NA-ISMET 2014 Co-Chairs

Dr. Bruce Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Logan's main area of research interest is in the Sustainability of the Water Infrastructure. Energy demands of the water infrastructure use 5% of our electricity generation in the US. Thus, the areas of most active research in the Logan laboratory for ensuring water sustainability are in BioEnergy, or methods of producing electricity or energy carriers such as hydrogen from biomass. Specific research topics include bioelectricity using microbial fuel cells and biohydrogen production using microbial electrolysis cells (MECs or BEAMR) or by fermentation. Other main interest areas are in water treatment using biological processes to target specific chemicals such as perchlorate, and the general study of bacterial adhesion for the purposes of bioaugmentation for remediation of contaminated aquifers.

 

Dr. Jay Regan, Professor of Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

Research interests include biological processes with an emphasis on nutrient removal, regrowth in drinking water distribution systems, fermentative biological hydrogen production, microbial fuel cells, methanogenic systems and molecular microbial ecology. His research explores the microbial ecology and performance of biological systems in environmental engineering. Specific systems of interest include nitrification in drinking water systems; biofilm monitoring; and waste conversion to energy using anaerobic digestion, fermentative hydrogen production and microbial fuel cells.

 

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