Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Engineering

Dr Li Shu
Phone   +61 3 522 71214
Email   l.shu@deakin.edu.au
Position   Research Academic
Campus   Geelong
Research grouping   Sustainable Industrial and Urban Water Management

Dr. Li Shu's research group is the first to observe salt aggregates and water clusters under Microscope.
The findings are significant since they can lead to solve age old questions and unify discoveries across
scientific fields.

Li Shu teaches subjects related to water and wastewater engineering and has more than 90
publications. she is the founder and co-chairman of a successful international conference
series “Challenges in Environmental Science and Engineering, CESE, since 2008

Research interests

  1. Particle separation, membrane filtration
  2. Water and wastewater treatment and resource recovery
  3. Water clusters, salt aggregates

Career

2011: Research Academic, Deakin University
2007: Research Manager, James Cook University
2005: Project Manager, James Cook University
2004: Project Officer, James Cook University
2002: Experimental Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science

Key publications

V. Jegatheesan, J. L. Liow, L. Shu, S. H. Kim and C. Visvanathan (2009) The need for global coordination in sustainable development Journal of Cleaner Production 17 (7) , 637-643 (IF = 2.727, Citation 28, Ranking A)

T. Jeppesen, L. Shu, G. Keir and V. Jegatheesan (2009) Metal Recovery from Reverse Osmosis Concentrate Journal of Cleaner Production 17 (7), 703-707 (IF = 2.727, Citation 23, Ranking A)

V. Jegatheesan, D. Phong, L. Shu and R. Ben Aim (2009) Performance of ceramic micro- and ultra-filtration membranes in treating raw sugar cane juice Journal of Membrane Science 327 , 69-77. (IF = 3.850, Citation 9, Ranking A*)

L. Shu, P. Schneider, V. Jegatheesan and J. Johnson (2006) An Economic Evaluation of Phosphorus Recovery as Struvite from Digester Supernatant Bioresource Technology 97, 2211-2216 (IF = 4.980, Citation 78, Ranking A)

L. Shu, D. Waite, P. Bilss, A. Fane, and V. Jegatheesan (2005) Nanofiltration for Possible Reuse of Water and Recovery of Salt from Textile Effluent Desalination 172, 235-243 (IF = 2.590, Citation 32, Ranking B)

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Masters students

Student nameThesis title Idowu Joshua ObagbemiInvestigation of RO concentrates recovery using Forward Osmosis device Peng Li, 2012Membrane filtration of sodium chloride: Salt aggregation and membrane performance Ying Huo, 2012The effects of high concentration of sodium chloride on metal corrosion Mohamed Abdelmegeed, 2011pH of salt is not neutral: How much is it?  

 

Teaching areas

SEN740 Water Treatment Processes
SET 401 Sustainable Water Management


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8th February 2013