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2320
National Ranking
233

Overview

Hua Zhang is affiliated with Tongji University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and engineering. Their research spans a diverse range of subfields, including industrial and manufacturing engineering, pollution, building and construction, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably:

  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment

Among the recent papers co-authored by Hua Zhang are:

  • "Is incineration the terminator of plastics and microplastics?", 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "How does temperature regulate anaerobic digestion?", 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Preparation and Application of Hierarchical Porous Carbon Materials from Waste and Biomass: A Review", 2020, Waste and Biomass Valorization
  • "Applications of convolutional neural networks for intelligent waste identification and recycling: A review", 2022, Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • "Quantifying the contributions of surface area and redox-active moieties to electron exchange capacities of biochar", 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Hua Zhang has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Pinjing He
  • Fan Lü
  • Liming Shao
  • Wei Peng
  • Junjie Qiu

The scientist's publications are distributed across a variety of journals. The most frequent venues are:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • Bikesharing in Europe, the Americas, and Asia: Past, Present, and Future

    Susan A Shaheen;Stacey Guzman;Hua Zhang

  • Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction

    Shu-zhong Shen;James L. Crowley;James L. Crowley;Yue Wang;Samuel A. Bowring

  • Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill: A source of microplastics? -Evidence of microplastics in landfill leachate.

    Pinjing He;Liyao Chen;Liming Shao;Hua Zhang

  • Insight into the heavy metal binding potential of dissolved organic matter in MSW leachate using EEM quenching combined with PARAFAC analysis.

    Jun Wu;Hua Zhang;Pin-Jing He;Li-Ming Shao

  • Is incineration the terminator of plastics and microplastics

    Zhan Yang;Fan Lü;Hua Zhang;Wei Wang

  • Kinetics of arsenate adsorption-desorption in soils.

    Hua Zhang;H. M. Selim

  • Multiscale visualization of the structural and characteristic changes of sewage sludge biochar oriented towards potential agronomic and environmental implication

    Jining Zhang;Fan Lü;Hua Zhang;Liming Shao

  • How does temperature regulate anaerobic digestion

    Erqi Nie;Pinjing He;Hua Zhang;Liping Hao

  • Fate of heavy metals during municipal solid waste incineration in Shanghai

    Hua Zhang;Pin-Jing He;Li-Ming Shao

  • Design, implementation, and evaluation of an Internet of Things (IoT) network system for restaurant food waste management.

    Zongguo Wen;Shuhan Hu;Djavan De Clercq;M. Bruce Beck

  • Significant enhancement by biochar of caproate production via chain elongation

    Yuhao Liu;Pinjing He;Liming Shao;Hua Zhang

  • The consumption and recycling collection system of PET bottles: A case study of Beijing, China

    Hua Zhang;Zong-Guo Wen

  • Can a Paper-Based Device Trace COVID-19 Sources with Wastewater-Based Epidemiology?

    Kang Mao;Hua Zhang;Hua Zhang;Zhugen Yang

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from MSW incineration in China: impacts of waste characteristics and energy recovery.

    Na Yang;Hua Zhang;Miao Chen;Li-Ming Shao

  • Simultaneous removal of arsenate and antimonate in simulated and practical water samples by adsorption onto Zn/Fe layered double hydroxide

    Hongtao Lu;Zhiliang Zhu;Hua Zhang;Jianyao Zhu

  • Characterization of isolated fractions of dissolved organic matter from sewage treatment plant and the related disinfection by-products formation potential

    Hua Zhang;Jiuhui Qu;Huijuan Liu;Xu Zhao

  • Preparation and Application of Hierarchical Porous Carbon Materials from Waste and Biomass: A Review

    Xiao-Li Zhou;Hua Zhang;Li-Ming Shao;Fan Lü

  • Applications of convolutional neural networks for intelligent waste identification and recycling: A review

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  • Co-occurrence of mobile genetic elements and antibiotic resistance genes in municipal solid waste landfill leachates: A preliminary insight into the role of landfill age.

    Zhuofeng Yu;Pinjing He;Liming Shao;Hua Zhang

  • Digestate management for high-solid anaerobic digestion of organic wastes: A review

    Wei Peng;Fan Lü;Liping Hao;Hua Zhang

  • College students’ municipal solid waste source separation behavior and its influential factors: A case study in Beijing, China

    Hua Zhang;Jiong Liu;Zong-guo Wen;Yi-Xi Chen

  • Urban phosphorus metabolism through food consumption: the case of China

    Gui-Lin Li;Xuemei Bai;Shen Yu;Hua Zhang

  • PAEs and BPA removal in landfill leachate with Fenton process and its relationship with leachate DOM composition.

    Pin-Jing He;Zhong Zheng;Hua Zhang;Li-Ming Shao

  • Bicycle Evolution in China: From the 1900s to the Present

    Hua Zhang;Susan A. Shaheen;Xingpeng Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Pinjing He
Pinjing He Tongji University
Liming Shao
Liming Shao Tongji University
Zhiliang Zhu
Zhiliang Zhu Tongji University
Fan Lü
Fan Lü Tongji University
Daqiang Yin
Daqiang Yin Tongji University
Jianfu Zhao
Jianfu Zhao Tongji University
Susan Shaheen
Susan Shaheen University of California, Berkeley
Duu-Jong Lee
Duu-Jong Lee National Taiwan University
Zongguo Wen
Zongguo Wen Tsinghua University
Huijuan Liu
Huijuan Liu Tsinghua University

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