CAREER: Optimizing Flux and Rejection in Pressure Driven Membrane Processes by Exploiting Electrostatic Interactions Near the Membrane Surface

琼斯9734429这是一个奖项，以支持在雅阁与教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划，NSF 97-87提交建议的指导方针提出的项目。 主要研究者的研究目标是进行研究创新程序的工作，使膜作为水和废水处理过程的组成部分，不会受到污染。 她计划使用离子注入技术来赋予膜表面永久电荷。 通过该技术产生的静电屏障可以提供减少溶质在膜表面上的积聚的屏障。 预期这有助于防止膜结垢。 在与NSF 97-87的雅阁中，首席研究员计划使用她的研究结果作为向本科生和中学生教授技术和非技术问题解决技能的平台。 她希望通过将创新的教学技术纳入课堂讲座，开发基于网络的环境工程课程，并制定有效的推广计划，以吸引和留住少数民族学生参加教育计划，从而提高环境工程实践的能力。 ***

Jones 9734429 This is an award to support a project proposed in accord with the Guidelines for Submission of Proposals to the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, NSF 97-87. The Principal Investigator's research objective is to conduct work that will investigate innovative procedures to make membranes as components of processes for treatment of water and wastewater that are not subject to fouling. She plans on using an ion implanting technique to impart a permanent charge to membrane surfaces. The electrostatic barrier produced by this technique may provide a barrier that decreases the accumulation of solutes on the membrane surface. This is expected to assist in preventing fouling of the membranes. In accord with NSF 97-87, the Principal Investigator plans on using the results of her research as a platform for teaching both technical and nontechnical problem-solving skills to undergraduate and secondary school students. She expects to do this by incorporating innovative teaching techniques into classroom lectures, development of a web-based course in environmental engineering and development of an effective outreach program targeted to attract and retain minority students in educational programs that lead to competence in environmental engineering practice. ***