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
"Light stimulated H2O2 inhibition on methanogenesis during anaerobic digestion towards enhanced VFAs production". Water Research.
"Integrating solvent extraction with electrochemical separation for nutrient recovery from anaerobic digested sludge". Separation and Purification Technology.
"In-situ control of biohythane production in electro-anaerobic digestion". Chemical Engineering Journal.
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.
