Joel J. Ducoste
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Associate Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental EngineeringWater Resources/Environmental Engineering Office: 319-C Mann Hall |
Research Interests
Dr. Ducoste has research experience in the operation and design of chemical mixing, flocculation, sedimentation, and disinfection processes in drinking water treatment. Dr. Ducoste is an expert in modeling water and wastewater treatment process fluid mechanics using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and has developed CFD models for analysis of disinfection contactors and microbial inactivation, wastewater secondary clarifiers and activated sludge processes, rapid mix chambers, chemical injection devices, flocculation basins, filter backwash cycle, UV disinfection and advance oxidation processes. Dr Ducoste's research interests include advanced water/wastewater treatment modeling, computational fluid dynamics modeling, physico-chemical processes in water treatment, experimental fluid dynamics, solid/liquid separation processes, rapid mixing and flocculation design, chemical and UV disinfection, water treatment process scaleup, and water/wastewater process optimization.
Education
- PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1996
- Meng, Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988
Representative Publications
Liu, D., J.J. Ducoste, S. Jin, K. Linden, 2004, Evaluation of Alternative Fluence Rate Distribution Models, Journal Water Supply and Research-AQUA, in press.
Baeza, C. and J.J. Ducoste, 2004 A Non-Biological Surrogate for Sequential Disinfection Processes, Water Research, 38, pp 3400-3410.
Ortiz, V., J.J., Ducoste, 2004, Modeling Low Energy Mixers for Chemical Dispersion in Drinking Water Treatment, Environmental Engineering Science 21(2) 241-262
Hopkins, C., J.J. Ducoste, 2003, Characterizing Flocculation under Heterogeneous Turbulence, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, (264), pp. 184-194.
Chaiprapat, S., J.J. Cheng, J.J. Classen, J.J Ducoste, S.K. Liehr, 2003, Modeling Nitrogen Transport In Duckweed Pond For Secondary Treatment Of Swine Wastewater, Journal of Environmental Engineering ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 8, pp. 731-739.
Peplinski, D, J.J. Ducoste, 2002, Modeling Disinfection Contactor Hydraulics Under Uncertainty, Journal of Environmental Engineering ASCE, 128 (11), pp. 1056-1067.
Professional Memberships
American Water Works Association
American Society of Engineering Education
National Society of Professional Engineers
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