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Overview

Spyros G. Pavlostathis is an environmental scientist affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily addresses environmental science with a strong focus on pollution, environmental engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Their scholarly work emphasizes key topics such as wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, algal biology and biofuel production, phosphorus and nutrient management, and water-energy-food nexus studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Pavlostathis include Liming Yang, Xubiao Luo, Yanni Geng, Xiaoguang Liu, and Zhensheng Xiong. These collaborations have contributed to the productivity and depth of research output.

Spyros G. Pavlostathis has published extensively in a range of scientific journals. The most common venues include:

  • Water Research
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Bioresource Technology

Notable recent publications are:

  • New insight into ammonium oxidation processes and mechanisms mediated by manganese oxide in constructed wetlands, 2022, Water Research
  • Overview of value-added products bioelectrosynthesized from waste materials in microbial electrosynthesis systems, 2020, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Coevolution of Iron, Phosphorus, and Sulfur Speciation during Anaerobic Digestion with Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Sewage Sludge, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Hydrothermal pretreatment of sewage sludge for enhanced anaerobic digestion: Resource transformation and energy balance, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Selective removal and recovery of La(III) using a phosphonic-based ion imprinted polymer: Adsorption performance, regeneration, and mechanism, 2021, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

Best Publications

  • The IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model No 1 (ADM1)

    D.J. Batstone;J. Keller;I. Angelidaki;S.V. Kalyuzhnyi

  • Kinetics of anaerobic treatment: A critical review

    S. G. Pavlostathis;E. Giraldo‐Gomez

  • Kinetics of Anaerobic Treatment

    S. G. Pavlostathis;E. Giraldo-Gomez

  • Quaternary ammonium disinfectants: microbial adaptation, degradation and ecology.

    Ulas Tezel;Spyros G Pavlostathis

  • Biological Chromium(VI) Reduction in the Cathode of a Microbial Fuel Cell

    Madan Tandukar;Samuel J Huber;Takashi Onodera;Spyros G Pavlostathis

  • Anaerobic digestion model No. 1 (ADM1)

    Damien J. Batstone;J. Keller;Irini Angelidaki;S.V. Kalyuzhny

  • Decolorization and toxicity screening of selected reactive azo dyes under methanogenic conditions

    M. I. Beydilli;S. G. Pavlostathis;W. C. Tincher

  • Long-Term Exposure to Benzalkonium Chloride Disinfectants Results in Change of Microbial Community Structure and Increased Antimicrobial Resistance

    Madan Tandukar;Seungdae Oh;Ulas Tezel;Konstantinos T Konstantinidis

  • Desorption kinetics of selected volatile organic compounds from field contaminated soils

    Spyros G. Pavlostathis;Geeyerpuram N. Mathavan

  • Widely used benzalkonium chloride disinfectants can promote antibiotic resistance

    Minjae Kim;Michael R. Weigand;Seungdae Oh;Janet K. Hatt

  • Decolorization and toxicity of reactive anthraquinone textile dyes under methanogenic conditions.

    Young H. Lee;Spyros G. Pavlostathis

  • A kinetic model for anaerobic digestion of biological sludge.

    Spyros G. Pavlostathis;James M. Gossett

  • DESORPTIVE BEHAVIOR OF TRICHLOROETHYLENE IN CONTAMINATED SOIL

    Spyros G. Pavlostathis;Kendrick Jaglal

  • Alkaline treatment of wheat straw for increasing anaerobic biodegradability

    Spyros G. Pavlostathis;James M. Gossett

  • Distributed model of solid waste anaerobic digestion: Effects of leachate recirculation and pH adjustment

    Vasily A. Vavilin;Sergey V. Rytov;Ljudmila Ya. Lokshina;Spyros G. Pavlostathis

  • Characterization of the textile anthraquinone dye Reactive Blue 4

    W.J. Epolito;Y.H. Lee;L.A. Bottomley;S.G. Pavlostathis

  • Role of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds on Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment

    Ulas Tezel;Spyros G. Pavlostathis

  • Methane recovery from the anaerobic codigestion of municipal sludge and FOG.

    John C. Kabouris;Ulas Tezel;Spyros G. Pavlostathis;Mike Engelmann

  • Biodegradation kinetics of monoterpenes in liquid and soil-slurry systems

    G. Misra;S. G. Pavlostathis

  • Sorption of quaternary ammonium compounds to municipal sludge

    Zainab Z. Ismail;Ulas Tezel;Spyros G. Pavlostathis

  • Fate and effect of quaternary ammonium compounds on a mixed methanogenic culture

    Ulas Tezel;John A. Pierson;Spyros G. Pavlostathis

Frequent Co-Authors

Ching-Hua Huang
Ching-Hua Huang Georgia Institute of Technology
Xubiao Luo
Xubiao Luo Nanchang Hangkong University
Aijie Wang
Aijie Wang Harbin Institute of Technology
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis Georgia Institute of Technology
Miguel L. Cabrera
Miguel L. Cabrera University of Georgia
Damien J. Batstone
Damien J. Batstone University of Queensland
Irini Angelidaki
Irini Angelidaki Technical University of Denmark
Alexander J. Thompson
Alexander J. Thompson Ascension Health
Ibrahim M. Banat
Ibrahim M. Banat University of Ulster
Jurg Keller
Jurg Keller University of Queensland

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