| Surface Water Quality Kinetics Lab |
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| 860 Dow Environmental Sciences & Engineering |
| Surface 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). |
Michigan
Technological University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, Michigan, 49931 - 1295, USA
Department Phone: 1-906-487-2520
Department Fax: 1-906-487-2943
Department E-mail: cee@mtu.edu