Dr. Weber has conducted research on a variety topics related to biodegradation of xenobiotics. A major theme in his current research is the sequencing of chemical and biological oxidation technologies for enhanced mineralization of xenobiotics. This rese arch has been applied successfully to the destruction of chlorinated organics including PCBs, fire retardants, s-triazine herbicides, chlorinated phenols, and organics found in coking effluents. An off-shoot of this research has been the role particulate s and contaminant sorption play in these oxidation processes. He also has investigated the use of reactors which utilize granular activated carbon as a bacterial growth support structure for the treatment of aqueous organic wastes. Research in this are a has been performed under both anaerobic and aerobic environments for landfill leachate, high phenolic wastes from industrial plastics manufacturing, herbicides, and PCBs.
Dr. Weber serves as Chair of the Water Environment Federation's Literature Review Committee and is the Vice-chair of the Water Environment Federation's Research Council. During 1994 he served as a site monitor for a unique collaborative New York State Dep artment of Environmental Conservation and United State Environmental Protection Agency demonstration project for in-situ and ex-situ bioremediation technologies. In addition, he serves as a technical consultant to a field scale demonstration project spon sored by the United State Air Force to evaluate thermally accelerated bioventing for application in cooler climatic regions. He serves as a consultant to a number of government agencies and industries.
As Executive Director of the New York Center for Hazardous Waste Management, Dr. Weber administers a state-wide research program aimed at developing new and improved methods and technologies for hazardous waste management, including those that reduce the
generation of waste, recover and recycle hazardous substances from wastestreams, enable safe and permanent cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites, and treat waste so that they can be disposed of properly.
Lai, M.S., J.N. Jensen, and A.S. Weber. "Oxidation of Simazine: Ozone, Ultraviolet, and Combined Ozone/Ultraviolet Oxidation, Water Environment Research, 67, 340-346, 1995.
Lange, C.L., and A.S. Weber. "The Loss of Plasmid-bound Phenotypes in Alcalingenes Eutrophus, Staphlococcus aureus, and Psuedomonas putida During Freeze Drying," Water Environment Research. 67, 224-229, 1995.
Gaiek, R.L., C.R. Lange, and A.S. Weber. "The Effects of Freeze Drying and Storage on a Phenol Degrading Bacterial Supplement," Water Environment Research, 66, 698-706, 1994.
Stowell, J.P., J.N. Jensen, and A.S. Weber. "Sequential Chemical/Biological Oxidation of 2-Chlorophenol," Water Science and Technology, 26, No:9-11, 2085-2087, 1992.
Weber, A.S., M.S. Lai, W. Lin, J.G. Goeddertz, W.C. Ying, and J.J. Duffy. "Anaerobic/Aerobic Biological Activated Carbon (BAC) Treatment of a High Strength Phenolic Wastewater," Environ. Progress, 11, 318, 1992.
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