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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
135
Citations
58619
World Ranking
55
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award
  • 2017 - Australian Laureate Fellowship

Overview

Zhiguo Yuan is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, contributing 393 publications in Environmental Science and 144 publications in Engineering. The work covers various subfields including Pollution, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The topics of research that Zhiguo Yuan focuses on include:

  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Zhiguo Yuan has published frequently in various scientific venues, with notable numbers in:

  • Water Research (77 publications)
  • Environmental Science & Technology (21 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (13 publications)
  • Water Research X (11 publications)
  • Chemical Engineering Journal (10 publications)

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhiguo Yuan include:

  • "Gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dinitrogen to value-added products: a review," 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • "The role of deep learning in urban water management: A critical review," 2022, Water Research
  • "Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae," 2020, The ISME Journal
  • "Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals enhance the transmission of exogenous antibiotic resistance genes through bacterial transformation," 2020, The ISME Journal
  • "A 20-Year Journey of Partial Nitritation and Anammox (PN/A): from Sidestream toward Mainstream," 2022, Environmental Science & Technology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zhiguo Yuan include Shihu Hu, Jianhua Guo, Min Zheng, Haoran Duan, and Zhiyao Wang.

Zhiguo Yuan has also contributed to academic books published by UWA Publishing, with titles such as "Quantification and Modelling of Fugitive Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Urban Water Systems" (2022) and "Celebrating passion for Water, Science and Technology" (2022).

In recognition of their research contributions, Zhiguo Yuan was awarded the Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Advances in enhanced biological phosphorus removal: from micro to macro scale.

    Adrian Oehmen;Paulo C. Lemos;Gilda Carvalho;Zhiguo Yuan

  • Anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to nitrate reduction in a novel archaeal lineage

    Mohamed F. Haroon;Shihu Hu;Ying Shi;Michael Imelfort

  • Metagenomic analysis reveals wastewater treatment plants as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements

    Jianhua Guo;Jie Li;Hui Chen;Philip L. Bond

  • Simultaneous nitrification, denitrification, and phosphorus removal in a lab-scale sequencing batch reactor.

    Raymond J Zeng;Romain Lemaire;Zhiguo Yuan;Jürg Keller

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from wastewater treatment processes

    Yingyu Law;Liu Ye;Yuting Pan;Zhiguo Yuan

  • Nitrous oxide generation in full-scale biological nutrient removal wastewater treatment plants

    Jeffrey Foley;David de Haas;Zhiguo Yuan;Paul Lant

  • Microbial fuel cells for simultaneous carbon and nitrogen removal.

    Bernardino Virdis;Korneel Rabaey;Zhiguo Yuan;Jürg Keller

  • Phosphorus recovery from wastewater through microbial processes

    Zhiguo Yuan;Steven Pratt;Damien J Batstone

  • Dissecting microbial community structure and methane-producing pathways of a full-scale anaerobic reactor digesting activated sludge from wastewater treatment by metagenomic sequencing

    Jianhua Guo;Jianhua Guo;Yongzhen Peng;Bing-Jie Ni;Xiaoyu Han

  • Partial nitrification to nitrite using low dissolved oxygen concentration as the main selection factor.

    Richard Blackburne;Richard Blackburne;Zhiguo Yuan;Jürg Keller

  • Kinetic characterisation of an enriched Nitrospira culture with comparison to Nitrobacter

    Richard J. Blackburne;Vel M. Vadivelu;Zhiguo Yuan;Jurg Keller

  • Modeling the PAO-GAO competition: Effects of carbon source, pH and temperature

    Carlos M. Lopez-Vazquez;Adrian Oehmen;Christine M. Hooijmans;Damir Brdjanovic

  • Simultaneous nitrification, denitrification and carbon removal in microbial fuel cells.

    Bernardino Virdis;Korneel Rabaey;René A. Rozendal;Zhiguo Yuan

  • Gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dinitrogen to value-added products: a review

    Hesamoddin Rabiee;Lei Ge;Lei Ge;Xueqin Zhang;Shihu Hu

  • The role of deep learning in urban water management: A critical review.

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  • Methane formation in sewer systems

    Albert Guisasola;David de Haas;Jurg Keller;Zhiguo Yuan

  • Antiepileptic drug carbamazepine promotes horizontal transfer of plasmid-borne multi-antibiotic resistance genes within and across bacterial genera.

    Yue Wang;Ji Lu;Likai Mao;Jie Li

  • A methanotrophic archaeon couples anaerobic oxidation of methane to Fe(III) reduction

    Chen Cai;Andy O Leu;Guo-Jun Xie;Jianhua Guo

  • Optimisation of poly-β-hydroxyalkanoate analysis using gas chromatography for enhanced biological phosphorus removal systems

    Adrian Oehmen;Beatrice Keller-Lehmann;Raymond J. Zeng;Zhiguo Yuan

  • Decolorization of azo dyes in bioelectrochemical systems.

    Yang Mu;Korneel Rabaey;René A Rozendal;Zhiguo Yuan

  • Non-catalyzed cathodic oxygen reduction at graphite granules in microbial fuel cells

    Stefano Freguia;Korneel Rabaey;Zhiguo Yuan;Jürg Keller

Frequent Co-Authors

Jurg Keller
Jurg Keller University of Queensland
Guangming Jiang
Guangming Jiang University of Wollongong
Keshab Sharma
Keshab Sharma BGC Engineering (Canada)
Jianhua Guo
Jianhua Guo University of Queensland
Bing-Jie Ni
Bing-Jie Ni University of New South Wales
Shihu Hu
Shihu Hu University of Queensland
Liu Ye
Liu Ye University of Queensland
Maite Pijuan
Maite Pijuan Catalan Institute for Water Research
Philip L. Bond
Philip L. Bond University of Queensland
Qilin Wang
Qilin Wang University of Technology Sydney

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