Environment Protection
Introduction
We are working on the EPA grant 02D48123 “Demonstrating the Nutrient Removal in Urban-dominated Watersheds using Floating Macrophytes” (PI. Dr. Balan, Co-PI, Drs. Zhu and Shan) through collaboration with PVAMU (Drs. Ray and Neelgund) and ODU (Dr. Kumar) in March 2023. In this $1.5M grant, we will demonstrate the use of floating water plants to remove nutrients from watersheds and convert them into useful products such as biochar.
The relevant publication list:
- Nirmal Kumar, Bhupinder Singh, Yuanze Chen, Abishek Kafle, Weihang Zhu, Ram L. Ray, Sandeep Kumar, Xiaonan Shan *, Venkatesh Balan *, Bioremediation of Nutrients and Heavy Metals in Watersheds: The Role of Floating Treatment Wetlands, Applied Sciences, accepted on September 2, 2025
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