A5005946284- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Fecal contamination and water quality
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Biosensors and Analytical Detection
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Heavy metals in environment
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
Michigan State University
2019-2023
Stantec (United States)
2015
The rising trend in water conservation has led to the use of water-efficient fixtures for residential potable systems, which raises concerns about increasing age and degraded quality at tap.
Abstract Sustainability, water conservation, efficiency, and green infrastructure have led to significant decreases in the quantity of used buildings. In addition, changes usage, building design, plumbing material selection, high‐efficiency fixtures contribute age potential chemical microbiological contamination. Through a literature review stakeholder workshop with representatives from public private sectors, this article explores current state science on safety. Results indicate that links...
Abstract Opportunistic pathogens, such as several species of Legionella , are a growing concern globally. This is especially true in building plumbing. Plumbing design guidance has not been updated to reflect changes use, leading increased hydraulic retention time and exacerbating pathogen risks. While the effects water quality variables on spp. concentrations well‐studied at bench‐scale, little known about strength of, or interactions between, these relationships full‐scale The influence...
Abstract The residence time of water in residential building systems is a critical factor regarding quality at end use. Published literature has highlighted the importance age these and its relationship with pathogenic bacteria such as Legionella pneumophila . However, tools to measure plumbing are typically repurposed from other applications include limitations that make them inappropriate for some systems. This work presents novel means estimating by assuming operate without mixing. Data...
When rainwater harvesting is utilized as an alternative water resource in buildings, a combination of municipal and typically required to meet demands. Altering source chemistry can disrupt pipe scale biofilm negatively impact quality at the distribution level. Still, it unknown if similar reactions occur within building plumbing following transition quality. The goal this study was investigate changes microbiology green between rainwater. We monitored (metals, alkalinity, disinfectant...
Wastewater generated during food processing is commonly treated using land-application systems which primarily rely on soil microbes to transform nutrients and organic compounds into benign byproducts. Naturally occurring metals in the may be chemically reduced via microbially mediated oxidation-reduction reactions as oxygen becomes depleted. Some such manganese iron become water soluble when reduced, leading groundwater contamination. Alternatively, within wastewater not assimilated leach...
Identification and isolation of contagious individuals along with quarantine close contacts, is critical for slowing the spread COVID-19. Large-scale testing in a surveillance or screening capacity asymptomatic carriers COVID-19 provides both data on viral follow-up ability to rapidly test during suspected outbreaks. The early detection program at Michigan State University has been utilizing large-scale since fall 2020. methods adapted here take advantage reliability, large sample volume,...
Abstract Understanding the end-use of water is essential to a plethora critical research in premise plumbing. However, direct access data through physical sensors prohibitively expensive for most researchers, building owners, operators, and practitioners. Therefore, machine learning models can alleviate these costs by predicting downstream events (e.g., sink, shower, dishwasher, washing machine) via an affordable subset upstream sensors. Choosing which sensors, as well preprocessing methods,...
Identification and isolation of contagious individuals along with quarantine close contacts, is critical for slowing the spread COVID-19. Large-scale testing in a surveillance or screening capacity asymptomatic carriers COVID-19 provides both data on viral follow-up ability to rapidly test during suspected outbreaks. The early detection program at Michigan State University has been utilizing large-scale since fall 2020. methods adapted here take advantage reliability, large sample volume,...