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Overview

Zaini Ujang is affiliated with the Harvard Business School Alumni Club of Malaysia in Malaysia. Their research spans several key areas within environmental science and engineering, with a focus on wastewater treatment, microbial ecology, and fluid dynamics.

Their publication record includes research on topics such as wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, and microbial community ecology and physiology. Additional topics include wind energy research and development, cavitation phenomena in pumps, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, and issues related to microplastics and plastic pollution.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Mohd Hakim Ab Halim, Aznah Nor Anuar, Inawati Othman, Hasnida Harun, and Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht.

Their papers have appeared primarily in the following venues:

  • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
  • KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering

Representative recent papers include:

  • Predictions of Wake and Central Mixing Region of Double Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbine, 2020, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
  • Identification and Role of Microbial Species Developed in Aerobic Granular Sludge Bioreactor for Livestock Wastewater Treatment, 2020, IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
  • Physical Characteristics and Removal Performance of Aerobic Granular Sludge in Biological Treatment of Domestic Wastewater, 2022, IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science

Their main fields of study include environmental science and engineering. Subfields of focus within their work encompass pollution, building and construction, ecology, aerospace engineering, and mechanics of materials.

Best Publications

  • The food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus and food waste

    Effie Papargyropoulou;Rodrigo Lozano;Julia K. Steinberger;Nigel Wright

  • Conceptual framework for the study of food waste generation and prevention in the hospitality sector.

    Effie Papargyropoulou;Nigel Wright;Rodrigo Lozano;Julia Steinberger

  • Arsenic removal technologies for drinking water treatment

    Kuan-Seong Ng;Zaini Ujang;Pierre Le-Clech

  • Patterns and Causes of Food Waste in the Hospitality and Food Service Sector: Food Waste Prevention Insights from Malaysia

    Effie Papargyropoulou;Julia K. Steinberger;Nigel Wright;Rodrigo Lozano

  • Livestock wastewater treatment using aerobic granular sludge.

    Inawati Othman;Aznah Nor Anuar;Zaini Ujang;Noor Hasyimah Rosman

  • Polymer-based chelating adsorbents for the selective removal of boron from water and wastewater: A review

    Mohamed Mahmoud Nasef;Madana Nallappan;Zaini Ujang

  • Characterization of aerobic granular sludge treating high strength agro-based wastewater at different volumetric loadings.

    Norhayati Abdullah;Ali Yuzir;Thomas P. Curtis;Adibah Yahya

  • The influenced of PAC, zeolite, and Moringa oleifera as biofouling reducer (BFR) on hybrid membrane bioreactor of palm oil mill effluent (POME).

    A. Damayanti;Zaini Ujang;M. R. Salim

  • Projection of CO2 emissions in Malaysia

    Nor Sharliza Mohd Safaai;Zainura Zainon Noor;Haslenda Hashim;Zaini Ujang

  • Aerobic granular sludge formation for high strength agro-based wastewater treatment.

    Norhayati Abdullah;Zaini Ujang;Adibah Yahya

  • Cultivation of aerobic granular sludge for rubber wastewater treatment.

    Noor Hasyimah Rosman;Aznah Nor Anuar;Inawati Othman;Hasnida Harun

  • Characteristics and performance of aerobic granular sludge treating rubber wastewater at different hydraulic retention time

    Noor Hasyimah Rosman;Aznah Nor Anuar;Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan;Mohd Fadhil Md Din

  • Water pinch analysis for an urban system: a case study on the Sultan Ismail Mosque at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)

    Z.A. Manan;S.R. Wan Alwi;Z. Ujang

  • Bio-fouling reducers for improving the performance of an aerobic submerged membrane bioreactor treating palm oil mill effluent

    Adhi Yuniarto;Zainura Zainon Noor;Zaini Ujang;Gustaf Olsson

  • Greenhouse gas reductions through enhanced use of residues in the life cycle of Malaysian palm oil derived biodiesel.

    Sune Balle Hansen;Stig Irving Olsen;Zaini Ujang

  • Settling behaviour of aerobic granular sludge.

    A. Nor Anuar;Z. Ujang;M.C.M. van Loosdrecht;M.K. de Kreuk

  • Runoff quality and pollution loadings from a tropical urban catchment

    Z. Yusop;L. W. Tan;Zaini Ujang;M. Mohamed

  • Water and wastewater in developing countries: Present reality and strategy for the future

    Z. Ujang;C. Buckley

  • Application of low-pressure reverse osmosis membrane for Zn2+ and Cu2+ removal from wastewater

    Zaini Ujang;G. K. Anderson

  • Influence of high temperature on the performance of aerobic granular sludge in biological treatment of wastewater.

    Mohd Hakim Ab Halim;Aznah Nor Anuar;Nur Syahida Abdul Jamal;Siti Izaidah Azmi

Frequent Co-Authors

Gustaf Olsson
Gustaf Olsson Lund University
Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen
Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen Aalborg University
M.C.M. van Loosdrecht
M.C.M. van Loosdrecht Delft University of Technology
Mohamed Mahmoud Nasef
Mohamed Mahmoud Nasef University of Technology Malaysia
Jes Vollertsen
Jes Vollertsen Aalborg University
Mogens Henze
Mogens Henze Technical University of Denmark
Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan
Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan University of Technology Malaysia
Zulkifli Yusop
Zulkifli Yusop University of Technology Malaysia
Zainuddin Abdul Manan
Zainuddin Abdul Manan University of Technology Malaysia
Rodrigo Lozano
Rodrigo Lozano University of A Coruña

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