Project 4

Advancing VOC treatment with novel materials and processes

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The primary goal of Project 4 is to develop and demonstrate novel, material-driven processes for new VOC treatment strategies and technologies. Toward this goal, which is complicated by the nature of VOC occurrence and exposure, Project 4 aims to achieve broad-based VOC treatment capacities with high efficiencies, flexible operation, low energy inputs and no chemical additives, which will result in benign products.  

Project 4 is organized as an innovative, three-pronged project focused on materials that are capable of harnessing various irradiation energies (e.g., solar irradiation, microwaves) for broad VOC treatment, in addition to novel reactive membranes. In Year 6, Project 4 was launched and has made considerable progress since initiation. In Year 7, Project 4 was focused not only optimized material development that underpin the proposed VOC transformation processes but also related reaction pathways and mechanisms. Considerable progress was made toward demonstrating novel VOC reactivity/treatment across all project aims.   

 

Project 4 Faculty