Pin Zhao

Visiting Student, 2016-2018

Ph.D. candidate, Shandong University, China

B.S. Shandong University, China, 2012

pinzhao1025@hotmail.com

I am a visiting Ph.D. student in Dr. Qilin Li’s lab, and come from Shandong University, China. I will be here for 18 months sponsored by China Scholarship Council. My research is about the membrane technology in wastewater treatment. As we know, all membrane based applications are faced an inevitable problem — membrane fouling, which would decrease operation efficiency of equipment by reducing flux, increasing membrane resistance and energy consumption. However, the fouling mechanism of ion-exchange membrane has been few studied until now. I mainly focus on two works at Rice University. Both of them are about ion-exchange membrane fouling: 1. Fouling and cleaning mechanisms of ion-exchange membrane fouled by winery wastewater: Especially the effect on the nitrate transport; 2. Membrane fouling of MCDI in treating cooling water.