Research conducted by ERG graduate students currently occurs in approximately 4,000 square feet of laboratory space in Kingsbury, Parsons and Morse Halls, as well as 10,000 sq. ft. of space in Gregg Hall.
 

Gregg Hall

The ERG is thrilled to be situated in specially designed Gregg Hall. This multi-disciplinary science and engineering research building houses labs which focus on environmental technology development.

High Bay Labs

The four-story, ~55,000 square foot structure is comprised of custom designed laboratories, instrumentation rooms, constant temperature rooms, high bay areas, offices, classrooms, and training/ conference/ meeting rooms.

Entrepreneurial Campus Quadrangle

Situated on the main campus in Durham, New Hampshire, it is expected that the Gregg Hall will be the cornerstone of an eventual UNH Entrepreneurial Campus quadrangle with a theme of private sector/university partnerships.

An important feature of the building will be the presence of swing space for temporary private sector R&D activities. At this time, 10 programs and/or activities, including ERG and its seven programs, are located in the building. ERG will occupy about 10,000 square feet of space.
 

Standard research equipment includes:

Hoods at every station

research grade pH meters, specific ion and auto-titration analyzers, centrifuges, drying ovens, state-of-the-art hoods, analytical balances, research-grade water systems, and bench-scale water treatment facilities.
 

More Specialized instrumentation:

• a Dohrmann DC-80 TOC analyzer
• a Shimadzu 5000A TOC analyzer
• HACH ratio turbidimeter
• Bausch and Lomb S2000 UV-Vis spectrophotometer
• Perkin-Elmer auto gas chromatograph
• Perkin-Elmer Sigma 2000 gas chromatograph with Tekmar purge and trap, dynamic headspace and capillary column capabilities
• Perkin-Elmer 2380 atomic absorption spectrophotometer with an HGA graphite furnace
• Dionex 2500 ion chromatograph
• Coulter particle counter, Laser-Zee particle electrophoresis system
• and excellent micro, mini and mainframe computer capabilities.

ERG has advanced bench scale facilities and constant temperature rooms for conducting basic research, treatability and pilot studies.

Large Field Scale Studies Equipment

Constant Tempurature Rooms

ERG is well equipped to conduct large field scale pilot studies, particularly in the water treatment and bedrock bioremediation areas. The group has conducted numerous water treatment studies in the field at over 50 communities.

Two mobile pilot plants are available: one is presently configured for diatomaceous earth filtration and the other is configured for ClO₂ disinfection studies.

The BBC constructed a field facility at Pease International Tradeport (Portsmouth, NH) that consisted of sets of paired boreholes connected by common fractures in a contaminated bedrock aquifer to facilitate in situ testing of bioremediation technologies.

The UNH Stormwater Center has constructed a field site on the Durham campus to evaluate and verify the performance of stormwater management devices and technologies. Fifteen different management systems are currently undergoing side-by-side comparison testing under strictly controlled conditions.

University Instrumentation Center Affiliation

Students have access to the University Instrumentation Center which has a JEOL scanning electron microscope, Hitachi scanning-transmission electron microscope and a new AMRAY 2000 field emission scanning electron microscope; a new Kratos HSi X-ray photoelectron spectrometer; Hewlett Packard 5988 gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer; JEOL Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer; and Nicolet Fourier-transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer.