Jun Zhu
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Professor
Also affiliated: Shanghai University (2023); University of Minnesota (1999–2015); China Meteorological Administration (2019); Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (2006–2025); Tianjin Normal University (2024); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1999); Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (2023–2025); Iowa State University (1996–1998); Beijing Technology and Business University (2022); Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019–2023); Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (2019–2023); Huazhong Agricultural University (2023–2024); University of Minnesota, Waseca (1999–2015); China University of Geosciences (2022–2024); China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (2022–2024); Hefei University (2022); Peking University Cancer Hospital (2023); Neijiang Normal University (2009); Institute of Vegetables and Flowers (2022); Zhejiang Lab (2022); Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University (2025); Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (2023); Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology Research Institute (2020–2021); Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (2019); Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2012–2022); National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology (2025); Oil Crops Research Institute (2012); Jiangsu University of Technology (2008); Infinitus (China) (2013); Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (2023–2024); Institute of Atmospheric Physics (2019); Changzhou University (2018); First Hospital of Lanzhou University (2022); Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology (2016); State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (2019); China Institute for Radiation Protection (2022–2024); Anhui Normal University (2012–2014); Jiangxi University of Science and Technology (2013); Zhejiang University of Technology (2016); North Dakota State University (2012); South China University of Technology (2025); University of Science and Technology Beijing (2012)
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Research Areas
Biomedical Subjects
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Jun Zhu's research program focuses on the biological and agricultural engineering aspects of waste management and resource recovery. His work investigates the anaerobic digestion of animal manures, such as swine and dairy manure, often in combination with crop residues, to produce biogas and methane. This process is explored as a method for both waste treatment and renewable energy generation.
Further research by Zhu involves the cultivation of microalgae, like Chlorella sp., utilizing treated wastewater and digested manure as nutrient sources. This approach aims to achieve simultaneous nutrient removal from waste streams and the production of biomass suitable for biodiesel. His publications also address the microbiology of odor control in swine manure and the biodegradation of waste by organisms such as black soldier fly larvae, highlighting an interest in enhancing metabolic functions for waste breakdown.
With a substantial publication record (337 publications) and significant citation counts (6,166 citations), Zhu is recognized as a highly cited researcher. His scholarly activities include collaborations with colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Yuanhang Zhan and Yiting Xiao. He leads a research group dedicated to these areas of biological and agricultural engineering.
Metrics
- h-index: 36
- Publications: 308
- Citations: 6,166
Positions
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Professor 2013–presentUniversity of Arkansas Biological and Agricultural Engineering ORCID
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Professor 1999–2013University of Minnesota Twin Cities Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering ORCID
Selected Publications
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Enhancing anaerobic co-digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw via integrated microaeration, biochar, and nanoparticle strategies: Kinetic, microbial, and economic insights (2026)
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Enhanced bioenergy production via operational optimization of anaerobic co-digestion of chicken litter and straw waste with magnetite nanoparticles (2026)
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Destruction of concentrated per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances by nonthermal plasma technology (2025)
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Integrating electrolytic struvite precipitation with ammonia scrubbing toward complete recovery of nitrogen and phosphorus from anaerobic digestate of poultry litter (2025)
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Conceptual unification of mechanism-guided catalyst design for CO2 conversion to C1 products in thermal and plasma catalysis (2025)
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Investigating iron removal from wastewater and simultaneous iron oxide catalyst synthesis by dielectric barrier discharge (2024)
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Photodegradation of Microplastics through Nanomaterials: Insights into Photocatalysts Modification and Detailed Mechanisms (2024)
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Effect of ferrite doped sludge-based catalysts on methane production in anaerobic digestion of organic solid waste (2024)
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Photodegradation of microplastics through nanomaterials: Insights into photocatalysts modification and detailed mechanisms (2024)
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Enhanced nutrient recovery from anaerobically digested poultry wastewater through struvite precipitation by organic acid pre-treatment and seeding in a bubble column electrolytic reactor (2024)
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Optimization of a Low-Cost Corona Dielectric-Barrier Discharge Plasma Wastewater Treatment System through Central Composite Design/Response Surface Methodology with Mechanistic and Efficiency Analysis (2024)
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Response surface methodology and artificial neural network-genetic algorithm for modeling and optimization of bioenergy production from biochar-improved anaerobic digestion (2023)
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Modeling and optimization of bioenergy production from co-digestion of poultry litter with wheat straw in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor: Response surface methodology and artificial neural network (2023)
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Efficient methane production from anaerobic co-digestion of poultry litter with wheat straw in sequencing batch reactor: Effects of carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, total solids, and hydraulic retention time (2023)
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Nutrient recovery through struvite precipitation from anaerobically digested poultry wastewater in an air-lift electrolytic reactor: Process modeling and cost analysis (2023)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- Recent development of advanced processing technologies for biodiesel production: A critical review
- Start-up of co-digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor by gradually increasing organic loading rate: Methane production and microbial community analysis
- Nutrient recovery through struvite precipitation from anaerobically digested poultry wastewater in an air-lift electrolytic reactor: Process modeling and cost analysis
- Enhanced nutrient recovery from anaerobically digested poultry wastewater through struvite precipitation by organic acid pre-treatment and seeding in a bubble column electrolytic reactor
- Optimization of a novel liquid-phase plasma discharge process for continuous production of biodiesel
Showing 5 of 15 shared publications
- Response surface methodology and artificial neural network-genetic algorithm for modeling and optimization of bioenergy production from biochar-improved anaerobic digestion
- Start-up of co-digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor by gradually increasing organic loading rate: Methane production and microbial community analysis
- Nutrient recovery through struvite precipitation from anaerobically digested poultry wastewater in an air-lift electrolytic reactor: Process modeling and cost analysis
- Enhanced nutrient recovery from anaerobically digested poultry wastewater through struvite precipitation by organic acid pre-treatment and seeding in a bubble column electrolytic reactor
- Efficient methane production from anaerobic co-digestion of poultry litter with wheat straw in sequencing batch reactor: Effects of carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, total solids, and hydraulic retention time
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
- Optimization of Three Operating Parameters for a Two-Step Fed Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) System to Remove Nutrients from Swine Wastewater
- Kinetics, equilibrium, and thermodynamics of ammonium sorption from swine manure by natural chabazite
- Electricity generation and nutrients removal from high-strength liquid manure by air-cathode microbial fuel cells
- In-depth observations of fermentative hydrogen production from liquid swine manure using an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor
- Effects of stabilization and sludge properties in a combined process of anaerobic digestion and thermophilic aerobic digestion
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Photodegradation of Microplastics through Nanomaterials: Insights into Photocatalysts Modification and Detailed Mechanisms
- Start-up of co-digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor by gradually increasing organic loading rate: Methane production and microbial community analysis
- Efficient methane production from anaerobic co-digestion of poultry litter with wheat straw in sequencing batch reactor: Effects of carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, total solids, and hydraulic retention time
- Employing micro-aeration in anaerobic digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw: Batch kinetics and continuous performance
- Photodegradation of microplastics through nanomaterials: Insights into photocatalysts modification and detailed mechanisms
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Effects of waste rusted iron shavings on enhancing anaerobic digestion of food wastes and municipal sludge
- Optimization of Three Operating Parameters for a Two-Step Fed Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) System to Remove Nutrients from Swine Wastewater
- Effect of ferrite doped sludge-based catalysts on methane production in anaerobic digestion of organic solid waste
- Effects of stabilization and sludge properties in a combined process of anaerobic digestion and thermophilic aerobic digestion
- Influence of temperature on the single-stage ATAD process predicted by a thermal equilibrium model
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Optimization of methane production in anaerobic co-digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw at different percentages of total solid and volatile solid using a developed response surface model
- Methane production in an upflow anaerobic biofilm digester from leachates derived from poultry litter at different organic loading rates and hydraulic retention times
- Anaerobic co-digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw affected by solids composition, free ammonia and carbon/nitrogen ratio
- Kinetics of batch anaerobic co-digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw including a novel strategy of estimation of endogenous decay and yield coefficients using numerical integration
- Modeling Kinetics of Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Poultry Litter and Wheat Straw Mixed with Municipal Wastewater in a Continuously Mixed Digester with Biological Solid Recycle Using Batch Experimental Data
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Kinetics, equilibrium, and thermodynamics of ammonium sorption from swine manure by natural chabazite
- Electricity generation and nutrients removal from high-strength liquid manure by air-cathode microbial fuel cells
- Modeling Power Generation and Energy Efficiencies in Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cells Based on Freter Equations
- In-depth observations of fermentative hydrogen production from liquid swine manure using an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor
- Modeling Power Generation and Energy Efficiencies in Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cells Based on Freter Equations
- Recent development of advanced processing technologies for biodiesel production: A critical review
- Nutrient recovery through struvite precipitation from anaerobically digested poultry wastewater in an air-lift electrolytic reactor: Process modeling and cost analysis
- Enhanced nutrient recovery from anaerobically digested poultry wastewater through struvite precipitation by organic acid pre-treatment and seeding in a bubble column electrolytic reactor
- Efficient methane production from anaerobic co-digestion of poultry litter with wheat straw in sequencing batch reactor: Effects of carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, total solids, and hydraulic retention time
- Integrating electrolytic struvite precipitation with ammonia scrubbing toward complete recovery of nitrogen and phosphorus from anaerobic digestate of poultry litter
- Effects of waste rusted iron shavings on enhancing anaerobic digestion of food wastes and municipal sludge
- Effects of stabilization and sludge properties in a combined process of anaerobic digestion and thermophilic aerobic digestion
- Influence of temperature on the single-stage ATAD process predicted by a thermal equilibrium model
- Characteristics of Oxidation-Reduction Potential, VFAs, SCOD, N, and P in an ATAD System Under Different Thermophilic Temperatures
- Struvite precipitation from biogas digestion slurry using a two-chamber electrolysis cell with a magnesium anode
- Study on removal of phosphorus as struvite from synthetic wastewater using a pilot-scale electrodialysis system with magnesium anode
- Mechanisms of releasing magnesium ions from a magnesium anode in an electrolysis reactor with struvite precipitation
- Struvite precipitation from biogas digestion slurry using a two-chamber electrolysis cell with a magnesium anode
- Study on removal of phosphorus as struvite from synthetic wastewater using a pilot-scale electrodialysis system with magnesium anode
- Mechanisms of releasing magnesium ions from a magnesium anode in an electrolysis reactor with struvite precipitation
- Struvite precipitation from biogas digestion slurry using a two-chamber electrolysis cell with a magnesium anode
- Study on removal of phosphorus as struvite from synthetic wastewater using a pilot-scale electrodialysis system with magnesium anode
- Mechanisms of releasing magnesium ions from a magnesium anode in an electrolysis reactor with struvite precipitation
- Recent development of advanced processing technologies for biodiesel production: A critical review
- Optimization of a novel liquid-phase plasma discharge process for continuous production of biodiesel
- Optimization of a liquid-phase plasma discharge process for biodiesel synthesis from pure oleic acid
- Roles of micro-aeration on enhancing volatile fatty acids and lactic acid production from agricultural wastes
- Produce individual medium chain carboxylic acids (MCCA) from swine manure: Performance evaluation and economic analysis
- Effect of Pretreatment on Hydraulic Performance of the Integrated Membrane Process for Concentrating Nutrient in Biogas Digestate from Swine Manure
- Enhanced nutrient recovery from anaerobically digested poultry wastewater through struvite precipitation by organic acid pre-treatment and seeding in a bubble column electrolytic reactor
- Employing micro-aeration in anaerobic digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw: Batch kinetics and continuous performance
- Enhancing anaerobic co-digestion of poultry litter and wheat straw via integrated microaeration, biochar, and nanoparticle strategies: Kinetic, microbial, and economic insights
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