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Dr. Edris Madadian was an environmentalist before he became an engineer, a passion he now wears on his sleeve as a postdoctoral researcher. His research focuses on contamination from pharmaceutical and personal care products that go down our drains or are flushed down toilets and become sewage sludge, a by-product of wastewater treatment. The disposal of COVID-19 personal
Date Time High-risk, high-reward research Four high-risk, high-reward research projects led by Waterloo Engineering professors were awarded a total of $1 million in federal funding this week. Each of the projects is eligible for up to $250,000 over two years under the New Frontiers in Research Fund 2020 Exploration program, which brings researchers from different disciplines together to pursue breakthrough ideas. The engineering-led projects at Waterloo – six projects were approved campus-wide – are headed by Nandita Basu of civil and environmental engineering, Boxin Zhao and Luis Ricarde...
HAMILTON — If you drive down the Burlington Skyway into Hamilton, you might notice a large globe poking out above the wastewater-treatment plant. Painted to look like the Earth, it’s the gas tank for a generation unit that has been turning wastewater sludge into a renewable energy source — biogas — for more than 15 years. While biogas projects can be complicated to pull off, advocates say they’re good for the environment and the economy — and they’re gaining ground in Hamilton and Niagara. Biogas is a mix of gases produced when organic matter breaks down in a low-oxygen enviro...