Heyang (Harry) Yuan

Heyang (Harry) Yuan

  • College of Engineering

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Assistant Professor

Office Location

516 Engineering

Phone

215-204-3591

Biography

Dr. Heyang Yuan joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Temple University as an assistant professor in August 2019. Dr. Yuan received a BS degree at Tongji University in China, a MS degree at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering with Dr. Zhen (Jason) He at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining the Temple University, Dr. Yuan worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Yuan leads the BioNex Laboratory at Temple University. His research interests focus on integrating engineering, microbiology and electrochemistry to address the grand challenges at the nexus of water, energy and health.

Labs: The BioNex Laboratory

Research Interests

  • Develop biotechnologies for simultaneous wastewater treatment, desalination, bioenergy production and resource recovery
  • Understanding and modeling microbial communities and functional dynamics in engineered biological systems
  • Fate and removal of emerging biological contaminants such as antibiotic resistance genes in bioreactors
  • Material-microbe interactions

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

CEE 2711

Environmental Chemistry & Microbiology

Undergraduate

CEE 2712

Introduction to Environmental Engineering

Undergraduate

CEE 3711

Environmental Engineering

Undergraduate

CEE 3715

Microbiological Principles of Environmental Engineering

Undergraduate

CEE 4742

Professional Issues II

Undergraduate

ENVT 0845

The Environment

Undergraduate

Selected Publications

  • Cheng, Z., Yao, S., & Yuan, H. (2021). Linking population dynamics to microbial kinetics for hybrid modeling of bioelectrochemical systems. Water Res, 202, p. 117418. England. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117418

  • Zhang, J., Yuan, H., Deng, Y., Abu-Reesh, I.M., He, Z., & Yuan, C. (2019). Life cycle assessment of osmotic microbial fuel cells for simultaneous wastewater treatment and resource recovery. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 24(11), pp. 1962-1975. doi: 10.1007/s11367-019-01626-6

  • Yuan, H., Mei, R., Liao, J., & Liu, W. (2019). Nexus of Stochastic and Deterministic Processes on Microbial Community Assembly in Biological Systems. Front Microbiol, 10, p. 1536. Switzerland. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01536

  • Zhang, J., Yuan, H., Abu-Reesh, I.M., He, Z., & Yuan, C. (2019). Life Cycle Environmental Impact Comparison of Bioelectrochemical Systems for Wastewater Treatment. Procedia CIRP, 80, pp. 382-388. doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2019.01.075

  • Zhang, J., Yuan, H., Deng, Y., Zha, Y., Abu-Reesh, I.M., He, Z., & Yuan, C. (2018). Life cycle assessment of a microbial desalination cell for sustainable wastewater treatment and saline water desalination. Journal of Cleaner Production, 200, pp. 900-910. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.197

  • Liu, H., Zhang, B., Yuan, H., Cheng, Y., Wang, S., & He, Z. (2017). Microbial reduction of vanadium (V) in groundwater: Interactions with coexisting common electron acceptors and analysis of microbial community. Environ Pollut, 231(Pt 2), pp. 1362-1369. England. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.08.111

  • Li, X., Sun, S., Yuan, H., Badgley, B.D., & He, Z. (2017). Mainstream upflow nitritation-anammox system with hybrid anaerobic pretreatment: Long-term performance and microbial community dynamics. Water Res, 125, pp. 298-308. England. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.08.048

  • Yuan, H., Sun, S., Abu-Reesh, I.M., Badgley, B.D., & He, Z. (2017). Unravelling and Reconstructing the Nexus of Salinity, Electricity, and Microbial Ecology for Bioelectrochemical Desalination. Environ Sci Technol, 51(21), pp. 12672-12682. United States. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b03763

  • Yuan, H. & He, Z. (2017). Platinum Group Metal-free Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Microbial Electrolysis Cells. Chem Rec, 17(7), pp. 641-652. United States. doi: 10.1002/tcr.201700007

  • Sevda, S., Abu-Reesh, I.M., Yuan, H., & He, Z. (2017). Bioelectricity generation from treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater with simultaneous seawater desalination in microbial desalination cells. Energy Conversion and Management, 141, pp. 101-107. doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2016.05.050

  • Yuan, H., Miller, J.H., Abu-Reesh, I.M., Pruden, A., & He, Z. (2016). Effects of electron acceptors on removal of antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli, resistance genes and class 1 integrons under anaerobic conditions. Sci Total Environ, 569-570, pp. 1587-1594. Netherlands. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.002

  • Zou, S., Yuan, H., Childress, A., & He, Z. (2016). Energy Consumption by Recirculation: A Missing Parameter When Evaluating Forward Osmosis. Environ Sci Technol, 50(13), pp. 6827-6829. United States. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02849

  • Hou, Y., Yuan, H., Wen, Z., Cui, S., Guo, X., He, Z., & Chen, J. (2016). Nitrogen-doped graphene/CoNi alloy encased within bamboo-like carbon nanotube hybrids as cathode catalysts in microbial fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources, 307, pp. 561-568. doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.01.018

  • Yuan, H., Abu-Reesh, I.M., & He, Z. (2016). Mathematical modeling assisted investigation of forward osmosis as pretreatment for microbial desalination cells to achieve continuous water desalination and wastewater treatment. Journal of Membrane Science, 502, pp. 116-123. doi: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.12.026

  • Yuan, H., Hou, Y., Abu-Reesh, I.M., Chen, J., & He, Z. (2016). Oxygen reduction reaction catalysts used in microbial fuel cells for energy-efficient wastewater treatment: a review. Materials Horizons, 3(5), pp. 382-401. doi: 10.1039/c6mh00093b

  • Yuan, H. & He, Z. (2015). Integrating membrane filtration into bioelectrochemical systems as next generation energy-efficient wastewater treatment technologies for water reclamation: A review. Bioresour Technol, 195, pp. 202-209. England. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.05.058

  • Sevda, S., Yuan, H., He, Z., & Abu-Reesh, I.M. (2015). Microbial desalination cells as a versatile technology: Functions, optimization and prospective. Desalination, 371, pp. 9-17. doi: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.05.021

  • Yuan, H., Hou, Y., Wen, Z., Guo, X., Chen, J., & He, Z. (2015). Porous Carbon Nanosheets Codoped with Nitrogen and Sulfur for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Microbial Fuel Cells. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, 7(33), pp. 18672-18678. United States. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b05144

  • Yuan, H., Abu-Reesh, I.M., & He, Z. (2015). Enhancing desalination and wastewater treatment by coupling microbial desalination cells with forward osmosis. Chemical Engineering Journal, 270, pp. 437-443. doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2015.02.059

  • Yuan, H. & He, Z. (2015). Graphene-modified electrodes for enhancing the performance of microbial fuel cells. Nanoscale, 7(16), pp. 7022-7029. England. doi: 10.1039/c4nr05637j

  • Yuan, H., Lu, Y., Abu-Reesh, I.M., & He, Z. (2015). Bioelectrochemical production of hydrogen in an innovative pressure-retarded osmosis/microbial electrolysis cell system: experiments and modeling. Biotechnol Biofuels, 8, p. 116. England. doi: 10.1186/s13068-015-0305-0

  • Lu, Y., Qin, M., Yuan, H., Abu-Reesh, I.M., & He, Z. (2014). When Bioelectrochemical Systems Meet Forward Osmosis: Accomplishing Wastewater Treatment and Reuse through Synergy. Water, 7(1), pp. 38-50. doi: 10.3390/w7010038

  • Yuan, H., Li, J., Yuan, C., & He, Z. (2014). Facile Synthesis of MoS2@CNT as an Effective Catalyst for Hydrogen Production in Microbial Electrolysis Cells. ChemElectroChem, 1(11), pp. 1828-1833. doi: 10.1002/celc.201402150

  • Yuan, H., Herzog, B., Helmreich, B., Lemmer, H., & Müller, E. (2014). Determination of optimal conditions for 5-methyl-benzotriazole biodegradation with activated sludge communities by dilution of the inoculum. Sci Total Environ, 487, pp. 756-762. Netherlands. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.111

  • Herzog, B., Yuan, H., Lemmer, H., Horn, H., & Müller, E. (2014). Effect of acclimation and nutrient supply on 5-tolyltriazole biodegradation with activated sludge communities. Bioresour Technol, 163, pp. 381-385. England. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.04.097