Abstract: A great deal can be done to improve student writing without asking engineering professors to teach writing as a separate subject. This paper explains how to hone writing skills by convincing engineering students to be ...

Abstract: The wastewater treatment plant operator's problem in collecting, storing, manipulating, and interpreting data is an information‐management problem. It is believed that the operator's performance in controlling the treatment ...

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate seasonal subseries and multipercentile graphs for analyzing trends in environmental data time series (Tukey 1977; Cleveland 1985). These simple graphical methods do not require ...

Abstract: Extensive pentachlorophenol (PCP) contamination and its increasing treatment costs motivate the search for better treatment alternatives. In this study, the feasibility and effectiveness of an anaerobic sludge digestion ...

Abstract: This paper describes work toward development of a convenient decision support system to improve everyday operation and control of the wastewater treatment process. The goal is to help the operator detect problems in the ...

Abstract: All monitoring data contain sampling and measurement errors. Even in a well‐managed monitoring program these errors may be quite large. Smoothing methods are presented that enhance the underlying signal and facilitate ...

Abstract: Semivolatile organic chemicals (SVOCs) in a treatment system may be dissolved in the liquid phase, adsorbed into the solid phase, become part of the gaseous phase, or be biologically degraded. Experiments on discovering ...

Abstract: This paper presents results of a study on the feasibility of using pozzolanic western coal fly ash, either by itself or mixed with sand, as a construction material for waste‐containment liners and impermeable covers. Liners ...

Abstract: Anaerobic pentachlorophenol (PCP) reductive dechlorination, commonly conducted in various media and systems, deprives chlorides from the PCP’s phenolic ring and has a great potential as an effective and harmless means in ...