Research Projects

🇦🇺 Australian Research Council (ARC)

ARC Industry Fellowship

•  2023–2026: Duan H.  

Project: Feasible quantification of greenhouse gas emitted from wastewater treatment  

Funding: $460K

ARC Discovery Project

•  2026–2029: Ni B., Duan H., Guo W., Ngo H.  

Project: Leveraging Novel Microbial Process for Low-Emission Wastewater Treatment  

Funding: $893K

ARC Linkage Projects

•  2023–2026: Ye L., Duan H., Sharma K., Erler D.  

Project: Reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from urban wastewater systems  

Funding: $1.9M

•  2025–2028: Ni B., Wei W., Duan H.  

Project: Greening Wastewater Treatment Process for Efficient Resource Recovery  

Funding: $650K

🌏 Government and International Agencies

Cooperative Research Centres – Project (CRC-P), Australian Commonwealth Government

•  2021–2024: Hu S., Batstone D., Jensen P., Zheng M., Duan H., Wang Z., Yuan Z.  

Project: Revolutionising sludge management, turning costly waste into a safe product  

Funding: $2.1M

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australia

•  2024–2025: Willetts J., Kohlitz J., Evens B., Camargo-Valero M., Ni B-J., Duan H.  

Project: Emissions Measurement to Improve Sanitation in Indonesia (EMISI)  

🏫 University Grants

UNSW-NICE

•  2025–2026: Duan H., Miller C  

Project: Hybrid-AI Platform for Optimisation of Water Treatment in China and Australia  

Funding: $140K

UQ ECR Award

•  2022–2024: Duan H., Ye L., Hu S.  

Project: Investigating N₂O emissions from advanced aeration systems  

Funding: $100K

UQ EAIT ECR Grant

•  2022–2023: Duan H.  

Project: Exploring resource efficient and high-rate wastewater treatment  

Funding: $22K