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Person Details: Kyriacos Zygourakis

Superfund Research Program

Kyriacos Zygourakis

Rice University
6100 Main Street
MS 362
Houston, Texas 77005
Phone: 713-348-5208
Email: kyzy@rice.edu

Projects

Publications

2023

  • Denison SB, Jin P, Dias Da Silva P, Chu C, Moorthy B, Senftle TP, Zygourakis K, Alvarez PJ. 2023. Pyro-catalytic degradation of pyrene by bentonite-supported transition metals: Mechanistic insights and trade-offs with low pyrolysis temperature. Environ Sci Technol 57(38):14373-14383. doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c04487 PMID:37683087

2022

  • Denison SB, Dias Da Silva P, Koester CP, Alvarez PJ, Zygourakis K. 2022. Clays play a catalytic role in pyrolytic treatment of crude-oil contaminated soils that is enhanced by ion-exchanged transition metals. J Hazard Mater 437:doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129295 PMID:35717817

2021

  • Dias Da Silva P, Wong MS, Zygourakis K. 2021. JP-8 desulfurization by CuNa-Y zeolite at elevated temperatures has two distinct stages: chemisorption followed by surface reactions. Ind Eng Chem Res 60(40):14534-14546. doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.1c02131
  • Gao Y, Dias Da Silva P, Alvarez PJ, Zygourakis K. 2021. Integrating thermal analysis and reaction modeling for rational design of pyrolytic processes to remediate soils contaminated with heavy crude oil. Environ Sci Technol 55:11987-11996. doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c03607 PMID:34432440 PMCID:PMC8719924

2019

  • Song W, Vidonish JE, Kamath R, Yu P, Chu C, Moorthy B, Gao B, Zygourakis K, Alvarez PJ. 2019. Pilot-scale pyrolytic remediation of crude-oil-contaminated soil in a continuously-fed reactor: treatment intensity trade-offs. Environ Sci Technol 53(4):2045-2053. doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b05825 PMID:30681845 PMCID:PMC8037193
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