EDUCATION
1982.1 B.S. in Water and Wastewater Treatment, Harbin Institute of Civil Engineering & Architecture
1984.11 M.S. in Sanitary Engineering, Harbin Institute of Civil Engineering & Architecture
1994.4 Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, Harbin University of Civil Engineering & Architecture
APPOINTMENTS
2000 - present Assistant President, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT); Dean,  School of Municipal & Environmental Engineering, HIT
1996 - 2000 Assistant President (1996-1999), Vice President (1999-2000), Harbin University of Civil Engineering & Architecture (HUCEA)
1993 - 1996 Vice Director, Dep. of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, HUCEA
2000 - present Professor, School of Municipal & Environmental Engineering, HIT
1995 - 2000 Professor, School of Municipal & Environmental Engineering, HUCEA
1992 - 1995 Associate Professor, Dep. of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, HUCEA
1984 - 1992 Assistant Professor, Dep. of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, HICEA
ACTIVITIES
Nanqi Ren focuses on environmental biotechnology and biological processes of wastewater treatment. His research interests include biohydrogen production technology, physiological ecology and molecular ecology of anaerobic bio-treatment system (especially in two-phase and desulfate), bio-treatment process of high strength and hard-degraded organic industrial wastewater, R&D of novel wastewater treatment technique and equipment, etc. Invented a technology of biohydrogen production from ethanol fermentation, found a novel genus of hydrogen producing bacteria of ethanol fermentation (Ethanoligenens, including nine strains), finished the pilot-scale test (about 7.5m3H2/day) of biohydrogen production, and establishing a full-scale biohydrogen production plant (1200 m3H2/day).
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MAIN HONORS AND AWARD
National Especial Allowance honored by the State Department of China; National Distinguished Youth Fund of China, 2001-2004; Cheung Kong Scholars honored by the Education Ministry; The pilot-scale research results of hydrogen bio-production earns one of ¡°2000¡¯ Ten Grand Science Developing News in China¡± voted by the Academicians of China Science Academy and China Engineering Academy; National Second-place Award of Science & Technology by China, ¡°R & D of bio-treatment technology and its demonstration for high strength organic wastewater¡±, 2004; First-place Award of Science & Technology by Heilongjiang Province, ¡°Principle and technology of Biohydrogen production¡±, 2006; Second-place Award of Science & Technology by Heilongjiang Province, ¡°Novel biological technology for high strength organic industrial wastewater treatment¡±, 2002; Third-place Award of Science & Technology by Construction Ministry, ¡°The technology of high strength terylene wastewater treatment by UASBAF¡±, 1999; Scecond-place Award of Science & Technology by Heilongjiang Province, ¡°Biohydrogen production technology from fermentation¡±, 1995
PUBLICATIONS (15 selected from >200)
| N. Ren, D. Xing, B.E. Rittmann, et al. 2007. Microbial community structure of
ethanol type fermentation in bio-hydrogen production. Environ. Microb. (in press) |
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N.Q. Ren, H. Chua, S.Y. Chan, et al. 2006. Assessing optimal fermentation type for bio-hydrogen production in continuous-flow acidogenic reactors. Bioresource Technology (in press) |
| X. J. Wang, N. Q. Ren, W. S. Xiang, et al. 2007. Influence of gaseous end-products inhibition and nutrient limitations on the growth and hydrogen production by hydrogen-producing fermentative bacterial B49. Intern. J. of Hydrogen Energy (in press) |
| Xing, D., N.Ren, Q. Li, et al. 2006 Ethanoligenens harbinense gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from molasses wastewater. Intern. J. of Systematic & Evolutionary Microb., 56(4): 755-760 |
N. Ren, J. Li, B. Li, et al. 2006. Biohydrogen production from molasses by anaerobic fermentation with a pilot-scale bioreactor system. Intern. J. of Hydrogen Energy, 31: 2147¨C 2157 |
Ren NQ, Zhao YG, Wang AJ, et al. 2006. The effect of decreasing alkalinity on microbia community dynamics in a sulfate-reducing bioreactor as analyzed by PCR-SSCP. Science in China (C), 49(4): 370-378 |
Ren, N.Q., M.L. Gong. 2006. Acclimation strategy of a biohydrogen producing population in a continuous-flow reactor with carbohydrate fermentation. Engineering in Life Sciences, 6(4): 403-409 |
Ren, N, Z Chen, X Wang, et al. 2005. Optimized operational parameters of a pilot scale membrane bioreactor for high-strength organic wastewater treatment. Intern. Biodeterior. & Biodegrad., 56(4): 216-223 |
RRen, NQ, ZBChen, AJWang, et al. 2005. Removal of organic pollutants and analysis of MLSS-COD removal relationship at different HRTs in a submerged membrane bioreactor. Intern. Biodeterior. & Biodegrad., 55 (4): 279-284 JUN |
Gong, M.L., N.Q.Ren, D.F.Xing. 2005. Start-up of bio-hydrogen production reactor seeded with sewage sludge and its microbial community analysis. Water Sci. & Tech., 52 (1-2): 115-121 |
Li, Y.F., N.Q.Ren, C.P. Yang, et al. 2005. Molecular characterization and hydrogen production of a new species of anaerobe. J. Environ. Sci. & Health Part A, 40 (10): 1929-1938 |
Xing, D.F., N.Q.Ren, Q.B.Li. 2005. Monitoring of microbial community structure and succession in the bio- hydrogen production reactor by DGGE. Science in China (C), 48(2): 155-162 |
Ren, N., D. Zhao, X. Chen, et al. 2002. Mechanism and controlling strategy of the production and accumulation of propionic acid for anaerobic wastewater treatment. Science in China(B), 45(3): 319-327 |
Ren, N.Q., B.Z.Wang, J.C.Huang. 1997. Ethanol-type fermentation from carbo- hydrate in high rate acidogenic reactor. Biotech. & Bioeng., 54(5): 428-433 |
Huang JL, Wang L, Ren NQ, et al. 1997. Disinfection effect of chlorine dioxide on bacteria in water. Water Res., 31 (3): 607-613 |
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