Green Research for Environmental and Agricultural Technologies (GREAT)
Theme 1: Precision (Cascade) Separation for Agricultural Wastewater
- Deployment of Advanced Electrokinetic Sepration for Agricultural Water Reuse and Valuable Resources Recovery.
- Deployment of Precision Separation for Enhanced Organic Matter Recovery.
- Synthesis of Ionically Conductive Materials for Electrochemical Systems.
Theme 2: Biowaste Valorization Technologies
- Conversion of Organic Biowastes to Biochemicals (or Bioenergy) through Different Approaches, such as Electro-Anaerobic Digestion and Gasification.
- Utilization of Anaerobic Digestate for Recovering High Value-Added Products, such as Humus and Nutrients.
- Development of Enhanced Carbon Sinks in Soils using Green Materials.
Theme 3: Agro-Soil-Water Ecosystem Services
- Assessment of Ecosystem Services from a Life-Cycle Perspective (LCA-ES) to Optimizing Food-Energy-Water Nexus.
- Sustainable Reservoir (Water Resource) Management in the Face of Global Climate Heating.
- Monitoring, Control and Assessment of Micro-plastics in Watershed and Soil Systems.
Theme 4: Carbon-Nutrient Cycles
- Electrochemical pH Swing for CO2 Capture and Utilization (e.g., Biogas Upgrading).
- Assessment of Reactive Nitrogen (e.g., ammonia, nitrous oxide) Emissions from soils.
- Monitoring and Evaluation of Soil Carbon Sinks.
- Development of Enhanced Weathering Technologies (Carbon Dioxide Mineralization)