CAREER: Developing Heterogeneous Catalysts from Naturally-Occurring and Benign Materials to Treat Organic and Inorganic Contaminants via Reductive Transformation Reactions

9875763 Schlautman该奖项旨在支持对天然存在的良性材料转化为有效的多相催化剂的过程的研究，用于从水，土壤和沉积物中去除有机和无机污染物。 将通过进行固定化过程以产生催化剂，使用所产生的催化剂来破坏选定的有机和无机目标污染物，将目标污染物吸附到失活的催化剂上，固定化催化剂的长期可行性。导致这一奖项的建议是在回应教师早期职业发展（CAREER）提交该计划强调将新知识的发现与启发式教学和热情学习相结合。 该项目的研究部分预计将提供可应用于净化水、土壤和沉积物的工艺和系统的工程设计的知识。 教育部分将为本科生和研究生提供有关有机和无机污染物被仿生催化剂破坏时发生的过程的知识，作为将此过程与氧化反应耦合的一步，并开发更有效的系统来净化环境介质。 该项目还将为学生提供现代技术，用于研究在环境工程实践中具有重要意义的物理和化学过程，并有机会观察其在处理过程和系统的工程设计中的专业应用。 ***

9875763 Schlautman This is an award to support research on the process by which naturally-occurring and benign materials can be converted into efficient heterogeneous catalysts for use in processes to remove organic and inorganic contaminants from water, soils and sediments. The efficacy of immobilizing biomimetic catalysts on natural mineral substrates will be investigated by conducting the immobilization process to produce catalysts, using the catalysts produced to destroy selected organic and inorganic target pollutants, adsorbing target pollutants to inactivated catalysts and finally determination of the long-term viability of the immobilized catalysts.The proposal leading to this award was submitted in response to the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program which emphasizes combining discovery of new knowledge with inspired teaching and enthusiastic learning. The research component of this project is expected to provide knowledge that can be applied in engineering design of processes and systems to decontaminate water, soil and sediments. The educational component will provide undergraduate and graduate students with knowledge of the processes that occur when organic and inorganic pollutants are destroyed by biomimetic catalysts as a step toward coupling this process with oxidation reactions and development of even more efficient systems to decontaminate environmental media. This project will also provide students with access to modern techniques for study of physical and chemical processes that are significant in environmental engineering practice and opportunity to observe their professional application in engineering design of treatment processes and systems. ***