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Abid Hussain
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Research
Latest papers
Conversion of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) bioplastics to short-chain fatty acids by acidogenic fermentation: Effect of inoculum to substrate ratio, PHB pre-treatment and operating temperature.
Enzyme and microbial technology · 2026 · senior author
Carboxylic Acid Production from Organic Waste: Integrating Substrate Composition, Reactor Configuration, Inoculum, and Future Perspectives.
Biotech (Basel (Switzerland)) · 2026 · senior author
High-Rate Bioelectrochemical Anaerobic Digester for Biomethane Production from Food Waste.
Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
Latest funding
- $87,109
Particle size and zeta potential analyzer for physical properties of fluids
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $12,500
Advanced anaerobic biotechnologies for transformation of municipal solid organic waste to (bio)chemicals
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $180,000
Advanced anaerobic biotechnologies for transformation of municipal solid organic waste to (bio)chemicals
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
10 publications.
Conversion of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) bioplastics to short-chain fatty acids by acidogenic fermentation: Effect of inoculum to substrate ratio, PHB pre-treatment and operating temperature.
Mukherjee C, Wang S, Venkiteshwaran K, Raghavan V, Hussain A
Carboxylic Acid Production from Organic Waste: Integrating Substrate Composition, Reactor Configuration, Inoculum, and Future Perspectives.
Thapa A, Fu S, Sebastian J, Basu O, Hosseinian F, Sharma U, Sharma D, Hussain A
High-Rate Bioelectrochemical Anaerobic Digester for Biomethane Production from Food Waste.
Singh V, Hussain A, Örmeci B, Pauzé-Foixet J, Nwanebu E, Li H, Tartakovsky B
Leaching model of an expanding coastal dumpsite considering climate change.
Wang Y, Pi X, Yadav V, Hussain A, Liu Q, Wang Y, Guo Y, Zhang Y, Fei X
Occurrence of antibiotics in wastewater: Potential ecological risk and removal through anaerobic-aerobic systems.
Mishra S, Singh AK, Cheng L, Hussain A, Maiti A
Anaerobic-aerobic treatment of wastewater and leachate: A review of process integration, system design, performance and associated energy revenue.
Mishra S, Singh V, Ormeci B, Hussain A, Cheng L, Venkiteshwaran K
Optimization of biofilm conductance measurement with two-electrode microbial electrochemical cells (MECs).
Wang Y, Gao Y, Hussain A, Lee HS
An integrated leachate bed reactor - anaerobic membrane bioreactor system (LBR-AnMBR) for food waste stabilization and biogas recovery.
Saha S, Hussain A, Lee J, Lee E, Lee HS
Acidogenic fermentation of food waste in a leachate bed reactor (LBR) at high volumetric organic Loading: Effect of granular activated carbon (GAC) and sequential enrichment of inoculum.
Radadiya P, Lee J, Venkateshwaran K, Benn N, Lee HS, Hussain A
Butyrate production and purification by combining dry fermentation of food waste with a microbial fuel cell.
Hussain A, Lee J, Xiong Z, Wang Y, Lee HS
Particle size and zeta potential analyzer for physical properties of fluids
Principal investigators: Hosseinian, Farah
Advanced anaerobic biotechnologies for transformation of municipal solid organic waste to (bio)chemicals
Principal investigators: Hussain, Abid
Advanced anaerobic biotechnologies for transformation of municipal solid organic waste to (bio)chemicals
Principal investigators: Hussain, Abid
Keywords: municipal solid organic waste; food waste; environmental biotechnology; microbial electrochemical technologies; acidogenic fermentation; anaerobic biotechnologies
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
- Boris Tartakovsky and Vijaya Raghavan: 4 shared papers
- Abid Hussain and Banu Ormeci: 1 shared paper
- Abid Hussain and Boris Tartakovsky: 1 shared paper
- Abid Hussain and Onita Basu: 1 shared paper
- Abid Hussain and Vijaya Raghavan: 1 shared paper
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Génie chimique
- Bioresource Engineering
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