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                 Consolidated Treatment Systems, Inc.

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Safferman, S. I. and Bishop, P. L., Aerobic Fluidized Bed Reactor with Internal Media Cleaning, Patent Number 5487828, issued on January 30, 1996.

      Book Chapters

          Safferman, S. I., “Sedimentation and Fluidizaiton” in Environmental Engineering Processes Laboratory Manual, Association of

          Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, December 2001.

          Thompson, P. and Safferman, S. I., “Water Softening Laboratory” in Environmental Engineering Processes Laboratory Manual,     

          Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, December 2001.

          Safferman, S. I., “Fundamentals of Treatability Studies” in Bioremediation:  Principles and Practice, Technomic Publishing Co., 1998,

          pp. 577-600.

     Technical Manuscripts

Larson R. and Safferman S.I. (2009). “Aerobic Treatment Unit Performance on Milking Parlor Wash Water.”  Transactions of the ASABE, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 825-834

Liu, Yan, Miller, S. A., Safferman, S. I. (2009). “Alternative Treatments of Food and Manure for Biogas Production.”  Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining, Vol. 3, pp. 30-31.

Larson, R. A., Safferman, S. I. (2008). “Storm Water Best Management Practices That Maximize Aquifer Recharge.” Journal of Green Building, Vol. 3, Number 1, pp. 126-138.

          Krou, J. F., Fox, J., and Safferman, S. I., “Separating Fine and Coarse Soil Particles in a Fluidized Bed Reactor Designed for

          Soil Washing,” Journal of Environmental Engineering, Vol. 132, N0. 10, pp. 1307-1313.

          Safferman, S. I., Novellino, M. I., Burks, B. D., and Parker, R. A., “Maximizing Total Nitrogen Removal from On-Site Generated 

          Wastewater,” Journal of  Environmental Health, Vol. 68, No. 6, 2006, pp. 25-32.

·         Safferman. S. I., Burks, B. D., and Parker, R. A., “Comprehensive On-Site Wastewater Treatment:  What Works and What Doesn’t,”

          WEFTEC 2005, Washington D.C., October 1 – November 2, 2005.

          Safferman, S. I., Burks, B., and Parker, R. A., “Carbon and Nutrient Removal from On-Site Wastewater using Suspended Growth and

          Ion Exchange,” Water Environment Research, Vol. 76, No. 5, September/October 2004, pp. 404-412.

           Safferman, S. I., McMackin, S. A., and Mashingaidze, E. M., “Carbon and Nutrient Removal in a Dual-Media Fluidized Bed Reactor,”

           Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, Vol. A38, No 9, 2003, pp. 1689-1702.

           Safferman, S. I., Azar, R. A., and Sigler, S., “Passive Nutrient Addition for the Biodegradation of Ethylene Glycol in Stormwater,”

          Journal of Environmental Science and Health – Part A, Vol. A37, No. 5, 2002, pp. 955-967.

           Safferman, S, I., Nath, R., and Saliba, A. J., “Deicing Fluid Treatment in an Intermittently Loaded Subsurface Microbiological Contactor,”

           Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, Vol. A34, No. 8, October 1999, pp. 1591-1605.

           Safferman, S. I., Siruvalure, G. S., and Foppe, L. E., “Deicing Fluid Treatment in Batch-Loaded Aerobic Fluidized Bed Reactor,”

           Journal of Environmental Engineering, Vol. 124, No. 1, January 1998, pp. 11-15.

           Safferman, S. I. and Bishop, P. L., “Operating Strategies for Aerobic Fluidized Bed Reactors,” Journal of Hazardous Materials,

           Vol. 54, No. 3, September 1997, pp. 241-253.

            Safferman, S. I. and Bishop, P. L., “Aerobic Fluidized Bed Reactor with Internal Media Cleaning,” Journal of Environmental Engineering,

            Vol. 122, No. 4, April 1996, pp. 284-291.

           Haught, R. C., Neogy, R., VonderHaar, S. S., Krishnan, E. R., Safferman, S. I., and Ryan, J., “Land Treatment Alternatives for

           Bioremediating Wood Preserving Wastes,” Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials, Vol. 12, No. 4, December 1995, pp. 329-344.

           Kupferle, M. J., Chen, T. C., Gallardo, V. J., Lindberg, D. E., Safferman, S. I., Bishop, D. F., and Bishop, P. L., “Anaerobic Treatment

           of Hazardous Waste Leachates in Publicly-Owned Treatment Works:  An Innovative Approach,” Water Environment Research, Vol. 67,

           No. 6, September 1995, pp. 910-920.

           Safferman, S. I., Lamar, R. T., VonderHaar, S., Neogy, R., Haught, R. C., and Krishnan, E. R., “Treatability Study Using

           Phanerochaete sordida for the Bioremediation of DDT Contaminated Soil,” Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry,

           Vol. 50, Numbers 1+4, November 1995, pp. 237-251.

          Herrmann, A. M. and Safferman, S. I., “Phospholipid and FDA Activity Measurements Adapted to Biological GAC,”

         Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, Vol. A30, No. 2, March 1995, pp. 263-280.

          Khodadoust, A. P., Wagner, J. A., Suidan, M. T., and Safferman, S. I., “Solvent Washing of PCP Contaminated Soils with

          Anaerobic Treatment of Wash Fluids,” Water Environment Research, Vol. 66, No. 5, July/August 1994, pp. 692-697.

          Safferman, S. I., Baud-Grasset, S., Brackett, K. A., Clark, P. J., and Bishop, P. L., “A Systematic Scanning Electron Microscopy

          Technique for Evaluating Combined Biological/Granular Activated Carbon Treatment Processes,” Journal of Environmental Science

          and Health, Part A, Vol. A28, No. 10, December 1993, pp. 2239-2262.

          Baud-Grasset, F., Baud-Grasset, S., and  Safferman, S. I., “Evaluation of the Bioremediation of a Contaminated Soil with Phytotoxicity

          Tests,” Chemosphere, Vol. 26, No. 7, April 1993, pp. 1365-1374.

    Education Related Manuscripts

           Jeffers, A. T., Safferman, A. G., and Safferman, S. I.,  “Understanding K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs,” Journal of Professional

           Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Vol. 130, No. 4, 2004, pp. 95-108.

           Safferman, S. I., Zoghi, M, and Farhey, D., “First Year Civil and Environmental Engineering Design Experience,” The Journal of

           Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 4, October 2001, pp. 645-651.

           Hallinan, K., Daniels, M., and Safferman, S., “Balancing Technical and Social Issues:  A New First-Year Design Course,” IEE

           Technology and Society Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 4-14.

           Safferman, S. I., “A Holistic View of Waste Management Research,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education

           and Practice, Vol. 126, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 3-7.

          Safferman, S. I., Utgikar, V. P., and Sandhu, S. S., “Environmental Engineering Education,”  Journal of Environmental Engineering,

          Vol. 122, No. 9, September 1996, pp. 779-784.

            Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering

                 State of Michigan General Acceptable Agricultural Manure Practices (GAAM) Committee

        Campus Co-Chair, MSU Extension Water Quality Area of Expertise

USDA Multi-State Committee S-1032, Improving the Sustainability of Livestock and Poultry Production in the United States

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and Michigan Department of Agricultural Workgroups on Food Processing Wastewater Treatment and Agricultural Wastewater Treatment.

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