Prof. Dr. Ing. Xing Zheng
Email: xing.zheng@zust.edu.cn
Education Background
2006 - 2010 Ph.D.: Environmental Engineering/Process Engineering Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Thematic Focus: Wastewater Reclamation for Reuse using
membrane system and relevant pre-treatment processes Dissertation: Major Organic Foulants in Ultrafiltration of Treated Domestic Wastewater and their Removal by Bio- filtration as Pre-treatment
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Martin Jekel, Dr. Mathias Ernst
1998 – 2001 M.A.: Environmental Engineering
Xi’an University of Technology, China
Thematic Focus: Wastewater Treatment
Thesis: Anaerobic Treatment of Wastewater from Paper Mill Supervisor: Prof. Xiaode Zhou
1991 – 1995 B.A.: Water Supply and Drainage
Thesis: Design of water discharge pipe in a power plant Xi’an University of Technology, China
Advisor: Prof. Zhanbin Li
Work Background
2014 - Professor Department of Environmental Engineering
School of Environment and Natural Resource Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
2015 - 2013 Professor
Department of civil and environmental engineering Xi’an University of Technology
2011 - 2015 Membrane specialist involved in membrane system
design and water treatment projects
Project manager of membrane benchmarking Project leader of coagulation in water treatment
Research Department, Grundfos A/S, Bjerringbro, Denmark
2010 – 2011 Postdoctral fellow
Topic: Wastewater reuse, membrane fouling, isolation and characterization of effluent organic matters, advanced
oxidation using ozone
Superior: Prof. Jean Phillip Croue
Water Desalination and Reuse Center
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
2005 – 2010 Research Assistant
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Joint Chinese – German Project:
Sustainable Water Concept and its Application for the Olympic Games 2008 (Phase I and II)
European Project:
Sustainable Urban Water Management Improves Tomorrow’s City’s Health (SWITCH)
2004 Lecturer
Courses: Environmental Management, engineering English Xi’an University of Technology, China
2002 – 2003 Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Environmental Management in Cities
2001 University of International Business and Economics, German Language, China
1998 – 2001 Teacher training and work as Teaching Assistant Xi’an University of Technology, China
Courses: Engineering English, Environmental Management, Wastewater Treatment
1995 – 1998 Administration Assistant
Xi’an University of Technology, China
Main Research Interests
Environmental Science and Technology, Water Research, Journal of Membrane Science, Bioresource Technology, Separation and Purification Technology, Desalination, Desalination and Water Treatment, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, etc.
Main Research Projects
2021-present Editorial board member of “ Process Safety and Environmental
Protection”
2020-present Team leader of “Water Saving and Reuse Innovation Team” in
Shaanxi Province
2019-2022 Committee Member of the Urban Futures Forum, Australia
2019-2022 Group leader of “Water Quality Control & Interface Process ” at
State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region, China
2016-2019 Academic leader of National Supervision & Inspection Center of
Environmental Protection Equipment Quality, China
Main Published Papers
Heyun Yang, Xiaoliang Li, Menghan Guo, Xin Cao, Xing Zheng*, UV-induced
microplastics (MPs) aging leads to comprehensive toxicity, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 189, 114745, 2023
53.Heyun Yang, Xiaoliang Li, Xin Cao, Sijia Lu, Xing Zheng, The toxicity assessment of 14 biocides for industrial circulating cooling water system by damage/repair
pathway profiling analysis, Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, 100, 104156, 2023
Xiaoliang Li, Heyun Yang, Hao Ma, HeGang Zhi, Dongfei Li, Xing Zheng*, Carbonaceous materials applied for cathode electro-Fenton technology on the emerging contaminants degradation, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 169, 186-198, 2023
Yifan Wang, Xing Zheng*, Dongfei Li, Jiayu Tian, Hua Wu, Yaozhong Zhang, Comparison of membrane fouling induced by protein, polysacchardie and humic acid under sodium and calcium ionic conditions, Desalination, 2023,548, 116236
Xiaolin Li, Xing Zheng*, Heyun Yang, Jiangjiang Pan,Tong Liu, Xin Cao, Yaozhong Zhang, Xiaopeng Qiu, Yi-fan Wang, Yifan Wang, Sijia Lu, Jiayu Tian, Hao Ma,Variation of the Toxicity of Industrial Wastewater during Treatment Processes, accepted, Science of the total Environment, 2023, 858, Part 2, 159856
Yifan Wang, Xing Zheng*, Kang Xiao, Jinkai Xue, Mathias Ulbricht, Yaozhong Zhang ， Does time matter? A comparison of fouling caused by polysaccharide, protein, and humic substances on PVDF membranes over different adsorption durations ，accepted, Science of the total environment, 2022
HeyunYang, XiaoliangLi, XingZheng*, Hegang Zhi, GangTang, YanchunKe, BaoLiu, Hao Ma, Comparing the toxicity of iodinated X-ray contrast media on eukaryote- and prokaryote-based quantified microarray assays, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 240, 113678, 2022
Sijia Lu ，Xiaoliang Li ，Xing Zheng* ，Gang Tang ，Tong Liu ，YanchunKe ，Bao Liu ， Hua Wu ， Electrochemical treatment of waste activated sludge: Volume reduction mechanism and improvement possibilities ， Separation and Purification Technology ，300 ，121617 ，2022
GangTang, Xing Zheng, Shiwen Hu, Binrui Li, Shuling Chen, Tong Liu, Bowei Zhang, ChongxuanLiu, Microbial metabolism changes molecular compositions of riverine dissolved organic matter as regulated by temperature, Environmental Pollution, 306, 119416, 2022
Yifan Wang, Xing Zheng*, Mian Wang, Fangang Meng, Li Li ， Hua Wu, Yaozhong Zhang ， Effect of sodium and potassium on polysaccharide fouling on PVDF and graphene oxide modified PVDF membrane surfaces, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 165, 387-395, 2022
Heyun Yang, Xing Zheng*, Xiaoliang Li, Hegang Zhi, Gang Tang, Yanchun Ke, Bao Liu, Hao Ma, Comparing the toxicity of iodinated X-ray contrast medias on eukaryotes and prokaryotes based quantified microarray assays, Frontier in Environmental Science, 240, 113678, 2022
BaoLiu, XingZheng*, Yanchun Ke, Xin Cao, Qian Sun, Hua Wu, Automated headspace solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of trihalomethane and typical nitrogenous disinfection by-products in water, Journal of Chromatography A, 1673, 463068, 2022
NingYang, Shucheng Yang, Xing Zheng, Inhibition of Maillard reaction during alkaline thermal hydrolysis of sludge, Science of The Total Environment, 814, 152497, 2022
Yuanxin Zhai, Dan Bai, Yifan Wang, Yaozhong Zhang, Yongchao Qi, Xiaopeng Qiu, Yi-fan Wang, Yixuan Wang, Xing Zheng*, Effect of Na+ on Organic Fouling Depends
on Na+ Concentration and the Property of the Foulants, Desalination, major revision,
2022
Tong Liu, Xing Zheng*, Gang Tang, Xinyu Yang, Hegang Zhi, Xiaopeng Qiu, Xiaoliang Li, Zi Wang, Effects of temperature shocks on the formation and characteristics of soluble microbial products in an aerobic activated sludge system, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 158, 231-241,2022
Gang Tang, Xiaolin Li, Zi Wang, Kai Wang, BinruiLi, Chongxuan Liu, Xing Zheng*, Dynamic relationship between dissolved organic matter and soluble microbial products during wastewater treatment, Journal of Cleaner Production, 317, 128448,
2021
Heyun Yang, Xing Zheng*, Dou Zhang, Gang Tang, Xiaoliang Li, Hua Wu, Wei Yan, Hegang Zhi, Comparison of the effect of PANI/TiO2, Dow resins and activated carbon in removing model dissolved organic matter (DOM) and phosphorus, Journal of Water Process Engineering, 43, 102302, 2021
Gang Tang, Binrui Li, Bowei Zhang, Chen Wang, Guangci Zeng, XingZheng, Chongxuan Liu, Dynamics of dissolved organic matter and dissolved organic nitrogen during anaerobic/anoxic/oxic treatment processes, Bioresource Technology, Bioresource Technology,331, 125026, 2021
XiaofangYang, Danyi Li, Zhong Yu, Yabing Meng, XingZheng, Shanshan Zhao, Fangang Meng, Biochemical characteristics and membrane fouling behaviors of soluble microbial products during the lifecycle of Escherichia coli, Water Research
192, 116835,2021
Xing Zheng*, Muhammad Tariq Khan, XinCao, Jean-Philippe Croue, Importance of origin and characteristics of biopolymers in reversible and irreversible fouling of ultrafiltration membranes, Science of The Total Environment, 784, 147157, 2021
Yaozhong Zhang, Tao Wang, Junjie Men, JiangLei, XingZheng, Yifan Wang, Jie Zhang, XinCao, Xiaoliang Li, Xiaopeng Qiu, JinkaiXue, A novel conductive composite membrane with polypyrrole (PPy) and stainless-steel mesh: Fabrication, performance, and anti-fouling mechanism, Journal of Membrane Science, 621, 118937, 2021
Yifan Wang, Xing Zheng*, Zi Wang, Zhaoling Shi, Zan Kong, Min Zhong, Jinkai Xue, Yaozhong Zhang, Effects of – COOH and – NH2 on adsorptive polysaccharide fouling under varying pH conditions: Contributing factors and underlying mechanisms, Journal of Membrane Science, 621, 118933, 2021
Xing Zheng*,Tong Liu, Menghan Guo, Dong Li, Na Gou, Xin Cao, Xiaopeng Qiu, Xiaoliang Li, Yaozhong Zhang, Guoping Sheng, Baozhu Pan, April Z. Gu, Zhanbin Li, Impact of Heavy Metals on the Formation and Properties of Solvable Microbiological Products Released from Activated Sludge in Biological Wastewater Treatment, Water Research, 115895,2020
GangTang, XingZheng*, XiaolinLi, TongLiu, YanWang, YinliangMa, YetongJi, Xiaopeng Qiu, Yi Wan, Baozhu Pan, Variation of effluent organic matter (EfOM)
during anaerobic/anoxic/oxic (A2O) wastewater treatment processes, Water Research, 178, 115830, 2020
Yaozhong Zhang, Yifan Wang, Xin Cao, Jinkai Xue, Qian Zhang, Xiaopeng Qiu, Jiayu Tian, Xiaoliang Li, Baozhu Pan, Xing Zheng* ，Effect of carboxyl and hydroxyl groups on adsorptive polysaccharide fouling: A comparative study based on PVDF and graphene oxide (GO) modified PVDF surfaces, Journal of Membrane Science, 595, 117514, 2020
TongLiu, Zi Wang, Linjie Wu, Menghan Guo, Chanyu Yang, Xin Cao , Xiaopeng Qiu, Zan Kong, Min Zhong, Baozhu Pan, Yanchun Ke, XingZheng*, Acute impact of Hg2+, Cu2+, and Ag+ on the formation of biopolymers and nitrogenous soluble microbiological products in activated sludge for wastewater treatment, Environmental Pollution, 267, 115388, 2020
Xiaoliang Li, Linjie Wu, Xing Zheng*, Treatment of cooling tower blowdown water by using adsorption-electrocatalytic oxidation: Technical performance, toxicity assessment andeconomic evaluation. Separation and Purification Technology, 2020
Guoping Sheng, et al., Xing Zheng, Thermal/alkaline pretreatment of waste activated sludge combined with a microbial fuel cell operated at alkaline pH for efficient energy recovery. Applied Energy, 2020
Xiaoliang Li, Gang Tang, Dou Zhang, Linjie Wu, Sijia Lu, Yaozhong Zhang, Xin Cao, Wen Cheng, Jiangtao Feng, Wei Yan, Baozhu Pan, Li Li, Zhanbin Li, Xing Zheng* ,Fouling control in ultrafiltration of secondary effluent using polyaniline/TiO2 adsorption and subsequent treatment of desorption eluate using electrochemical oxidation, Chemical Engineering Journal, 382, 122915,2020
Xudong Deng, Yifan Wang, et al., Xing Zheng*, Layer-by-layer coating of polyvinylamine and dopamine-modified hyaluronic acid inhibits the growth of bacteria and tumor cell lines on the surface of materials. Applied Surface Science, 2020.
Jie Zhang, PengLi, Jinling Lu, Xing Zheng, Luochang Wu, Haipeng Nan, Supercritical hydrothermal combustion of nitrogen-containing compounds in a tubular reactor，Fuel, 275, 117889, 2020
Wang D.Q., Tang G., Yang Z.J., Li X.X., Chai G.D., Liu T., Cao X., Pan B.Z., Li J.K., Sheng G.P., Zheng X.*, Ren Z.J., Long-term impact of heavy metals on the performance of biological wastewater treatment processes during shock-adaptation- restoration phases, Journal of Hazardous Material, 3735,152-159,2019
Wang, Yifan; Shen, Lin; Gong, Zhanyang; Pan, Jian; Zheng, Xing; Xue, Jinkai , Analytical Methods for Pesticides and Herbicides, Water Environment Research, 91(10) ：1009-1024, 2019
Jie Zhang, Peng Li; Jinling Lu; Fengdan Xin; Xing Zheng; Senlin Chen, Supercritical water oxidation of ammonia with methanol as the auxiliary fuel: Comparing with
isopropyl alcohol, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 147, 160-170, 2019
Xiaofang Yang ，Xing Zheng ，Linjie Wu ，Xin Cao ，Yi Li ，Junfeng Niu ，Fangang Meng , Interactions between algal (AOM) and natural organic matter (NOM): Impacts on their photodegradation in surface waters, Environmental Pollution, 242, Part B, 1185-1197, 2018
Zhong Yu, Zhongbo Zhou, Guocheng Huang, Xing Zheng, Linjie Wu, Shanshan Zhao, and Fangang Meng, Two-Dimensional FTIR Spectroscopic Characterization of Functional Groups of NaOCl-Exposed Alginate: Insights into Membrane Refouling after Online Chemical Cleaning, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.8b00082
Zheng X., Zietzschmann F., Plume S., Paar H., Ernst M., Wang Z., Jekel M., Understanding and Control of Biopolymer Fouling in Ultrafiltration of Different Water Types, Water, 2017, 9(4), 298; IF1.832 doi:10.3390/w9040298
Victor Augusto Yangali-Quintanilla, Allan Hjarbæk Holm, Marc Birkner, Sèbastien D ´Antonio, Helena Wulff Coco Stoltze, Mathias Ulbricht, Xing Zheng*, A fast and reliable approach to benchmark low pressure hollow fibre filtration membranes for water purification, Journal of Membrane Science, 499, 515-525,2016
Martin Schulz, Alexander Soltani, Xing Zheng, Mathias Ernst, Effect of inorganic colloidal water constituents on combined low-pressure membrane fouling with natural organic matter (NOM), Journal of Membrane Science, 507, 154-164, 2016
Zheng, X., Khan, T., Croue, J., Contribution of Effluent Organic Matter (EfOM) to Ultrafiltration (UF) Membrane Fouling: Isolation, Characterization, and Fouling Effect of EfOM fractions, accepted by Water Research ，Vol. 65, 414-424, 2014
Zheng, X., Plume, S., Ernst, M., Croué , J., Jekel, M., In-line coagulation prior to UF of treated domestic wastewater – foulants removal, fouling control and phosphorus removal, Journal of membrane science, 403-404, 129 – 139, 2012
Zheng, X., Ernst, M., Jekel, M., Stabilizing the Performance of Ultrafiltration in Filtering Tertiary Effluent –Technical Choices and Economic Comparison, Journal of Membrane Science, 366 (1-2) 82 – 91,2011
Zheng, X., Ernst, M., Huck, P.M., Jekel, M., Biopolymer Fouling in Dead-end Ultrafiltration of Treated Domestic Wastewater, Water Research, 44 (18), 5212-5221, 2010
Zheng, X., Ernst, M., Jekel, M., Pilot-scale investigation on the removal of organic foulants in secondary effluent by slow sand filtration prior to ultrafiltration, Water Research, 44 (10) 3203-3213, 2010
Zheng, X., Ernst M., Jekel, M., Identification and Quantification of Major Organic Foulants in Treated Domestic Wastewater Affecting Filterability in Dead-end Ultrafiltration, Water Research, 43 (1) 238-244, 2009
Zheng, X., Mehrez, R., Jekel, M., Ernst, M., Effect of slow sand filtration of treated wastewater as pre-treatment to UF, Desalination, 249 (2) 591-595, 2009
Zheng, X., Croué , J., Contribution of different effluent organic matter fractions to membrane fouling in ultrafiltration of treated domestic wastewater, Vol.2 No.4, 204- 209, Water reuse and desalination, 2012
Poorasgari, E.; Larsen, P.; Zheng, X.; Nielsen, P.H.; Keiding, K.; Lykkegaard, C.M., Irreversible fouling of membrane bioreactors due to formation of a non-biofilm gel layer, Water Science and Technology, Vol. 69, No. 8, p. 1641-1647, 2014
Hadj-Romdhane F, Zheng X, Jaouen P, Pruvost J, Grizeau D, Croué JP, Bourseau P., The culture of Chlorella vulgaris in a recycled supernatant: effects on biomass production and medium quality,Vol.132, 285-292, Bioresour Technol. 2013
Zietzschmann, F., Ernst, M., Godehardt, M., Paar, H., Zheng, X., Jekel, M.,Linking UF reversible and irreversible fouling to the water quality of surface water and treated municipal wastewater, Vol.33, 1-11, Water reuse and desalination , 2013
Janota, N., Reillera,P., Zheng, X., Crouéc, J., Benedetti, M., Characterization of humic acid reactivity modifications due to adsorption onto α-Al2O3 , Water research, 46 (3) 731 – 740, 2012
Meng, F., Zhou, Z, Ni, B.J., Zheng, X., Huang, G.Z., Jia, X. S., Li, S. Y., Xiong, Y., Sized –based characterization of soluble microbial products (SMP): Tracking their role and fate in a membrane bioreactor (MBR), 45 (15) 4661 – 4671, Water Research, 2011
Huang G, Meng F, Zheng X, Wang Y, Wang Z, Liu H, Jekel M. Biodegradation behavior of natural organic matter (NOM) in a biological aerated filter (BAF) as a pretreatment for ultrafiltration (UF) of river water, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 90(5) 1795-803, 2011
Sperlich, A., Zheng, X., Ernst, M., Jekel, M., An integrated wastewater reuse concept combining natural reclamation techniques, membrane filtration and metal oxide adsorption, Water Science and Technology, 57 (6) 909-914, 2008
Ernst, M., Sperlich, A., Zheng, X., Gan, Y., Hu, J., Zhao, X., Wang, J., Jekel, M., An integrated wastewater treatment and reuse concept for the Olympic Park 2008,
Beijing, Desalination, 202 (1-3) 293-301, 2007
Selected Patents (Grandted 12):
Dominik Dominiak, Rigge Gissel, Jacob Svendesen, Xing Zheng, Jan Aarestrup, Filter method for filtering a fluid and filter device for filtering a fluid, US2017182439 （A1）
Yaozhong Zhang, Jun Zhou, Xing Zheng, A method covering Cu surface using graphene as protection layer, ZL2017 1 1 352945.X
Tian Wan, Taotao Lv, Wen Cheng, Xing Zheng, et al., A method for sustainable sludge reuse in enhanced biological phosphorus reacor, ZL201810840528.8
