Our research team pioneers the notion to transform the waste and contaminates to reusable resources through novel biotechnology and microbial processing technology. Supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Sciences of China, National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National High Technology Research and Development Program of China and National Sci-Tech Support Plan, our team focus on the high efficiency bio-transformation of wastewater from various enterprise into reusable resources. To safely recycle the wastewater from specific industries, such as pharmaceutical and chemical industries, our team devotes to research and development of the biological principles and techniques to remove sulfate, nitrogen and coupling techniques to recycle sulfate from the wastewater. Additionally, the research devotion is also on the development of directional bio-transformation of contaminants difficult to decompose, as well as the biological techniques to materialize and recycle the components of activated sludge developed during the wastewater treatment process.
We have pioneered the principle and approaches that are directed by the recycling of sulfate to remove sulfate and nitrogen from the wastewater, and constructed novel systems aiming to reverse nitrification process and remove sulfate. Through engineering efforts, techniques that are employed for sulfate recycle from wastewater rich in sulfate and nitrogen have been further improved, enriching and enhancing the theory of biological sulfate removal.
The principle of biological electrochemistry has also been brought into the wastewater anaerobic treatment process, along with the notion of ‘microbial catalyzed electrolysis’ and techniques that can accelerate the directional removal of toxins, pigments and halogens. Based on these, novel processing patterns have been successfully constructed, breaking through the limitations of traditional anaerobic biological treatment techniques, which provides new ideas for enhancing the capability to process various wastewater.
