Weile Yan

Research Interests

Water Quality Engineering; Groundwater and Subsurface Remediation; Environmental Interface Chemistry; Environmental Catalysis; Critical Mineral Separation and Recovery

Education

• Ph.D.: Environmental Engineering, (2011), Lehigh University - Bethlehem, Penn.
• MS: Molecular Engineering of Biological and Chemical Systems, (2003), Singapore-MIT Alliance - Singapore
• BS: Environmental Engineering, (2002), National University of Singapore - Singapore

Biosketch

Weile Yan received her B.Eng. and Ph.D., both in Environmental Engineering, from the National University of Singapore and Lehigh University, respectively. She was a post-doctoral associate at Princeton University before joining Texas Tech University (2011). At Texas Tech, she served as an assistant professor and later associate professor. Dr. Yan joined U Mass Lowell in 2019. Her research efforts focus on contaminant transformation mediated by earth abundant materials and reactions at natural or engineered surfaces. Her team is interested in harnessing these reactions for the restoration of contaminated environment and designing more sustainable water use/re-use technologies.

Selected Publications

• Barragan, N.; Deepika, B.; Sivaraman, M.; Loya, J.D.; Babaguchi K.; Findlater, M.; Hutchins, K.M.; Yan, W., Selective Removal of Barium and Hardness Ions from Brackish Water with Chemically Enhanced Electrodialysis. ACS ES&T Water, (2022), 2, 288-298.
• Islam, S.; Redwan A.; Millerick K.; Filip, J.; Yan, W. Synergistic Effect of Zero Valent Iron (ZVI) Amendment and Biological Sulfate Reducing Culture on Reductive Dechlorination of Trichloroethylene (TCE), Environmental Science and Technology, (2021), 55, 4851-4861.
• Brundrett, M., Yan, W., Velazquez, M.C., Rao, B., Jackson, W.A. (2019). Abiotic Reduction of Chlorate by Fe(II) Minerals: Implications for Occurrence and Transformation of Oxy-Chlorine Species on Earth and Mars. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry,3(5) 700-710.
• Li, Y., Hope-weeks, L., Filip, J., Yan, W. (2019). Activation of peroxydisulfate by spinel ferrites for phenol oxidation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering,79 8099.
• Han, Y.L., Liu, C.J., Horita, J., Yan, W. (2018). Trichloroethene (TCE) hydrodechlorination by Ni-Fe nanoparticles: Influence of aqueous anions on catalytic pathways. Chemosphere,205 404-413.
• Li, Y., Bland, G.D., Yan, W. (2016). Enhanced arsenite removal through surface-catalyzed oxidative coagulation treatment. Chemosphere,150 650-658.
• Li, Y., Machala, L., Yan, W. (2016). Fe-Impregnated Mineral Colloids for Peroxide Activation: Effects of Mineral Substrate and Fe Precursor. Environmental Science & Technology,50(3) 1190-1199.
• Yan, Weile;, ., Han, Y. (2016). Reductive Dechlorination of Trichloroethene by Zero-valent Iron Nanoparticles: Reactivity Enhancement through Sulfidation Treatment. Environmental Science & Technology,In press DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03997.
• Han, Y., Liu, C., Horita, J., Yan, W. (2016). Trichloroethene hydrodechlorination by Pd-Fe bimetallic nanoparticles: Solute-induced catalyst deactivation analyzed by carbon isotope fractionation. Applied Catalysis B-Environmental,188 77-86.
• Han, Yanlai;, ., Yan, W. (2014). Bimetallic Nickel-Iron Nanoparticles for Groundwater Decontamination: Effect of Groundwater Constituents on Surface Deactivation. Water Research,66 149-159.
• Yan, W., Lien, H., Koel, B.E., Zhang, W. (2013). Iron nanoparticles for environmental clean-up: recent developments and future outlook. Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts,15(1) 63-77.
• Yan, W., Ramos, M.A., Koel, B.E., Zhang, W. (2012). As(III) Sequestration by Iron Nanoparticles: Study of Solid-Phase Redox Transformations with X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry C,116(9).
• Yan, W., Vasic, R., Frenkel, A.I., Koel, B.E. (2012). Intraparticle Reduction of Arsenite (As(III)) by Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron (nZVI) Investigated with In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Environmental Science & Technology,46(13) 7018-7026.