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Mark J. Rood, Ph.D.

Ivan Racheff Professor of Environmental Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Illinois
3230E Newmark Lab, MC-250
205 N. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801 USA

Tel. (217) 333-6963
Fax. (217) 333-9464

mrood@illinois.edu

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Barot, S., Hashisho, Z., Bernhard, J., and Rood, M. (2007) Measurement of Activated Carbon Fiber Cloth Dielectric Properties at Microwave Frequencies, International Union of Radio Science (URSI) 2007 - North American Radio Science Meeting, Ottawa, ON.

Kim, B.J., Kemme, M.R., Rood, M.J. Du, K., Hashmonay, R., and Varma, R. (2007) Development of Emission Factors for Dust Generated By Unique Military Activities (SI-1400), In-Progress Review Meeting, May, 34 slides.

Kim, B.J., Kemme, M.R., Rood, M.J. Du, K., Hashmonay, R., and Varma, R. (2007) Development of Emission Factors for Dust Generated By Unique Military Activities (SI-1400), ESTCP Report, 34 pp.

Du, K., Rood, M. J., Varma, R., Hashmonay, R. A., Kim, B. J., and Kemme, M. R. (2006) Quantification of Particulate Matter Emission Factors from Artillery Backblast and Tracked Vehicles Using Optical Remote Sensing, Poser No. 129W, Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop sponsored by SERDP and ESTCP, November 28 - 30, Washington, DC.

Kim, B.J., Kemme, M.R., Rood, M.J. Du, K., Hashmonay, R., Varma, R., Gilles, J., Kuhns, H. (2006) SI-1399 & SI-1400 Fugitive Emission Workshop Presentation, DoD-USEPA Joint Workshop of Fugitive Emissions, February.

Rood, M.J., Hay, K.J., Kim, B.J., Emamipour, H., and Hashisho, Z. (2007) Steady State Tracking Desorption System and Method, PCT U.S. Patent Application, May 10, TF 05053, Serial No. 60/799,269, pp. 40.

Kim, B.J., Rood, M.J., Du, K. (2006) Digital Optical Method (DOMT) and System for Determining Opacity, May, U.S. Patent Application, COE-603, submitted, Cust. No. 30046, pp. 70.

Rood, M.J., Hay, K.J., Kim, B.J., H. Emamipour, and Hashisho, Z. (2006) Steady State Tracking Desorption System and Method, May 10, Provisional U.S. Patent Application, May 11, TF 05053, pp. 35.

Rood, M.J., and Du, K. (2006) Final Report for Research Project: Use of Image-Processing Techniques to Measure Plume Opacities, DCAC88-98-D-0005-27, March, 68 pp.

Kim, B.J., Kemme, M.R., Rood, M.J. Du, K., Hashmonay, R., Varma, R., Gilles, J., Kuhns, H. (2006) SI-1399 & SI-1400 Fugitive Emission Workshop Presentation, DoD-USEPA Joint Workshop of Fugitive Emissions, February.

Botich, L., Rood, M.J., Hashisho, Z. (2006) Nanoadsorbent and Microwave Technology to Capture and Recover Organic Vapors, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EP-D-05-009, PR-NC-04-10308, January, 46 pp.

Du, K., Rood, M.J., Kim, B.J., Kemme, M.R., Franek, W., Mattison, K., and Cook, J., Field (2005) Evaluation of Digital Opacity Method to Quantify Plume Opacity During the Day and Night, Poster No. 100W, Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop sponsored by SERDP and ESTCP, Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2005, Washington, DC.

Rood, M.J., Hay, K.J., and Kim, B.J. (2005) "A System and Method to Integrate Adsorption, Steady-State Electrothermal Desorption, and Subsequent Destruction of Air Pollutants," Invention Disclosure Statement to OTM, TF05053.

Ramirez, D. Vidal, E.X., and Rood, M.J. (2004) Capture and Recovery of Vapor Emissions from a Painting Facility in Fort Hood with an Electrothermal-Swing Adsorption System: Second Field Campaign, Energy Research and Development Center-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, September, pp. 28.

Ramirez, D. Vidal, E.X., and Rood, M.J. (2004) Capture and Recovery of Vapor Emissions from a Painting Facility in Fort Hood with an Electrothermal-Swing Adsorption System: First Field Campaign, Energy Research and Development Center-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, September, pp. 23.

Wang, W., Rood, M.J., Carrico, C.M., Covert, D., Quinn, P., and Bates, T. (2004) Aerosol Radiative Properties and Their Dependence on Relative Humidity and Wavelength in the Northeast United States during ICARTT, 2004 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December, A51E-0833.

Kaldate, A., Thurston, D., Emamipour, H., and Rood, M.J. (2003) Design for Environment: A Case Study of novel technology to capture, recover and re-use Hazardous Air Pollutants, International Society for Industrial Ecology 2nd International Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June.

Rood, M.J., Carrico, K, Kus, P., Quinn, P.K., and Bates, T. S. (2002) Hydration State of the Ambient Aerosol in the North Pacific Ocean from Controlled Relative Humidity Light Scattering Measurements, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December, No. A22C-0123.

Kus, P., Rood, M.J., Covert, Quinn, P., and Ogren, J. (2002) Hygroscopic behavior of ambient aerosols: Results from an anthropogenically perturbed continental U.S. site, Bondville, Illinois, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December, No. A22C-0122.

Rood, M.J., Sullivan, P., Hay, K.J. (2002) Selective Sorption and Desorption of Gases with Electrically Heated Activated Carbon Fiber Cloth Element, April 2, U.S. Patent 6,364,936 B1.

Carrico, C.M., Rood, M.J., Kus, P. (2001) Aerosol Light Scattering Properties Related to Climate Change during ACE-2, American Geophysical Union 2001 Fall Meeting Program, December, San Francisco, California.

Rood, M.J., Carrico, C.M., Kus, P. (2001) Aerosol Light Scattering Properties Related to Climate Change during ACE-2, American Geophysical Union 2001 Fall Meeting Program, December, San Francisco, California.

Rood, M.J., Dombrowski, K., Sullivan, P., Ramirez, D., and Lehmann, C. (2001) Mass and Energy Balances, Equilibrium Vapor Pressure, Multi-Component Performance, and Safety Analyses for the Activated Carbon Fiber Cloth-Electrothermal Vapor Recovery System, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Laboratory.

Lehmann, C.M., Rostam-Abadi, M., Rood, M.J., Ramirez, D., and Hsi, H. -C. (2000) Production and Demonstration of Waste-Derived Carbon Adsorbents for Specific Air Quality Issues, Office of Solid Waste Research, Illinois State Geological Survey and Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October, Publication No. 64-17-005.

Carrico, C.M., Rood, M.J., and Ogren, J.A. (2000) Direct Aerosol Radiative Forcing Based on Optical Measurements at Contrasting, Climatically Important Sites, 19th Annual AAAR Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, November, 5D2, p. 204.

Pinar, K., Winter, K.E., Rood, M.J., Covert, D., and Ogren, J. (2000) Ambient Aerosol Optical Properties at a Midwestern USA Site: Closure for Measured and Modeled Light Scattering Coefficients, 19th Annual AAAR Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, November, 4PG10, 116 pp.

Rood, M.J., Sullivan, P., Hay, K.J. (2000) Selective Sorption, Desorption, and Liquification of Vapors for Gas Streams," Invention Disclosure Statement to RTMO, TF00018.

Rood, M.J. and Sullivan, P. (1999) Adsorption/Desorption Cycling of Activated Carbon Fiber Adsorber with Electrothermal Desorption, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, 8 pp.

Rood, M.J. Sullivan, P.D., and Lordgooei, M. (1999) Removal and Recovery of Organic Vapor Emissions by Carbon Fiber Adsorber-Cryogenic Condenser, USA Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, 39 pp.

Sanford, R., Rood, M.J., Rusko, P., Sanford-Chi, J., Li, J., Ramirez, D. (1999) Biological Treatment of Hazardous Air Pollutants and Pretreatment Compounds at Abbott Pharmaceutical's Wastewater Treatment Plant, Abbott Laboratories, 43 pp.

Rood, M.J., Carrico, C.M., (1998) Sampling and Measuring the Impact of Aerosol Particles on the Global Environment, Scientific Computing & Automation, May, pp. 41-43.

Rood, M.J., Lordgooei, M., Reece, C., Qi, S., Hay, K.J. (1998) Removal and Recovery of Organic Vapor Emissions by Fixed-Bed Activated Carbon Fiber Adsorber-Cryogenic Condenser, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, 68 pp.

Rostam-Abadi, M., Chen, S., Hsi, H.C., Rood, M.J., Carey, T.R., Richardson, C.F. (1998) Development and Evaluation of Low-Cost Sorbents for Removal of Mercury Emissions from Coal Combustion Flue Gas, Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI TR-110532, April, 65 pp.

Ogren, J.A., Bergin, M.H., Jefferson, A., Sheridan, P.J., Rood, M.J., Anderson, T.L., Covert, D.S., Charlson, R.J., (1998) Contributions of Co-Varying Quantities to Average Direct Aerosol Radiative Forcing, Joint International Symposium on Global Atmospheric Chemistry, August, Seattle, WA.

Carrico, C., Rood, M.J., (1998) Aerosol Light Scattering Properties Measured at Sagres, Portugal during ACE-2, Joint International Symposium on Global Atmospheric Chemistry, August, Seattle, WA.

Philippin, S., Neususs, C.H., Wiedensohler, A., Heintzenberg, J.A., Carrico, C.M., Rood, M.J., (1998) Local Scattering and Backscattering Closure Experiment in Anthropogenically Influenced Marine Air Masses, Joint International Symposium on Global Atmospheric Chemistry, August, Seattle, WA.

Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Carrico, C.M., Shrestha, R.P., Skific, M., Li, Z., Rood, M.J., (1997) Aerosol Properties at an Anthropogenically Perturbed Continental Site (Bondville, Illinois, USA), American Geophysical Union Conference, December, San Francisco, CA., A41A-03.

Quinn, P.K., Miller, T.L., Ogren, J.A., Rood, M., Forbes, G., (1997) The Chemical Composition of North American Mid-Latitude Aerosol: What Fraction is Not Sulfate?, American Geophysical Union Conference, December, San Francisco, CA., A41A-01.

Carrico, C.M., Rood, M.J., Skific, M., Shrestha, R., and Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., (1997) Comparison of Light Scattering Properties at a Clean Marine Site With a Perturbed Continental Site and Model Predictions, American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, October, Denver, CO, 14E2.

Rood, M.J. (1997) Influence of Ambient Aerosol Particles on Climate to Air Quality Control with Activated Carbon Fiber Clothes, CNRS-UIUC Workshop on Chemical Engineering and Environment, September, Paris, France.

Carrico, C.M., Rood, M.J., Covert, D.S., and Ogren, J.A. (1997) Light Scattering Measurements at cape Grim as a Function of Relative Humidity, Particle Size, Direction of Scatter, and Wavelength of Light, presented at the "ACE-1 Workshop," March, Hilo, HI.

Carrico, C.M., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Skific, M., Rood, M., and Ogren, J.A. (1996) Light Scattering Properties of Ambient Aerosol Sampled at a Southern Hemispheric Marine Site During the ACE-1 Experiment, American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, October, Orlando, FL, 1D3.

Li, Z., Williams, A.L., and Rood, M.J. (1996) The Role of Surfactant on Droplet Activation, American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, October, Orlando, FL, 11E4.

Rood, M.J., Carrico, C.M., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Li, Z., Skific, M., Shrestha, R., and Ogren, J.A. (1996) Climate Related Aerosol Properties Measured at a Clean Southern Hemispheric Marine Site and Anthropologically Perturbed Northern Hemispheric Continental Site, Illinois State Water Survey, October, Champaign IL.

Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Carrico, C.M., Rood, M.J. and Ogren, J.A. (1995) Physical and Chemical Properties of Ambient Aerosol at a Mid-Latitude Northern Hemisphere Site as They Relate to Climate Change, American Geophysical Union, December, San Francisco, CA, A42A-4.

Carrico, C.M., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., and Rood, M.J. (1995) Development of an Automated Sampling System to Measure Ambient Aerosol Properties Relevant to Climate, American Association for Aerosol Research, Fourteenth Annual Meeting, October, Pittsburgh, PA.

Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Carrico, C.M., Hahn, K.L., Taras, C.M., and Rood, M.J. (1995) Light Scattering Properties at a Mid-Latitude Northern Hemispheric Continental Site, American Association for Aerosol Research, Fourteenth Annual Meeting, October, Pittsburgh, PA.

Rood, M.J., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Carrico, C., Li, Z., and Hahn, K. (1995) Ambient Aerosol Particles and Climate Change, invited plenary lecture for Clean Air Societies of Australia and New Zealand, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, November, Brisbane, Australia.

Rood, M.J., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Carrico, C., Li, Z., Hahn, K., Hansson, H.C., and Hameri, K. (1995) Hygroscopic Properties of Atmospheric Aerosol Particles and Implications of External and Internal Mixtures, invited platform presentation at the Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina College, June, Providence, RI.

Lizzio, A.A., DeBarr, J.A., and Rood, M.J. (1995) Production and Use of Activated Char for Combined SO2/NOx Removal, presented at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Meeting, March, Houston, TX.

Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., and Rood, M.J. (1994) Development of a new Relative Humidity Controlled Nephelometer, American Association for Aerosol Research, August, Los Angeles, CA, 15E.3.

Lizzio, A.A., DeBarr, J.A., Kruse, C.W., Rostam-Abadi, M., Donnals, G.L., and Rood, M.J., (1994) Production and Use of Activated Char for Combined SO2/NOx Removal, presented at the International Activated Carbon Conference, September, Pittsburgh, PA.

Lizzio, A.A., DeBarr, J.A., Kruse, C.W., Rostam-Abadi, M., Donnals, G.L., and Rood, M.J., (1994) Production and Use of Activated Char for Combined SO2/NOx Removal, abstract and poster presented as the 12th Annual ICDB Contractors technical Meeting, August, Champaign, IL.

Rood, M.J., Cal, M., Foster, K., Graf, O., Larson, S., and Economy, J. (1993) Adsorption Capacities and Breakthrough Times for Volatile Organic Compounds Adsorbing onto Activated Carbon Fibers: Applications to Indoor Air Quality, Illinois Institute of Technology, February, Chicago, IL.

Rood, M.J., and Simek, R.E. (1993) Compatibility of Recycling and Combustion of Municipal Solid Waste, National Sun Yat-Sen University, December, Kaoshiung, Taiwan.

Rood, M.J., Hameri, K., Hansson, H.-C., and Koloutsou-Vakakis, S. (1993) Influence of Hygrophobic Organic Compounds on the Hygroscopic Properties of Deliquescent Salts, National Taiwan University, November, Taipei, Taiwan.

Rood, M.J., Cal, M., Foster, K., Graf, O., Gurgas, M., Larson, S., and Economy, J. (1993) Adsorption Properties of Activated Carbon Fibers: Applications to Indoor Air Quality, November, Chungli, Taiwan.

Rood, M.J., Gentile, A., and Kushner, M.J. (1993) Gas Phase Removal of NO from Gas Streams via Dielectric Barrier Discharges, 1993 Diesel Engine Emission Reduction Workshop, University of California San Diego, July, 31pp.

Rood, M.J., Hameri, K., Hansson, H.-C., and Koloutsou-Vakakis, S. (1993) Influence of Carboxylic Acids and Tetracosane on the Hygroscopic Properties of Sodium Chloride Aerosol Particles, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, October, Oak Brook, Illinois, 10D1.

Andrews, B., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Wagner, J., Larson, S.M., and Rood, M.J. (1993) Effect of Surfactant Coating of NaCl Particles: Comparison of Results from the Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer and the Electrodynamic Particle Balance, American Association for Aerosol Research, October, Oak Brook, Illinois, 10D4.

Foster, K.L., Graf, O.W., Rood, M.J., Larson, S.M., and Economy, J. (1993) Packed Bed Adsorption of Volatile Organic Compounds Using Activated Carbon Fibers, American Association for Aerosol Research, October, Oak Brook, Illinois, 2B5.

Foster, K.L., Larson, S.M., Rood, M.J., and Economy, J. (1993) Micropore Size Determinations of Activated Carbon Fibers with Acetone, N-Butane, Benzene and Nitrogen, American Association for Aerosol Research, October, Oak Brook, Illinois, 1PC5.

Orsini, D., Hansson, H.-C., Rood, M.J., and Wiedensohler, A. (1993) Heterogeneous Nucleation of Organics onto NaCl Particles, American Association for Aerosol Research, October, Oak Brook, Illinois.

Rood, M.J., Cal, M.P., Foster, K., Fuerman, R., Graf, O., Larson, S., and Economy, J. (1992) Characterization of the Adsorption of Organic Compounds onto Microporous Activated Carbon Fibers, University of Goteborg, Department of Physics, July, Goteborg, Sweden.

Foster, K.L., Rood, M.J., Larson, S.M., Economy, J. (1992) Adsorption of Volatile Organic Compounds from Gas Streams onto Activated Carbon Fibers, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, October, San Francisco, California, 9E.5.

Chang, M.B., Kushner, M.J., and Rood, M.J. (1992) Experimental Study of the Simultaneous Removal of SO2 and NO from Simulated Flue Gas Streams Via Combined Plasma Photolysis, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, October, San Francisco, California, 11E.3.

Koloutsou-Vakakis, S. and Rood, M.J. (1992) The (NH4)2-SO4-Na2SO4-H2O System: Comparison of Measured and Predicted Deliquescence Humidities, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, October, San Francisco, California, 6C.3.

Fuerman, R.G., Cal, M., Larson, S.M. and Rood, M.J. (1991) Removal of Gaseous Organic Contaminants from Indoor Air with Activated Carbon Fibers, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, October, Traverse City, Michigan, 7P.23.

Chang, M.B., Kushner, M.J., and Rood, M.J. (1991) Influence of Temperature and H2O(g) Concentration on SO2 and NO Removal Efficiencies Achieved with Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasmas, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, October, Traverse City, Michigan, 7P.22.

Rood, M.J., Hansson, H.C., Wiedensohler, A., and Covert, D.S. (1991) Experimental Determination of the Hygroscopic Properties of Organically Coated NaCl Aerosol Particles, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, October, Traverse City, Michigan, 9A.5.

Balbach, J.H., Chang, M.B., Rood, M.J., and Kushner, M.J. (1990) Processing Flue Gases to Remove SO2 and NOx Using 60 Hz Plasma Excitation and Photolysis, 43rd Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, October, Champaign, Illinois, TA-6.

Chang, M.B., Balbach, J., Kushner, M.J., and Rood, M.J. (1990) Removal of Sulfur Dioxide from Gas Streams Using Dielectric Barrier Discharge, 43rd Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, October, Champaign, Illinois, TA-5.

Rood, M.J. and Simek, R.E. (1990) Modeling the Incineration of Municipal Solid Waste, Conference on Solid Waste Research in the Midwest, October, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 28-29.

Contorer, R.E.H. and Rood, M.J. (1990) Influence of Sorbent Specific Surface Area on SO2 Removal Efficiency in Spray Dryers, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, June, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 8B6.

Sloane, C.S., Rood, M.J., and Rogers, C.F. (1989) Measurements of Aerosol Particle Size: I. Improved Precision by Simultaneous Use of an Optical Particle Counter and Nephelometer, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, October, Reno, Nevada, 4P.28.

Rood, M.J. and Yuan C.S. (1989) SO2 and NO Removal from Flue Gases by Atomized Spray Dryer Sorbents, American Association for Aerosol Research Meeting, October, Reno, Nevada, 8B.5.

Rood, M.J. (1989) Simultaneous Measurement of the Hygroscopic Characteristics of Atmospheric Aerosol at Claremont and Rubidoux, California, Air and Waste Management Association, June, Anaheim, California, 89-154I.

Rood, M.J. and Yuan, C.S. (1988) Hygroscopic Properties of Spray Dryer Sorbents, American Association for Aerosol Research, October, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 10.B.3.

Rood, M.J., Rogers, C.F., and Sloane, C.S. (1988) Aerosol Liquid H2O Content: Comparison of Experimental and Modeled Results, American Association for Aerosol Research, October, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1A.1.

Rood, M.J., Currie, R.M., and Larson, T.V. (1987) Study of NH3 and SO2 Mass Transfer Controlling Mechanisms during Activation of Atmospheric Aerosols, Fine Particle Society Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.

Rood, M.J., Covert, D.S., and Larson, T.V. (1987) Comparison of Ambient Aerosol Deliquescence Humidity Measurements and their Thermodynamic Prediction, American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Seattle, Washington, I4E.

Rood, M.J. (1984) Experimental Determination of the Hygroscopic Properties of Ambient Aerosols, 21st Annual PNWIS Air Pollution Control Association Meeting, Portland, Oregon.

Rood, M.J. (1983) Rapid Response Measurements of 2SO4/(NH4)2SO4 Aerosol in Seattle, WA, 20th Annual PNWIS Air Pollution Control Association Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

 


 

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