Associate Professor Linhua Fan
Details
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College: School of Engineering
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Department: School of Engineering
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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linhua.fan@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-8350-2310
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Linhua Fan is an Associate Professor in Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Linhua has been a senior 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)
Supervisor projects
- The Development of Superhydrophobic Electrospun Nanofiber Membranes for Desalination Applications
- 18 Jun 2024
- Bioinspired ion transporters for efficient energy conversion and storage
- 9 Feb 2024
- Novel adsorbents for removing persistent organic contaminants from water and wastewater
- 30 Aug 2023
- Development of Efficient Novel Composites for Decontamination of Heavy Metals from Water and its Validation
- 10 Jan 2023
- Recycling of Valuable Metals From Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Supercritical Technology
- 12 Dec 2022
- Micro-plastics in wastewater: characteristics pathways and control
- 25 Nov 2022
- Membrane Development and Process Optimization for Wastewater Treatment Towards Zero Liquid Discharge and Resource Recovery
- 19 Aug 2022
- Predicting the Photolytic Removal of Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater Treatment Lagoons
- 30 Jun 2022
- Supercritical water treatment for volarisation and recovery of resources
- 6 May 2022
- Fabrication and Application of Stable Bipolar Membranes: Effect of Layer Thickness and Interfacial Layer
- 8 Sep 2021
- Modelling of Forward Osmosis Process for Performance Prediction
- 8 Apr 2021
- Developing Alginate-based Hydrogel Adsorbents for PFAS Removal from Water Systems
- 22 Sep 2020
- Application of Hybrid Membrane Technology to Recover Resources from Concentrates
- 13 Feb 2020
- Oxidative Treatment of Bisphenol A in Municipal Wastewater Reverse Osmosis Concentrate (Roc) by Ferrate(VI)
- 5 Sep 2019
- Use of Microalgae for Treating Municipal Wastewater Reverse Osmosis Concentrate and Resource Recovery
- 1 Mar 2017
- Investigating Biological Filtration for Manganese Control in Lorne Water Supply System
- 8 Aug 2016
- Harnessing Immobilised Algae for High Rate Wastewater Treatment
- 8 Feb 2016
- Application of Biological Activated Carbon to Mitigate Algal Organic Matter Fouling of Ceramic Microfiltration Membranes
- 27 Aug 2015
Teaching interests
Drinking water and wastewater treatment. Membrane technology. Water recycling. Waste minimisation/recovery in chemical processes.
Linhua teaches the following Chemical and Environmental Engineering courses:
- PROC2086 Environmental and Hazard Analysis (Course coordinator)
- PROC2084 Chemical Engineering Experimental Investigation (Teacher)
- 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.
