| Surface Water Quality Kinetics Lab |
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| 860
Dow Environmental Sciences & Engineering |
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water quality engineering deals with the evaluation of pollutant impacts
on river, lakes, and reservoirs and the design of engineered works
to prevent or remediate problems. As with many other areas of engineering,
we seek to learn how things work to understand their kinetics. More
specifically, kinetics deals with rates. In surface water quality
engineering we might examine the rate at which a pollutant decays
following exposure to sunlight or the rate of algal growth in response
to additions of phosphorus or the rate at which fecal bacteria die
after discharge to a lake. The kinetic lab will house sophisticated
experimental and analytical equipment such a spectrophotometer, a
fluorometer, and an auto- titrator and will be the site for the execution
of radioisotope experiments to track kinetics in dilute systems such
as Lake Superior. This lab is closely linked to the Environmental
Chambers (810 and 817 Dow), a group of five controlled environment
rooms and two stand-alone units where light, temperature, and humidity
can be manipulated in conducting experiments. The kinetics lab is
conceived as the clean, dry, and quiet counterpart to the Surface
Water Quality Field Prep Laboratory (816 Dow) and will support
analytical needs relating to the Surface Water
Quality Sediment Laboratory (858 Dow). |
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