Research Group: Environment
Leader(s)
Associate Prof. Bruce Misstear
Dr. Laurence Gill
Mr. Paul Johnston
Prof. Brian Broderick
Dr. Aonghus McNabola
Research Projects
- Assessments of personal exposure to air pollution in the urban environment, including:
- Assessment of the relationship between personal exposure, health and exercise for urban commuters
- Indoor air pollution
- Assessment of the relationship between personal exposure, activity and location in the urban environment
- Development of models for the prediction of personal exposure to air pollution
- Air Pollution Control Technologies:
- Development of energy efficient air pollution control devices
- Investigation of passive controls for air pollution in the urban environment
- Tabacco control research
- Validation of air dispersion models for road and industrial sources
- Transport impacts on the Environment
- Background concentrations monitoring for monitoring air pollution
- Monitoring ambient hydrocarbons
- Global environmental monitoring and health impacts
- Development of emissions estimation and prediction models from real time trip based data
- Solar disinfection of drinking water
- On-site wastewater treat
- Constructed wetlands for domestic and agricultural wastewater treatment
- Modelling carbon tax policy:
- Assessment of the impacts of carbon tax policy on CO2 emissions in the transport sector
- Investigating the feasibility and energy potential of subterranean oscillating water column (OWC) wave converters in Ireland:
- Site suitability selection, wave climate modelling & hydrodynamic modelling & optimisation
- Energy recovery research:
- Investigation of the potential for energy recovery in water and waste water treatment and distribution infrastructure using micro-hydropower (www.hydro-bpt.eu)
- Research and development of drain water heat recovery systems
- Pollution pathways in Irish river catchments:
- Modelling of flows along pathways
- Characterisation of surface and near surface pathways for flow and contaminant transport in soils and subsoils
- Investigation of the linkages between groundwater quality, potential health risks, consumer awareness and well construction for private ground-water schemes.
- Sustainable development of groundwater resources for rural water supplies in Uganda, including impacts of climate change.
- Hydro-ecology of wetlands: environmental supporting conditions for groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems
- Hydrological modelling in karst: Groundwater flooding in turloughs; hydro-ecological controls for conservation
- Investigation of the hydrology and chemistry of road runoff, including treatment options and associated modelling
- The impact of farming practices in grasslands on nitrate concentrations in groundwater; denitrification processes and hydrogeology
- Study of phosphorus and nitrate levels in groundwaters in Ireland
- Analysis of hydrogeology and groundwater level behaviour in aquifers in southeast Ireland
- Conservation engineering for raised bog wetlands; the dependence of peatlands on groundwater and the hydrology of bog restoration
- Ecological impacts of fen hydrology from a major road scheme; botany and hydrology of tufa mounds
- Hydrodynamic flow of grit in a curved channel
- Artificial Reefs for coastal protection and enhanced surfing conditions
- Residence Time Distribution modelling to characterise the hydraulic efficiency of reactor networks
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Environmental Systems:
- Air pollution dispersion
- Air pollution control
- Water treatment systems
- Energy recovery systems