Faculty and Staff Ronald D. Neufeld

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email:
Phone: (412) 624-9874
Fax: (412) 624-0135
Office: Benedum 939

Education

Ph.D. (Civil Engineering/Environmental Health Engineering), Northwestern University, 1973
MS (Chemical Engineering), Northwestern University, 1969
BE (Chemical Engineering), The Cooper Union, 1967

Registrations and Professional Certifications

Licensed Professional Engineer, Pennsylvania
Diplomate: American Adademy of Environmental Engineers (Water and Wastewater Engineering)

Professional Interests

Dr. Neufeld is an Environmental Engineer, with expertise in environmental process fundamentals and pollution control technology. Research interests encompass biological and advanced physical/ chemical contaminant management systems, and waste recovery technologies. Dr. Neufeld's teaching includes introductory undergraduate and graduate environmental engineering courses, and graduate courses in environmental chemistry, microbiology, environmental engineering processes, industrial waste management, and solid waste management/hazardous waste management. Present research projects embrace environmental technology for energy and power production, acid rock and acid mine discharge issues, green roof applications for water management, and membrane systems for liquid/solids separation and combined sewer overflow management. Prior research includes electroosmotic pressure enhanced liquid/solids separations, integrated treatment systems for synthetic fuels manufacture, biological nitrification of coke plant effluents, biotower technology for BETX contaminated groundwaters, starvation mode biodegradation, gas phase biofiltration, biological dehalogenation of PCBs, electrolytic and activated carbon applications to chromium recovery from plating wastes, energy from waste materials, accumulation of heavy metals onto bioslimes, sludge management for Allegheny County, stabilization and solidification of hazardous heavy metal containing wastes using clean coal technology byproducts, environmental impacts of fly ash fortified autoclaved aerated concrete, and incorporation of toxicity into residuals management.

Representative Publications:

Dilmore, R., Neufeld, R. D., Hammack R. W., (2006) "Laboratory-Scale Iron EDTA-Based NOX Scrubbing Process with Biological Treatment and Regeneration of Spent Scrubber Water" Environmental Engineering Science Volume 23, Number 5,
Modise, C. M., Bendick, J. A., Miller, C.J., Neufeld, R. D., Vidic, R. D. (2006) "Use of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Microfiltration Membranes to Remove Microorganisms and Organic Pollutants from Primary Effluents" Water Environment Research, vol 78, No. 6, pp 557-564
Dilmore, R., Neufeld, R.D. (2006) "Biologically Treating and Regenerating Spent Scrubber Solution from a Closed-Loop Nitrogen Oxide Absorption Process" Industrial Wastewater, vol 5 No. 1 (Feb/March) pp 9-13
Klein, D. B., Neufeld, R. D.(2005) "Use of a Multiple Orifice Spray Reactor to Accelerate Ferrous Iron Oxidation in Acidic Mine Water", Mine Water and the Environment, Vol 24, No. 4, pp 186-193, December
J.A. Bendick, C.J. Miller, B. Kindle, H. Shan, R. D. Vidic, and R.D. Neufeld, (2005) "Pilot Scale Demonstration of Cross-Flow Ceramic Membrane Microfiltration for the Treatment of Combined and Sanitary Sewer Overflows"; Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, 131, #11, pp1532-1539, (November)
Modise, C. M., Shan, H.F., Neufeld, R. D., Vidic, R. D. (2005) "Evaluation of Permeate Flux and Membrane Fouling in Dead-End Microfiltration of Primary Sewage Effluent" Environmental Engineering Science, vol 22 #4, pp 427-439 (July)
Bendick, J. A., Modise, C.M., Miller, C.J., Neufeld, R. D., Vidic, R. D. (2004) "Application of Cross-Flow Microfiltration for the Treatment of Combined Sewer Overflow Wastewater" ASCE Journ. Environmental Engineering, 130 (12) 1442-1449
Dilmore,R. M., Neufeld, R. D.(2001) "Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Produced with Low NOx Burner/Selective Catalytic Reduction Fly Ash" ASCE Journal. Energy Engineering, 127, No. 2 August.
Pritts,J., Neufeld, R. D. , Cobb, J. T.(1999) "Stabilization of Heavy Metal Containing Hazardous Wastes with byproducts from Advanced Clean Coal Technology Systems" Journal of Air and Waste Management, 49, 10, pp 1190 _ 1200 (October)
Gingerich,I., Neufeld, R. D., Thomas, T. A. (1999) "Electroosmotically Enhanced Sludge Pressure Filtration" Water Envir. Res., 71, #3, (May/June) pp 267_276

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