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CEE Professor Lee Ferguson notes that PFAS chemicals aren't required to make non-stick ceramic pans.

CEE Professor Marc Deshusses's startup company 374Water aims to use a tried and tested method to destroy PFAS and other contaminants at commercially viable volumes, using supercritical water.

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Lee Ferguson runs a state-of-the-art lab that can detect PFOA and PFOS compounds as low as one part per trillion (ppt) - but even that is still too high for the new EPA guidelines of .02 ppt for PFOA and .004 ppt for PFOS.

Clean-tech has enormous potential to shift the waste management paradigm from treatment and disposal to resource recovery and pollutant elimination, writes Duke Engineering's Marc Deshusses.

The civil engineer who is part of efforts to integrate ethics training into Duke's engineering curriculum writes that entrepreneurial engineering introduces the student to the marketplace. It makes the engineering student think outside of the typical physics comfort zone. Whether the engineering student realizes it, the marketplace is an important context, since engineers often do all the hard work and provide the intellectual firepower for a design.

Modern flush toilets waste a gallon and a half of treated, potable water every time you flush. The Duke Center for WaSH-AID is working on ways to get rid of waste more efficiently.

Former CEE PhD student Sarah Diringer writes about how working with Bass Connections and the Duke Global Health Institute teams helped her see water as part of an intricate web of people and the environment. 

CEE Professor Nate Chaney demonstrates that incorporating small-scale land features into weather and climate models can help them perform better.