Celebrating World Water Day with our researchers

Today, on World Water Day, we are shining a spotlight on two remarkable members of our community who are making waves in water-energy research, by sharing their recent work. Join us in celebrating their commitment to a healthier, more sustainable world.

First, Prof. David Latulippe (Dept. of Chemical Engineering) and graduate student Abhishek Premachandra are optimizing the performance of water treatment coagulants through analytical centrifugation, an optical technique that rapidly evaluates the stability of multiphase solutions.

Publication:

Premachandra et al., “High-throughput screening to evaluate optimum coagulation conditions via colloidal stability analysis”, Chemosphere, Volume 341, 2023, 139798

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139798

Then, Prof. Stuart Linley, also from the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, shares with us about solar reforming. Solar reforming uses sunlight to transform waste into useful chemicals. Here, reusable, floating carbon nitride composites absorb solar energy and oxidize PET while producing hydrogen gas to tackle plastic waste and green fuels, simultaneously.

Publication:

Stuart Linley and Erwin Reisner, “Floating Carbon Nitride Composites for Practical Solar Reforming of Pre-Treated Wastes to Hydrogen Gas”, Advanced Science, 10 (21), 2207314, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202207314