Waste & recycling

E-IPER alum Krish Mehta received support from the TomKat Center and Stanford Ecopreneurship to develop a startup that turns industrial waste from coal into materials for construction, agriculture, and powering AI.

Wastewater treatment plants in the San Francisco Bay are facing a $10 billion bill to reduce pollution. They could cut that cost nearly in half through coordinated regional infrastructure investments rather than individual plant upgrades, according to new research.

Assistant Professor of chemical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering William Tarpeh brings his love of problem-solving to his research.

As power grids rely more on renewable energy sources like wind and solar, balancing energy supply and demand becomes more challenging. A new analysis shows how water systems, such as desalination plants and wastewater treatment facilities, could help enhance grid stability and create new revenue streams.

A Stanford expert discusses how thinking on smaller scales about water treatment and reuse could help meet the challenges of water scarcity.

An engineer explains why purifying “waste” water could be the answer to the world’s freshwater problems. (Source: Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast)