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Overview

Olivier Lefebvre is affiliated with the National University of Singapore. Their research lies primarily within the field of Environmental Science, focusing on domains such as Water Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, Electrochemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their main research topics cover a range of subjects related to water treatment and environmental remediation. These include:

  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal

Lefebvre has contributed to the literature with recent papers such as:

  • Electro-Fenton treatment of real pharmaceutical wastewater paired with a BDD anode: Reaction mechanisms and respective contribution of homogeneous and heterogeneous OH, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Cost comparison of advanced oxidation processes for wastewater treatment using accumulated oxygen-equivalent criteria, 2021, Water Research
  • Electrochemical treatment of highly concentrated wastewater: A review of experimental and modeling approaches from lab- to full-scale, 2020, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
  • Synergistic degradation of GenX (hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid) by pairing graphene-coated Ni-foam and boron doped diamond electrodes, 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • A new approach of simultaneous adsorption and regeneration of activated carbon to address the bottlenecks of pharmaceutical wastewater treatment, 2024, Water Research

The publication venues where Lefebvre frequently publishes include:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Chemosphere
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Research
  • Mine Closure

Lefebvre regularly collaborates with certain co-authors, notably:

  • Orlando García-Rodríguez
  • Hugo Olvera-Vargas
  • Zuxin Wang
  • Joseph Imbrogno
  • Jianxiong Xu

Best Publications

  • Treatment of organic pollution in industrial saline wastewater: a literature review

    Olivier Lefebvre;René Moletta

  • Halophilic biological treatment of tannery soak liquor in a sequencing batch reactor.

    O. Lefebvre;N. Vasudevan;M. Torrijos;K. Thanasekaran

  • Effect of increasing anodic NaCl concentration on microbial fuel cell performance.

    Olivier Lefebvre;Zi Tan;Shailesh Kharkwal;How Y. Ng

  • Electro-Fenton treatment of real pharmaceutical wastewater paired with a BDD anode: Reaction mechanisms and respective contribution of homogeneous and heterogeneous OH

    Hugo Olvera-Vargas;Nissim Gore-Datar;Nissim Gore-Datar;Orlando Garcia-Rodriguez;Srikanth Mutnuri

  • Anaerobic digestion of tannery soak liquor with an aerobic post-treatment.

    O. Lefebvre;N. Vasudevan;M. Torrijos;K. Thanasekaran

  • Sequential anaerobic-aerobic treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater with high salinity.

    Xueqing Shi;Olivier Lefebvre;Kok Kwang Ng;How Yong Ng

  • Impact of increasing NaCl concentrations on the performance and community composition of two anaerobic reactors.

    O. Lefebvre;S. Quentin;M. Torrijos;J. J. Godon

  • Microbial fuel cells for energy self-sufficient domestic wastewater treatment-a review and discussion from energetic consideration.

    Olivier Lefebvre;Arnaud Uzabiaga;In Seop Chang;Byung Hong Kim

  • Cost comparison of advanced oxidation processes for wastewater treatment using accumulated oxygen-equivalent criteria.

    Emmanuel Mousset;Wei Hao Loh;Wei Shien Lim;Léa Jarry

  • A microbial fuel cell equipped with a biocathode for organic removal and denitrification.

    O. Lefebvre;A. Al-Mamun;H. Y. Ng

  • Electrochemical treatment of highly concentrated wastewater: A review of experimental and modeling approaches from lab- to full-scale

    Orlando Garcia-Rodriguez;Emmanuel Mousset;Hugo Olvera-Vargas;Olivier Lefebvre

  • Mineralization of electronic wastewater by electro-Fenton with an enhanced graphene-based gas diffusion cathode

    Orlando Garcia-Rodriguez;Yi Yang Lee;Hugo Olvera-Vargas;Fengxia Deng;Fengxia Deng

  • Physico-chemical properties of pristine graphene and its performance as electrode material for electro-Fenton treatment of wastewater

    Emmanuel Mousset;Zuxin Wang;Joshua Hammaker;Olivier Lefebvre

  • Beyond NEWater: An insight into Singapore's water reuse prospects

    Olivier Lefebvre

  • Microbial diversity in hypersaline wastewater: the example of tanneries

    O. Lefebvre;O. Lefebvre;N. Vasudevan;K. Thanasekaran;R. Moletta

  • Bioelectrochemical treatment of acid mine drainage dominated with iron.

    Olivier Lefebvre;Carmen M. Neculita;Xiaodi Yue;How Yong Ng

  • Microbial fuel-cell-based toxicity sensor for fast monitoring of acidic toxicity.

    Yu J. Shen;Olivier Lefebvre;Zi Tan;How Y. Ng

  • T‐RFLP reveals high β‐Proteobacteria diversity in microbial fuel cells enriched with domestic wastewater

    O. Lefebvre;T.T. Ha Nguyen;A. Al-Mamun;I.S. Chang

  • Optimization of a Pt-free cathode suitable for practical applications of microbial fuel cells.

    Olivier Lefebvre;Wai K. Ooi;Zhe Tang;Abdullah-Al-Mamun

  • Sequential “electrochemical peroxidation – Electro-Fenton” process for anaerobic sludge treatment

    H. Olvera-Vargas;X. Zheng;O. Garcia-Rodriguez;O. Lefebvre

  • Electrocatalytic activity enhancement of a graphene ink-coated carbon cloth cathode for oxidative treatment

    Emmanuel Mousset;Zheng Teng Ko;Muhammad Syafiq;Zuxin Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

How Yong Ng
How Yong Ng National University of Singapore
Carmen Mihaela Neculita
Carmen Mihaela Neculita University of Quebec
In Seop Chang
In Seop Chang Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Daniel H. C. Chua
Daniel H. C. Chua National University of Singapore
Say Leong Ong
Say Leong Ong National University of Singapore
Yves Andres
Yves Andres Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Fang Ma
Fang Ma Harbin Institute of Technology
Jiangyong Hu
Jiangyong Hu National University of Singapore
Wen-Tso Liu
Wen-Tso Liu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zhonglin Chen
Zhonglin Chen Harbin Institute of Technology

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