Latest News
Dr. He received the 2025 Frederick George Pohland Medal from AEESP/AAEES.
Grace led two teams to win the 1st place in both the wastewater design and water environment categories at the 2025 Midwest Student Design Competition.
Jiasi's paper "Prediction of biogas production in anaerobic digestion of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant using ensembled machine learning models" was named a Top Cited Article in Water Environment Research by Wiley.
Recent Papers
"Integrating oxidation and reduction processes in electrochemical wastewater treatment for contaminant removal with byproduct control". Water Research.
"Indirect electrochemical leaching and separation of cobalt and lithium from spent LiCoO2 through recovery and reuse of sulfuric acid". Separation and Purification Technology.
"Hythane production from brewery wastewater generated biogas using a membrane electrochemical cell". Water Environment Research.
Environmental Biotechnology & Bioenergy Laboratory (EBBL) is a part of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). Our interests lie at the crossroads of microbiology, engineering and electrochemistry. We are seeking a fundamental understanding of the microbial process in engineered systems designed for biological wastewater treatment and bioenergy production with the overarching goal to improve bioreactor performance. Our work includes but not limit to: biotechnology development for wastewater treatment, bioenergy production using microbial fuel cells, sustainable desalination technology, bioremediation using bio-electrochemical techniques and the understanding of those and other environmental biological processes.
