Research Projects

Below is a list of currently active and past reseach projects led by the Shah lab group. These research projects are an exciting way for us to bring new scientific discoveries to the forfront of our field that we hope impact people’s lives and the natural world around us.

Current Projects

Organic Sulfur Photochemistry Formation of COS and CS₂ in natural waters.

This NSF-funded project evaluates how different indirect photochemical pathways influence COS and CS₂ formation in ocean and freshwaters during sunlight photolysis.

publication funded collaboration

Resource Recovery of Critical Materials Critical Materials Recovery from Landfill Leachate

This NSF-funded interdisciplinary project aims to develop the fundamental knowledge necessary to enable an innovative and integrated bio- and physico-chemical process that can effectively recover critical metals from municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills within associated leachates.

funded collaboration

Point-of-Use Filters Free Chlorine and Chloramine Removal by Point-of-Use Filters

This project examines the ability for point-of-use filter media to remove and react with free chlorine and chloramines and how this may affect water quality downstream.

Past Projects

Disinfection during Membrane Filtration Fundamental Mechanisms behind Polyamide-based Membrane Degradation during Disinfection

This NSF-funded project examined the kinetics and mechanisms of polyamide monomer degradation during chlorination and chloramination and evaluated similar processes on flat-sheet polyamide membranes.

publication funded collaboration

Drinking Water Impacts during Wildfires Contaminant Formation following the Thermal Degradation of Plastic Distribution Pipes

This Water Research Foundation (WRF)-funded project, in collaboration with numerous water utilties, evaluated how plastic pipes used in distribution systems formed contaminants readily found in such systems after wildfires.

publication funded collaboration

Water Qualilty Impacts from Plastic Pipes Disinfection By-product Formation from Plastic Pipes Conveying Disinfected Drinking Water

This Showalter Research Trust-funded project evaluated the formation and sorption of trihalomethanes when chlorinated water was exposed to typical household plastic pipes.

publication funded collaboration