A5029187549- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Membrane Separation Technologies
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Career Development and Diversity
- Environmental and Sediment Control
- Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues
- Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
- Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Fluid Dynamics and Mixing
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
United States Military Academy
2013-2024
American Military Academy
2024
Colorado State University
2018-2022
Mineral scaling is a major constraint that limits the performance of membrane distillation (MD) for hypersaline wastewater treatment. Although use antiscalants common industrial practice to mitigate mineral scaling, effectiveness and underlying mechanisms in inhibiting different types have not been systematically investigated. Herein, we perform comparative investigation elucidate efficiencies antiscalant candidates with varied functional groups mitigating gypsum silica MD desalination. We...
Leveraging waste heat has been considered to have significant potential for promoting the economic feasibility of wastewater treatment in unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production. However, its availability near well sites not fully understood other energy sources may be also feasible. In this work, we quantitatively investigate viability using well-pad natural power on-site by membrane distillation (MD) twenty randomly selected wells located Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin, U.S. Results show...
The effective treatment of unconventional oil and gas (UOG) wastewater is a promising potentially necessary strategy management in the UOG industry. While tremendous efforts have been focused on development technologies, logistical considerations such as transportation rarely studied literature. In this study, we applied spatial analysis tools based geographic information systems to quantitatively investigate effects distance cost centralized (CWT) deep-well injection (DWI) Weld County...
Abstract Each summer the United States Military Academy at West Point hosts approximately 1,110 rising high school seniors in a unique week-long immersive program called Summer Leader Experience (SLE). SLE students experience life Point, which includes exposure to academic majors, team-building athletic activities, and military training. participating department several three-hour workshops during groups of 20-25 learn about an discipline they could major. Students are allowed select...
Debates have been used as a tool to promote active learning in the classroom. Role-play debates bring more realism issue being debated. In junior-level environmental science course, role-play were utilized present and discuss controversial issues realistic scenarios that occur throughout United States. Using these platform, model build, assess, reflect on students' metacognition was developed implemented. This provides method assess student's metacognitive ability allow for reflection...
Food waste diversion to enhance biogas production for energy generation in municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is an emerging trend the United States. Using interested WWTP Fort Collins, Colorado a study was completed determine efficacy and viability of implementing food program utilizing as feedstock their existing anaerobic digesters production. The results concluded that would result loss approximately $2.5 million over 20 year period making unfeasible currently. However, use...
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production requires intensive freshwater consumption, but whether hydroclimate variation, which alters regional water availability, affects its activity footprint is still unknown. In this study, we investigate the temporal spatial correlations of drought intensity with UOG consumption in Colorado over a 13-year period. We found that variation has negligible or weak impact on well number production, monthly areas already under conditions could sustain up to...