Natalie Capiro

Rice-Houston AGEP
Rice University
Houston, TX



Natalie’s current research addresses the environmental implications associated with the use of ethanol as a fuel oxygenate in gasoline. The purpose of her work is to simulate spill scenarios that are likely to occur in the field within a controlled pilot-scale system. The main research objectives are to: 1) quantify generation of concentrations of ethanol and hydrocarbons in groundwater near the source, 2) quantify the migration of trapped NAPL as well as NAPL generated from fuel-grade ethanol, and 3) quantify the impact of ethanol spills on microbial processes and the effect of these processes on hydrocarbons in groundwater. (Rice University, 2005)

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