Position: Principal Investigator

Address: Environmental Research Institute,
Castle Street, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7JD

Tel: +44 (0)1847 889594

Fax: +44 (0)1847 890014

E-mail: Shuguang.Lu@thurso.uhi.ac.uk

Joined ERI: November 2002

Background:

• Ph.D Yamaguchi University, Japan Civil Engineering

• MSc Tianjin University, China Civil Engineering

• BSc. Tianjin University, China Civil Engineering

Research Interests:

• Adsorption and ion exchange

• Removal of heavy metals from industrial wastewater

• Membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment

• Mathematical model of biological wastewater treatment process

• Anaerobic digestion of organic solid wastes

• Composting of municipal solid wastes

• Biological wastewater treatment

• Ozone technology

  
  

Selected Publications:

S.G. Lu, T. Imai, M. Ukita, M. Sekine and T. Higuchi, Modelling prediction of membrane bioreactor process with the concept of soluble microbial product, Water Science and Technology, Vol.46, No.11-12, pp.63-70, 2002.

S.G. Lu, T. Imai, H.F. Li, M. Ukita, M. Sekine and T. Higuchi, Effect of enforced aeration on in-vessel food waste composting, Environmental Technology, Vol.22, pp.1177-1182, 2001.

S.G. Lu, T. Imai, M. Ukita, M. Sekine, M. Fukagawa and H. Nakanishi, A model for membrane bioreactor process based on the concept of formation and degradation of soluble microbial products, Water Research, Vol.35, No.8, pp.2038-2048, 2001.

S.G. Lu, T. Imai, M. Ukita, M. Sekine, M. Fukagawa and H. Nakanishi, The performance of fermentation wastewater treatment in ultra-filtration membrane bioreactor by continuous and intermittent aeration processes, Water Science and Technology, Vol.42, Nos.3-4, pp.323-329, 2000.

S.G. Lu, T. Imai, M. Ukita, M. Sekine, M. Fukagawa and H. Nakanishi, Fermentation wastewater treatment
in intermittent aeration process using ORP control, Environmental Technology, Vol.21, pp.115-122, 2000.

T. Imai, S.G. Lu, M. Ukita, M. Sekine, T. Higuchi and M. Fukagawa, Study on simultaneous removal of organic matters
and nitrogen with aeration control in highly concentrated activated sludge process using disk type UF membrane, Environmental Conservation Engineering, Vol.29, No.4, pp.299-309, 2000. (in Japanese)

S.G. Lu, T. Imai, M. Ukita, M. Sekine, M. Fukagawa and H. Nakanishi, Fermentation wastewater treatment
in a membrane bioreactor, Environmental Technology, Vol.20, pp.431-436, 1999.

Shuguang Lu, Tsuyoshi Imai, Masao Ukita, Masahiko Sekine, Masayuki Fukagawa and Hiroshi Nakanishi, Organic
matter and nitrogen removal in rotary disk type UF membrane bioreactor for fermentation wastewater treatment,
J. Environ. Syst. and Eng., JSCE, No.629/VII-12, pp.123-133, 1999, August.

Shuguang Lu, Tsuyoshi Imai, Masao Ukita, Masahiko Sekine, Masayuki Fukagawa and Hiroshi Nakanishi, Characterization of highly concentrated activated sludge in fermentation wastewater treatment coupled with UF
membrane, J. Environ. Syst. and Eng., JSCE, No.622/VII-II, pp.95-105, 1999, May.

Tsuyoshi Imai, Shuguang Lu, Masao Ukita, Masahiko Sekine, Hiroshi Nakanishi and Masayuki Fukagawa,
Biological activities of sludge in highly concentrated activated sludge process coupled with rotary disk
type UF membrane, Environmental Engineering Research, Vol.35, pp.319-328, 1998. (in Japanese)

Selected Presentations:

S.G. Lu, T. Imai, M. Ukita, M. Sekine and T. Higuchi, Modelling prediction of membrane bioreactor process with the concept of soluble microbial product, In: Asian Waterqual 2001, Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, September, pp.183-188, 2001.

Y.Y. Liu, T. Imai, S.G. Lu, M. Ukita, M. Sekine, T. Higuchi and M. Fukagawa, Anaerobic and aerobic continuous
digestion of raw garbage by a small-scale process, In: Asian Waterqual 2001, Asia-Pacific
Regional Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, September, pp.525-530, 2001.

S.G. Lu, T. Imai, H.F. Li, M. Ukita, M. Sekine and T. Higuchi, Characteristics of food waste composting
under anaerobic and aerobic operational conditions, In: the 9th World Congress - Anaerobic Digestion
2001, Antwerpen, Belgium, September, Part 2, pp.517-522, 2001.

Shuguang Lu, Tsuyoshi Imai, Dingnian An and Masao Ukita, A pilot-plant study of continuous pre-ozonationmicroflocculation-filtration process for municipal wastewater reuse, In: Proceedings of the
Second International Summer Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, July, pp.365-368, 2000.

S. G. Lu, T. Imai, M. Ukita, M. Sekine, M. Fukagawa and H. Nakanishi, The performance of fermentation
wastewater treatment in ultra-filtration membrane bioreactor by continuous and intermittent aeration processes,
In: the 7th IAWQ Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, October, pp.1095-1100,
1999

T. Imai, S. G. Lu, M. Ukita, M. Sekine, M. Fukagawa and H. Nakanishi, Fermentation wastewater
treatment by intermittent aeration with ORP control in a single UF membrane bioreactor, In: the
7th IAWQ Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, October, pp.1107-1112, 1999.

Masayuki Fukagawa, Tsuyoshi Imai, Shuguang Lu, Masao Ukita, Masahiko Sekine and Hiroshi Nakanishi,
A study of activities of highly concentrated activated sludge in fermentation wastewater treatment,
In: IAWQ 19th Biennial International Conference, poster presentation, Vancouver, Canada, 1998.