High-Value Bioenergy Recovery from Wastewater

Professor Bing-Jie Ni isan ARC Future Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He has been working in the field of environmental technology and wastewater treatment, particularly transforming wastes or wastewater from a troublesome pollutant to a valuable resource. Prof. Ni has published 2 research books, 30 book chapters, and more than 400 papers in refereed ISI journals. He served as Lead Guest Editor for Water Research (Elsevier, Nature index journal), Editorial Advisory Board for Environmental Science and Technology (ACS, Nature index journal), Editor for Sustainable Horizons (Elsevier), Associate Editor for Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), Environmental Chemistry Letters (Springer), Environmental Research (Elsevier), etc. Prof. Ni is a Highly Cited Researcher - Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science. He is a Mendeley Data top 2% Cited Researchers in the world in all academic disciplines. He has been continuously recognized as a Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Highly Cited Researcher since 2020.Dr. Xuran Liu is a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on developing sustainable solutions for organic waste treatment and addressing the control of emerging pollutants in natural and engineered environments. Dr. Liu has published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed ISI journals and has been consistently recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford/Elsevier since 2021.

• Part I: Potential high-value bioenergy from sewage 1. Sewage as a bioenergy resource pool2. Sewage sludge compositions and its bioenergy recovery potentialPart II: High-value liquid bioenergy recovery: Science and technical module 3. Short-chain fatty acids recovery from sewage sludge4. Bioconversion of methane to short-chain fatty acids5. Medium-chain fatty acids production from sewage sludge6. Long-chain alcohols production from sewage sludge7. Biolipid production from sewage cultivated microalgae and sludgePart III: High-value colloid and solid bioenergy recovery: Science and technical module 8. Cellulose recovery from sewage sludge9. Microbial protein recovery from sewage10. Extracellular polymers recovery from sewage sludge11. Organic fertilizers production from sewage sludge12. Plant-growth biostimulants production from sewage sludgePart IV: Integrated modules for high-value bioenergy recovery 13. Scale-up/pilot scale studies and development for high-value bioenergy recovery in MSTP14. Life-cycle assessment for single and integrated recovery module