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Wen's Research Group
Wen Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE
Principal Investigator
Professor
Phone: (973) 596-5520
Fax: (973) 596-5790
Email: wen.zhang@njit.edu
Office Location: Colton Hall 211
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Dr. Wen Zhang recently received an NSF grant with the Project Title: PFI-TT: Electrochemically Reactive Membrane Filtration for Enhanced Recalcitrant Pollutant Removal (award #: 2016472) under NSF 19-506 Partnerships for Innovation.
This Partnerships for Innovation-Technology Translation (PFI-TT) project is to promote industrialization and commercialization of innovative electrified or electrochemically reactive membrane filtration systems for water treatment and refractory pollutant degradation. For instance, the decentralized or point-of-use (POU) water and wastewater treatment facilities (e.g., landfill leachate, surface and groundwater remediation, and hospital discharge) could benefit from this intensified membrane process to eradicate the potentially hazardous water pollutants, improve downstream treatability or degradation efficiency and lower environmental and health risks from the exposure or discharge of the refractory water pollutants such as industrial solvents or additives. The research outcome will provide information for the rational design of electrochemical membrane systems that exhibit new features of both pollutant degradation and fouling mitigation as demonstrated in the figure below. Moreover, valuable research experiences and commercialization training will be offered to postdoc and students to become technology innovators and business leaders in membrane technologies. Under-represented and minority students will be recruited through the Garden State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (GS-LSAMP) program as well as student organizations or chapters.