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Yang Liu
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Research
Latest papers
Metagenome-resolved evidence that soluble factors in granular activated carbon-amended reactor effluent reprogram propionate metabolism and methanogenic pathways.
Journal of environmental management · 2026 · senior author
Genome-centric analysis reveals the importance of granular activated carbon on quorum sensing and glucose metabolism in anaerobic digestion.
Bioresource technology · 2026 · senior author
Dynamic yet functionally convergent microbial communities enable robust ammonia removal during long-term operation of a granular sludge bioreactor.
Environmental research · 2026 · senior author
Latest funding
- $149,436
Analytical Instrumentation for Micropollutant Analysis
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $35,000
Sustainable, Profitable and Net-zero Controlled Environment Agriculture (SPAN-CEA)
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $1,000,000
Relational Accountability of Mother Earth: Revitalizing and Restoring the Land and Water
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
From the 150 most recent of 158 publications.
Metagenome-resolved evidence that soluble factors in granular activated carbon-amended reactor effluent reprogram propionate metabolism and methanogenic pathways.
Huang Q, Zhang Y, Bais C, Liu Y
Genome-centric analysis reveals the importance of granular activated carbon on quorum sensing and glucose metabolism in anaerobic digestion.
Dang H, Zhang Y, Liu Y
Dynamic yet functionally convergent microbial communities enable robust ammonia removal during long-term operation of a granular sludge bioreactor.
Zhang Y, Zou X, Yao Y, Guo H, Lu Y, Liu Y
Apelin-13 attenuates microglia-mediated neuroinflammation following intracerebral hemorrhage via targeting JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway.
Guo P, Li J, Zhang X, Wang Q, Liu Y, Zhou H, Chen Y, Yong VW, Xue M
Ultra-high efficiency simultaneous nitritation, denitritation and phosphorus removal from digestate centrate using calcium-enhanced aerobic granular sludge.
Kong L, Sun H, Liu Y, Li C, Xia T, Lu Y, Liu Y
Irreversible nitrite-oxidising bacteria inhibition by operational shutdowns for high‑ammonia wastewater treatment: from mechanism insights to pilot‑scale granular sludge reactor verification.
Kong L, Xie M, Sun H, Zou X, Xu J, Lu Y, Liu Y
Advances and challenges of anammox-based PN/A and PD/A coupled processes in treating diverse wastewater qualities: A review.
Guo H, Lu Y, Bulok Y, Huang W, Liu Y
Enhanced biofilm formation and municipal wastewater treatment efficiency using granular activated carbon modified bio-ball carriers in moving bed biofilm reactor.
Yang X, Zhou Y, Zhang L, Benally C, Liu Y
Impact of microbial profile integration on machine learning predictions of methane production: synergies and trade-offs with physicochemical parameters.
Dang H, Yu N, Mou A, Zhang Y, Sun H, Gao M, Zhang L, Yuan Y, Zhang H, Liu Y
Phosphorus Recovery From Wastewater Through Anaerobic Digestion Under Sub-Supersaturation Conditions.
Sun H, Yuan Y, Zhang L, Liu Y
Analytical Instrumentation for Micropollutant Analysis
Principal investigators: Arlos, Maricor
Keywords: colloids; LC-MS/MS; micropollutants; nanoplastics; resource recovery; wastewater; water security
Sustainable, Profitable and Net-zero Controlled Environment Agriculture (SPAN-CEA)
Principal investigators: Wang, Zhanle Z
Keywords: Controlled environment agriculture; Economic viability; Environmental metrics; Food security; Greenhouse gas emission reduction; Plant growth optimization; Renewable energy; Socio-economic research; Sustainable, profitable, net-zero; Water resource and soil health
Relational Accountability of Mother Earth: Revitalizing and Restoring the Land and Water
Principal investigators: Johnson, Paulina
Cost-effective granular sludge-based process for distillery wastewater treatment and reuse
Principal investigators: Liu, Yang Y
Keywords: Aerobic/anoxic granular sludge; Anaerobic digestion under high pH; Anaerobic granular sludge; Distillery wastewater treatment; Energy efficient; Microbial community analysis; Organics removal; Pilot-scale demonstration; Process control strategies; Water reuse
Biofilm Control in Edmonton's Groundwater Diversion System
Principal investigators: Liu, Yang Y
Effective Foaming Control Strategies for Anaerobic Digesters
Principal investigators: Liu, Yang Y
Future Water Services
Principal investigators: Liu, Yang
Keywords: Biological wastewater and waste treatment; Water reuse; Resources recovery; Urban water development; Microbial population dynamics and functional diversity evaluation; Omics analysis; Bioreactors operation and optimization
Monitoring and modelling water quality under ice affected conditions in rivers
Principal investigators: Zhang, Wenming W
Keywords: guideline for canadian rivers; hydrodynamics; ice-affected river water quality; impact of anthropogenic activities; impact of climate change; monitoring and modelling; novel model development; pollutant transport, mixing and fate; river ice processes; river management in cold regions
Cost-effective leachate treatment using aerobic granular sludge technology
Principal investigators: Liu, Yang Y
Keywords: Aerobic granular sludge; Energy efficient; Heavy metal biosorption; Landfill Leachate; Microbial community analysis; Nitritation/Anammox; Nitritation/Denitritation; Nutrient recovery; Organics removal; Pilot-scale
Mechanistic understanding of simultaneous energy and phosphorous recovery in a single anaerobic reactor: Path to resource-recovery based wastewater treatment
Principal investigators: Liu, Yang
Keywords: municipal wastewater treatment; anaerobic digestion; reactor microbiome; energy and phosphorus recovery; process optimisation; decentralized wastewater management; microbial ecology; molecular biology tools; microbial and chemical risks
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Bo Cao and Andrew Greenshaw: 23 shared papers
- Mohamed Gamal El-Din and Yang Liu: 16 shared papers
- Yang Liu and Ravin Narain: 15 shared papers
- Hongbo Zeng and Ravin Narain: 15 shared papers
- Yang Liu and Hongbo Zeng: 10 shared papers
- Hongbo Zeng and Qingye Lu: 7 shared papers
- Yang Liu and Wendy Huang: 5 shared papers
- Tong Yu and Yang Liu: 4 shared papers
- Bo Cao and Yang Liu: 3 shared papers
- Yang Liu and Yaman Boluk: 3 shared papers
- Mohamed Gamal El-Din and Yaman Boluk: 2 shared papers
- Yang Liu and Qingye Lu: 2 shared papers
- Cheryl Barnabe and Yang Liu: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Greenshaw and Yang Liu: 1 shared paper
- Sina Ghaemi and Yang Liu: 1 shared paper
- Sina Ghaemi and Ravin Narain: 1 shared paper
- Mohamed Gamal El-Din and Hongbo Zeng: 1 shared paper
- Yang Liu and Vinay Prasad: 1 shared paper
- Yang Liu and Jinxia Liu: 1 shared paper
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Occupational Therapy
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
- Medicine
- Other
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Mohamed Gamal El-Din
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
16 shared papers, latest 2018
Ravin Narain
Chemical and Materials Engineering
15 shared papers, latest 2025
Hongbo Zeng
Chemical and Materials Engineering
10 shared papers, latest 2025
Wendy Huang
Civil Engineering
5 shared papers, latest 2025
Tong Yu
Civil and Environmental Engineering
4 shared papers, latest 2016
Yaman Boluk
Civil and Environmental Engineering
3 shared papers, latest 2021
Bo Cao
Occupational Therapy
3 shared papers, latest 2021
Qingye Lu
Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Jinxia Liu
Civil Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Vinay Prasad
Chemical and Materials Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Cheryl Barnabe
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Andrew Greenshaw
Occupational Therapy
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Sina Ghaemi
Mechanical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2019
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