environmental chemistry knowledge, and develop engineering strategies will be discussed. Future research interests will also be discussed. Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0512, USA Phone: 404-894-7694; E-mail: ching-hua.huang@ce.gatech.edu BIOGRAPHY Dr. Ching-Hua Huang is a Full Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Huang received PhD and MS degrees in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins Universityand BS degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University. Dr. Huang’s recent research interests include environmental fate and treatment of emerging contaminants in natural and built systems, formation and control of emerging disinfection by-products, and transformation and immobilization of heavy metals in energy production wastes. Dr. Huang has published more than eighty peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters and conference proceeding papers and is a frequent invited speaker at many international conferences. Her research activities have been funded by various agencies including National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Water Research Foundation, Environmental Research and Education Foundation, and industries.
讲座时间:2014年5月28日下午4:00
讲座地点:address
讲座内容:摘要介绍：Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs)encompass a wide range of chemicals and materials that may include pharmaceuticals, personal care products, new disinfection by-products, industrial chemicals, and nanomaterials. Many CECs pose potential health and ecological risks to the environment due to their known higher toxicity or potential adverse effects individually or in a mixture. Impact of wastewater discharges in urban areas has led to contamination of surface and ground waters with numerous CECs. Moreover, there is a growing need to reuse municipal wastewater for potable supplies due to growing populations and scarcity and unreliability of existing fresh water sources. A better understanding of the fate of CECs and development of effective treatment technologies for their removal are critically needed. Dr. Ching-Hua Huang has devoted much of her research career thus far to the study of CECs. In this presentation, she will highlight several recent studies from her group including: (1) the environmental hydrolytic and photolytic transformations of ionophore antibiotics, the second most selling veterinary pharmaceutical group in the U.S.; (2) advanced oxidation treatment technologies for mitigating CECs; and (3) formation and control of nitrogenous disinfection by-products during water treatment. Particularly, the research efforts to elucidate the fundamental reaction kinetics and mechanisms, advance environmental chemistry knowledge, and develop engineering strategies will be discussed. Future research interests will also be discussed. Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0512, USA Phone: 404-894-7694; E-mail: ching-hua.huang@ce.gatech.edu BIOGRAPHY Dr. Ching-Hua Huang is a Full Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Huang received PhD and MS degrees in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins Universityand BS degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University. Dr. Huang’s recent research interests include environmental fate and treatment of emerging contaminants in natural and built systems, formation and control of emerging disinfection by-products, and transformation and immobilization of heavy metals in energy production wastes. Dr. Huang has published more than eighty peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters and conference proceeding papers and is a frequent invited speaker at many international conferences. Her research activities have been funded by various agencies including National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Water Research Foundation, Environmental Research and Education Foundation, and industries.