Current Post-Doctoral Researcher

Dr. Samir K. Khanal

Ph.D Environmental Engineering Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 2002

Dr. Samir K. Khanal's Research Interests

Focus on environmental engineering, in particular to biological processes for industrial, agricultural, and municipal liquid and solid wastes treatment and resources recovery:

- High-rate anaerobic waste treatment systems for valuable byproduct recovery from waste streams - energy and nutrients.

- Biological hydrogen production from renewable organic wastes.

- Single-stage treatment of high strength sulfate rich wastewater.

- Oxygenated anaerobic treatment of high strength waste stream.

- Use of oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) for anaerobic process control.

- Biological sulfide conversion to elemental sulfur.

- Bioleaching for heavy metal removal.

- Anaerobic membrane bioreactor for the treatment of low to medium strength wastewater

Former Post-Doctoral Researchers

Dr. Sun-Kee Han------------Current affiliation: Assistant Research Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea

Dr. Maohong Fan------------Current affiliation: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, IA

Dr. Lars T. Angenent -------Current affiliation: Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

Dr. Jiunn-Jyi Lay-------------Current affiliation: Associate Professor, National Kaohsiung First University of Science & Technology, Taiwan

Dr. Chris Schmit-------------Current affiliation: Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD