Current Position

Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences

Education

Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
M.S., Civil Engineering, Wayne State University
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Buenos Aires

Research Interests

Research is on biological processes for energy efficient wastewater treatment. Some types of treatment can actually recover energy from wastewater. Also, develop means to minimize energy demands resulting from fouling on membrane filtration systems.

Key Words

Bioenergy, Biofilms, Energy Efficiency and Consumption, Membrane Filtration, Wastewater

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Li, Mengfei, Karel Matouš, and Robert Nerenberg. "Predicting biofilm deformation with a viscoelastic phase‐field model: Modeling and experimental studies." Biotechnology and Bioengineering 117, no. 11 (2020): 3486-3498.
2. Jiang, Minmin, Junjian Zheng, Patricia Perez-Calleja, Cristian Picioreanu, Hua Lin, Xuehong Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Haixiang Li, and Robert Nerenberg. "New insight into CO2-mediated denitrification process in H2-based membrane biofilm reactor: An experimental and modeling study." Water Research 184 (2020): 116177.
3. Zak, Nicholas, Randal Marks, Patricia Perez-Calleja, Robert Nerenberg, and Kyle Doudrick. "A computational model for the catalytic hydrogel membrane reactor." Water Research 185 (2020): 116199.
4. Kim, B., P. Perez-Calleja, M. Li, and R. Nerenberg. "Effect of predation on the mechanical properties and detachment of MABR biofilms." Water Research 186 (2020): 116289.
5. Zhou, Chen, Aura Ontiveros-Valencia, Robert Nerenberg, Youneng Tang, David Friese, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, and Bruce E. Rittmann. "Hydrogenotrophic microbial reduction of oxyanions with the membrane biofilm reactor." Frontiers in Microbiology 9 (2019): 3268.

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