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Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management

Recent Focus:

Water conservation and reuse, water quality, process enhancements, toxicity reduction, waste reduction, improvements in effluent characteristics, and cost reduction are of interest to a variety of industries and the public. Recent projects include evaluating the degradation of toxic agents in a chemical industry’s wastewater, improving the performance of attached growth biological processes at a chemical plant, using alternative carbon sources for denitrification, evaluating the effectiveness of an innovative aeration and mixing system, evaluating various treatment systems for aquacultural waters, reducing disinfection by-products for a municipality, and using biomass from suspended growth reactors as a feed supplement for marine shrimp. Considerable effort has also been devoted to developing and offering training programs for operators and engineers in the areas of design, operations and maintenance troubleshooting, and budget development.

Gregory D. Boardman

Title : Professor
Program Area : Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Address : 417 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
E-mail : gboard(at)vt.edu
Telephone : 
Professional Registration : P.E. Virginia, DEE

Areas of Interest : Industrial waste management, water and wastewater treatment, environmental toxicology, aquaculture

Education :
 

  • B.S. Civil Engineering, graduated summa cum laude, University of New Hampshire at Durham, 1972
  • M.S. Civil (Environmental) Engineering, University of New Hampshire at Durham, 1973
  • Ph.D. Civil (Environmental) Engineering, University of Maine at Orono, 1976
Professional Honors, Awards, and Recognitions :
 

  • Distinguished Service Award, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, 1991 and 2007.
  • College Award for Outreach Excellence, VPI&SU, 2007.
  • Enslow-Hedgepeth Award, Virginia Water Pollution Control Association, 2012.
  • Elected Fellow of ASCE, April 2005.
  • University Outreach Excellence Award, VPI&SU, 2000.
  • Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service, VPI&SU, 1998.
Courses Taught :
 

  • CEE 5124 : Fundamental of Environmental Toxicology
  • CEE 5125 : Environmental Engineering Design I
  • CEE 5174 : Industrial and Hazardous Waste Control
  • CEE 3104 : Introduction to Environmental Engineering
  • CEE 2804 : Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering
Selected Research Projects :
 

  • Enhancement of Pollution Prevention Practices at Textile Mills, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
  • Demonstration of Waste Management Operations at a Crab Processing Facility, National Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute
  • Field and Laboratory Evaluation of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Susceptibility to Trout Effluents, Commercial Fish and Shellfish Technologies Program
  • Evaluation of TotalMix Aeration System, CHL Consultants, LLC
  • Effects of Feeds and Chemotherapeutics on Water Quality and Nitrifier Populations, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
  • Evaluation and Optimization of Shrimp Culture in Tilapia Effluents, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Selected Publications :
 

  • Stewart, N. T., Boardman, G. D., and Helfrich, L. A., “Treatment of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Raceway Effluent using Baffled Sedimentation and Artificial Substrates,” 35, pp. 166-178, 2006.
  • Boardman, G.D., and McVeigh, P.J., “Use of UASB Technology to Treat Crab Processing Wastewater,” Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, 123(8), pp. 776-785, 1997
  • Bramble, L. A., Boardman, G. D., Bevan, D. R., and Dietrich, A.M., ” Rat Liver Mitochondrial and Microsomal Tests for the Assessment of Quinone Toxicity,” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 13 (2), pp. 307-316, 1994.
  • Ganesh, R., Boardman, G. D., and Michelsen, D., “Fate of Azo Dyes in Sludges,” Water Research, 28 (6), pp.1367-1376, 1994.
  • Christopher, H. J., Boardman, G. D., and Freeman, D. L., “Aerobic Biological Treatment of 2,4-Dinitrotoluene in Munitions Plant Wastewater,” Water Research, 34 (5), pp. 1595-1603, 2000.
  • Boardman, G. D., Starbuck, S. S., Hudgins, D. B., Li, X., and Kuhn, D. D., “Toxicity of Ammonia to Three Marine Fish and Three Marine Invertebrates,” Environmental Toxicology, 19, pp. 134-142, 2004.

To learn more about Dr. Boardman, visit http://www.cee.vt.edu/profile/?pid=boardman