Current Professional Societies

1. Member of Editorial Board of ”International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health”

2. Member of Early Career Editorial Board of “Results in Engineering”

3. Member of Chinese Society of Environmental Science.

Research Areas

1)Energy-efficient wastewater nutriment removal

Mainstream and sidestream anammox process

Partial-denitrification (PD) based anammox process for nitrate-contained wastewater treatment.

Granules-based PD process for high-efficient nitrite production

Denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation (DAMO) process and integrated with Anammox for nitrogen removal.

2)Solid waste management with resource/energy recovery

High-rate activated sludge (HRAS) processes for COD capture towards energy neutral/positive wastewater treatment.

Sludge anaerobic fermentation for VFAs production and enhanced biological nutrients removal.

Pretreatment technologies for enhanced sludge anaerobic digestion with biogas production (i.e. THP, FNA).

Sludge dewatering and P recovery from digestate.

Honors

Alexander Humboldt Scholarship, 2020.

Shanghai Tongji Gao Tingyao Young doctoral outstanding talent scholarship, 2016.

National scholarship of Doctor, 2016.

National scholarship of Master, 2013.

Merit student of Harbin Institute of Technology, 2016.

Excellent graduate of Beijing University of technology, 2014.

Outstanding master's thesis of Beijing University of technology, 2014.

Technology Innovation Awards of Beijing University of technology, 2014.

Publications

[1]  Cao, S.B., Yan, W.W., Yu, L., Zhang, L., Lay, W., Zhou, Y. *, Challenges of THP-AD centrate treatment using partial nitritation-anammox (PN/A) – inhibition, biomass washout, low alkalinity, recalcitrant and more. Water Res., 2021, 203(15), 117555. (IF=11.236)

[2]  Cao, S.B., Sun, F., Lu, D., Zhou, Y. *, Characterization of the refractory dissolved organic matters (rDOM) in sludge alkaline fermentation liquid driven denitrification: Effect of HRT on their fate and transformation. Water Res., 2019, 159, 135-144. (IF=11.236)

[3]  Cao S.B., Li B. K., Du R., Ren N.Q., Peng Y.Z. *, Nitrite production in a partial denitrifying upflow sludge bed (USB) reactor equipped with gas automatic circulation (GAC) [J]. Water Res., 2016, 90, 309-316. (IF=11.236)

[4]  Cao, S.B., Du, R., Peng, Y. *, Li, B., Wang, S., Novel two stage partial denitrification (PD)-Anammox process for tertiary nitrogen removal from low carbon/nitrogen (C/N) municipal sewage. Chem. Eng. J., 2019, 362, 107-115. (Top 1% highly cited papers) (IF=13.273)

[5]  Cao S.B., Du R., Li B.K., Wang S.Y., Ren N.Q., Peng Y.Z. *, Nitrite production from partial-denitrification process fed with low carbon/nitrogen (C/N) domestic wastewater: performance, kinetics and microbial community [J]. Chem. Eng. J., 2017, 326, 1186-1196. (IF=13.273)

[6]  Cao S.B., Du R., Zhou Y. *, Coupling anammox with heterotrophic denitrification for enhanced nitrogen removal: A review. Crit. Rev. Eni. Sci. Tec., 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2020.1778394. (IF=12.561)

[7]  Cao S.B., Oehmen A., Zhou Y. *, Denitrifiers in Mainstream Anammox Processes: Competitors or Supporters? Environ. Sci. Technol. 2019, 53, 11063-11065. (IF=9.028)

[8]  Cao S.B., Lu D., Phua K.M., Yan W.W., Le C.C. Tao G.H., Zhou Y. *, Organics transformation and energy production potential in a high rate A-stage system: A demo-scale study. Bioresour. Technol., 2020, 295, 122300. (IF=9.642)

[9]  Cao, S.B., Qian, T., Zhou, Y. *, New insights on the sludge fermentation liquid driven denitrification: Evaluation of the system performance and effluent organic matter (EfOM). Bioresour. Technol., 2019, 289, 121621.(IF=9.642)

[10]  Cao, S.B., Du, R., Yan, W.W., Zhou, Y. *, Mitigation of inhibitory effect of THP-AD centrate on partial nitritation and anammox: Insights into ozone pretreatment. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, 431, 128599.(IF=10.588)

Google Scholar: Total citations>2500, h-index = 24, as of March 2022.

Detailed information please visit

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=lEJe50gAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shenbin-Cao

Personal statement

Cao Shenbin is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Institute of Municipal Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, Civil And Transportation Engineering, Beijing University of Technology. He obtained his PhD degree from Harbin Institute of Technology with the major of municipal engineering in 2018, and then performed his postdoctoral research for around 3 years at Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests mainly focus on the cost-effective anammox process for wastewater nitrogen removal and anaerobic technology for resource/energy recovery. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed SCI papers on international major journals, including articles in Water Research, Environmental Science & Technology, and Chemical Engineering Journal. The citation times have exceeded 2500 times with the H-index of 24 as of March, 2022. He has received several prestigious awards as a recognition for his work, such as Alexander Humboldt Scholarship, Shanghai Tongji Gao Tingyao Young doctoral outstanding talent scholarship.