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Enhancing Selective Decomposition Of Ibuprofen Onto Porous TiO₂ Nanoparticles
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-03-10)
Advanced oxidation technologies have gained tremendous attention for water treatment purposes after demonstration of insufficient efficiency of conventional systems for removal of many emerging chemicals of concern. ...
Large Diameter Steel Pipe Field Test Using Controlled Low Strength Material And Staged Construction Modeling Using 3-D Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Using finite element methods and field tests, an extensive study on selected steel pipes is devised for the Integrated Pipeline Project in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The project integrates Tarrant Regional Water District ...
Leachate Recirculation Modeling Using Vertical Wells In Bioreactor Landfills
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is made up of household and commercial waste. Total MSW generated in USA in 2009 was 243 million tons and 54.3% of this waste generation was landfilled (EPA, 2009). MSW buried in landfills ...
A Refined Approach To Identifying And Quantifying Clay And Non -clay Minerals In Expansive Soils
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-07-14)
Expansive soils exhibit substantial swelling and shrinkage due to moisture fluctuations. Predicting this volume change behavior of expansive soils has been a major challenge to the engineers in the past few years. One of ...
A Comparative Study Of Carbon Nanotubes And Granular Activated Carbon: Physicochemical Properties And Adsorption Capacities
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Adsorption technologies with activated carbon have proven their prominence in wide variety of industrial applications for the removal of pollutants from gaseous streams for generations. Nanoadsorbents due to their unique ...
Selective Catalytic Reduction Of Nitric Oxide Over Cerium-doped Activated Carbons
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-03-10)
Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) with ammonia for diesel engine NOx reduction using activated carbon (AC) was studied. Comparisons of unmodified and cerium-doped Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), Activated Carbon Fiber ...
Performance Of Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe (PCCP) In Water Applilcations
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-07-14)
The analysis of water pipes failure data is of great importance as it has a significant impact society and the environment. These failures also have the overall impact on the financial burden on the water industry. This ...
Transformation of, in, and by Learning in a Service-Learning Faculty Fellows Program
(The University of Louisiana System, 2014)
Transformative learning is the
most desired core outcome in adult
education. The qualitative study
examined critical reflections for
professional transformation related to
development and implementation of
service-learning ...
Investigation of an association between childhood leukemia incidences and airports in Texas
(Turkish National Committee for Air Pollution Research and Control (TUNCAP), 2014)
As worldwide demand for air travel increases, emissions from airports will likely also increase. Airport emissions pose a
concern due to lack of information about their quantity and impacts on human health and the ...
Comparative Analysis Of Flood Frequency Based On Radar-based Precipitation Data And Precipitation Trends
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-09-17)
This study utilizes radar-based precipitation data from the National Weather Service West Gulf River Forecast Center to extract the depth-area-duration relationships via the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' software HEC-MetVue. ...