The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Announces the Master’s in Environmental Engineering Thesis Defense of Andrew Pham
“Reducing Resource and Environmental Impacts in Water Resource Recovery Facilities: Design Practices for Small Communities”
Advisor: Bruce Dvorak
“Although water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) reduce environmental impacts related to water quality, their construction and operation result in negative environmental impacts in other categories. The Life Cycle Assessment methodology was used to evaluate and compare the inventory and environmental impacts of nine small WRRFs, most of which are serving slow growing or declining populations. From the analysis, three opportunities for impact mitigation were identified. The first suggested practice is to avoid significant overdesign by planning for no lower than a 75% capacity utilization. Other suggested practices were focused on the conveyance process element, namely, to minimize non-process facility area and to use polyvinyl chloride pipe instead of ductile iron pipe where possible.”
10:00 AM
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Zoom Link: https://unl.zoom.us/j/96435639504
More details at: http://cee.unl.edu