Research Expertise

UMass Amherst

NETI pollution prevention research draws on research faculty from diverse disciplines, to date involving faculty from eight departments in four colleges and schools on the UMass Amherst campus, including:

• Chemical Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Polymer Science and Engineering
• Chemistry
• Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• Microbiology
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Environmental Health Sciences

Areas of Expertise - Pollution Prevention Research

• Process Design
• Conceptual Design
• Advanced Process Control
• Shape-Selective Catalysis
• Reactive Distillation
• Simultaneous Reaction and Separation
• Molecular Sieve and Membrane Separation
• Batch Processing
• Solids Processing
• Gas Kinetics of Chemical Synthesis Materials Design
• Materials Engineering
• Synthesis and Characterization of New Materials and Catalysts
• Molecular Structure and High Performance Applications
• New Elastomers and Blends Industrial Operations Design
• Measurement and Evaluation of Fugitive and Process Emissions
• Epidemiological Risk Assessment and Analysis
• Impact of Exposure Reductions

The STEP centers on the UMass Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell campuses offer related programs in promoting and developing environmental technolgies. Find out more about the Strategic Envirotechnology Partnership.