MRI: Acquistition of Instrumentation for Research on the Continuum of Aqueous Colloids and Particles in Natural and Engineered Environmental Systems

9871241 Kilduff获得用于研究自然和环境可再生系统中的胶体和颗粒的仪器这是一项为仪器提供支持的提案，该仪器将用于支持对胶体和颗粒在水悬浮液中的作用的研究，在环境污染物的运输和归宿中发挥作用。 将进行的研究重点是影响饮用水质量、影响水处理过程的性能、促成沉积物的形成并控制其向环境释放污染物以及在生物、化学和地质过程的影响下影响碳和其他营养物循环的胶体和颗粒。 具体而言，研究将涉及有机胶体在形成致癌、致突变和有毒消毒副产物中的作用;微生物胶体包括病毒、细菌和原生动物对水质的影响;颗粒在沉积物形成和相关污染物释放中的作用，以及在调节碳和其他营养物的循环运动中的作用。主要研究仪器（MRI）计划仪器开发和采购招标。 该仪器将用于研究正在进行的合作努力之间和伦斯勒理工学院的环境与能源工程，生物学，地球和环境科学系的教师，预计将协助它在发展一个强大的，多学科的研究重点胶体和颗粒水成分。

9871241 Kilduff ACQUISITION OF INSTRUMENTATION FOR RESEARCH ON AQUEOUS COLLOIDS AND PARTICLES IN NATURAL AND ENVIRONMENTALLY ENGINEERED SYSTEMS This is a proposal to provide support for instrumentation that will be utilized to support research on the role that colloids and particles in aqueous suspension play in transport and fate of environmental pollutants. Studies will be conducted that focus on colloids and particles that affect potable water quality, influence the performance of water treatment processes, contribute to the formation of sediments and control their release of contaminants to the environment, and that affect the cycling of carbon and other nutrients under the influence of biological, chemical and geologic processes. Specifically, the research will address the role of organic colloids in formation of carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic disinfection byproducts; impact of microbial colloids including viruses, bacteria and protozoa on water quality; role of particles in formation of sediments and release of associated contaminants and in mediating the cyclic movement of carbon and other nutrients.The proposal leading to this award was submitted in response to the 1998 Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program Instrument Development and Acquisition Solicitation. The instrumentation will be used in research being conducted in a collaborative effort between and among faculty in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Departments of Environmental and Energy Engineering, Biology, and Earth and Environmental Science and is expected to assist it in developing a strong, multidisciplinary research focus on colloidal and particulate aqueous constituents.