Groundwater Group | Flows Research Group
With the recent expansion of the Environmental Engineering program, research activities are now focused on both surface and subsurface water quality issues. Extensive use is made of numerical simulation techniques as well as controlled laboratory and field experimentation.
In the areas of surface water quality and biotechnological processes, current topics of investigation include the design and operation of low technology wastewater treatment systems for on-site and unserviced applications, and the use of integrated environmental management techniques for the control of surface water degradation resulting from urban storm runoff. In the area of subsurface water quality, research within the Groundwater Group is being directed at the development of numerical models to simulate multiphase/multicomponent flow and transport in both porous and fractured media, as well as the performance of laboratory experiments to evaluate remedial technologies for the clean-up of chemical spill sites contaminated by hazardous industrial liquids such as PCB oils, jet fuel, and chlorinated solvents.
Bruce C. Anderson
- Small Scale Innovative Wastewater Treatment
- Integrated Environmental Management of Urban Runoff
Pascale Champagne
- Biomass conversion
- Recovery of higher-value chemicals from waste biomass
- Bionergy
- Solid waste management; minimizing the impact of municipal, agricultural and industrial activities on surface water and groundwater contamination
- composting and biostabilization of municipal, agricultural and industrial biosolids
- Passive treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters and leachates
- http://www.queensu.ca/researchers/spotlights/champagne/
- Interview with Dr. Pascale Champagne, Ph.D., P.Eng., D.WRE
Bernard H. Kueper
- Groundwater Contamination
- Subsurface Remediation
- Hydrology of Fractured Rock
Kevin G. Mumford
- Subsurface remediation of petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents
- Laboratory investigation of multiphase flow and nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution
- Behaviour of gases in the subsurface (remediation, biogenic, carbon dioxide)
- Innovative approaches for brownfield risk assessment
Kent Novakowski
- Aqueous Phase Transport in Fracture Networks
- Hydraulic Testing Methods for Fractured Bedrock
- Sustainable Water Supply in Regional Bedrock Aquifers
- Hydrology of Fractured Rock
R. Kerry Rowe
- Contaminant Migration
- Landfill Design
- Liners and other Contaminant Barriers
- Geosynthetics in Environmental Applications
Yves Filion
- Climate Change Mitigation in Drinking Water Systems
- Climate Change Adaptation in Drinking Water Systems
- Sustainable Water Re-Use for Non-Potable Applications
- Enhanced Disease Surveillance and Protection in Drinking Water Systems
- Nutrient and Pollutant Removal in Bioretention Systems in Cold Climates