August 14, 2024 | Duke Engineering
Marc Deshusses has been working on a novel "pressure cooker on steroids" sanitation solution for over a decade
November 30, 2022 | Duke Engineering
A tale of two Duke CEE researchers working to identify and obliterate the “forever chemicals” tainting North Carolina’s drinking water.
July 5, 2022 | Duke Engineering
February 22, 2017
Phase I STTR was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a project entitled Multiplexed Biofiltration of Volatile Organic Compounds. The project will be performed as a collaboration between the Warner Babcock Institute for...
January 27, 2017
On-Site Fecal Sludge Treatment with the Anaerobic Digestion Pasteurization Latrineselected by EES as a top-read article of 2016.
August 17, 2016
Two new PhD candidates join the Deshusses’ lab: Kelsey Deaton and Siddharth Kawadiya. Siddharth had been working in our lab for about a year on biotreatment for odor control; he now officially joins our PhD program. Welcome!
July 28, 2016
Two peer-reviewed journal articles published on the Loyd Ray Farms swine waste to energy project. Design and assessment of an innovative swine waste to renewable energy system (Transactions of the ASABE, in-press) Performance evaluation of a full-...
May 15, 2016
Aaron Forbis-Stokes designs new anaerobic digesters (anaerobic baffled reactors) using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), have them built in Nairobi and installs them at our test sites in Eldoret, Kenya.
October 14, 2015
Marc Deshusses, Avner Vengosh, and Erika Weinthal cohost the Second Water-Energy Workshop at Duke Kunshan University, October 14-15, 2015.
October 1, 2014
View article published in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering.
September 1, 2014
A few papers are in press or published, including: "A robust framework to predict mercury speciation in combustion flue gases" (HAZMAT) "Application of the finite difference method to model pH and substrate concentration in a double-chamber microbial...
August 15, 2014
Our supercritical water oxidation unit for neighborhood sanitation is nearing completion: see timeline and pictures. Thanks to Andy Miller from Jacoby's lab in Mizzou for helping with construction during the summer.
August 1, 2014
We are saying bye to Mustafa Aslan and Renxi Zhang, after one year sabbatical in the Deshusses' lab. Mustafa produced hydrogen from duckweed by dark-fermentation and Renxi worked on control of fecal odors. We are welcoming new graduate student Trisha...
March 1, 2014
We are showcasing our two sanitation projects at the Gates Foundation Toilet Fair in New Delhi. Here are the links for two videos on the projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbEHVWEQ84Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQAZWjwkrG0 and below are...
December 19, 2013
Old friend visiting: Derek Chitwood, postdoc in Deshusses' lab in around 2000 made a quick stop at Duke at the occasion of UNC's Conference on Water and Health. Derek now heads an NGO in Southwest China. They make simple clay/ceramic filters that...
