Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology

Dr Lisa Bai

Research Fellow
Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology
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Researcher biography

Lisa Bai is a Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Queensland, where she is the chief investigator of multiple research projects on process development for sustaibale waste and wastewater management. Her main research focus is resource recoverying from waste and wastewater for the production of bioenergy sources and value-added materials such as biodegradable plastics (PHA).

Dr. Bai has a background in Bioengineering and Environmental Engineering. Before joining ACWEB, Lisa worked in an environmental consultancy company in North Queensland (Townsville - Bowen) for four years, focusing on process design and development for the aquaculture water bioremediation using macroalgae technologies and utilising waste streams as feedstocks for the production of biomass for a diverse usage including aquaculture feed, fertiliser, and other bioactive compound.

Featured projects Duration
Wastes to Profits: Advanced Anaerobic Digestion
Meat & Livestock Australia
 2018–2022
Waste-to-Energy: fuelling sustainable wastewater treatment with food waste
Fight Food Waste CRC
 2020–2022

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (11)

Book Chapter

Jensen, Paul D., Astals, Sergi, Bai, Xue, Nieradzik, Ludwika, Wardrop, Peter, Batstone, Damien J. and Clarke, William P. (2022). Established full-scale applications for energy recovery from water: anaerobic digestion. Resource recovery from water. (pp. 99-139) London, United Kingdom: IWA Publishing. doi: 10.2166/9781780409566_0099

Journal Articles

Bai, Xue, Rebosura, Mario and Jensen, Paul D. (2025). Enhanced anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic paunch waste using potassium hydroxide pre-treatment. Bioresource Technology, 425 132323, 132323-425. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2025.132323
Bai, Xue, Grassino, Maria and Jensen, Paul D. (2023). Effect of alkaline pre-treatment on hydrolysis rate and methane production during anaerobic digestion of paunch solid waste. Waste Management, 171, 303-312. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2023.08.027
Duan, Haoran, Gao, Shuhong, Li, Xuan, Ab Hamid, Nur Hafizah, Jiang, Guangming, Zheng, Min, Bai, Xue, Bond, Philip L., Lu, Xuanyu, Chislett, Mariella M., Hu, Shihu, Ye, Liu and Yuan, Zhiguo (2020). Improving wastewater management using free nitrous acid (FNA). Water Research, 171 115382, 115382. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115382
Hammond, Lauren, Bai, Lisa, Sheehan, Madoc and Walker, Craig (2018). Experimental analysis and diffusion modelling of solar drying of macroalgae - Oedogonium sp. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 65, 427-432. doi: 10.3303/CET1865072
Naghdi, Forough Ghasemi, Bai, Xue, Thomas-Hall, Skye R., Sharma, Kalpesh and Schenk, Peer M. (2016). Lipid extraction from wet Chaetoceros muelleri culture and evaluation of remaining defatted biomass. Algal Research, 20, 205-212. doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2016.10.011
Bai, Xue, Lant, Paul A., Jensen, Paul D., Astals, Sergi and Pratt, Steven (2016). Enhanced methane production from algal digestion using free nitrous acid pre-treatment. Renewable Energy, 88, 383-390. doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.11.054
Bai, Xue, Schenk, Peer M., Yuan, Zhiguo, Lant, Paul A. and Pratt, Steven (2015). Enhanced triacylglyceride extraction from microalgae using free nitrous acid pre-treatment. Applied Energy, 154, 183-189. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.04.045
Bai, Xue, Lant, Paul and Pratt, Steven (2015). The contribution of bacteria to algal growth by carbon cycling. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 112 (4), 688-695. doi: 10.1002/bit.25475
Astals, S., Musenze, R. S., Bai, X., Tannock, S., Tait, S., Pratt, S. and Jensen, P. D. (2015). Anaerobic co-digestion of pig manure and algae: impact of intracellular algal products recovery on co-digestion performance. Bioresource Technology, 181, 97-104. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.01.039
Bai, Xue, Naghdi, Forough Ghasemi, Ye, Liu, Lant, Paul and Pratt, Steven (2014). Enhanced lipid extraction from algae using free nitrous acid pretreatment. Bioresource Technology, 159, 36-40. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.01.133
Buchanan, Jessica, Slater, Frances R., Bai, Xue and Pratt, Steven (2013). Algal growth and community structure in a mixed-culture system using coal seam gas water as the water source. Environmental Technology, 34 (6), 695-701. doi: 10.1080/09593330.2012.715676