Education background

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (Environmental Engineering), March 1994, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan 

M.S. in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (Environmental Engineering), March 1991, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

B.S. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, July 1984, Beijing Institute of Light Industry, Beijing, China

Experience

04/2000- present: Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing China. 

01/1999-08/1999: Visiting scholar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

04/1997-12/2000: Associate professor, Department of ecological Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan.

06/1994-03/1997: Assistant professor, Department of Ecological Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan.

04/1994-05/1994: Guest researcher, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Japan

07/1984-09/1988: Research associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Light Industry, China

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Research Area:

1. Risk assessment and water quality control technologies for wastewater reclamation and reuse (Advanced treatment process and disinfection of wastewater)

2. Biological/ecological technologies for water environmental pollution control and remediation

3. Kinetic and ecological study on biodegradation of refractory/toxic organic chemicals

Research Projects:

1. Principle and technology for risk control of wastewater reclamation and environmental/recreational reuse (No.50825801), National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China, 2009-2011.

2. Development and application of integrated technologies for water environmental quality management in a developed urban area) (No.2008ZX07313-002), Ministry of Environmental Protection of China (National key project for water pollution control). 2008-2010.

3. Technologies for health and ecological risk control of wastewater reclamation and reuse (No.2008AA062502), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (National High-tech R&D Program, 863 Program), 2008-2011.

4. Material refinement and reuse technology for sustainable waste water treatment system, Sony Corporation, Japan, 2007-2010.

5. Study on Wastewater Reuse Technology-Advanced disinfection process for wastewater reuse, Hitachi, Ltd., 2005-2010.

6. Development and application of environmental risk minimization approaches and methodologies for circling society, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan, 2004-2011.

7. Kinetics and mechanism of biodegradation of emerging pollutants, Special fund of State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control(ESPC), 2008-2009.

8. Development and application of integrated technologies for water quality management of Olympic Forest Park (2007BAC22B02), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (National Key Technologies R&D Program), 2007-2009.

9. Development of a sustainable water environmental conservation and material/energy production system and its key technology (No.50721140017), National Science Fund of China (International joint project with Japan Government (JST)), 2006-2009.

10. Risk assessment and removal characteristics of Cryptosporidium in wastewater reclamation processes (No. 20477021), National Science Fund of China, 2005-2007.

11. Ecological risk assessment methods of persistent organic pollutants) (No.2003CB415007), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (National Program on Key Basic Research Projects), 2003-2008.

12. Study on ecological safety assessment on reuse of sewage wastewater (No.20277025), National Science Fund of China, 2003-2005.

Academic Achievement

Published Books:

1. Hong-Ying HU, et al. (Translation). Guidelines for Water Reuse (US EPA’s, EPA/625/R-04/108 ), Chemical Industry Press, 2008. (In Chinese)

2. Hong-Ying HU, et al., Exercise for Principle of Environmental Engineering, Higher Education Press, 2006. (In Chinese)

3. Xiasheng GU, Hong-Ying HU, et al., Biology for Water Treatment, China Architecture & Building Press, 2006. (In Chinese)

4. Hong-Ying HU, et al., Principle of Environmental Engineering, Higher Education Press, 2005. (In Chinese)

Published Articles:

1. Qianyuan Wu, Hong-Ying Hu, Xin Zhao and Yingxue Sun. Effect of chlorination on the estrogenic/anti-estrogenic activities of biologically treated wastewater, Environmental Science and Technology, 2009, 43 (13), 4940-4945.

2. Can Wang, Jinying Xi, Hong-Ying Hu and Yuan Yao. Stimulative effects of ozone on a biofilter treating gaseous chlorobenzene, Environmental Science and Technology, 2009, 43(24), 9407-9412.

3. Yingxue Sun, Qianyuan Wu, Hong-Ying Hu and Jie Tian . Effect of bromide on the formation of disinfection by-products during wastewater chlorination, Water Research, 2009, 43(9), 2391-2398.

4. Meiting Guo, Hong-Ying Hu, James R. Bolton and Mohamed Gamal El-Din. Comparison of low- and medium-pressure ultraviolet lamps: Photoreactivation of Escherichia coli and total coliforms in secondary effluents of municipal wastewater treatment plants, Water Research, 2009, 28(4), 1-7.

5. Meiting Guo, Hong-Ying Hu, Boltonb, James R, El-Dinb and Mohamed Gamal Comparison of low- and medium-pressure ultraviolet lamps: Photoreactivation of Escherichia coli and total coliforms in secondary effluents of municipal wastewater treatment plants, Water Research, 2008, 28(4),1-7. 

6. Li-sha Wang, Hong-Ying Hu and Chao Wang. Effect of ammonia nitrogen and dissolved organic matter fractions on the genotoxicity of wastewater effluent during chlorine disinfection, Environmental Science and Technology, 2007, 41(1), 160-165.

7. Li-sha Wang, Dong-bin Wei, Jie Wei and Hong-Ying Hu (2007) Screening and estimating of toxicity formation with photobacterium bioassay during chlorine disinfection of wastewater, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 141(1), 289-294

8. Jinying Xi, Hong-Ying Hu, Yi Qian. Effect of operating conditions on long-term performance of a biofilter treating gaseous toluene: Biomass accumulation and stable-run time estimation. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2006, 31(2): 165-172.

9. Feng-min Li, Hong-Ying Hu. Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Antialgal Allelochemical from Phragmites communis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2005, 71(11): 6545-6553.

10. Jin-Ying Xi, Hong-Ying Hu, Hong-Bo Zhu, Yi Qian. (2005) Effects of adding inert spheres into the filter bed on the performance of biofilters for gaseous toluene removal. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 23(2): 123-130.