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Dr. Xinmin Zhan

Lecturer

Location: Engineering Building, Room ENG-1 037

Email: Xinmin.Zhan

nuigalway.ie

Telephone: +353 (0) 91 495239 Internal Ext. 5239

Xinmin's main research areas include: water and wastewater treatment; waste management; environmental biofilm technology; GHG emissions in wastewater and water treatment industries; biofuels (biogas, biodiesel and bioethanol); environmentally sound nano materials.

Professional Qualifications

BEng: Department of Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1995
BA: School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1995
MEngSc: Department of Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2001
PhD: Department of Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2001

Membership of Professional Bodies

Membership Type	From	To

Member of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland (MIEI)
Member of International Water Association (IWA)
Member of Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE)
Associate Editor, Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China (Springer and Higher Education Press of China)
Editorial Board Member, The Open Systems Biology Journal (Bentham Science Publishers)

Academic Roles (Lecturing)

Design of Waste Treatment Systems (CE442)
Engineering Computing (CT140)

Academic Roles (Laboratories / Practicals)

Communications
Environmental Engineering Lab
PEP Coordinator

Member of Editorial Boards

Associate editor, Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China (Springer and Higher Education Press of China)
The Open Systems Biology Journal (Bentham Science Publishers)
Conference Paper in Energy (Hindawi Publishing Corporation)

Research Projects

Purpose / Topic	Funding	Sponsor	Link
Current
Engineering aspects and mechanisms of a natural pyrrhotitesimultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal (PSNOP) biofilter technology. In the contract negotiation stage: Sept 2011 - Aug 2013	€274,095	FP7
Development of an intelligent intermittently aerated sequencing batch reactors for nitrogen rich wastewater treatment: Oct 2009 - Sept 2012	€94,878	EPA PhD Scholarship
Biodiesel production from agro-industrial waste using oleaginous fungi		CoEI College PG Scholarship
Evaluation of biogas production and GHG mitigation from anaerobic digestion of pig manure, with co-digestion of crops and crop by-products (with Drs. Peter Frost and Peadar Lawlor)	€197,123	Department of Agriculture and Food under the Research Stimulus Programme
Completed in the last 5 years
Low emission and low energy wastewater treatment technologies for nutrient removal and water re-use: Sept 2010 - Aug 2011 (With Dr. Eoghan Clifford and Dr. Ted O’Reilly)	€65,000	trategic Initiatives Scheme, NUI Galway
N2O emissions from aerobic granular sludge reactors: Dec 2010 – June 2011 (With Dr. Xiangchun Quan)	Ұ100,000	State Key Lab on Aquatic Environment
Nitrogen removal from separated liquid after anaerobic digestion of pig manure by means of nitritation followed by ANAMMOX in sequencing batch reactors: Oct 2008 - Sept 2011 (with Dr. Peadar Lawlor)	€63,000	Teagasc Walsh Fellowship
Development of redox-stratified membrane bioreactors for nitrogen removal from wastewater: Jan 2009 - Dec 2010	€184,602.23	FP7 Marie Curie Programme
Development of an efficient autotrophic biological nitrogen removal system for high strength ammonium wastewater treatment: Aug 2009 - July 2010 (with J Li and M Healy)	€120,000	Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept
An efficient system for the disposal of and energy recovery from slaughterhouse waste: Sept 2007 - Aug 2008 (with Dr. M Healy)	€86,000	Enterprise Ireland
Nitrogen Removal from Slaughterhouse Wastewater by Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitfication in Sequencing Batch Biofilm Reactors: Feb 2006 - June 2009 (with Dr. Mark Healy)	€228,500	Irish EPA
Advanced Biofilm Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment: May 2005 - April 2009 (with Dr. Michael Rodgers)	€667,000	Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge Programme

Honours and awards

Guest Professor, River Basin Research Centre, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan (May-Aug. 2011) now)
Huangshan Scholar, Hefei University of Technology, China, 2012
Guest Professor, School of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, China (Dec 2011 – Dec 2014)
PhD thesis external examiner, National University of Singapore
Pilots-scale studies on alternative use of pig manure was introduced in the Irish Independent, Tuesday 14 June, 2011, the Irish Examiner, 11 June, 2011.
Chair, International Symposium on Recent Advances in Water Resources Management & Pollution Control - with Special Focus on China, 11-12 May 2012
Conference Committee member, IWA World Congress on Water, Climate and Energy, 13-18 May, 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
Session Chair, IWA World Congress on Water, Climate and Energy, 13-18 May, 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
Guest Professor, River Basin Research Centre, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan (May-Aug. 2011)
Session Co-chair, BIT’s 3rd World Congress of Industrial Biotechnology, 25-27 July, 2010, Dalian, China.
Research was featured on the Irish Times, 9 March, 2006
Invited to present on national and international conferences

PublicationsPublications (since 2008)

1. Xiangchun Quan, Mingchuan Zhang, Peadar G. Lawlor, Zhifeng Yang, Xinmin Zhan*. Nitrous Oxide Emission and Nutrient Removal in Aerobic Granular Sludge Sequencing Batch Reactors. Water Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2012.06.031

2. Nutrient Removals from Separated Pig Manure Digestate Liquid using Hybrid Biofilters. Mingchuan Zhang, Peadar G. Lawlor, Zhenhu Hu, Xinmin Zhan*. Environmental Technology (in press)

3. Treatment of separated piggery anaerobic digestate liquid using woodchip biofilters. Kathy Carney, Michael Rodgers, Peadar G. Lawlor, Xinmin Zhan*. Environmental Technology (in press)

4. S. Xie, P.G. Lawlor, J.P. Frost, G. Wu, X. Zhan. Hydrolysis and acidification of grass silage in leaching bed reactors. Bioresource Technology, 114, 406-413, 2012

5. S. Xie, G. Wu, P.G. Lawlor, J.P. Frost, and X. Zhan,* Methane Production from Anaerobic Co-Digestion of the Separated Solid Fraction of Pig Manure with Dried Grass Silage. Bioresource Technology, 104, 289–297, 2012

6. Tereza Nolana, Stephen Gilkson, Peter Frost, Shane M. Troya, Caolan Harrington, Sihuang Xie, Xinmin Zhan, Mark G. Healy, and Peadar G. Lawlor. Economic analyses of pig manure treatment options available in Ireland. Bioresource Technology, 105, 15–23, 2012

7. Mingchuan Zhang, Peadar G. Lawlor, Jianping Li, Xinmin Zhan*. Characteristics of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from intermittently-aerated sequencing batch reactors treating the separated liquid fraction of anaerobically digested pig manure. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 223, 1973-1981, 2012

8. Iniya Kumar, M. A. Ramalakshmi, U. Sivakumar, P. Santhanakrishnan and Xinmin Zhan. Production of microbial oils from Mortierella sp for generation of biodiesel feedstock. African Journal of Microbiology Research, 5, 4105-4111, 2011

9. S. Xie, J. P. Frost, P Lawlor, G. Wu, X. Zhan*. Effects of thermo-chemical pre-treatment of grass silage on methane production by anaerobic digestion. Bioresource Technology, 102, 8748–8755,2011

10. Zhenhu Hu, Yuanlu Liu, Xianyang Gui, Tianhu Chen, Xinmin Zhan, Jie Jin. Characterization of organic matter degradation during composting of manure-straw mixtures spiked with tetracyclines. Bioresource Technology, 102, 7329–7334, 2011.

11. Mingchuan Zhang, Peadar Lawlor, Guangxue Wu, Brendan Lynch, Xinmin Zhan*. Partial nitrification and nutrient removal in intermittently-aerated sequencing batch reactors treating separated digestate liquid after anaerobic digestion of pig manure. Bioprocess and Biosystem Engineering, 34, 1049-1056, 2011.

12. Guangxue Wu, Yuntao Guan, Xinmin Zhan. Characteristics of nutrient removal in sequencing batch reactors treating synthetic wastewater with different organic substrates. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 10, 649-654, 2011.

13. Jianping Li, david Elliott, Michael Nielsen, Mark G. Healy, Xinmin Zhan*. Long-Term Partial Nitrification in an Intermittently Aerated Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) Treating Ammonium-Rich Wastewater under Controlled Oxygen-Limited Conditions. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 55, 215– 222, 2011.

14. S. Xie, P. G. Lawlor, J. P. Frost, Z. Hu, and X. Zhan*. Effect of pig manure to grass silage ratio on methane production in batch anaerobic co-digestion of pig manure and grass silage. Bioresource Technology, 102, 5728–5733, 2011.

15. Rongchang Wang, Xinmin Zhan, Yalei Zhang, Jianfu Zhao. Nitrifying population dynamics in a redox stratified membrane biofilm reactor (RSMBR) for treating ammonium-rich wastewater. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China, 5, 48-56, 2011.

16. G Wu, KB Sorensen, M Rodgers and X Zhan. Microbial community associated with glucose-induced enhanced biological phosphorus removal. Water Science and Technology, 60, 2105-2113, 2009

17. G Wu, M Nielsen, KB Sorensen, X Zhan and M Rodgers. Distributions and activities of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and polyphosphate accumulating organisms in a pumped-flow biofilm reactor. Water Research, 43, 4599-4609, 2009

18. Wu G, Healy MG and Zhan X*. Effect of solid content on anaerobic batch digestion of meat and bone meal. Bioresouce Technology, 100, 4326-4331, 2009

19. Wu G, Hu Z, Healy MG and Zhan X*. Thermochemical pretreatment of meat and bone meal (MBM) and its effects on methane production. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China, 3, 300-306, 2009

20. Zhan X*, Healy MG and Li J. Nitrogen removal from slaughterhouse wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) under controlled low DO conditions. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 32, 607-614, 2009

21. Rodgers M, Hu Z and Zhan X. Enhancing Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Maize Stover by Bayer Process Sand Pretreatment. Energy and F uels, 32, 607-614, 2009.

22. Rodgers M, O’Reilly E and Zhan X*. Diary wastewater treatment using aIternating pumped flow sequencing batch biofilm reactors . International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 38, 371-384, 2009 (invited)

23. Wu G, Guan Y and Zhan X*. Analysis of the microbial community in sequencing batch reactors treating saline wastewater using molecular fingerprinting techniques. Journal of Biotechnology, 136 (Supplement 1), S635, 2008.

24. Wu G, Guan Y and Zhan X*. Effect of salinity on the activity, settling and microbial community of activated sludge in sequencing batch reactors treating synthetic saline wastewater. Water Science and Technology, 58(2), 351-358, 2008.

25. Reilly E, Rodgers M and Zhan X. Pumped flow biofilm reactors (PFBR) for treating municipal wastewater. Water Science and Technology, 57(12), 1857-1865, 2008.

26. Rodgers M, Wu G and Zhan X. Nitrogen and phosphorus removal from domestic strength synthetic wastewater using an alternating pumped flow sequencing batch biofilm reactor. Journal of Environmental Quality, 37, 977-982, 2008

27. Li J, Healy M, Zhan X* and Rodgers M. Effect of aeration rate on nutrient removal from slaughterhouse wastewater in an intermittently aerated sequencing batch reactor. Journal of Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 192, 251-261, 2008

28. Li J, Healy M, Zhan X* and Rodgers M. Nutrient removal from slaughterhouse wastewater in an intermittently aerated sequencing batch reactor. Bioresource Technology, 99, 7644-7650, 2008

29. Wu G, Rodgers M and Zhan X. Nitrification in sequencing batch reactors with and without glucose addition at 11 ^oC. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 40, 373-378, 2008

30. Zhan X*, Rodgers M and O’Reilly E. Biofilm growth and characteristics in an alternating pumped sequencing batch biofilm reactor (APSBBR). Water Research, 40, 817-825, 2006.

31. Rodgers M, Zhan X* and O’Reilly E. Small-scale domestic wastewater treatment using an alternating pumped sequencing batch biofilm reactor system. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 28, 323-330, 2006.

32. Rodgers M, Zhan X* and Prendergast J. Wastewater treatment using a vertically moving biofilm system followed by a sand filter. Process Biochemistry, 40, 3132-3136, 2005.

33. Wang JL, Zhan X, Feng Y and Qian Y. Effect of salinity variations on the performance of activated sludge system. Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, 18(1): 5-8, 2005.

Civil Engineering
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