{"id":169,"date":"2014-09-15T17:40:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T17:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cee.engr.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2014-09-15T17:40:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T17:40:29","slug":"research-interests-and-completed-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/research\/research-interests-and-completed-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Interests and Completed Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research interests<\/h1>\n

My research activities are primarily focused on two general areas: (1) conversion of waste into energy, and (2) characteristics, fate and transport, and treatment of surface runoff pollutants.\u00a0 Major research topics of interest include:<\/h5>\n
\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Particle-bound organic and inorganic pollutant characterization;<\/h5>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mathematical modeling of roadway runoff pollutants;<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source identification of non-point source pollutants from environments;<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Innovative stormwater runoff treatment;<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Permeable pavement for stormwater runoff management;<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 High-solids bio-gasification of organic waste for energy recovery; and<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Methods to assess the biodegradability of organic wastes for bio-fuel production.<\/p>\n

Recently Completed Research Projects <\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Clogging investigation of open graded friction course under heavy vehicle simulator and rainfall simulations.<\/li>\n
  2. Methodologies to identify sources of pollutants from highway runoff in Tahoe Basin.<\/li>\n
  3. Micro particle (<20 mm) size fractionation and contaminates associated with them.<\/li>\n
  4. Clogging investigation of porous asphalt and pervious concrete pavement surfaces.<\/li>\n
  5. Methods to measure the permeability of permeable pavements.<\/li>\n
  6. Mathematical modeling of pollutograph.<\/li>\n
  7. Water quality and toxicity evaluation of leachate produced from open and dense-graded pavement materials.<\/li>\n
  8. Hydrographic toxicity evaluation of urban highway runoff.<\/li>\n
  9. First flush treatment strategies.<\/li>\n
  10. Performance evaluation of detention basin based on the fine particles and toxicity removal.<\/li>\n
  11. Hydraulic simulations of full depth permeable pavements on highway shoulder for stormwater runoff management.<\/li>\n
  12. First flush characteristics of organic and inorganic pollutants generated from urban highway runoff.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Research interests My research activities are primarily focused on two general areas: (1) conversion of waste into energy, and (2) characteristics, fate and transport, and treatment of surface runoff pollutants.\u00a0 Major research topics of interest include: \u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Particle-bound organic and inorganic pollutant characterization; \u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mathematical modeling of roadway runoff pollutants; \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a> Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"parent":297,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kayhanian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}