ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, MANHATTAN COLLEGE

James Mueller, Ph.D., P.E. Professor

PUBLICATIONS

1) "Nominal Diameter of Floc Related to Oxygen Transfer," (with Voelkel, K.G. and Boyle, W.C.)   Sanitary Engineering Division of ASCE, 92, 9-20, 1966.

 2) "Oxygen Diffusion Through a Pure Culture Floc of Zooglea Ramigera," (with Lightfoot, E.N. and Boyle, W.C.).  Proceedings 21st Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, 964-995, 1966.

 3) "Floc Sizing Techniques," (with Morand, J. and Boyle, W.C.), Journal of Applied Microbiology, 15, 125-134, 1967.

 4) "Effect of Unsteady-State Conditions on Oxygen Diffusion Through Biological Floc Particles," (with Boyle, W.C. and Lightfoot, E.N.), Journal of Applied Microbiology, 15, 674-676, 1967.

 5) "Relative Importance of Viscosity and Oxygen Solubility on Oxygen Transfer Rates in Glucose Solutions," (with Boyle, W.C.), Environmental Science and Technology, I, 578-579, 1967.

 6) "Biological Treatability of Various Air Force Industrial Wastes," (with Melvin, W.W.), Proceedings of 23rd Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, May 1968.

 7) "Oxygen Diffusion through Zoological Flocs," (with Boyle, W.C. and Lightfoot, E.N.), Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Vol. X, 331-358, 1968.

 8) "Benthal Oxygen Demands and Leaching Rates of Treated Sludges," (with Su, W.J.L.).  Journal of Water Pollution Control Foundation, 44:2303-2315, 1972.

 9) Discussion of "Effects of Suspended Solids Concentration on the Structure of Turbulence and the Oxygen Transfer Mechanism in Activated Sludge," (with Boyle, W.C.).  6th International Water Research Conference, Jerusalem, June 18-23, 1972.

 10) "Biological Denitrification Using Fluidized Granular Beds," (with Beer, C. and Jeris, J.S.).  Technical Paper No. 11, NY State Dept. Environmental Conservation, June 1972.

 11) Discussion of: "Oxygen Theory in Biological Treatment Plant Design," JASCE, EEI, 1973.

 12) "Gas Transfer Kinetics of Pure Oxygen System," (with Mulligan, T.J. and Di Toro, D.M.).  JASCE, EED, 99:269-282, June 1973. ibid., Proceedings, Water Resources Symposium, No. 6, Commercial Oxygen Activated Sludge, University of Texas Press, 1974.

 13) "Factors Affecting Respiratory Quotient-Application to Pure Oxygen Systems," (with Pannu, A.).  29th Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, May 1974.

 14) "High Rate Biological Denitrification Using a Granular Fluidized Bed," (with Jeris, J.S. and Beer, C.  JWPCF, 46:2118-2128, 1974.

 15) "Anaerobic Filter - Application and Kinetics," (with Mancini, J.L.).  30th Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, May 1975.

 16) "Contaminants Entering New York Bight:  Sources, Mass Loads, Significance," (with Anderson, A. & Jeris, J.S.).  Proceedings of the ASLO Special Symposium, Volume 2, Middle Atlantic Continental Shelf and New York Bight, Ed. by M. Grant Gross, Amer. Soc. Limnol. Oceanogr., 162-170, 1976.

 17) "Contaminants in the New York Bight," (with Anderson, A. & Jeris, J.S.).  JWPCF, 48:2309-2326, 1976.

 18) "Contaminant Inputs to the New York Bight," (with Jeris, J.S., Anderson, A., Hughes, C.).  NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL MESA-6, Apr. 7, 1976.

 19) "Contaminant Inputs to New York Bight, Phase II, Urban Runoff," (with Anderson, A.).  NOAA, MESA Report, October 1977.

 20) "Industrial Wastes," (with Anderson, A.R.), MESA NY Bight Atlas, Monograph 30, NY Sea Grant Institute, Albany, NY Jan. 1978.

 21) "Application of Carbonate Equilibria to High Purity Oxygen and Anaerobic Filter Systems," (with Famularo, J. and Mulligan, T.), published in Chemistry of Wastewater Technology, ed. by Alan J. Rubin, Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, MI, 465-491, 1978.

 22) "Oxygen Transfer in Closed Systems," (with Mulligan, T. and Famularo, J.).  Proceedings ASCE/EPA Workshop "Toward an Oxygen Transfer Standard," William C. Boyle, Chairman.  EPA-600/9-78-021, 1978.

 23) "Effect of Gas Phase Temperature on Oxygen Saturation Value," (with Quintana, M. and Di Toro, D.) ibid., EPA-600/9-78-021, 1978.

 24) "A Mass Balance Method for Estimating Combined Sewer Runoff and Overflow Quality from Sewage  Treatment Plant Data," (with Anderson, A.R.), Prog. Wat. Tech. 10:727-739, 1978.

 25) "Combined Sewer Overflow Quality from Treatment Plant Data," (with Anderson, A.).  JWPCF, 51:958-973, 1979.

 26) "Kinetics of Biological Flocs."  Prog. Wat. Tech., Suppl. 1, pp. 143-155.  Pergamon Press.  1979.

 27) "Mass Transfer Impact on RBC and Trickling Filter Design" (with Famularo, J. and Paquin, P.).  WATER-1979, AICHE Symposium Series, Vol. 76, pp. 250-270, 1980.

 28) "The Graduate Program in Environmental Engineering & Science at Manhattan College," (with Bellitto, A.J.).  Clearwaters, Vol. 13, No. 3:8-12, Fall 1983.

 29) "Prediction of Carbon Column Performance from Pure Solute Data" (with Famularo, J. and Pannu, A.).  JWPCF, 52:2019-2032, 1980.

 30) "Analysis of Design of Rotating Biological Contactors" (with Fitzpatrick, J. and Famularo, J.).  Proceedings 1st Annual Conference on Rotating Biological Contactors, Univ. of Pittsburg and U.S. Army Construction Engr. Res. Lab and USEPA, MERL., 921-960, June 1980.

 31) "Nitrification in Rotating Biological Contactors" (with Famularo, J. and Paquin, P.).  JWPCF, 52:688-710, 1980.

 32) "Urban Loads," contributing author on chapter edit4ed by John Mancini, tobe published in "Perspectives on the New York Bight," by NOAA, 1980.

 33) "Field Evaluation of Diffused Aeration Equipment" (with Ghiradi, S. and Nicodema, M.).  Clearwaters, 10:20-24, December 1980.

 34) "Combined Sewer Overflow Characteristics from Treatment Plant Data" (with Di Toro, D.M.).  Manhattan College Environmental Engineering & Science Program Report to EPA, April 1981.

 35) "Diffused Aerator Testing Under Process Conditions" (with Rysinger, J.).  Proceedings 36th Purdue Industrial Waste Confernece, 747-754, May 1981.

 36) "Dual Nonsteady State Evaluation of Static Aerators Treating Pharmaceutical Waste" (with Donahue, R. and Sullivan, R.).  Proceedings 37th Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, 271-284, May 1982.

 37) "Lysimeter Studies on High Rate Land Disposal of Sludge, Waste Treatment and Utilization," Vol. 2, Ed. by Murray Moo-Young, et al., Pergamon Press, NY, 525-551, 1982.

 38) "Comparison of Dual Nonsteady State and Steady State Testing of Fine Bubble Aerators at Whittier Narrows Plant, Los Angeles."  Proceedings of Aeration System Design, Operation, Testing, and Central Workshop, University of Wisconsin, August 2-4, 1982.

 39) "Contaminant Inputs to the Hudson-Raritan Estuary" (with Gerrish, T. and Casey, M.).  NOAA Technical Memorandum, OMPA-21, August 1982.

 40) "Management of Non-Point Sources," contributing author with Kneip et al., in Ecological Stress and the New York Bight: Science and Management, Ed. By Garry F. Mayer, Estuarine Research Fed., Columbia, S.C., 1435-161, 1982.

 41) "Comparison of Dome and Static Aerators Treating Pharmaceutical Waste," Proceedings 38th Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, pp. 181-191, May 1983.

 42) "Air Stripping of Volatile Organic Compounds from Sanitary and Industrial Effluents" (with Riznychok, W.M. and Giunta, J.J.).  Proceedings 15th Mid Atlantic Industrial Waste Conference, Butterworth Publishers, 390-401, 1983.

 43) "The Graduate Program in Environmental Engineering & Science at Manhattan College" (with Bellitto, A.J.), Clearwaters, Vol. 13, No. 3, 8-12, Fall 1983.

 44) "Municipal Sewage Systems," (with Anderson, A.R.).  Chapter 2 in Ocean Disposal of Municipal Wastewater: Impacts on the Coastal Environment, ed. by Edward P. Myers & Elezabeth T. Harding, MIT Press:39-92, 1983.

 45) "Nonsteady State Field Testing of Surface and Diffused Aeration Equipment," Manhattan College Environmental Engineering & Science report submitted to ASCE Committee on Oxygen Transfer Standards, July 1983.

 46) "Contaminant Inputs to the Hudson-Raritan Estuary – Chapter 2," (with C.E. Werme) in Chemical Pollutants in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary.  Proceedings of a Workshop, ed. by J. Breteler, OMPA, NOAA, January 1983, pp. 9-15.  Also NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS OMA 7, Dec . 1984.

 47) "Simplified Kinetic Analysis of the Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Reactor," (with Donovan, E.D. & Subburamu, K.).  Proceedings 39th Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference:507-522, May 1985.

 48) "Nitrification in Refinery Wastewater Treatment" (with Wu, Kuen-Bing and Kaczmarek, S.).  Proceedings 40th Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, pp. 507-522, May 1985.

 49) "Dual Bed Ion Exchange Regeneration - Optimization for High Purity Water Systems," (with Riznychok, W. and Bie, G.).  Proceedings 41st Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference:219-233, May 1986.

 50) "Practical Applications of Mass Transfer to Trickling Filters,"  Proceedings of AEEP Workshop, "Engineering the Biofilm Environment," Purdue Univ., 12 May 1986.

 51) "Practical Applications of Mass Transf4er to Rotating Biological Contactors," Proceedings of AEEP Workshop, "Engineering the Biofilm Environment, Purdue Univ., 12 May 1986.

 52) "Field Evaluation of WYSS  Aeration System at Cedar Creek Plant, Nassau County, NY," (with Saurer, P.D.).  Submitted to Parkson Corporation, August 1986.

 53) "Case History of Fine Pore Diffuser Retrofit at Ridgewood, NJ," (with Saurer, P.D.).  Submitted to ASCE Committee on Oxygen Transfer, April 1987.

 54)"Oxygen Transfer Under Process Conditions," (with Boyle, W.C.).  JWPCF, Vol. 60, No. 3:332.  1988.

 55) "Fine Pore Diffuser Retrofit at Ridgewood, NJ," (with Saurer, P.D. and Lagrosa, J.).  J. Env. Engr., ASCE, 115:890-908, 1989.

 56) "Biologically Enhanced Oxygen Transfer in the Activated Sludge Process," (with Stensel, H.D.).  JWPCF, 62:193-203, 1990.

 57) "Toxic Inputs and Fate in the New York-New Jersey Harbor, Bight, and Long Island Sound."  Proceedings of the Cleaning Up Our Coastal Waters: An Unfinished Agenda Conference, Manhattan College, March 12-14, 1990.

 58) "Carcinogenic Risk – Minization by Treatment of Hazardous Offgas."  Waste Management Research Report, SUNY, Buffalo, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1992.

 59) "Multicomponent Adsorption of Volatile Organic Chemicals from Air Stripper Offgas" (with Di Toro, D.M.).  Water Envir. Res., Vol. 65:15-25, Feb. 1993.

 60) “Fate of Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (OMCTS) in the atmosphere and in sewage treatment plants as an estimation of aquatic exposure.” with D.M. Di Toro and J.A. Maiello.  Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 14(10):1657-1666, 1995.

 61) “New Undergraduate Degree Mixes Courses with Real Life.”  Clearwaters, NYWEA, Vol. 25, No. 1:32-35.  Spring 1995.

 62) “A Correction Factor for  Predicting the Multicomponent Adsorption of Air Stripper Offgas” (w/ T.P. O’Connor, J.D. Mahony, and D.M. DiToro), Water Envir. Res. 68(1): 66-69 – 1996

 63) “Project Based Teaching of Environmental Engineering: Manhattan College’s Experience (w/ Lowe, S.A.), Proceedings, A&WM Assoc., Toronto, Canada – 11 June, 1997.

 64) “Impact of a Selector on Oxygen Transfer: A Full Scale Demonstration” (w/ J.J. Krupa, F. Shkreli, S. Nasr, B. Fitzpatrick), Proceedings, WEFTEC ’96, Part II Municipal Wastewater Treatment, 69th Annual Conference & Exposition, Dallas, TX, pp. 427-436 – October, 1996.

 65) “Applicability of the FLUENT Computational Fluid Dynamics Package to Air Quality Problems” (w/S. Lowe and W. Matystik), In Air Pollution VII, (C.A. Brebbia, Ed.), WIT Press, pp.521-530, 1999.

66) “Full-Scale Demonstration of Improvement in Aeration Efficiency” (w/Y. Kim, J.J. Krupa. F. Shkreli, S. Nasir, B. Fitzpatrick), Journal of Environmental Engineering, Vol. 126, No. 6: 549-555. June 2000.

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