Name: Liu Xiaoping Title: Lecturer (School-appointed Professor)

E-mail : xpl@jxau.edu.cn

Research direction:

1. Research and development of efficient sludge dewatering technology based on green chemistry

2. Thermal treatment process mechanism of organic solid wastewater and resource recovery

3. Directional regulation of agricultural waste co-composting and product utilization

Personal Profile

Liu Xiaoping, male, PhD in Engineering, Master's Supervisor of Resources and Environment (Environmental Engineering). His main research direction is solid waste treatment and disposal and resource utilization, focusing on green solvent-mediated solid-liquid separation, thermochemical conversion and biological conversion of organic solid waste. He has published more than 30 academic papers on related research results, including 9 papers as the first/co-first author in journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal , Separation and Purification Technology , and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering .

Teaching situation

Undergraduate courses: Special lectures on environmental science and engineering, physical pollution control engineering (experiment)

Graduate courses: Progress in Resources and Environmental Research, Environmental Data Processing and Statistical Analysis, Engineering Ethics

Research

1. Publish a paper

[1] Xiaoping Liu, Yunbo Zhai ^* , Zhixiang Xu, Fashen Liang, Wanying Ren, Yu Xie, Jintong Ma, Liming Qin, Hongkui He ^* . Liu X, Zhai Y, Xu Z, et al. Natural deep eutectic solvents pretreatments for sludge dewaterability improvement and subsequent volatile fatty acids production: Insights of sludge disintegration and metagenomic characterization[J]. Chemical Engineering Journal , 2024 : 152498. (First author, TOP of Area 1, Chinese Academy of Sciences , IF: 13.3 )

[2] Xiaoping Liu, Yunbo Zhai^*, Zhixiang Xu, Yun Zhu, Yin Zhou, Zhexian Wang, Liming Liu, Fashen Liang, Wanying Ren, Yu Xie, Caiting Li, Min Xu. One-pot production of 5-methylfurfural (5-MF) and enhanced dewaterability of waste activated sludge by hydrothermal treatment with natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES): Experimental and Theoretical studies[J]. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 464: 142575.（第一作者，中科院一区TOP，IF: 13.3）

[3] Xiaoping Liu , Yunbo Zhai ^* , Zhixiang Xu, Yun Zhu, Yin Zhou, Zhexian Wang, Liming Liu, Wanying Ren, Yu Xie, Caiting Li, Min Xu ^* . The novel application of type II deep eutectic solvents (DES) for sludge dewatering[J]. Separation and Purification Technology , 2023, 306: 122714. (First author, CAS TOP , IF: 8.1 )

[4] Xiaoping Liu, Yunbo Zhai^*, Zhixiang Xu, Liming Liu, Wanying Ren, Yu Xie, Caiting Li, Yun Zhu, Min Xu^*. Unraveling the impacts of Cu⁺-based treatments on sludge dewaterability: The overlooked role of Cu³⁺[J]. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 457: 141106.（第一作者，中科院一区TOP，IF: 13.3）

[5] Xiaoping Liu, Yunbo Zhai^*, Yun Zhu, Zhixiang Xu, Liming Liu, Wanying Ren, Yu Xie, Caiting Li, Min Xu^*. Simultaneously Enhanced Dewaterability and Biopolymer Release of Sludge by Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents: Performance, Mechanisms, and Insights of Theoretical Calculations[J]. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2022, 10(36): 11926-11938.（第一作者，中科院一区TOP，IF: 7.1）

[6] Xiaoping Liu, Yunbo Zhai^*, Guangli Liu, Xiangmin Liu, Bei Wang, Zhexian Wang, Ya Zhu, Yuwei Fan, Haoran shi, Min Xu^*. Mechanistic insights into enhanced waste activated sludge dewaterability with Cu(II) and Cu(II)/H₂O₂ treatment: Radical and non-radical pathway[J]. Chemosphere, 2022, 288: 132549.（第一作者，中科院二区TOP，IF: 8.1）

[7] Xiaoping Liu ¹ , Ya Zhu ¹ , Yunbo Zhai ^* , Zhixiang Xu. Enhanced phosphorus release from waste activated sludge triggered by ferrate/sulfite oxidation process: the overlooked role of high valent iron. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering , 2023: 111617. ( Co-first author, Chinese Academy of Sciences, IF: 7.4)

[8] Xiaoping Liu ^* , Wanying Ren, Yunbo Zhai ^* , Yu Xie, Fashen Liang, Zhixiang Xu. Enhanced recovery of alginate-like extracellular polymers (ALE) from waste activated sludge using sodium percarbonate: performance and characteristics [J]. Sustainability , 2023, 15(19): 14573. (First author / corresponding author, CAS, IF: 3.3 )

[9] Fashen Liang, Xiaoping Liu, Xin Yu, Liming Liu, Hongkui He, Cheng Huang, Jie Hu, Zhexian Wang, Yin Zhou, Yunbo Zhai^*. Enhancing bioavailable carbon sources and minimizing ammonia emissions in distillery sludge and distiller's grains waste co-composting through deep eutectic solvent addition[J]. Bioresource Technology, 2024: 130491. (第二作者，中科院一区TOP，IF: 9.7)

[10] Luna Zhao, Liming Liu, Xiaoping Liu , Aoqiang Shu, Wei Zou, Zhexian Wang, Yin Zhou, Cheng Huang, Yunbo Zhai ^* , Hongkui He ^* . Efficient phosphorus recovery from waste activated sludge: Pretreatment with natural deep eutectic solvent and recovery as vivianite[J]. Water Research , 2024, 263: 122161. ( Third author, TOP of Area 1, Chinese Academy of Sciences , IF: 11.4)

2. Scientific research projects

[1] Jiangxi Agricultural University High-level Talent Introduction Research Start-up Fund, 2023.12 to present, Principal Investigator.

3. Social part-time job

Member of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences; reviewer for journals such as Environmental Technology & Innovation .