A5017008563- Membrane Separation Technologies
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
- Water resources management and optimization
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Wound Healing and Treatments
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
University of Bath
2012-2023
Separation Systems (United States)
2018
University of Reading
1992
ABSTRACT Biofilms are major causes of impairment wound healing and patient morbidity. One the most common aggressive pathogens is Staphylococcus aureus , displaying a large repertoire virulence factors commonly reduced susceptibility to antibiotics, such as spread methicillin-resistant S. (MRSA). Bacteriophages obligate parasites bacteria. They multiply intracellularly lyse their bacterial host, releasing progeny. We isolated novel phage, DRA88, which has broad host range among...
Biorefineries have been established since the 1980s for biofuel production, and there has a switch lately from first to second generation feedstocks in order avoid food versus fuel dilemma. To lesser extent, many opportunities investigated producing chemicals biomass using by-products of present biorefineries, simple waste streams. Current facilities apply intensive pre-treatments deal with single substrate types such as carbohydrates. However, most organic streams municipal solid or algal...
Summary P seudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic human pathogen that forms highly stable communities – biofilms, which contribute to the establishment and maintenance of infections. The biofilm state intrinsic/acquired bacterial resistance mechanisms resistance/tolerance antibiotics frequently observed in . isolates. Here we describe isolation characterization six novel lytic bacteriophages: viruses infect bacteria, together efficiently kill a wide range clinical phages were used...
In earlier work we have demonstrated the effect that nano-emulsions on bacterial growth, and most importantly enhanced bacteriophage infectivity against Staphylococcus aureus in planktonic culture when phage are carried nano-emulsions. However, mechanisms of enhancement killing not specifically understood. This focuses investigation possible interactions between emulsion droplets cells, bacteriophages, finally all three components: nano-emulsion droplets, bacteria, bacteriophages. The first...
Bacteriophage therapy is a promising new treatment that may help overcome the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria, which are increasingly identified in hospitalized patients. The development of biocompatible and sustainable vehicles for incorporation viable bacterial viruses into wound dressing alternative. This article evaluates antimicrobial efficacy K against Staphylococcus aureus over time, when stabilized delivered via an oil-in-water nano-emulsion. Nano-emulsions...
This paper presents a new multi-residue method for the quantification of more than 142 anthropogenic compounds emerging concern (CECs) in various environmental matrices. These CECs are from wide range major classes including pharmaceuticals, household, industrial and agricultural. utilises ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) analysis five matrices (three two solid) wastewater treatment processes surrounding environment. Relative...
Microbial ipso,ortho-dihydroxylation of benzoic acid by the B9 mutant strain Ralstonia eutropha permits rapid construction aminocyclitols containing a quaternary stereocentre. Installation amine functionality is achieved use an acylnitroso dienophile for hetero-Diels–Alder reaction. Both aminotetrols and aminohexols are accessible as single enantiomers this route. NOESY spectroscopic X-ray crystallographic analyses were required to distinguish cycloadduct isomers. Notably, subsequent...
Production of medium chain carboxylic acids (MCCA) as renewable feedstock bio-chemicals, from food waste (FW), requires complicated reactor configurations and supplementation chemicals to achieve product selectivity. This study evaluated the manipulation organic loading rate in an un-supplemented, single stage stirred tank steer anaerobic digestion (AD) microbiome towards acidogenic fermentation (AF), thence elongation. Increasing substrate availability by switching a FW with higher COD...
Reducing water use could impact existing sewer systems but this is not currently well understood. This work describes a new flow and wastewater quality model developed to investigate impact. SIMDEUM WW® was used generate stochastic appliance-specific discharge profiles for concentration, which were fed into InfoWorks® ICM quantify the impacts within network. The validated using measured field data from system in Amsterdam serving 418 households. Wastewater concentrations of total suspended...
Two pilot-scale membrane bioreactors were operated alongside a full-sized activated sludge plant in Tunisia order to compare specific energy demand and treated water quality. Energy consumption rates measured for the complete bioreactor systems their different components. Specific was compared with plant, which at around 3 kWh m(-3). A model developed each based on both dynamic steady-state mass balances, microbial kinetics stoichiometry, balance. evaluated as function of mixed-liquor...
Abstract BACKGROUND Using microalgae for wastewater treatment offers an environmentally friendly method to produce microalgal biomass that can be used many applications. However, the biochemical characteristics of vary from species species, strain strain, and between different growth stages within same species/strain. This study utilized portable attenuated total reflectance‐Fourier transform infrared (ATR‐FTIR) spectroscopy determine composition freeze‐dried corresponding eight locally...
Abstract Population growth and climate change put a strain on water resources; hence, there are growing initiatives to reduce use. Reducing household use will likely sewer input. This work demonstrates the of stochastic model quantify effect conservation has hydraulics wastewater concentration. Probabilistic discharge patterns have been developed using SIMDEUM WW® fed into hydraulic modelling software InfoWorks ICM® produce flow quality profiles for five future scenarios. The scenarios...