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Sarina J. Ergas 

 

Research Interests

Environmental biotechnology including wastewater treatment; biological nutrient and pathogen removal from stormwater and wastewater from municipal, industrial and agricultural sources; anaerobic digestion of livestock waste, biosolids and municipal solid waste; recirculating aquaculture and aquaponic systems; algal wastewater treatment and biofuel production systems.

 

 

 

Disease-Related Publications

  • Manser, N., Cunningham, J.A., Ergas, S.J., Mihelcic, J.M. (2016) Modeling Inactivation of Highly Persistent Pathogens in Household-Scale Semi-Continuous Anaerobic Digesters, Environmental Engineering Science, 33(11): 851-860.

  • Trimmer, J.T., Nakyania, N., Ssekubugu, R., Sklar, M., Mihelcic, J.M., Ergas, S.J. (2016) Assessing the promotion of Urine-Diverting Dry Toilets through school-based demonstration facilities in Kalisizo, Uganda, J. Water, Sanitation & Hygiene for Development, 6 (2): 276-286.

  • Trimmer J.T., Nakyanjo, N., Ssekubugu, R., Sklar, M., Mihelcic, J.R., Ergas, S.J. (2016) Ascaris Egg Inactivation by Free Ammonia Treatment of Collected Feces Using Stored Urine, J. Water, Sanitation & Hygiene for Development, 6 (2) 259-268.

  • Kinyua, M.N., Wald, I., Camacho-Céspedes, F., Haas, C., Ergas, S.J. (2016) Does the use of tubular digesters to treat livestock waste lower the risk of infection from Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia?, J. Water and Health, 14 (5) 738-753.

  • Kinyua, M.N., Trimmer, J., Izurieta, R. Cunningham, J., Ergas, S.J. (2016) Viability and Fate of Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia in Tubular Anaerobic Digesters, Science of the Total Environment, 554–555 (2016): 167–177.

  • Kinyua, M.N., Zhang, J., Camacho-Céspedes, F., Tejada-Martinez, A., Ergas, S.J. (2016) Physical and Biological Process Modeling of Tubular Anaerobic Digesters Treating Swine Waste in Rural Costa Rica, Biochemical Engineering J. 107(2016):35-44. 

  • Kinyua, M.N., Rowse, L., Ergas, S.J. (2016) Review of Small-Scale Tubular Anaerobic Digesters Treating Livestock Waste in the Developing World, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 58: 896–910.  

  • Manser, N., Mihelcic, M., Ergas, S.J. (2015) Semi-continuous mesophilic anaerobic digester performance under variations in solids retention time and feeding frequency, Bioresource Technology, 190: 359-366.

  • Manser, N., Wald, I., Ergas, S.J., Izurieta, R., Mihelcic, J. (2015) Assessing the Fate of Ascaris suum Ova during Mesophilic Anaerobic Digestion, Environmental Science & Technology, 49(5): 3128-3135. 

  • Lynn, T.J., Wanjugi, P., Harwood, V.J., Ergas, S.J. (2013) Dynamic Performance of Biosand Filters, J. American Water Works Assoc. 105(10): 587-595.

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