Mechanistic insights into physiochemical properties and colloidal stability of waste-activated sludge

Hydrothermal technology for utilization and disposal of organic waste

Bio-rehabilitation of eutrophic surface water

Education

2017-2019 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, CO, USA, visiting scholar; advisor: Prof. Timothy J. Strathmann

2016-2017 Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, NY, USA, visiting scholar; advisor: Prof. Devinder Mahajan

2014-2019 Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. candidate; advisor: Prof. Xiaoli Chai

2010-2014 Tongji University, Shanghai, China, B. S. Environmental Engineering

Professional

2020-Present Assistant professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Tongji University

Sponsored research projects

PI: “Study on transformation and regulation mechanism of water occurrence states in sewage sludge through micro-visualization technique and molecular conformation analysis” Sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (52100159)

PI: “Environmentally-friendly dewatering of sewage sludge: the strategy based on amphiphilic phase-transfer induced by recoverable organic solvent.” Sponsored by State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse (PCRRE20009)

 Publications

1.    Boran Wu, Bing-jie Ni, Kristine Horvat, Liyan Song, Xiaoli Chai, Xiaohu Dai, Devinder Mahajan. Occurrence state and molecular structure analysis of extracellular proteins with implications to the dewaterability of waste activated sludge. Environmental Science & Technology, 2017, 51: 9235−9243.

2.    Boran Wu, Kun Zhou, Yunpeng He, Xiaoli Chai, Xiaohu Dai. Unraveling the water states of waste-activated sludge through transverse spin-spin relaxation time of low-field NMR. Water Research, 2019, 155: 266-274.

3.    Boran Wu, Kristine Horvat, Devinder Mahajan, Xiaoli Chai, Dianhai Yang, Xiaohu Dai. Free-conditioning dewatering of sewage sludge through in situ propane hydrate formation. Water Research, 2018, 145: 464-472.

4.    Boran Wu, Meng Zhou, Xiaohu Dai, Xiaoli Chai. Mechanism insights into bio-floc bound water transformation based on synchrotron X-ray computed microtomography and viscoelastic acoustic response analysis. Water Research, 2018, 142: 480-489.

5.    Boran Wu, Xiaohu Dai, Xiaoli Chai. Critical review on dewatering of sewage sludge: Influential mechanism, conditioning technologies and implications to sludge re-utilizations. Water Research, 2020, 180: 115-133.

6.    Boran Wu, Shilai Hao, Younjeong Choi, Christopher P. Higgins, Rula Deeb, and Timothy J. Strathmann. Rapid destruction and defluorination of perfluorooctanesulfonate by alkaline hydrothermal reaction. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2019, 6(10): 630-636.

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