2026 Sonia Heaven: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	39	7633	7365	473	449	164	7128

Overview

Sonia Heaven is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with a particular concentration on subfields such as Building and Construction, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Food Science.

The scientist's work covers several core topics, including:

Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
Biofuel production and bioconversion
Municipal Solid Waste Management
Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
Membrane Separation Technologies

Sonia Heaven has a number of recent papers published, highlighting their research focus. Selected publications include:

Estimating the Generation of Garden Waste in England and the Differences between Rural and Urban Areas, 2020, Resources
Estimating the Methane Potential of Energy Crops: An Overview on Types of Data Sources and Their Limitations, 2021, Processes
Potential for Biomethanisation of CO2 from Anaerobic Digestion of Organic Wastes in the United Kingdom, 2022, Processes
Predicting pH rise as a control measure for integration of CO2 biomethanisation with anaerobic digestion, 2020, Applied Energy
Dynamic changes in anaerobic digester metabolic pathways and microbial populations during acclimatisation to increasing ammonium concentrations, 2021, Waste Management

The frequent publication venues for their work include:

Processes
Waste Management
ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)
Resources
Microorganisms

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sonia Heaven are:

C.J. Banks
Sigrid Kusch-Brandt
Yue Zhang
Angela Bywater
Bing Tao

Best Publications

A review of the harvesting of micro-algae for biofuel production

John J. Milledge;Sonia Heaven

728
Citations
Anaerobic digestion of source-segregated domestic food waste: Performance assessment by mass and energy balance

Charles J. Banks;Michael Chesshire;Sonia Heaven;Rebecca Arnold

489
Citations
Trace element requirements for stable food waste digestion at elevated ammonia concentrations

Charles J. Banks;Yue Zhang;Ying Jiang;Sonia Heaven

462
Citations
Ammonia inhibition and toxicity in anaerobic digestion: A critical review

Ying Jiang;Ewan McAdam;Yue Zhang;Sonia Heaven

435
Citations
Potential errors in the quantitative evaluation of biogas production in anaerobic digestion processes.

Mark Walker;Yue Zhang;Sonia Heaven;Charles Banks

357
Citations
Evaluation of carbon dioxide mass transfer in raceway reactors for microalgae culture using flue gases.

I. de Godos;J.L. Mendoza;F.G. Acién;E. Molina

237
Citations
Fluid-dynamic characterization of real-scale raceway reactors for microalgae production

J.L. Mendoza;M.R. Granados;I. de Godos;F.G. Acién

197
Citations
Biogas production from undiluted chicken manure and maize silage: A study of ammonia inhibition in high solids anaerobic digestion.

Chen Sun;Weixing Cao;Charles J. Banks;Sonia Heaven

197
Citations
Ammonia removal in anaerobic digestion by biogas stripping: an evaluation of process alternatives using a first order rate model based on experimental findings

Mark Walker;K. Iyer;S. Heaven;C.J. Banks

193
Citations
Strategies for stable anaerobic digestion of vegetable waste.

Y. Jiang;S. Heaven;C.J. Banks

185
Citations
Oxygen transfer and evolution in microalgal culture in open raceways

J.L. Mendoza;M.R. Granados;I. de Godos;F.G. Acién

167
Citations
Co-digestion of source segregated domestic food waste to improve process stability.

Yue Zhang;Charles J. Banks;Sonia Heaven

166
Citations
Ammonia removal in food waste anaerobic digestion using a side-stream stripping process

Alba Serna-Maza;Sonia Heaven;Charles J. Banks

140
Citations
The effect of pH control and ‘hydraulic flush’ on hydrolysis and Volatile Fatty Acids (VFA) production and profile in anaerobic leach bed reactors digesting a high solids content substrate

Denise Cysneiros;Charles J. Banks;Sonia Heaven;Kimon-Andreas G. Karatzas

125
Citations
Comparison of mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic digestion of sugar beet pulp: performance, dewaterability and foam control.

Sri Suhartini;Sri Suhartini;Sonia Heaven;Charles J. Banks

122
Citations
Biogas stripping of ammonia from fresh digestate from a food waste digester

Alba Serna-Maza;S. Heaven;C.J. Banks

120
Citations
Comments on 'Anaerobic digestion of microalgae as a necessary step to make microalgal biodiesel sustainable'.

Sonia Heaven;John J. Milledge;Yue Zhang

118
Citations
Slow pyrolysis of organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW): Characterisation of products and screening of the aqueous liquid product for anaerobic digestion

Yang Yang;Sonia Heaven;Nikolaos Venetsaneas;Charles Banks

117
Citations
Modeling the Water Scrubbing Process and Energy Requirements for CO2 Capture to Upgrade Biogas to Biomethane

William James Nock;Mark Walker;Rimika Kapoor;Sonia Heaven

109
Citations
Degradation of some EN13432 compliant plastics in simulated mesophilic anaerobic digestion of food waste

Wei Zhang;Sonia Heaven;Charles J. Banks

106
Citations
Methods of energy extraction from microalgal biomass: a review

John J. Milledge;John J. Milledge;Sonia Heaven

100
Citations
Preliminary trials of in situ ammonia stripping from source segregated domestic food waste digestate using biogas: effect of temperature and flow rate.

M. Ángeles De la Rubia;Mark Walker;Sonia Heaven;Charles J. Banks

99
Citations