Li Bing

2013/08 – 2017/07: Ph.D., Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

2010/09 – 2012/02 : Master, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Dr Bing Li's research and teaching experience spreads across nutrient management and recovery, offshore water management, modelling and optimization. He is a registered engineer under Engineering New Zealand, a PhD co-supervisor at the University of Auckland (currently two under supervision), a winner of the Environmental Technology Progress Award (2/14), and a reviewer for the EU Croatian fund. He has extensive experience in urban resource management and has developed empirical, kinetic and thermodynamic models for struvite purity prediction (a kind of phosphorus recovery technology), making the simultaneous precipitation of multiple solids possible. These efforts make accurate economic feasibility evaluation possible for nutrient recovery in different streams.        

Reviewer for EU Croatian fund and top journals such as Environment International, Water Research and Journal of Cleaner Production

Yin Zi Lin, Cream cheese fermentation time prediction using an artificial neural network, Masters, completed in 2018, advisor

Nur Hamizah Abdul Ghani, Coffee roasting process simulation and modelling, Ph.D, completed in 2019, advisor

Zhi Peng Zhang, Application of membrane technologies for efficiency phosphorus recovery, Ph.D., expected to complete in 2021, co-supervisor

My research focuses on coastal environmental pollution prevention and control, including:

(1) Nutrient transformation and pollution control

(2) Pollutant degradation and resource recovery

(3) Coastal water quality monitoring and pollutant accounting

Soil heavy metal immobilization by using phosphorus recovered from wastewater, PI

Simulation and Optimization of a fermentation unit regarding intelligent manufacturing and cleaner production, key researcher

Biomineralization based phosphorus recovery, key researcher

[1] Li et al.  2019. Phosphorous recovery through struvite crystallization: challenges for future design, Science of the Total Environment, 648, 1244-1256. ( ESI hot paper)

[2] Huang et al. 2019.  Alleviating Na+ effect on phosphate and potassium recovery from synthetic urine by K-struvite crystallization using different magnesium sources, Science of the Total Environment, 655, 211-219. (Corresponding author, ESI hot paper)

[3] Huang et al., 2019. Comparison of different K-struvite crystallization processes for simultaneous potassium and phosphate recovery from source-separated urine, Science of The Total Environment, 651, 787-795. (Corresponding author , ESI hot paper)

[4] Huang et al., 2019.  Influence of process parameters on the heavy metal (Zn2+, Cu2+ and Cr3+) content of struvite obtained from synthetic swine wastewater, Environmental Pollution, 245, 658-665. (Corresponding author , ESI hot paper)

[5] Li et al., 2019. A techno-economic-societal roadmap to overcome barriers for comercialisation of phosphorus recovery, Journal of Cleaner Production, 229, 1342-1354.

[6] Li et al., 2019. Food waste and the embedded phosphorus footprint in China, Journal of Cleaner Production, 252, 119909.

[7] Li et al. 2019.  Assessing the sustainability of Phosphorous use in China: flow patterns from 1980 to 2015, Science of The Total Environment, 704, 135305.

[8] Li et al., 2019. Phosphorous recovery through struvite crystallisation: Recent developments in the understanding of operational factors, Journal of Environment Management, 248, 2019, 109254.

[9] Li et al., 2015. Substance flow analysis of phosphorus within NZ and comparison with other countries. Science of The Total Environment, 527 -528, 483–492.

[10] Munir et al., 2017. Phosphate Recovery from Hydrothermally Treated Sewage Sludge using Struvite Precipitation. Bioresource Technology, 239,171-179.

[11] Munir et al., 2019. Integrating wet oxidation and struvite precipitation for sewage sludge treatment and phosphorus recovery, Journal of Cleaner Production, 232, 1043-1052.

[12] Li et al.,  2019. Removal of phosphate from aqueous solution by dolomite-modified biochar derived from urban dewatered sewage sludge, Science of The Total Environment, 687, 460-469.

[13] Dong et al., 019. Organic Rankine cycle systems design using a case-based reasoning approach. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.9b01150.

[14] Li et al., 2019.  Investigation into lanthanum-coated biochar obtained from urban dewatered sewage sludge for enhanced phosphate adsorption, Science of the Total Environment, 714, 136839.

[15] Tang et al., 2019. Enhanced photocatalytic performance of BiVO4 for degradation of methylene blue under LED visible light irradiation assisted by peroxymonosulfate, International Journal of Electrochemical Science, doi: 10.20964/2020.03.09

[16] Li et al., 2018. Prediction of future phosphate rock: A demand-based model. Journal of Environmental Informatics, 31,1,41-53.

[17] Li et al., 2019. A new thermodynamic approach for struvite product quality prediction, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 26, 4, 3954–3964.

[18] Li et al., 2019. Quantitative Evaluation of Wastewater Feed Quality for Struvite Crystallisation. CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water, DOI: 10.1002/clen.201900018.

[19] Li et al., 2019. Struvite Image Analysis and Its Application for Product Purity Prediction, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering,7,5, 103349.

[20] Li et al., 2019. Development of a Heterogeneity Analysis Framework for Collaborative Sponge City Management, Water,  11, 1995; doi:10.3390/w11101995.

[21] Li et al., 2016. Quantification and mitigation of the negative impact of calcium on struvite purity. Advanced Powder Technology, 27 , 2354-2362.

[22] Li et al., 2015.  Substance flow analysis of phosphorous in China, International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, 6, 9 -13.

[23] Liu, et al., 2019. Performance of Freshly Generated Magnesium Hydroxide (FGMH) for Reactive Dye Removal, Colloid and Interface Science Communications, 28, 34-40. (Corresponding author)

2019,  Environmental Technology Progress Award (2/14), China Association of Environmental Protection Industry, China

2018, Graduate Award, Future Innovation in Process System Engineering, Chalkidi, Greece

2016, Social Innovation Winner, Velocity 100K Challenge, University of Auckland

2016,  First Prize, BIOPRO World Talent Campus, Denmark