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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 ...
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. ...
Response Of Unsaturated Silty Sand Over A Wider Range Of Suction States Using A Novel Double-walled Triaxial Testing System
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-09-17)
In recent decades, the state-of-the-art of our understanding of unsaturated soil performance has been considerably enhanced by incorporating novel and advanced features to the conventional testing devices such as direct ...
Numerical Modeling Of Ground Movements Associated With Trenchless Box Jacking Technique
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-09-17)
The Trenchless Technology (TT) is defined as a family of methods used to install, renew, replace or renovate new pipe/box or existing pipe/box underground with little or no surface disruption. TT is divided into two main ...