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Gerald E. Speitel is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular emphasis on water treatment and disinfection processes.

The scientist's work covers key areas including:

  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Mercury Impact and Mitigation Studies
  • Advanced Oxidation Water Treatment
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Analytical Chemistry Methods Development
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

Speitel has contributed to several subfields within environmental science, notably health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Additional subfields include water science and technology, analytical chemistry, and biomedical engineering.

Important recent papers authored or co-authored by Speitel include:

  • Role of Carbonate Species on General Acid Catalysis of Bromide Oxidation by Hypochlorous Acid (HOCl) and Oxidation by Molecular Chlorine (Cl2), 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Apparent Reactivity of Bromine in Bromochloramine Depends on Synthesis Method: Implicating Bromine Chloride and Molecular Bromine as Important Bromine Species, 2022, Journal of Environmental Engineering
  • Simultaneous time-resolved inorganic haloamine measurements enable analysis of disinfectant degradation kinetics and by-product formation, 2024, Nature Water
  • Author Correction: Simultaneous time-resolved inorganic haloamine measurements enable analysis of disinfectant degradation kinetics and by-product formation, 2024, Nature Water

The venues where Speitel has most frequently published include:

  • Nature Water
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Environmental Engineering

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Samuel H. Brodfuehrer
  • David G. Wahman
  • Lynn E. Katz
  • Daniel Blomdahl
  • Pawel K. Misztal

Best Publications

  • Kinetics of aerobic cometabolism of chlorinated solvents.

    Lisa Alvarez-Cohen;Gerald E Speitel

  • DBP formation during chloramination

    Alicia C. Diehl;Gerald E. Speitel;James M. Symons;Stuart W. Krasner

  • Fate of biodegradable dissolved organic carbon produced by ozonation on biological activated carbon.

    Wataru Nishijima;Gerald E Speitel

  • Gas-phase formaldehyde adsorption isotherm studies on activated carbon: correlations of adsorption capacity to surface functional group density.

    Ellison M. Carter;Lynn E. Katz;Gerald E. Speitel;David Ramirez

  • Biofilm Shearing under Dynamic Conditions

    Gerald E. Speitel;Francis A. DiGiano

  • Kinetics of methyl t-butyl ether cometabolism at low concentrations by pure cultures of butane-degrading bacteria.

    Catherine Y. Liu;Gerald E. Speitel;George Georgiou

  • The Bioregeneration of GAC Used to Treat Micropollutants

    Gerald E. Speitel;Francis A. DiGiano

  • Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b Mutants Having Constitutive Expression of Soluble Methane Monooxygenase in the Presence of High Levels of Copper

    Patricia A. Phelps;Sandeep K. Agarwal;Gerald E. Speitel;George Georgiou

  • Selecting among physical/chemical processes for removing synthetic organics from water

    Bruce I. Dvorak;Desmond F. Lawler;Gerald E. Speitel;Darrell L. Jones

  • Biodegradation of trace concentrations of substituted phenols in granular activated carbon columns

    Gerald E Speitel;Chih Jen Lu;Mukesh Turakhia;Xian Jin Zhu

  • Removal of Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate from Wastewater by Ion Exchange

    David J. Lampert;Michael A. Frisch;Gerald E. Speitel

  • Ozonation and BDOC removal: effect on water quality

    Lori A. Cipparone;Alicia C. Diehl;Gerald E. Speitel

  • Cometabolism of chlorinated solvents and binary chlorinated solvent mixtures using M. trichosporium OB3b PP358.

    C. E. Aziz;George Georgiou;Gerald E Speitel

  • Biofilm Reactors for Treatment of Gas Streams Containing Chlorinated Solvents

    Gerald E. Speitel;David S. McLay

  • Fate and Transport of High Explosives in a Sandy Soil: Adsorption and Desorption

    Hiroshi Yamamoto;Matthew C. Morley;Gerald E. Speitel;Jay Clausen

  • Methanotrophic biodegradation of trichloroethylene in a hollow fiber membrane bioreactor.

    Carol E. Aziz;Mark W. Fitch;Larry K. Linquist;Jonathan G. Pressman

  • Mathematical Modeling of Bioregeneration in GAC Columns

    Gerald E. Speitel;Konstantinos Dovantzis;Francis A. DiGiano

  • Effect of Ozone Dosage and Subsequent Biodegradation on Removal of DBP Precursors

    Gerald E. Speitel;James M. Symons;Alicia C. Diehl;Harvey W. Sorensen

  • Biodegradation kinetics of Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b at low concentrations of chloroform in the presence and absence of enzyme competition by methane

    Gerald E. Speitel;Robert C. Thompson;Daniel Weissman

  • Cometabolism of trihalomethanes by Nitrosomonas europaea.

    David G. Wahman;Lynn E. Katz;Gerald E. Speitel

  • Degradation of Trichloroethylene by Methanol-Grown Cultures of Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b PP358.

    Mark W. Fitch;Gerald E. Speitel;George Georgiou

  • A sequencing biofilm reactor for the treatment of chlorinated solvents using methanotrophs

    Gerald E. Speitel;Jean M. Leonard

  • Removal of Nonbiodegradable Chemicals from Mixtures during Granular Activated Carbon Bioregeneration

    Andrea R. H. Putz;Derek E. Losh;Gerald E. Speitel

  • Ozonation and BDOC removal: Effect on water quality - Batch experiments indicate biological treatment improves overall water quality and reduces biological regrowth

    Lori A. Cipparone;Lori A. Cipparone;Alicia C. Diehl;Gerald E. Speitel

Frequent Co-Authors

George Georgiou
George Georgiou The University of Texas at Austin
Desmond F. Lawler
Desmond F. Lawler The University of Texas at Austin
Daene C. McKinney
Daene C. McKinney The University of Texas at Austin
Stuart W. Krasner
Stuart W. Krasner Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Kamy Sepehrnoori
Kamy Sepehrnoori The University of Texas at Austin
David A. Reckhow
David A. Reckhow University of Massachusetts Amherst
Philip C. Singer
Philip C. Singer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mojdeh Delshad
Mojdeh Delshad The University of Texas at Austin
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen University of California, Berkeley

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