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Dr. Tao Zhang, Ph.D.
Associated Professor
Jan 2015 - Present
China Agricultural University
Beijing
China
Dr. Tao Zhang is an Associate Professor at China Agricultural University, China. He received his Ph.D. from Nanjing University at 2011.6. His academic background covers agricultural waste utilization and nutrients recovery. In 2022 to 2024, Dr. Tao Zhang has been consecutively selected for the Stanford University team and the Elsevier as World's Top 2% Scientists. He is funded by more than 10 research projects included National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China and so on. He is awarded the Scientific Chinese - Outstanding Young Scientist Award. He has published more than 110 papers in Chemical Engineering Journal, Water Research, Journal of Hazardous Materials, and so on (total citations = >4,300, H-index = 37, SCOPUS). Amongst, 12 ESI Highly Cited Paper, 4 ESI Hot Paper. He has application for 20 Chinese invention patents.
- Agriculture
- Biochar
- Biomass
- Nitrogen
- Wastewater Treatment
- Phosphorus
- Hydrochar
- Advanced Oxidation Process
- Struvite
- Nutrient Resource Recovery
- Tao Zhang*, Xiaosha Wu, Sabry M. Shaheen, Qi Zhao, Xuejun Liu, Jörg Rinklebe, Hongqiang Ren. Ammonium nitrogen recovery from digestate by hydrothermal pretreatment followed by activated hydrochar sorption. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2020, 379, 122254. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
- Tao Zhang*, Anahita Manafi Khajeh Pasha, S. Mohammad Sajadi, Dheyaa J. Jasim, Navid Nasajpour-Esfahani, Hamid Maleki, Soheil Salahshour, Sh. Baghaei. Optimization of thermophysical properties of nanofluids using a hybrid procedure based on machine learning, multiobjective optimization, and multi-criteria decision-making. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 485, 150059.
- Tao Zhang#,*, Xiaosha Wu#, Sabry M. Shaheen, Hamada Abdelrahman, Esmat F. Ali, Nanthi S. Bolan, Yong Sik Ok, Guoxue Li, Daniel C.W. Tsang, Jörg Rinklebe. Improving the humification and phosphorus flow during swine manure composting: A trial for enhancing the beneficial applications of hazardous biowastes. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2022, 425, 127906. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
- Tao Zhang#,*, Xiaosha Wu#, Sabry M. Shaheen, Jörg Rinklebe, Nanthi S. Bolan, Esmat F. Ali, Guoxue Li, Daniel C.W. Tsang. Effects of microorganism-mediated inoculants on humification processes and phosphorus dynamics during the aerobic composting of swine manure. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2021, 416, 125738. (ESI Hot and Highly Cited Paper)
- Huanhuan Li, Tao Zhang*, Sabry M. Shaheen, Hamada Abdelrahman, Esmat F. Ali, Nanthi S. Bolan, Guoxue Li, Jörg Rinklebe. Microbial inoculants and struvite improved organic matter humification and stabilized phosphorus during swine manure composting: multivariate and multiscale investigations. Bioresource Technology. 2022, 351, 126976.
- Yuanji Shi#, Tao Zhang#,*, Hongqiang Ren, Andrea Kruse, Ruofan Cui. Polyethylene imine modified hydrochar adsorption for chromium (VI) and nickel (II) removal from aqueous solution. Bioresource Technology. 2018, 247, 370-379. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
- Tao Zhang#,*, Xiaosha Wu#, Huanhuan Li, Daniel C.W. Tsang, Guoxue Li, Hongqiang Ren. Struvite pyrolysate cycling technology assisted by thermal hydrolysis pretreatment to recover ammonium nitrogen from composting leachate. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020, 242, 118442. (ESI Hot and Highly Cited Paper)
- Yaxin Deng#, Tao Zhang#,*, James Clark, Tejraj Aminabhavi, Andrea Kruse, Daniel C. W. Tsang, Brajendra K. Sharma, Fusuo Zhang, Hongqiang Ren. Mechanisms and modelling of phosphorus solid–liquid transformation during the hydrothermal processing of swine manure. Green Chemistry. 2020, 22, 5628–5638. (ESI Hot and Highly Cited Paper)
- Tao Zhang#,*, Huanhuan Li#, Ting Yan, Sabry M. Shaheen, Yingqi Niu, Shiyu Xie, Yingyu Zhang, Hamada Abdelrahman, Esmat F. Ali, Nanthi S. Bolan, Jörg Rinklebe. Organic matter stabilization and phosphorus activation during vegetable waste composting: Multivariate and multiscale investigation. Science of the Total Environment, 2023, 891, 164608.
- Xinyue He, Tao Zhang*, Qing Xue, Yalan Zhou, Hailong Wang, Nanthi S. Bolan, Rongfeng Jiang, Daniel C.W. Tsang. Enhanced adsorption of Cu(II) and Zn(II) from aqueous solution by polyethyleneimine modified straw hydrochar. Science of the Total Environment. 2021, 778, 146116. (ESI Hot and Highly Cited Paper)
