Sustainable Solutions Laboratory

The Sustainable Solutions Lab focuses on drinking water quality, supply, treatment, and purification. This includes wastewater and industrial wastewater treatment using physical/chemical processes. Other areas of study include:

• Transition metal catalysis
• TiO2 photocatalysis, UV-enhanced technologies, Fenton's and Photo-Fenton's hydroxyl-radical based processes
• Other radical-based (i.e., superoxide, sulfate) destructive chemical oxidation technologies
• Membrane processes for drinking water, wastewater, and industrial water purification.

The laboratory is equipped with various technologies for the treatment and purification of water. Equipment includes:

• Novel UV/TiO2 suspension-type and immobilized-type photocatalytic reactors for water treatment
• UV and UV/H2O2 flow through photoreactors for water treatment and disinfection (Trojan UVLogic)
• Transition metal-based reactors for water treatment
• Reactors for dark and UV-enhanced oxidation of organics using the Fenton's reaction
• Reverse osmosis systems
• Membrane systems for studying the effect of fouling and biofouling in membrane processes for water purification
• Typical instrumentation and devices for determining drinking water quality and UV radiation properties.
  

781 Engineering Research Center
2901 Woodside Dr.
Cincinnati OH 45221