A5001297123- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Algal biology and biofuel production
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Biosensors and Analytical Detection
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Membrane Separation Technologies
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Viral Infections and Immunology Research
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Gut microbiota and health
UK Health Security Agency
2022-2023
Newcastle University
2012-2021
Northumbria University
2009-2020
World energy demand is growing and the negative effects of greenhouse gases (GHGs) climate change are being felt more acutely. Accordingly, technologies that reduce GHG releases produce renewable energy, such as anaerobic digestion (AD) with combined heat power (CHP) systems, potentially attractive for agricultural wastes, including rice straw (RS). Asia produces over 500 Mt RS per year usually burned, wasting potential causing air pollution GHGs, having health impacts. Therefore, making AD...
Abstract Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an unobtrusive method used to observe patterns in illicit drug use, poliovirus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The pandemic need for surveillance measures have led the rapid acceleration of WBE research development globally. With infrastructure available monitor SARS-CoV-2 from wastewater 58 countries globally, there potential expand targets applications public health protection, such as other viral pathogens,...
Pinpointing environmental antibiotic resistance (AR) hot spots in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is hindered by a lack of available and comparable AR monitoring data relevant to such settings. Addressing this problem, we performed comprehensive spatial seasonal assessment water quality conditions Malaysian river catchment identify potential "simple" surrogates that mirror elevated AR. We screened for resistant coliforms, 22 antibiotics, 287 genes integrons, routine parameters,...
Anaerobic digestion (AD) uses a range of substrates to generate biogas, including energy crops such as globally abundant rice straw (RS). Unfortunately, RS is high in lignocellulosic material and has C:N ratios (~80:1), which makes it (alone) comparatively poor substrate for AD. Co-digestion with dairy manure (DM) been promoted method balancing improve AD whilst also treating another farm waste co-producing potentially useful fertiliser. However, past co-digestion studies have not directly...
China produces over 200 tonnes of rice straw (RS) a year. This is an underutilized energy source that often burned in the fields causing pollution and health problems for populations near far. Anaerobic digestion (AD) can produce methane (CH4) rich biogas (45-55%) from waste RS as alternative to burning whilst being affordable. Five 2L reactors were used test effect feeding frequency (FF) organic loading rates (OLR) on anaerobic with input between 5 feeds per week one feed every 3 weeks. Two...
Waste rice straw (RS) is generated in massive quantities around the world and often burned, creating greenhouse gas air quality problems. Anaerobic digestion (AD) may be a better option for RS management, but presumed to comparatively refractory under anaerobic conditions without pre-treatment or co-substrates. However, this presumption assumes frequent reactor feeding regimes less due slow hydrolysis rates. Here, we assess how frequency (FF) organic loading rate (OLR) impacts microbial...
Abstract Background Understanding environmental microbiomes and antibiotic resistance (AR) is hindered by over reliance on relative abundance data from next-generation sequencing. Relative limits our ability to quantify changes in resistomes space time because sequencing depth not considered makes less suitable for Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessments (QMRA), critical quantifying AR exposure transmission risks. Results Here we combine quantitative microbiome profiling (QMP;...
The production of methane-rich biogas from the anaerobic digestion (AD) microalgae is limited by an unfavorable biomass carbon-to-nitrogen (C/N) ratio; however, this may be ameliorated using a co-digestion strategy with carbon-rich feedstocks. For reliable plant operation, and to improve economics process, secure co-feedstock supply (ideally as waste-stream) important. To end, study investigated feasibility co-digesting (Chlorella vulgaris) potato processing waste (potato discarded parts,...
<p>Growing global demand of water use, and regional changes in precipitation many regions, has resulted increasing long-term irrigation agricultural soils with post-treatment waste water. Overlaying this trend the rising use pharmaceuticals created a new pathway for these pollutants, including biologically active compounds such as antibiotics, to enter soil environment. We present results from interdisciplinary study response an agroecosystem which was repeatedly contaminated...