July, 2024
- New paper: "Feasibility assessment of electrochemical chlorination for direct potable reuse" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters.
- New paper: "Enhancing Dewaterability of Water Resource Recovery Facility Solids with Electrochemical Treatment through Synergetic Effects of Acidification and Cation Removal" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Journal.
June, 2024
- Kaichao presented at Environmental Sciences: Water Gordon Research Conference & Seminar.
- Dr. He delivered a seminar at University of Milano-Bicocca, gave a lecture at the 2024 Urban Water Security Academy (Paestum, Italy), and made presentations on research & editorial work at the ICWRR & IWA RMTC (Palermo, Italy).
- New paper: "Electrochemically-assisted intensification of As(III) removal through integrated alkalization and oxidation process" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
- New paper: "Electrochemical Phosphorus Recovery from Anaerobically Digested Sludge: Improving Product Purity and Concentration" has been accepted for publication in ACS ES&T Engineering.
May, 2024
- The EBBL celerated the graduation of four PhD students (Zixuan, Fubin, Matthew, and Yanran) and the end of the spring semester.
April, 2024
- The Env. Eng. capstone design class sent two teams to WERC Environmental Design Contest at New Mexico State University and won eight trophies! Jiasi is an AI of the class, and Po-Chang and Matthew provided guidance to the Hydrogen team in their experiment.
- A team involving two EBBLers - Yue and Jiasi won the first place in the wastewater category at the Midwest Student Design Contest in Madison, Wisconsin. They will represent the State of Missouri at the national contest this fall at WEFTEC (McKelvey Engineering News).
- Zixuan has been selected to receive the 2024 W. Wesley Eckenfelder Graduate Research Award from the AAEES/AEESP (McKelvey Engineering News).
March, 2024
- EBBL members attended the 2024 MWEA/MO-AWWA Joint Annual Meeting. In the Fresh Ideas Student Poster Competition, Kaichao won the 2nd place and Yue won the 3rd place in the Wastewater Category. Yue was awarded the MWEA 2024 Ronald Layton Scholarship (McKelvey Engineering News).
- Joshua Lovell started his visiting research in the EBBL. He is a MS student at Leibniz University Hannover.
- Zixuan has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!
- New paper: "Machine learning-aided inverse design for biogas upgrading through biological CO2 conversion" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
January, 2024
- New paper: "Simultaneous recovery of nitrogen and phosphorus from actual digester centrate in an electrochemical membrane system" has been accepted for publication in Resources, Conservation & Recycling.
- New paper: "Machine learning facilitated the conceptual design of an alum dosing system for phosphorus removal in a wastewater treatment plant" has been accepted for publication in Chemosphere.
December, 2023
- New paper: "Biological upgrading of biogas assisted with membrane supplied hydrogen gas in a three-phase upflow reactor" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
- Paloma Paiva Santiago officially joined the EBBL as a PhD student. Welcome (again)!
- Dr. He had a trip to Korea, giving seminars at Konkuk University and Kyungpook National University, and delivering a Planery talk at the 2023 WaterEnergyNexus Confernce (Daegu).
November, 2023
- EBBL members participated in the Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference (Columbia, MO) with both poster and oral presentations. Jiasi won the Best Interdisciplinary Approach Award.
October, 2023
- EBBL had a lab gathering in Dr. He's house.
- EBBL had a joint group meeting with ACL (directed by Dr. Dan Giammar).
September, 2023
- New paper: "Meta-analysis of biogas upgrading to renewable natural gas through biological CO2 conversion" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cleaner Production.
- Center for Water Innovation hosted the 2023 Kappe Lecture by Dr. Daniel Yeh of USF.
August, 2023
- New paper: "Formation of oxidation byproducts during electrochemical treatment of simulated produced water" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
- New paper: "Removal of disinfection byproducts through integrated adsorption and reductive degradation in a membrane-less electrochemical systemn" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
July, 2023
- The 10th IWA Membrane Technology Conference was held at WashU (McKelvey Engineering News). Dr. He was the conference co-chair and EBBL members were actively participating in the conference as volunteers and presenters.
June, 2023
- New paper: "Phosphorus recovery from whole digestate through electrochemical leaching and precipitation" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology (The Source).
- EBBL members delivered four oral presentations and one poster at the 2023 AEESP conference in Boston. We also had a lab gathering with several alumni.
May, 2023
- Zixuan delivered an oral presentation at 2023 WEF/IWA Residuals and Biosolids Conference in Charlottee. Then, he joined Fubin for poster presentations at the Borchardt Conference in Ann Arbor.
- Congratulations to Zixuan on winning a 2023 CAPEES-Elsevier Outstanding Graduate Award!
- New paper: "Prediction of biogas production in anaerobic digestion of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant using ensembled machine learning models" has been accepted for publication in Water Environment Research.
April, 2023
- The Center for Water Innovation hosted its first annual research symposium (McKelvey Engineering News). Zixuan Wang was a co-winner of Graduate Student Flash Talk Competition on the symposium.
- Jiasi Sun teamed with Haoran Yang (SIUC) takes the first place in Intelligent Water Systems Challenge hosted by IWEA (McKelvey Engineering News).
- Kaichao, Shruti, and Daran participated in the student design competition organized by Central State Water Environmental Association. They will represent the State of Missouri to attend the national comeptition at WEFTEC in the fall.
March, 2023
- EBBL members attended the 2023 MWEA/MO-AWWA Joint Annual Meeting. In the Fresh Ideas Student Poster Competition, Kaichao won the 1st place and will represent MO AWWA to attend the national meeting in Toronto. Matthew won the 3rd Place in the Wastewater Category (McKelvey Engineering News).
- Both Matthew and Fubin passed their proposal defenses and became PhD candidates.
January, 2023
- New paper: "Enhancing organic contaminant degradation through integrating advanced oxidation processes with microbial electrochemical systems" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters.
- New paper: "Electrochemical phosphorus release and recovery from wastewater sludge: A review" has been accepted for publication in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology.
December, 2022
- Shruti and Jiasi officially joined the EBBL as PhD students. Welcome again!
- New paper: "Artificial intelligence assisted prediction of effluent phosphorus in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant with missing phosphorus input and removal data" has been accepted for publication in ACS ES&T Water.
November, 2022
- New paper: "Phenol degradation in iron-based advanced oxidation processes through ferric reduction assisted by molybdenum disulfide" has been accepted for publication in Chemosphere.
October, 2022
- EBBL members attended the 2022 Mid America Environmental Engineering Conference at Missouri S&T. Kaichao gave an oral presentation on his research.
- Dr. He attended the WEFTEC in New Orleans and received the WEF Fellow certificate from the WEF President and delivered an invited seminar to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University.
- New paper: "Effects of draw solutes on an integrated forward osmosis - microbial fuel cell system treating a synthetic wastewater" has been accepted for publication in Water Environment Research.
September, 2022
- Dr. He is among four EECE professors to receive new funding from US DOE. Our $2.5M project is to grow algae on CO2 captured from biogas (McKelvey Engineering News).
- Dr. He is leading a multi-institution team to work on biogas upgrading to renewable natural gas in a $2.3M project funded by US DOE (McKelvey Engineering News).
- New paper: "Electron transfer kinetics at anode interface in microbial electrochemical systems" has been accepted for publication in Electrochimica Acta.
- New paper: "Production of algal biomass on electrochemically recovered nutrients from anaerobic digestion centrate" has been accepted for publication in Algal Research.
August, 2022
- Dr. He received a new grant from NSF to work on VFA production in anaerobic digesters (McKelvey Engineering News).
- New paper: "Electrochemical phosphorus leaching from digested anaerobic sludge and subsequent nutrient recovery" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- Dr. He was named a Fellow of Water Environment Federation (WEF) (WEF Fellows Program, McKelvey Engineering News).
July, 2022
- New paper: "Effective nutrient recovery from digester centrate assisted by in situ production of acid/base in a novel electrochemical membrane system" has been accepted for publication in Chemosphere.
June, 2022
- EnvESA involving several EBBL members collaborated with the School District of University City and St. Louis Aquarium Foundation to provide fifth-grade students with a hands-on water education program (McKelvey Engineering News).
- The 2022 AEESP Conference welcome more than 800 attendees to WashU, including several EBBL alumni. EBBL members were involved in the organization of this conference and also delivered multiple oral/poster presentations.
May, 2022
- New paper: "Microbial electrochemical ammonia recovery from anaerobic digester centrate and subsequent application to fertilize Arabidopsis thaliana" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- New paper: "Enhancing the degradation of selected recalcitrant organic contaminants through integrated cathode and anode processes in microbial electrochemical systems: a frontier review" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Mateirals Letters.
- New paper: "Enhanced understanding of osmotic membrane bioreactors through machine learning modeling of water flux and salinity" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
April, 2022
- A team consisted of two EBBL students (Yanran and Zixuan) and one SIUE student (Shaker Nairat) won the 2nd place at the 1st Annual IWEA Intelligent Water Challenge (McKelvey Engineering News).
March, 2022
- EBBL members attended the 2022 MWEA/MO-AWWA Joint Annual Meeting. Zixuan and Fubin participated in the Fresh Ideas Student Poster Competition, and Zixuan won the 3rd Place (McKelvey Engineering News).
- Dr. He was a panelist of a discussion on water resources in a changing climate. Thank SLU Water Institute for the invitation and organizing 2022 Summit for Water.
- New paper: "Data-driven prediction of neutralizer pH and valve position towards precise control of chemical dosage in a wastewater treatment plant" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cleaner Production.
January, 2022
- New paper: "Activation of persulfate for degradation of sodium dodecyl sulfate by a hybrid catalyst hematite/cuprous sulfide with enhanced FeIII/FeII redox cycling" has been accepted for publication in Chemosphere.
- Dr. He was named the Editor in Chief for Journal of Hazardous Materials, a high-profile environmental journal with a latest impact factor of 10.588 (WashU Source News).
- Our collaborative research with Dr. Fuzhong Zhang was highlighted by WashU Source News.
November, 2021
- EBBL promotion video is online:
- Dr. He delivered an invited seminar to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Thank Drs. Fidalgo, Wang, and Hu for hostig the visit.
October, 2021
- Our team won the 2nd place in the 2021 Intelligent Water Systems Challenge (WashU Source News). Dr. He joined the Waterside Chat at WEFTEC to discuss the future of water in 2051.
September, 2021
- New paper: "Hematite/selenium disulfide hybrid catalyst for enhanced Fe(III)/Fe(II) redox cycling in advanced oxidation processes" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
- New paper: "Enhanced microalgae multivation using wastewater nutrients extracted by a microbial electrochemical system" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- EBBL participated in the 2021 Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference. Yanran, Matthew, and Fubin gave presentations about their research.
- Minkyoung Jung and Kaichao Yang joined the EBBL as the rotating PhD students.
- New paper: "Electrolysis-assisted recovery of reverse-fluxed solutes in forward osmosis" has been accepted for publication in Desalination.
August, 2021
- Zixuan presented his research on the ACS Fall Meeting in Atlanta.
- Zixuan was among the winners of the 2021 CAPEES Student E-Poster Competition.
May, 2021
- Fubin's paper was featured as a Front Cover Article in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology and repoted by WashU Source.
April, 2021
- New paper: "Enhanced volatile fatty acids accumulation in anaerobic digestion through arresting methanogenesis by using hydrogen peroxide" has been accepted for publication in Water Environment Research.
- EBBL had a joint group meeting with Dr. Giammar's ACL.
- Matthew Ferby was selected to receive the Ronald Layton Student Award from Missouri Water Environment Association. Congratulations!
- Zixuan Wang was selected to receive one of EECE Annual Research Impact Awards. Congratulations!
Feburary, 2021
- New paper: "Ammonia recovery from simulated anaerobic digestate using a two-stage direct contact membrane distillation process" has been accepted for publication in Water Environment Research.
- Mostafa El-Nahas joined EBBL as a visiting PhD student. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a PhD student at Cairo University
- New paper: "Enhancing the performance of a microbial electrochemical system with carbon-based dynamic membrane as both anode electrode and filtration media" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
December, 2020
- Our 2020 annual report is available: PDF
- Dr. He was appinted the Director of Center for Water Innovation (CWI) (McKelvey Engineering News)
November, 2020
- Dr. He was an inaugural speaker for the Distinguished Seminar in Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University.
October, 2020
- Dr. He was named a Fellow of International Water Association (IWA), among 17 new IWA Fellows elected in 2020 (McKelvey Engineering News).
- Dr. He delivered a virtual seminar to the College of Environmental and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Technology
September, 2020
- Our research on Li recovery from spent LIB was reported by WashU Source News
- New paper: "Frontier review on metal removal in bioelectrochemical systems: mechanisms, performance, and perspectives" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters.
July, 2020
- Dr. He gave a Keynote presentation on the 1st CAWQ Virtual Conference. CAWA is the Canada Association on Water Quality.
- Our lab alumnus Dr. Askshay Jain has accepted a position of District Engineer at Virginia Department of Health. We wish him the best luck in his new position.
- New paper: "Electrochemical relithiation for direct regeneration of LiCoO2 materials from spent lithium-ion battery electrodes" has been accepted for publication in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
June, 2020
- Dr. He gave a Keynote presentation on the 9th ICAERE annual general meeting (virtual). ICAERE is the Ireland Chinese Association of Environment, Resources & Energy.
- Our lab alumnus Dr. Shiqiang Zou has accepted a faculty offer from Auburn University and will start his Assistant Professor position in January 2021. He was also selected to receive 2019 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. He is the 4th student in our lab who received this award in the past three years.
- New paper: "Mitigating nutrient accumulation with microalgal growth towards enhanced nutrient removal and biomass production in an osmotic photobioreactor" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- New paper: "Resource recovery from wastewater can be an application niche of microbial desalination cells" has been accepted for publication in Environment International.
May, 2020
- New paper: "Towards enhanced performance of integrated photo-bioelectrochemical systems: Taxa and functions in bacteria-algae communities" has been accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology.
- EBBL alumnus Dr. Syeed Md Iskander has accepted a faculty offer and will start his Assistant Professor position at North Dakoda State University in the fall of 2020. Congratulations, Dr. Iskander!
- Zixuan delievered a Virtual Presentation on NAMES 2020.
- Dr. He was named a Co-Founding Editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters (McKelvey Engineering News).
- Congratulations to Akshay Jain and Xingjian Liu on receiving their PhD degrees! We wish those two newest EBBL alumni the best luck in their next stage of career and life.
April, 2020
- New paper: "Decreased formation of disinfection by-products during electrochemical leachate oxidation and their post-removal by electro-adsorption" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
- Askahy won the 1st place in the category of "Old problems, New solution" at Virginia Tech Graduate school's GSA Research Symposium.
- New paper: "Improving hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells through hydraulic connection with thermoelectric generators" has been accepted for publication in Process Biochemistry.
March, 2020
- EBBL had the first Zoom group meeting. Xiao Li led the discussion of a paper about microbial competition in a bioanode.
- New paper: "Minimizing effects of chloride and calcium towards enhanced nutrient recovery from sidestream centrate in a decoupled electrodialysis driven by solar energy" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cleaner Production.
- EBBL participated in McKelvey PhD Visit Day Poster Session.
- Matthew's first paper was featured as a Cover Article in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology and highlighted in McKelvey Engineering News.
- Dr. He was named a 2019 Outstanding Reviewer by Water Research.
January, 2020
- EBBL had a lab gathering at Dr. He's place.
- New paper: "Synergistically coupling membrane electrochemical reactor with Fenton process to enhance landfill leachate treatment" has been accepted for publication in Chemosphere.
- New paper: "Electrochemical nitrate removal with simultaneous magnesium recovery from a mimicked RO brine assisted by in situ chloride ions" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
- EBBL started a new page at Washington University in St. Louis and Dr. He returned to WashU (where he obtained his PhD) as a Full Professor.
December, 2019
- New paper: "Selective recovery of lead and zinc through controlling cathodic potential in a bioelectrochemically-assisted electrodeposition system" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
- New paper: "Powering microbial electrolysis cells by electricity generation from simulated waste heat of anaerobic digesters using thermoelectric generators" has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
- New paper: "Dominant formation of unregulated disinfection by-products during electrocoagulation treatment of landfill leachate" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Research.
- New paper: "Reduction of reverse solute flux induced solute buildup in the feed solution of forward osmosis" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
October, 2019
- New paper: "Flexible control of biohythane composition and production by dual cathodes in a bioelectrochemical system" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
- Dr. He was elected to be a member of the IWA USA National Committee Board.
September, 2019
- New paper: "Formation of disinfection byproducts during Fenton’s oxidation of chloride-rich landfill leachate" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
- New paper: "Demystifying terms for understanding bioelectrochemical systems towards sustainable wastewater treatment" has been accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Electrochemistry.
August, 2019
- New paper: "Energy advantage of anode electrode rotation over anolyte recirculation for operating a tubular microbial fuel cell" has been accepted for publication in Electrochemistry Communications.
July, 2019
- New paper: "Precise control of iron activating persulfate by current generation in an electrochemical membrane reactor" has been accepted for publication in Environment International.
- New paper: "Light-driven carbon dioxide reduction to methane by Methanosarcina barkeri-CdS biohybrid" has been accepted for publication in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.
June, 2019
- New paper: "Mitigation of bidirectional solute flux in forward osmosis via membrane surface coating of zwitterion functionalized carbon nanotubes" has been accepted for publication in Environment International.
- New paper: "Removal of landfill leachate ultraviolet quenching substances by electricity induced humic acid precipitation and electrooxidation in a membrane electrochemical reactor" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
- Dr. He joined Journal of Hazardous Materials (JHM) as a Co-Editor in Chief.
- New paper: "Bioelectrochemical deposition of palladium nanoparticles as catalysts by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 towards enhanced hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells" has been accepted for publication in Electrochimica Acta.
May, 2019
- Dr. He received CAPEES/NANOVA Frontier Research Award and CAPEES Distinguished Service Award.
- Dr. He received Dean's Award for Excellence in Research from College of Engineering, Virginia Tech.
- At 2019 AEESP conference, Syeed delivered an oral presentation and Shiqiang presented a poster. We also had EBBL reunion with Drs. Qin and Yuan.
- Dr. He gave an invited seminar to University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
April, 2019
- New paper: "Production of electricity and water in an osmotic microbial fuel cell by using EDTA-Na2 as a recoverable draw solute" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
- Four EBBL members, Jessie, Akshay, Zixuan, and Bing, participated in VWEA Student Competition.
- Dr. He gave an invited seminar to Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University.
- The EBBL members participated in 2019 Big Event.
March, 2019
- Syeed won the First Place in Presentation competition on Annual Research Symposium of VT Alpha Epsilon (The Honor Society of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering)
- Syeed won the Gold Award and Shiqiang won the Silver Award on the 35th GSA Annual Research Symposium.
- New paper: "Theoretical understanding of the optimum conditions for a mainstream granular nitritation-anammox reactor coupled with anaerobic pretreatment" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
- Shiqiang was selected to receive Graduate Research Award from Division of Environmental Chemistry, ACS
January, 2019
- Syeed has been selected as a 2019 Diversity Scholar by the Office of Recruitment, Diversity, and Inclusion, Graduate School, Virginia Tech.
- Akshay has been selected to participate in the Preparing the Future Professoriate: Global Perspectives program for 2019. The program will allow him to visit universities mostly in Switzerland during the summer of 2019.
- Our 2018 annual report is available here: PDF
December, 2018
- Xiao Li joined EBBL as a visiting PhD student from Sun Yat-san University. Welcome!
- Yu Dong has graduated with a MS degree. Congrats! We will miss "the photographer of EBBL".
- New paper: "Ammonia removal and recovery from diluted forward osmosis draw solution by using a tubular microbial desalination cell" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
November, 2018
- New paper: "Reduction of reagent requirements and sludge generation in Fenton's oxidation of landfill leachate by synergistically incorporating forward osmosis and humic acid recovery" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- Dr. He was named a 2018 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
- Dr. He delivered an invited seminar to the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences at University of Notre Dame, and got together with a EBBL almuni Zhenyu Wu (a PhD student at University of Notre Dame).
- New paper: "Enhanced removal of Azo dye by a bioelectrochemical system integrated with a membrane bofilm reactor" has been accepted for publication in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
- New paper: "Tackle reverse solute flux in forward osmosis towards sustainable water recovery: reduction and perspectives" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- New paper: "Mitigation of solute buildup by using biodegradable and reusable polyelectrolytes draw solutes in an osmotic membrane bioreactor" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
October, 2018
- Dr. He was selected to be the new Editor in Chief for Water Environment Research (WER). Here is his vision for WER: WEFTEC interview.
- Dr. He joined the editorial team of Environment International (EI) as a Co-Editor in Chief. EI is a fully open-access journal with a broad scope including environmental health, chemistry, and technology.
September, 2018
- New paper: "Cathodes-enhanced wastewater treatment in bioelectrochemical systems" has been accepted for publication in npj Clean Water.
- New paper: "Effects of external recirculation on a two-stage mainstream anaerobic-anammox treatment system" has been accepted for publication in Water Environment Research.
- Dr. Baogang Zhang from China University of Geosciences Beijing visited EBBL and gave a presentation about their research on heavy metal remediation.
- The EBBL party was in Dr. He's house.
August, 2018
- New paper: "A review of landfill leachate induced ultraviolet quenching substances: sources, characteristics, and treatment" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- New paper: "Examination of inorganic-based draw solutes and mitigation of their reverse solute flux in osmotic microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology.
- Shiqiang has been selected to receive 2018 VA AWWA Graduate Student Scholarship ($2,500). Congrats!
July, 2018
- The EBBL hosted one REU student Sara Eghtessadi (University of Florida) and two RET teachers, Maria Sherman (Hidden Valley High School) and Dawn Hakkenberg (Patrick Henry High School).
- New paper: "Nitrogen removal from water of recirculating aquaculture system by a microbial fuel cell" has been accepted for publication in Aquaculture.
- New paper: "Life cycle assessment of a microbial desalination cell for sustainable wastewater treatment and saline water desalination" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cleaner Production.
June, 2018
- Dr. He joined the Editoral Board of Data in Brief .
- Shiqiang gave three oral presentations and one poster presentation on 2018 AWWA ACE conference.
May, 2018
- New paper: ""NEW" resource recovery from wastewater using bioelectrochemical systems: moving forwards with functions" has been accepted for publication in Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering.
- New paper: "Enhancing the performance of an osmotic microbial fuel cell through self-buffering with reverse-fluxed sodium bicarbonate" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Journal.
- Congratulations to our newest alumni: Shuai Luo (PhD), Xiaojin Li (PhD), Dylan Cowell (MS), Yishuang Wang (MS), and Katherine Olso (BS)! We wish them the best in the next stage of their career.
- New paper: "Bioelectrochemically-assisted mitigation of salinity buildup and recovery of reverse-fluxed draw solute in an osmotic membrane bioreactor" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- Dr. He delivered an invited seminar to Institute of Water Inovation and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at University of Toronto.
April, 2018
- The EBBL members participated in the annual CEE Research Day and presented their research to CEE students, faculty, and alumni.
- New paper: "Evaluation of energy consumption of treating nitrate-contaminated groundwater by bioelectrochemical systems" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
- New paper: "Modeling assisted evaluation of direct electricity generation from waste heat of wastewater via a thermoelectric generator" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
- The EBBL members participated in the Big Event at Virginia Tech, a student-run day of service for thousands of community service projects.
March, 2018
- Dr. He delivered an invited seminar to the Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Clemson University.
- Syeed and Shiqiang participated in 34th VT Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) Research Symposium, and Shiqiang won 2nd place in the interdisciplinary poster category.
- Dr. He has been selected to be a 2017 Top 10 Outstanding Reviewer for Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology.
- Shuai had a successful PhD defense. Congrats!
- Dr. He has been selected to receive a 2018 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize by ASCE.
- Dr. He joined the Advisory Board of Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology.
February, 2018
- New paper: "Status, challenges and perspectives of mainstream nitritation-anammox for wastewater treatment" has been accepted for publication in Water Environment Research.
- New paper: "Forward osmosis promoted in-situ formation of struvite with simultaneous water recovery from digested swine wastewater" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Journal.
- Syeed presented our EREF project on 2018 Global Waste Management Symposium (GWMS) in California.
- Jim had a successful PhD defense. Congrats!
January, 2018
- New paper: "Enhancing forward osmosis water recovery from landfill leachate by desalinating brine and recovering ammonia in a microbial desalination cell" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
- Both Xiaojin (Jim) Li and Shiqiang Zou have been named "Top Reviewers in 2017" by Water Environment Research. Congrats!
- Our recent PhD graduates, Dr. Mohan Qin and Dr. Heyang Yuan, were selected to receive "2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad". Congrats!
- New paper: "Biosynthesis of palladium nanoparticles using Shewanella loihica PV-4 for excellent catalytic reduction of chromium (VI)" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Nano.
- New paper: "Effective algal harvesting by using mesh membrane for enhanced energy recovery in an innovative integrated photobioelectrochemical system" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
December, 2017
- Our 2017 annual report is available here: PDF
- Congrats to six new graduates from EBBL: two PhD (Mohan and Heyang) and four MS (Ke, Lu, Nevi, and Zhenyu)!
- New paper: "Efficiently "pumping Out" value-added resources from wastewater by bioelectrochemical systems: a review from energy perspectives" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- Dr. He attended a PhD defense as an external examiner at Technical University of Denmark.
- Dr. He delivered an invited seminar to Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University.
November, 2017
- New paper: "Passive separation of recovered ammonia from catholyte for reduced energy consumption in microbial electrolysis cells" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Journal.
- Dr. He joined the editorial team of Science of the Total Environment as an Associate Editor.
October, 2017
- New paper: "Highly-efficient photocatalytic disinfection of Escherichia coli under visible light using carbon supported vanadium tetrasulfide nanocomposites" has been accepted for publication in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.
- Dr. He presented on AD 15 (Beijing) and 9th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry (Hangzhou). He also delivered invited seminars at Dalian University of Technology (Panjin) and Zhejiang University.
- Dr. He joined the editorial team of Journal of Environmental Engineering as an Associate Editor.
- Both Mohan and Heyang have passed PhD defense. Congrats!
- New paper: "Percarbonate oxidation of landfill leachate towards removal of ultraviolet quenchers" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
September, 2017
- Shuai presented an invited seminar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS), in Morehead City.
- New paper: "Unravelling and reconstructing the nexus of salinity, electricity and microbial ecology for bioelectrochemical desalination" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.
- Our lab had a great presence on 2017 WaterJAM with several oral and poster presentations. Shuai won the 1st in Wastewater category and Shiqiang won the 1st in Water category, both in the poster competition.
- New paper: "Simultaneous energy generation and UV quenchers removal from landfill leachate using a microbial fuel cell" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
- New paper: "Sustainable operation of osmotic microbial fuel cells through effective reproduction of polyelectrolyte draw solutes facilitated by cathodic pH increase" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cleaner Production.
- We had an EREF project review, and both Syeed and Simiao presented their research on resource recovery from landfill leachate.
August, 2017
- New paper: "Microbial reduction of Vanadium (V) in groundwater: interactions with coexisting common electron acceptors and analysis of microbial community" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Pollution.
- New paper: "Efficient recovery of polyelectrolyte draw solutes in forward osmosis towards sustainable water treatment" has been accepted for publication in Desalination.
- Dr. He joined the Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Journal.
- Dr. He and three EBBL members (Mohan, Shiqiang, and Shuai) attended ACS Fall Meeting in Washington D.C.
- New paper: "Effective control of biohythane composition through operational strategies in an innovative microbial electrolysis cell" has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy.
- New paper: "Mainstream upflow nitritation-anammox system with hybrid anaerobic pretreatment: long-term performance and microbial community dynamics" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- Prof. Yahai Lu visited the EBBL and delivered a talk about direct interspecies electron transfer.
- New paper: "Enhancing recovery of magnesium as struvite from landfill leachate by pretreatment of calcium with simultaneous reduction of liquid volume via forward osmosis" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
July, 2017
- New paper: "Electrodialysis recovery of reverse-fluxed fertilizer draw solute during forward osmosis water treatment" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Journal.
- REU student Christian White of Yale University and REU teacher Carla Corvin of Christiansburg High School presented their research on Virginia Tech Annual Summer Research Symposium.
- New paper: "Rapid photocatalytic decolorization of methyl orange under visible light using VS4/carbon powder nanocomposites" has been accepted for publication in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
June, 2017
- New paper: "Integrated experimental and modeling evaluation of energy consumption for ammonia recovery in bioelectrochemical systems" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Journal.
- The EBBL members attended 2017 AEESP Conference at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Dr. He organized a workshop on US-China Environmental Research and Education.
- The EBBL team (Lu, Akshay, Syeed, and Shiqiang) won the 2nd place in the Environmental Challenge International (ECi) Competition on the Air & Waste Management Conference (Pittsburgh).
- Dr. He's promotion to a Full Professor has been approved by Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- New paper: "Optimal interval of periodic polarity reversal under automated control for maximizing hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells" has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
May, 2017
- Both Mohan and Heyang were selected as Via Teaching Fellows and will independently teach CEE 3104 in the fall 2017.
- New paper: "Resource recovery by osmotic bioelectrochemical systems towards sustainable wastewater treatment" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
- Akshay passed MS exam and will receive his MS degree.
- Dr. He received Dean's Award for Faculty Fellow from College of Engineering, Virginia Tech.
April, 2017
- The VT team won the 2nd place in the VWEA Student Design Competition. Three EBBL members, Katherine, Yishuang, and Pranav, have played a key role in this team. Congrats!
- Pranav won the third place in the competition "Viral Imaginations" with his story of "Hope".
- New paper: "Enhanced nitrogen removal by membrane-aerated nitritation-anammox in a bioelectrochemical system" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
March, 2017
- On the 33rd VT GSA Research Symposium, Shiqiang won the Gold Award in Oral Presentation, Syeed won the 1st place in Interdiscinplinary Scholar Award, and Shuai won the Silver Award in Poster presentation. Congrats!
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- Dr. He gave an invited talk on the 2017 KASUT Research Conference "Changing Pradigms of Wasteawter Treatment - from Wastewater to Resource", Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
- New paper: "Nutrient-energy-water recovery from synthetic sidestream centrate using a microbial electrolysis cell - forward osmosis hybrid system" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cleaner Production.
- New paper: "Energy consumption by forward osmosis treatment of landfill leachate for water recovery" has been accepted for publication in Waste Managementn.
- Dr. He gave an invited seminar to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University.
- New paper: "Platinum group metal - free catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction in microbial electrolysis cells" has been accepted for publication in The Chemical Record.
- The EBBL members Syeed, Shiqiang, Akshay and Shuai participated in the first annual Nutshell Games at Virginia Tech. It requires the participants to explain their complex research in 90 seconds.
February, 2017
- Heyang was selected as a runner-up of the Student Research Award of Sigma Xi Virginia Tech Chapter.. Congrats!
- New paper: "Electrolysis-assisted mitigation of reverse solute flux in a three-chamber forward osmosis system" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- Dr. He gave an invited talk on 2017 Borchardt Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Eight EBBLers presented posters about their research.
- New paper: "Ammonium removal from synthetic wastewater promoted by current generation and water flux in an osmotic microbial fuel cell" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Cleaner Production.
- New paper: "Development of microbial fuel cells needs to go beyond "power density" has been accepted for publication in ACS Energy Letters.
- New paper: "Ensemble engineering and statistical modeling for parameter calibration towards optimized design of microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Power Sources.
- New paper: "Enhanced hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells by in situ hydrogen oxidation for self-buffering pH through periodic polarity reversal" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Power Sources.
- New paper: "Mathematical modeling of the dynamic behavior of an integrated photo-bioelectrochemical system for simultaneous wastewater treatment and bioenergy recover" has been accepted for publication in Energy.
December, 2016
- Our 2016 annual report is available here: PDF
- Dr. He received a U.S. patent (#9527038) on osmotic photobioelectrochemical systems.
- New graduates of the EBBL: Qingyun Ping (PhD), Xiaoxue Xiang (BS), Hayden Tse (BS), and Yu Dong (BS). Congratulations!
- Our MFC research was reported by Treatment Plan Operator magazine. "A Twist on Fuel Cells: Turning Waste into Power"
October, 2016
- New paper: "Ni-coated carbon fiber as an alternative cathode electrode material to improve cost efficiency of microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in Electrochimica Acta.
- New paper: "Energy consumption of water recovery from wastewater in a submerged forward osmosis system with commercial liquid fertilizers as draw solutes" has been accepted for publication in Separation and Purification Technology.
- Ping has successfully defended her PhD. Congrats!
- New paper: "Algal - microbial community collaboration for energy recovery and nutrient remediation from wastewater in integrated photo-bioelectrochemical systems" has been accepted for publication in Algal Research.
- Mohan and Heyang presented our research on 2016 NA-ISMET meeting at Stanford University.
September, 2016
- Shiqiang and Dr. He were featured as Inventors of the Month" for September 2016 by VTIP.
- Dr. He was recognized as one of the Top 10 Reviewers in 2016 for Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
- New paper: "Computational investigation of the flow field contribution to improve electricity generation in granular activated carbon - assisted microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Power Sources.
- New paper: "Effects of current generation and electrolyte pH on reverse salt flux across thin film composite membrane in osmotic microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- Dr. He gave lectures at China University of Geosciences Beijing and a seminar at Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of CAS.
- The EBBL members dominated the student competitions in WaterJAM: Ping won the poster competition in Water category and will represent VA section on ACE 2017; Shiqiang won the poster competition in Wastewater category; the VT team, four of whose members were EBBLers (Katherine, Nevi, Ke, and Pranav), won the first place in the Water Challenge.
August, 2016
- Syeed was selected to receive an EREF scholarship. Congrats to him! This is the 3rd award/scholarship that he received in 2016.
- We welcome several new members: Xingjian Liu (PhD student), Akshay Jain (PhD student), Ke Li (MS student), Zhenyu Wu (MS Student), Lu Guan (MS student), and Jing Wang (MS student).
July, 2016
- New paper: "Enhanced boron removal by electricity generation in a microbial fuel cell" has been accepted for publication in Desalination.
- Elena and Erin have completed their 10-week NSF REU research in our lab, and will return to their home institutes. We wish them the best and hope to see them again at VT!
June, 2016
- New paper: "Effects of electron acceptors on removal of antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli, resistance genes and class 1 integrons under anaerobic conditions" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
- New paper: "Mathematical modeling based evaluation and simulation of boron removal in bioelectrochemical systems" has been accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
- Syeed, Akshay and Shiqiang won the 2nd place ($3,000) in the 2016 Environmental Challenge International (ECi) competition during the A&WMA conference in New Orleans. Congrats!
- New paper: "Energy consumption by recirculation: a missing parameter when evaluating forward osmosis" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Technology.
- New paper: "Coupling microbial fuel cells with a membrane photobioreactor for wastewater treatment and bioenergy production" has been accepted for publication in Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering.
- New paper: "Cathodic fluidized granular activated carbon assisted-membrane bioelectrochemical reactor for wastewater treatment" has been accepted for publication in Separation and Purification Technology.
May, 2016
- We welcome two REU students to the EBBL, Elena Lopez from University of Southern California and Erin Hynes from University of Texas at Austin.
- Isabel and Anibal have completed their visiting to the EBBL and returned to their home institutes. We really enjoyed their visit, wish them the best, and hope to see them again at VT or conferences.
- New paper: "Treatment and desalination of domestic wastewater for water reuse in a four-chamber microbial desalination cell" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
- New paper: "Membrane aeration as an energy-efficient method for supplying oxygen to microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in RSC Advances.
- Two EBBL members graduated! Congratulations, Dr. Li and Xuhui!
- Lab BBQ to celerate the end of the semester and several members' completion of their work in the EBBL.
April, 2016
- New paper: "Oxygen reduction reaction catalysts in microbial fuel cells for energy-efficient wastewater treatment: a review" has been accepted for publication in Materials Horizons.
- New paper: "Enhancing wastewater reuse by forward osmosis with self-diluted commercial fertilizers as draw solutes" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- The EBBL members had great presence on the 6th CEE Research Day. Hayden won the 3rd place in the Undergraduate Research category.
-The EBBL team won the 3rd place and People's Choice Award on NEWT Global Water Technologies Competition at Rice University, Houston, TX.
- Hayden and Katherine attended the 30th National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Asheville, NC. Hayden gave an oral presentation and Katherine presented a poster. Both of them won the video competition (totally five winners).
- Dr. He presented the ammonia recovery work on the 2016 WEF Biosolids Conference in Milwaukee, WI.
- Syeed has been selected to receive the Jaqueline Shields Memorial Scholarship ($4,000) from Air and Waste Management Association. Congrats!
March, 2016
- The iWaste team by four EBBL members competed on the 8th annual Global Entrepreneurship Challenge Semifinals organized by VT KnowledgeWorks.
- New paper: "Long-term performance and microbial community characterization of an osmotic anammox system for removing reverse-fluxed ammonium" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
- Several EBBL members presented their research on Virginia Tech Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium.
- Jim (Jian) passed his PhD defense. Congratulations!
- New paper: "Integrated experimental investigation and mathematical modeling of a membrane bioelectrochemical reactor with an external membrane module" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Journal.
- Our paper was featured as an Inside Front Cover in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
February, 2016
- Hayden presented his research on 2016 Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship Conference.
- Our collaborative research with Dr. Xueyang Feng's group was reported by VT News, WVTF, and Atlanta CityLab.
- New paper: "Understanding ammonium transport in bioelectrochemical systems towards its recovery" has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports.
- New paper: " Nitrogen removal by granular nitritation - anammox in an upflow membrane-aerated biofilm reactor" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- New paper: "Long-term performance of a 200-L modularized microbial fuel cell system treating municipal wastewater: treatment, energy and cost" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
- New paper: "Nanoparticulate Ni(OH)2 films synthesized from macrocyclic nickel(III) cyclam for hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells" has been accepted for publication in Journal of The Electrochemical Society.
- New paper: "A review of modeling bioelectrochemical systems: engineering and statistical aspects" has been accepted for publication in Energies.
January, 2016
- Syeed was selected to receive a full scholarship of the 2015-2016 SWIS-ISWA Competition on Sustainable Waste Management Essay, and attended the SWIS-ISWA Winter School 2016 in Texas.
- Dr. Zheng Ge started his postdoctoral training at the University of Colorado Boulder. We wish him the best in his future career!
- New paper: "13C pathway analysis for the role of formate in electricity generation by Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 using lactate in microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports.
- New paper: "Nitrogen doped graphene/CoNi alloy encased within bamboo-like carbon nanotube hybrids as cathode catalystis in microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Power Sources.
December, 2016
- The EBBL has released its first annual report: PDF
- Zheng (John) Ge officially graduated with his PhD. Congratulations, Dr. Ge!
- New paper: "Mathematical modeling assisted investigation of forward osmosis as pretreatment for microbial desalination cells to achieve continuous water desalination and wastewater treatment" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Membrane Science.
- Our research in ammonia recovery and application for forward osmosis was featured by the VT news.
November, 2015
- New paper: "Resource recovery from landfill leachate using bioelectrochemical systems: opportunities, challenges, and perspectives" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
October, 2015
- New paper: "Integrated experimental investigation and mathematical modeling of a membrane bioelectrochemical reactor with an external membrane module" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Journal.
- New paper: "A multi-task lasso model for investigating multi-module design factors, operational factors and covariates in tubular microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
- New paper: "Recovery of nitrogen and water from landfill leachate by a microbial fuel cell - forward osmosis system" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
- New paper: "Bioelectricity inhibits back diffusion from the anolyte into the desalinated streams in microbial desalination cells" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- The EBBL team made into the finalist of the Ocean Exchange Big Pitch in Savannah, Georgia (see the story in Collegiate Times). They competed with the teams from Stanford, Cornell, Georgia Tech, UIUC, and CU Boulder. We are proud of their great performance!
- New paper: "Wastewater treatment and microbial community in an integrated photobioelectrochemical system affected by different wastewater algal inocula" has been accepted for publication in Algal Research.
- New paper: "Development of a dynamic mathematical model for membrane bioelectrochemical reactor with different configurations" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
- Shuai presented a poster on the 2015 Water Resource Conference of the Virginias in West Virginia.
- Mohan received 2015 Innovation Award for Best Technological Advancement from the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (ISMET).
September, 2015
- Dr. He received a U.S. patent (#9130216) on integrated photobioelectrochemical systems.
- Ms. Yuli Yang joined us as a visiting PhD student. She is currently a PhD student at Southeast University. Welcome!
- The EBBL members attended 2015 WaterJAM in Virginia Beach. A great trip with great harvest: four oral presentations, seven poster presentations, and one participation in Student Water Challenge; Heyang won the poster competition in wastewater section ($1,000 prize), and Xuhui's team took the 2nd place in the Student Water Challenge.
August, 2015
- New paper: "Removal of reverse-fluxed ammonium by anammox in a forward osmosis system using ammonium bicarbonate as a draw solute" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Membrane Science.
- New paper: "Boron removal from saline water by a microbial desalination cell integrated with Donnan dialysis" has been accepted for publication in Desalination.
- EBBL new members: Syeed Iskander and Shiqiang Zou. Welcome!
- New paper: "Mitigation of salinity buildup and recovery of wasted salts in a hybrid osmotic membrane bioreactor - electrodialysis system" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.
- Jim Li visited our collaborator, Prof. Carlos Dosoretz, at Israel Technion.
- New paper: "Porous carbon nanosheets co-doped with nitrogen and sulfur for oxygen reduction reaction in microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
July, 2015
- New paper: "Bioelectrochemical production of hydrogen in an innovative pressure retarded osmosis - microbial electrolysis cell system: experiments and modeling" has been accepted for publication in Biotechnology for Biofuels.
- New paper: "Energy extraction from a large-scale microbial fuel cell system treating municipal wastewater" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Power Sources.
- Hannah Molitor has completed her REU work in the EBBL and presented her research on behalf of water REU site on the Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium. We wish her best of luck in her future and look forward to seeing her again at Virginia Tech!
June, 2015
- Hayden has been selected to receive the 2015 VWEA Undergraduate Scholarship. Congratulations!
- Heyang and Mohan made great presentations on the 2015 AEESP Conference at Yale University.
- New paper: "Development of bioelectrochemical systems to promote sustainable agriculture" has been accepted for publication in Agriculture.
- Dr. He presented our MEC-FO work on 2015 Water Energy Conference in Washington D.C.
- New paper: "Understanding electricity generation in osmotic microbial fuel cells through integrated experimental investigation and mathematical modeling" has been accepted for publication in a special issue "Microbial Fuel Cells" of Bioresource Technology.
May, 2015
- New paper: "Microbial desalination cells as a versatile technology: functions, optimization, and perspective" has been accepted for publication in Desalination.
- New paper: "A novel approach to recycle bacterial culture waste for fermentation reuse via a microbial fuel cell - membrane bioreactor system" has been accepted for publication in Bioprocess and BIosystems Engineering.
- Congratulations, the EBBL graduates: Bojun (MS), Abdullah (MS), KK (MS), Kristen (PhD, UWM), and Zihan (BS)! We wish them the best in their future career!
- New paper: "Integrating membrane filtration into bioelectrochemical systems as next generation energy-efficient wastewater treatment technologies for water reclamation: a review" has been accepted for publication in a special issue "Microbial Fuel Cells" of Bioresource Technology.
- Hayden received the Undergraduate Student Award from the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
- The EBBL team won the third runner-up in the Reclaim video comptition.
April, 2015
- Six EBBL graduate students presented their research on the annual CEE Research Day.
- New paper: "13 C pathway analysis of biofilm metabolism of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1" has been accepted for publication in RSC Advances.
- Dr. He joined the editorial board of Interdisciplinary Climate Studies, a specialty in Frontiers in Eearth Science, Ecology and Evolution and Environmental Science, as a Review Editor.
- New paper: "An effective dipping method for coating activated carbon catalysts on the cathode electrodes of microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in RSC Advances.
- Check out our new Youtube video about resource recovery in a coupled microbial electrolysis and forward osmosis system.
March, 2015
- New paper: "Sediment microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment: challenges and opportunities" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
- Dr. He gave an invited seminar to VTSuN.
- Dr. He gave an invited presentation on the DOE workshop "Hydrogen, Hydrocarbons, and Bioproduct Precursors from Wastewaters" in Washington DC.
- New paper: "Integrated experimental investigation and mathematical modeling of brackish water desalination and wastewater treatment in microbial desalination cells" has been accepted for publication in Water Research.
- New paper: "Optimizing a membrane bioelectrochemical reactor with anion exchange membrane for wastewater treatment" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
February, 2015
- New paper: "Enhancing desalination and wastewater treatment by coupling microbial desalination cells with forward osmosis" has been accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Journal.
January, 2015
- New paper: "Scaling up microbial desalination cell system with a post-aerobic treatment process for simultaneous wastewater treatment and seawater desalination" has been accepted for publication in Desalination.
November, 2014
- Dr. He gave two presentations about MFCs and MDCs on the 2014 AIChE meeting in Atltanta.
- Fei left the EBBL and joined the Cell-Free Bioinnovations as a research scientist. We wish him the best in his future career!
October, 2014
Our paper "Graphene -modified electrodes for enhancing the performance of microbial fuel cells" has accepted for publication in Nanoscale.
- Our paper was highlighted as a back cover in ChemElectroChem.
- Our collabrative paper about using SIP for analyzing microbial communities in MFCs has been accepted for publication in Journal of Microbiological Methods.
- Our paper "A mathematic model of dynamic behavior of microbial desalination cells for simultaneous wastewater treatment and water desalination" has accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.
- Our paper "Self-supplied ammonium bicarbonate draw solute for achieving wastewater treatment and recovery in a microbial electrolysis cell-forward osmosis coupled system" was accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
September, 2014
- Our paper "Nitrogen-doped activated carbon as a catalyst for hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells" was accepted for publication in RSC Advances.
August, 2014
- Dr. He joined the editorial board of Bioenergy and Biofuels, a specialty in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Frontiers in Energy Research, as a Review Editor.
- Two collaborative papers were accepted for publication in PloS One and Bioresource Technology.
- The EBBL welcome two new PhD students, Xiaojin (Jim) Li and Shuai Luo.
June, 2014
- Our paper "Energy balance affected by electrolyte recirculation and operating modes in microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in Water Environment Research.
- Our collaborative paper on 3D MnS2 on nitrogen doped graphene has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
- Prof. Ibrahim Abu Reesh from Qatar University visited the EBBL for a collaborative project supported by QNRF.
- Our paper "A fluidized be membrane bioelectrochemical reactor for energy-efficient wastewater treatment" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
- Our paper "Facile synthesis of MoS2@CNT as an effective catalyst for hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells" has been accepted for publication in ChemElectroChem.
May, 2014
- Our paper "A new method for nutrient removal and recovery from wastewater using a bioelectrochemical system" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
- Dr. He gave an invited presentation on the International Workshop on Microbial Energy Technology at Xi'an Jiaotong University, and a seminar at Tsinghua University.
- Our paper "Applications and perspectives and phototrophic microorganisms for electricity generation from organic compounds in microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews.
- Dr. Yaobin Lu from Harbin Institute of Technology joined the EBBL as a postdoctoral scholar/researcher. Welcome!
- Dr. He and six EBBL members attended the North American ISMET conference at Penn State University.
April, 2014
- The EBBL member presented 9 posters on the 2014 CEE Research Day.
- Our paper "Synthesizing nitrogen-doped active carbon and probing its active sites for oxygen reduction in microbial fuel cells" has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
February, 2014
- Four EBBL members attended the 2014 Borchardt Conference at University of Michigan.
- Our paper "Effects of numbers of cell pairs on the performance of microbial desalination cells" has been accepted for publication in Desalination.
- We have two visitors from Israel Technion, Avner and Sofia. Our lab and their lab are working on a collaborative project on microbial desalination cells.
- Our paper "Current-driven nitrate migration out of groundwater by using a bioelectrochemical system" was accepted for publication in RSC Advances.
January, 2014
- Our EES paper was highlighted as a HOT article of the week by Energy & Environmental Science.
- We had two papers accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
December, 2013
- Mohan Qin and Heyang Yuan joined the EBBL as the PhD students. Welcome!
- Our paper "Nutrients removal and recovery in bioelectrochemical systems: a review" has been accepted for publication in Bioresource Technology.
- Five EBBL students successfully defended their dissertation: Li Xiao (PhD), Bo Zhang (PhD), Patrick Kelly (MS), Yiran Tong (MS), and Ananta Kothapalli (MS). Congratulations! We also had EBBL reunion in Milwaukee.
November, 2013
- Dr. He joined the editorial team of Water Environment Research as an Associate Editor
- The paper "Towards sustainable wastewater treatment by using microbial fuel cells-centered technologies" has been accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science.
September, 2013
- Dr. He received a U.S. patent (#8524402) on microbial fuel cell technology.
- Our paper "Nitrate removal in groundwater driven by electricity generation and heterotrophic denitrification in a bioelectrochemical system" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
- Our paper "Recovery of electrical energy in microbial fuel cells: a brief review" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
August, 2013
- Our paper "Advancing membrane bioelectrochemical reactor (MBER) with hollow-fiber membranes installed in the cathode compartment" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology.
- Dr. He received a NSF GOALI grant to work on membrane bioelectrochemical reactors (MBERs) for wastewater treatment.
- Jim was selected to receive a Pratt Fellowship from the Via Department. Congrats!
- EBBL has moved to Virginia Tech, and Dr. He joined the Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an Associate Professor (with tenure).