About N.E.S.Lab

The N.E.S. Lab will target the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus by ensuring a supply of clean water, renewable energy, and safe food to meet community needs for the foreseeable future, while taking advantage of smart technologies, including automation control and artificial intelligence (AI).

NEWS

Jul 2020_Congratulation to Liu for winning the 2nd place at 2020 CSAWWA Poster Competition. Poster title: "Understanding the Role of Microbiological Processes in Removing PFAS from Environment"
Jul 2020_Congratulation to Xiaojue for winning the 3rd place at 2020 CSAWWA Poster Competition. Poster title: "Adaptation and Acclimation of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) Process to Environmental Conditions and Inhibitors"
Jun 2020_Congratulation to Xiaojue Chen and Liu Jiang on receiving Faculty-Student Research Award from the Graduate School, University of Maryland!
Jan 9th 2020_Dr. Li presents his work at WSSC Water about Enhancment of Nutrient Removal and Recovery in Wastewater Reclaimation Facilities (WRFs)!
Welcome! Seth Meisler and Katherine Eckart join N.E.S. Lab!
Welcome! Xiaojue Chen and Liu Jiang join N.E.S. Lab and will start working with Dr. Li in Fall 2019!
Jul 23-25th 2019_Dr. Li presents his work about Pilot-scale Anammox reactors in the WEF Nutrient Removal and Recovery Symposium in Minneapolis, Minnesota!
May 30th 2019_Dr. Li is awarded the Minta Martin Fund for FY20!
May 14-16th 2019_Dr. Li joins the AEESP Research and Education Conference and presents his work about nitrogen removal by using anammox process at ASU, Temple, Arizona!
Apr 26th 2019_An amazing Environmental Engineering Seminar titled "Analysis of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Environmental Samples" presented at CEE by Doug Stevens from Waters!
Apr 24th 2019_Dr. Li visits the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in DC Water, and talked with Dr. Haydee De Clippeleir! Blue Plains is the largest advanced wastewater treatment facility in the world!
Apr 23rd 2019_Dr. Li joins the STEM Volunteer Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)!
Apr 4th 2019_Dr. Li gives a lecture about microbiology in N-cycle in Dr. Birthe Kjellerup's class (BioE 120)!
Apr 3rd 2019_Dr. Li joins the discussion about PFAS in Nation Water Fly-In in DC!
Mar 18th 2019_Dr. Li returns Tucson and University of Arizona!
Mar 13th 2019_Dr. Li visits National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST)!
Feb 15th 2019_Dr. Li visits SHIMADZU Scientific Instruments at Columbia!
Feb 7th 2019_Dr. Li visits Dr. Zhiwu(Drew) Wang's research team and gave a talk about Anammox in Occoquan Laboratory at VirginiaTech!
Feb 6th 2019_Celebrating the Clark School's 125th Anniversary! Cool projects and delicious cupcake!
Jan 29th 2019_First class! Welcome to ENCE310, Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Jan 28th 2019_Spring Semester starts!
Jan 20th 2019_Dr. Guangbin Li arrived at UMD!

Guangbin Li, Ph.D.(CV)

Assistant Professor

Environmental Engineering Laboratories
Department of Civil & Environmentl Engineering
1161 Glenn L. Martin Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Office: 301-405-1262
gli2019@umd.edu

Resources

Our Team

Testudo

UMD Mascot

Stay Fearless!

Xiaojue Chen

PhD student

Happy to make new friends, please feel free to contact me.
Favorite food: spicy! I come from Hunan(China).
Spare time: playing basketball and traveling around different places.
Research interests: water treatment, eco-toxicology, microbial ecology, et al.

Liu Jiang

PhD student

Hobbies: doing sports, reading, dancing, cooking, meditation.
Research interests: wastewater treatment, eco-toxicology, microbial ecology, et al.
Life motto: Where there is a will, there is a way.

Katherine Eckart

Undergraduate

Stay Fearless!

Seth Meisler

Undergraduate

Stay Fearless!

Research

Nutrient Removal and Recovery

Nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) in different forms (inorganic and organic) are two nutrients widely and massively present in wastewater. In 2015, the reported world population and estimated wastewater generation are 7.35 billion and 2.2 x 1012 m3, respectively. The common contributors to N and P in the influent of municipal WWTPs include human waste, food, and certain soaps and detergents, while wastewater from other sources, including animal waste, industry, agriculture, mining, and stormwater, can significantly increase the concentration level/amounts of N and P in either long or short time span. The remaining N and P in WWTPs effluent caused by improper operation or inefficient removal are discharged into waterways, which can result in eutrophication and odor problems, and cause negative impact on human health, environment, and economy. Therefore, efficient removal and recovery technologies including deammonification via anaerobic ammoninum oxidation (Anammox) are the topics we are interested in with the ultimate goal to achieve the sustainable energy-neutral/positive wastewater reclamation facilities (WRFs).

Emerging Organic Contaminants

The presence of emerging organic contaminants (ECs) caused by human activities typically pose either chronic or acute threat to environment, public health and ecosystem. In our lab, we are interested in the detection, toxicity, transport mechanism, and (bio)degradability of these compounds and their daughter products and the results are expected to be used as reference for policy maker to make right decisions, and engineers to design the effective remediation/treatment plans.

Teaching

ENCE310_Introduction to Environmental Engineering: Spring 2019 and Fall 2019;

ENCE688E_Bioremediation: Fall 2020;                                                                                                 

BioE120_Biology for Engineers: Spring 2019(Guest Lecture);

ENCE652_Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering: Fall 2019(Guest Lecture);

ENCE100_Introduction to Civil Engineering: Fall 2019(Guest Lecture) and Spring 2020(Guest Lecture);

Publication

1.        Rodriguez-Freirea L, Gonzalez-Estrellab J, Li G, Chapter 15: Technologies for fractionation of wastewater and resource recovery, Wastewater Treatment Residues as Resources for Biorefinery Products and Biofuels, Elsevier, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-12-816204-0

2.        Li G; Field, J. A.; Zeng, C.; Madeira, C. L.; Nguyen, C. H.; Jog, K. V.; Speed, D.; Sierra-Alvarez, R., Diazole and triazole inhibition of nitrification process in return activated sludge. Chemosphere 2019, 124993.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124993;[IF=4.068]

3.        Lakhey N, Li G, Sierra-Alvarez R, Field JA, Toxicity of azoles towards the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process. J Chem Technol Biotechnol. 2019, doi:10.1002/jctb.6285. [IF=2.744]

4.        Camila L. Madeira, Warren M. Kadoya, Li G, Stanley Wong, Reyes SierraAlvarez, Jim A. Field. Reductive biotransformation as a pretreatment to enhance In Situ chemical oxidation of nitroaromatic and nitroheterocyclic explosives. Chemosphere. 2019: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.01.178 [IF=4.068]

5.        Raju Khatiwada, Leif Abrell,Li G, Robert A Root, Reyes Sierra-Alvarez, James A Field, Jon Chorover. Adsorption and oxidation of 3-nitro-1, 2, 4-triazole-5-one (NTO) and its transformation product (3-amino-1, 2, 4-triazole-5-one, ATO) at ferrihydrite and birnessite surfaces. Environmental Pollution 2018 ;240:200-208.[IF=5.291]

6.        Li G, Carvajal-Arroyo JM, Sierra-Álvarez R, Field JA. Mechanisms and control of nitrite inhibition of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (ANAMMOX). Water Environ. Res., 2017: 4 (89): 330-336.[IF=0.842]

7.        Gonzalez-Estrella Jorge,Li G, Neely Sarah E., Puyol D, Sierra-Alvarez R, Field JA. Elemental copper nanoparticle toxicity to anaerobic ammonium oxidation and the influence of ethylene diamine-tetra acetic acid (EDTA) on the controlling copper toxicity. Chemosphere, 2017: 184: 730-737.[IF=4.068]

8.        Li G, Sierra-Alvarez R, Vilcherrez D, Weiss S, Gill C, Krzmarzick MJ, Abrell L, Field JA. Nitrate reverses severe nitrite inhibition of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) activity in continuously-fed bioreactors. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2016: 50 (19): 10518–10526. [IF=6.396]

9.        Li G, Vilcherrez D, Carvajal-Arroyo JM, Sierra-Alvarez R, Field JA. Exogenous nitrate attenuate nitrite toxicity to anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria. Chemosphere. 2015: 144:2360-2367. [IF=4.068]

10.        Li G, Puyol D, Carvajal-Arroyo JM, Sierra-Alvarez R, Field JA. Inhibition of anaerobic ammonium oxidation by heavy metals. J Chem Technol Biotechnol. 2014: 90(5):830-837. [IF=2.744]

11.        Carvajal-Arroyo JM, Puyol D, Li G, Swartwout A, Sierra-Álvarez R, Field JA. Starved anammox cells are less resistant to NO2 inhibition. Water Res. 2014 ;65(0):170-176. [IF=6.796]

12.        Carvajal-Arroyo JM, Puyol D, Li G, Sierra-Álvarez R, Field JA. The intracellular proton gradient enables anaerobic ammonia oxidizing (anammox) bacteria to tolerate NO2 inhibition. J Biotechnol. 2014;192:265-267. [IF=2.446]

13.        Carvajal-Arroyo JM, Puyol D, Li G, Lucero-Acuña A, Sierra-Álvarez R, Field JA. Pre-exposure to nitrite in the absence of ammonium strongly inhibits anammox. Water Res. 2014 48(0):52-60. [IF=6.796]

14.        Carvajal-Arroyo JM, Puyol D, Li G, Sierra-Alvarez R, Field JA. The role of pH on the resistance of resting- and active anammox bacteria to NO2 inhibition. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2014 111(10):1949-56. [IF=4.393]

15.        Puyol D, Carvajal-Arroyo JM, Li G, Dougless A, Fuentes-Velasco M, Sierra-Alvarez R, et al. High pH (and not free ammonia) is responsible for Anammox inhibition in mildly alkaline solutions with excess of ammonium. Biotechnol Lett. 2014 36(10):1981-1986. [IF=1.809]

16.        Wang A, Liu G, Huang J, Wang L, Li G, Su X, et al. Styrene process condensate treatment with a combination process of UF and NF for reuse. J Hazard Mater. 2013 244–245(0):457-462. [IF=5.641]

Lab

Lab space 1

Lab space 2

Lab space 3

Lab space 4

Agilent 6890 Gas Chromatograph equipped with TCD and FID

Agilent 1260 Infinity II HPLC equipped with DAD

Incubator with refrigeration

Six automated SBR

-80 degree C freezer

Projects

Coming soon...

Positions

For students or scholars who are interested in working in the N.E.S. lab, please contact Dr. Guangbin Li, with CV and a brief statement of your research interests and previous research experience.

For basic information about graduate students application, please check details (here).

Contact

Phone

301-405-1262

Physical Address

University of Maryland
c/o Dr. Guangbin Li
Civil and Environmental Engineering
4298 Campus Drive
1173F Glenn Martin Hall
College Park, MD 20742

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