Civil and Environmental Engineering

Daniel P.Y. Chang
Ray B. Krone Professor of Environmental Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2001 Engineering III
One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616

Professor Chang received his degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech. He has served as vice-Chair of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department from 1991-94, again in 1997, and as Chair from 1998-01. He has been a member of the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Research Screening Committee; Director of a USEPA Air Pollution Area Training Center; Guest Editor of a Special Issues of the Chemical Engineering Journal and of the Journal of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials; a Director of the Air and Waste Management Association's Mother Lode Chapter. He is a member of A&WMA, ACS, and Sigma Xi. He received the UC Davis Distinguished Public Service Award, the ASUCD Excellence in Education Award and the Air & Waste Management Association's Lyman A. Ripperton Environmental Educator Award. Professor Chang has authored or co-authored over one hundred twenty-five papers dealing with various topics related to the field of air pollution and waste treatment. Professor Chang's research interests are in the areas of the physico-chemical behavior of air pollutants and their effects on human health; toxic air contaminants, their measurement, production, and control by biological treatment; and combustion of chlorinated wastes.

 

Selected Research Publications

W.F. Wright, E.D. Schroeder, D.P.Y. Chang (2005). "Transient response of flow-direction-switching vapor-phase biofilters." J. Environ. Engrng.-ASCE Vol. 131(7): 999-1009.

Y. Ko, G.S. Yang, D.P.Y. Chang I.M. Kennedy. (2003). "Microwave plasma conversion of volatile organic compounds." AWMA Journal, Vol 53(5):580-585.

P. Di, D.P.Y. Chang and H.A. Dwyer (2000). "Heat and Mass Transfer During Microwave Steam Treatment of Contaminated Soils." ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering, Vol. 126, No. 12, 1108-1115.

D.P.Y. Chang and J.A. Last (1998). "Clean air, dirty water? The MTBE story." J. Environ. Engrng.,-ASCE, Vol. 124, No. 10, pp.910-912.

R.J. Pasek, D.P.Y. Chang, and A.D. Jones (1996). "Investigation of Thermal Decomposition of Chlorinated Polymers." Haz. Waste Haz. Matl. Journal, Vol. 13, No.1, pp.23-38.

 E. Morgenroth, E.D. Schroeder, D.P.Y. Chang, and K.M. Scow (1996)."Nutrient Limitation in a Compost Biofilter Degrading Hexane." A&WMA Journal, Vol. 46, pp. 300-308.

A. Blankenship, D.P.Y.Chang, A.D. Jones, P.B. Kelly, I.M. Kennedy, F. Matsumura, R. Pasek, and G. Yang (1994). "Toxic Combustion By-Products from the Incineration of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons and Plastics." Hemosphere, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 183-196.

S. Ergas, E.D. Schroeder, D.P.Y. Chang, and R.L. Morton (1994). "Control of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions Using a Compost Biofilter." Water Environment Research, Vol. 67, No. 5, pp. 816-82.

M. Lehning, D.P.Y. Chang, D.R. Shonnard, and R.L. Bell (1994). "An Inversion Algorithmfor Determining Area-Source Emissions from Downwind Concentration Measurement." A&WMA Journal, Vol. 44, pp. 1204-1213.

Current Funding

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Superfund Basic Research Program: Biomarkers of Exposure - Research Translation Core.