Research activities in Environmental Engineering currently focus on Water and Wastewater treatment, Waste Management, Air pollution, Contaminant transport and Environmental Impact Assessment.
Current research projects include removal of pollutants from inland waters, water supplies, wastewater, and storm water runoff; optimization of physicochemical and biological treatment of groundwater, and industrial, municipal and toxic wastewater; thermodynamics of wastewater treatment; anaerobic granular sludge bed reactors and anaerobic fixed film reactors for treatment of chlorinated aromatic compounds, pulp mill effluents and landfill leachates; removal of other hazardous contaminants such as heavy metals, VOCs, PAHs etc.; activated carbon absorption; electrochemical regeneration of activated carbon; modelling of air stripping packed towers; development of novel membranes; biofilter and bioabsorbent applications to wastewater treatment; treatment using passive strategies; numerical modelling of biological and passive treatment systems; simulation and modelling of large-scale wastewater treatment plants with special attention to the analysis of noise and uncertainty; utilization of wetlands for the disposal of wastewater; prediction and modelling of wetland system performance; agricultural waste management; environmental impact assessment of industrial processes and engineering projects; management of solid, liquid and gaseous wastes in the nuclear fuel cycle; reactor design and reactor modelling; regulatory policy development and analysis; air pollution sources and control methods; dispersion modelling for point sources; characterization and modelling of criteria pollutant and air toxic emissions from mobile sources; sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources; receptor modelling for VOCs and particulates in urban micro environments.
See also: Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Environmental Engineering (OCIENE)