Resilient water & infrastructure, by design.
The Water Environment & Resource Recovery Lab is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of civil engineering through rigorous research, innovative problem-solving, and collaboration with industry and government partners.
Our team comprises professors, researchers, graduate students, and industry collaborators working across six major domains: structural, geotechnical, transportation, hydraulic, materials, and environmental engineering. We are committed to producing high-impact publications, developing novel engineering solutions, and training the next generation of civil engineers.
Water Quality
Raising dissolved oxygen in water. Our multistage vortex aerator uses staged vortex flow and high-purity oxygen to reach over 40 mg/L in 60 minutes.
Digital Twins
Models that mirror real treatment systems. Our gas transfer model, built on oxygen mass and molar balances, simulates dissolved-oxygen change inside the aerator.
Water Resources
Treatment tested on real water bodies. Our biochar removes 76.5–97.3% of phosphate from lake, river and sewage water, and stays effective from pH 2 to 12.
Sustainability
Turning waste into treatment media. Mussel shells and spent coffee grounds become a calcium-rich biochar that captures up to 375.6 mg of phosphate per gram.
Machine Learning
Data-driven models built on our adsorption and oxygen-transfer experiments, to predict treatment performance across temperatures, pressures and water conditions.
Environmental
Closing the nutrient loop from water to soil. Phosphate-laden biochar works as a slow-release fertilizer, lifting radish dry biomass by 63.1% and improving soil pH.
Work with us
lab@university.edu · Tel: 051-200-5738