STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Linhua Fan
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering
School / Department:
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Phone:
99253692
Email:
linhua.fan@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Linhua Fan is an Associate Professor in Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Linhua's research interests and consulting expertise cover the following areas:
- Water quality and management
- Drinking water and wastewater treatment
- Wastewater reclamation
- Membrane technology
- Advanced oxidation processes
- Waste minimisation/resource recovery
Linhua teaches the following Chemical and Environmental Engineering courses:
- PROC2086 Environmental and Hazard Analysis (Course coordinator)
- PROC2087 Chemical Engineering Specialisation
- PROC2094 Advanced Chemical Engineering Specialisation 2 (Course coordinator)
- CIVE1252 Advanced Technologies for Wastewater Reclamation (Course coordinator)
His other teaching activities include supervising undergraduate and postgraduate Capstone projects, and Higher Degree by Research projects.
- PhD (RMIT)
- BEng in Chemical Engineering (Sichuan University, China)
- Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching & Learning (RMIT)
Linhua has been a chemical process engineer for 9 years and has over 20 years of experience in conducting R&D projects funded by the water industry. He is currently the member of the following professional organisations:
- International Water Association (IWA)
- International Desalination Association (IDA)
- Engineers Australia (EA)
- Mehrab Mohseni, A.,Fan, L.,Roddick, F.,Li, H.,Gao, Y.,Liu, Z. (2021). (In Press) Cationic starch: an effective flocculant for separating algal biomass from wastewater RO concentrate treated by microalgae In: Journal of Applied Phycology, , 1 - 12
- Pradhan, S.,Fan, L.,Roddick, F.,Shahsavari, E.,Ball, A.,Zhang, X. (2020). A comparative study of biological activated carbon based treatments on two different types of municipal reverse osmosis concentrates In: Chemosphere, 240, 1 - 10
- Moazzem, S.,Ravishankar, H.,Fan, L.,Roddick, F.,Jegatheesan, J. (2020). Application of enhanced membrane bioreactor (eMBR) for the reuse of carwash wastewater In: Journal of Environmental Management, 254, 1 - 9
- Kube, M.,Spedding, B.,Gao, L.,Fan, L.,Roddick, F. (2020). Nutrient removal by alginate-immobilized Chlorella vulgaris: response to different wastewater matrices In: Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology, 95, 1790 - 1799
- Wang, Y.,Khan, S.,Fan, L.,Roddick, F. (2020). Application of a QWASI model to produce validated insights into the fate and transport of six emerging contaminants in a wastewater lagoon system In: Science of the Total Environment, 721, 1 - 10
- Mehrab Mohseni, A.,Kube, M.,Fan, L.,Roddick, F. (2020). Potential of Chlorella vulgaris and Nannochloropsis salina for nutrient and organic matter removal from municipal wastewater reverse osmosis concentrate In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27, 26905 - 26914
- Kube, M.,Mehrab Mohseni, A.,Fan, L.,Roddick, F. (2020). Energy and nutrient recovery by treating wastewater with fluidised-beds of immobilised algae In: Journal of Water Process Engineering, 38, 1 - 9
- Wang, Y.,Fan, L.,Jones, O.,Roddick, F. (2020). (in Press) Quantification of seasonal photo-induced formation of reactive intermediates in a municipal sewage lagoon upon sunlight exposure In: Science of the Total Environment, , 1 - 11
- Ab Aziz, N.,Jayasuriya, N.,Fan, L.,Al-Gheethi, A. (2020). (In Press) A low-cost treatment system for underground water using Moringa oleifera seeds and Musa cavendish peels for remote communities In: Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, , 1 - 17
- Wang, Y.,Fan, L.,Crosbie, N.,Roddick, F. (2020). Photodegradation of emerging contaminants in a sunlit wastewater lagoon, seasonal measurements, environmental impacts and modelling In: Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 6, 3380 - 3390
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
5 PhD Current Supervisions9 PhD Completions and 6 Masters by Research Completions
Drinking water and wastewater treatment. Membrane technology. Water recycling. Waste minimisation/recovery in chemical processes.
- Assessment of the efficacy of ozone disinfection in ultra-filtered water by the WS 108 system. Funded by: Water Source Australia - contract research from (2017 to 2018)
- Protozoan mimics: Cryptosporidium surrogates for validation of granular media filtration. Funded by: Water Research Australia Grant 2014 from (2014 to 2017)
- Reducing and monitoring blue-green algal blooms. Funded by: Smart Water Fund from (2009 to 2010)
- Removing Effluent Colour by Advanced Treatment. Funded by: Smart Water Fund from (2009 to 2011)