Dr. H.R. DUAN

Professor H.R. DUAN
Assistant Professor (Water and Environmental Engineering)

BEng, Tianjin University, China
PhD, University of Queensland, Australia

 

 

Office: HW 6-23
Phone: +852 3917 2660
Fax: +852 2559 5337
E-mail: haoran.duan@hku.hk

 

Teaching Activities
  • CIVL1105 Environmental Engineering
  • CIVL1116 Introduction to Urban Development
  • CIVL6006 Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment

 

Research Interests
  • New biotechnologies for wastewater and sludge treatment
  • Artificial intelligence to enhance wastewater management
  • Greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater management

 

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects
  • ‘Feasible quantification of greenhouse gas emitted from wastewater treatment’, PI, by Australian Research Council.
  • ‘Revolutionising sludge management, turning costly waste into a safe product’ Co-PI, Cooperative Research Centres Projects, Australian Commonwealth Government.
  • ‘Greening Wastewater Treatment Process for Efficient Resource Recovery’, Co-PI, by Australian Research Council.
  • ‘Leveraging Novel Microbial Process for Low-Emission Wastewater Treatment’, Co-PI, by Australian Research Council.
  • ‘Reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from urban wastewater systems’, Co-PI, by Australian Research Council.

 

Professional Activities
  • Member, International Water Association (IWA)
  • Management committee, IWA Modelling and Integrated Assessment (MIA) Specialist Group
  • Editor, Water Research X (Elsevier)
  • Associate Editor, CleanMat (Wiley)

 

10 Selected Representative Publications
  • Duan, H., Li, J. and Yuan, Z. 2024. Making waves: Knowledge and data fusion in urban water modelling. Water Research X, 100234.
  • Li, K., Duan, H.*, Liu, L., Qiu, R., van den Akker, B., Ni, B.-J., Chen, T., Yin, H., Yuan, Z., & Ye, L. (2022). An Integrated First Principal and Deep Learning Approach for Modeling Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Plants. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(4), 2816-2826.
  • Duan, H., Watts, S., Zheng, M., Wang, Z., Zhao, J., Li, H., Liu, P., Dwyer, J., McPhee, P., Rattier, M., Larsen, E., Yuan, Z., & Hu, S. (2022). Achieving robust mainstream nitrite shunt at pilot-scale with integrated sidestream sludge treatment and step-feed. Water Research, 223, 119034.
  • Calderon, A. G., Duan, H.*, Chen, X., Wu, Z., Yu, W., Silva, C. E., Li, Y., Shrestha, S., Wang, Z., Keller, J., Chen, Z., Yuan, Z., & Hu, S. (2021). Enhancing anaerobic digestion using free nitrous acid: Identifying the optimal pre-treatment condition in continuous operation. Water Research, 205, 117694.
  • Duan, H., Zhao, Y., Koch, K., Wells, G. F., Zheng, M., Yuan, Z., & Ye, L. (2021). Insights into Nitrous Oxide Mitigation Strategies in Wastewater Treatment and Challenges for Wider Implementation. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(11), 7208-7224.
  • Duan, H., van den Akker, B., Thwaites, B. J., Peng, L., Herman, C., Pan, Y., Ni, B.-J., Watt, S., Yuan, Z., & Ye, L. (2020). Mitigating nitrous oxide emissions at a full-scale wastewater treatment plant. Water Research, 185, 116196.
  • Duan, H., Gao, S., Li, X., Ab Hamid, N. H., Jiang, G., Zheng, M., Bai, X., Bond, P. L., Lu, X., Chislett, M. M., Hu, S., Ye, L., & Yuan, Z. (2020). Improving wastewater management using free nitrous acid (FNA). Water Research, 171, 115382.
  • Duan, H., Ye, L., Wang, Q., Zheng, M., Lu, X., Wang, Z., & Yuan, Z. (2019). Nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) contained in influent deteriorate mainstream NOB suppression by sidestream inactivation. Water Research, 162, 331-338.
  • Duan, H., Ye, L., Lu, X., & Yuan, Z. (2019). Overcoming Nitrite Oxidizing Bacteria Adaptation through Alternating Sludge Treatment with Free Nitrous Acid and Free Ammonia. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(4), 1937-1946.
  • Duan, H., Ye, L., Lu, X., Batstone, D. J., & Yuan, Z. (2019). Self-Sustained Nitrite Accumulation at Low pH Greatly Enhances Volatile Solids Destruction and Nitrogen Removal in Aerobic Sludge Digestion. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(3), 25-34.

 

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