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Mission:
The Environmental Chemistry Laboratory at the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (ATMC) is established to provide the needed resources to link the University's mission with industry's technology needs.
Through the collaboration, the industry partners will have research done to develop new technologies for their market or to solve their technical problems, to build prototypes for field demonstration or commercial exhibition, and to evaluate and validate their new products and processes.
Areas of Expertise:
Chemical, environmental, biological and material sciences and technologies.
Equipment:
Since moving into the new building in the South Cost Science and Technology Park, the ATMC has invested more than $100,000 in modern instrumentation for the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory. Recent acquisitions include a Perkin Elmer AAnalyst 300 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AA) with graphite furnace, a Perkin Elmer LAMBDA EZ 201 UV/VIS Spectroscopy, a Buck Scientific BLC-20 High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) with UV detector, a Buck Scientific Model 910 Gas Chromatograph (GC) with FID, TCD and ECD, a Buck Scientific Model 500 Infrared Spectrometer (IR), a Precision Scientific Coliform Incubator, a Precision Scientific Shaking Bath Model 25, a NAPCO Model 8000-DSE Autoclave, a New Brunswick Scientific INNOVA 2100 Platform Shaker, and a Brinkmann 719 S Titrino Autotitrator.
Through the participation of faculty members from the Department of Textile and Material Sciences, the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory has access to all modern instrumentation for material science and surface engineering study. Research and teaching facility include a Jeol JHM-5610 scanning electronic microscope (SEM), a Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR), a BET for surface area, a Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), an Instron tensile tester and a Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA).
Faculty Affiliates and Their Specialties:
The Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center is committed to support creative and proactive research collaborations to bring industry partners, government agencies, faculty and students together to develop new technologies and to address technical issues. The Environmental Chemistry Laboratory has established interdisciplinary faculty working groups on emerging technologies to develop new research collaborations. These are the faculty affiliates and their areas of specializations.
Dr. Luke Chen
Air pollution control, indoor air quality, and computer simulation
Dr. Debra J. Ellis
Microbial and molecular ecology, soil biogeochemistry and biotechnology
Dr. Qinguo Fan
Chemical analysis, color science, dye chemistry, and industrial wastewater treatment
Dr. Yong K. Kim
Fiber and polymer physics, composite materials and medical textiles
Dr. Armand Lewis
Surface chemistry, composite materials, fiber and polymer physics, and textile chemistry
Dr. Frank J. Scarano
Molecular epidemiology and clinical microbiology
Dr. Sukalyan Sengupta
Environmental engineering and municipal wastewater treatment
Dr. Samuel Ugbolue
Polymer and fiber science, yarn manufacturing, and knitting and clothing engineering
Dr. Chen-Lu Yang
Electrochemical technology, surface engineering, air pollution control, industrial wastewater treatment, and process pollution prevention
Dr. Yuegang Zuo
Analytical, marine and environmental chemistry
Student Interns:
Based on the nature of the project the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory will employ student interns from various departments and majors. Currently the intern pool consists of students from Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Biology, Medical Lab Science, and Textile and Material Sciences.
Fee Structure:
There are technical assistance projects, technology validation programs, and R&D projects. The following fee structure is provided as a guideline. The actual terms are subject to negotiation.
• Technical Assistance: $100 per hour. Up to 20 hours per month for $1,000 for projects that involve no or minimum lab work and equipment hours.
• Technology Validation: $100 per hour for experimental design. Fiscal arrangement can be made with the ATMC management to wave the experimental design fee. $16 per hour at 20 hours per week for labor, and $200 per month for lab materials. The estimated cost for a three-month validation test is $4,500. A six-month short program is $9,000. A regular program will cost $13,500 to be completed in nine months and an extensive program will cost $18,000 to be completed in a year.
• Full-Scale R&D Project: A proposal will be prepared to detail the work plan, deliverables, and budget.
• The Environmental Chemistry Laboratory also collaborates with Industry partners to prepare research proposals for grants from federal, state and local government agencies and business partners. Contractual obligations and financial arrangement are negotiated and stated in the proposal.
Proposals, and Current and Completed Projects:
- Ultraviolet Irradiation System for Indoor Air Disinfection and Biodefense, Chen-Lu Yang, Frank Scarano, Luke Chen and Bernard Nolan, Massachusetts Port Authority, East Boston, MA, (proposal).
- Corrosion Control Methods for Electronic Enclosure Components, Chen-Lu Yang and Bernard Nolan, EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, (proposal).
- Formaldehyde-Free Electroless Copper Plating Process for Electronics Manufacturing, Chen-Lu Yang, GBN Technologies, Inc., Providence, RI, (proposal).
- Processing and Reuse of Street Sweepings and Catch Basin Cleanings, Sukalyan Sengupta and Chen-Lu Yang, Massachusetts Highway Authority, Boston, MA, (proposal).
- Alumina-Supported Copper Catalysts for Selective NO Reduction, Yuegang Zuo, Bionomic Industries, Mahwah, NJ. (1/2004 to present).
- Antifouling Coatings for Biofouling Control in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Process, Debra J. Ellis and Chen-Lu Yang, E Paint Co., E. Falmouth, MA. (6/2003 to present).
- Identify and Quantify the End-Products of NO 2 -S(IV) Reactions, Yuegang Zuo, Bionomic Industries, Inc., Mahwah, NJ. (6/2003-1/2004).
- Surface Treatment for Water Repellant and Stain Resistance, Samuel Ugbolue, Qinguo Fan, and Chen-Lu Yang, Klear-Vu Co., Fall River, MA. (6/2003-12/2003).
- Composition and Construction of a Polyurethane Impregnated Non-Woven Material, Samuel Ugbolue, Qinguo Fan, and Chen-Lu Yang, Praxair CMP Products, Inc., Salem, NH. (1/2003-7/2003).
- Sources of Noxious Odor and Prevention Measures, Chen-Lu Yang, Klear-Vu Corporation, Fall River, MA. (11/2002-4/2003).
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