Oskar Modin
Oskar Modin
Vatten miljö teknik
oskar dot modin at chalmers dot se
+46 31 772 21 38

Oscars research is in the fields of environmental biotechnology, water/wastewater engineering, and membrane technology. Oscar is interested in new technologies to recover resources from waste and wastewater, to reliably and energy-efficiently produce safe drinking water and to clean up contaminated sites. Examples of areas that he is or has experience working on include:


  • Bioelectrochemical systems, which is a new technology where bacteria convert waste organics into an electrical current. Right now I am working on a research project financed by the Swedish Science Council in which we investigate microbial communities that use electrical current to produce useful products.
  • Membrane bioreactors (MBR), which is a wastewater treatment technology that is rapidly gaining in popularity. In an MBR, activated sludge (i.e. microorganisms) treats the wastewater and we use a membrane for liquid/solid separation.
  • Membrane biofilm reactors (MBfR), which is a new technology that can be used for both water and wastewater treatment. A membrane is used to feed a substrate to a biofilm growing on the membrane surface. The biofilm then degrades pollutants in the water to be treated.

Oscar also supervises M.Sc. students and teaches in the courses Environmental Analysis of Water (VTM051), Wastewater Engineering (BOM095), and Hydraulik och VA-teknik (VVB012/LBT345).

Selected publications   

Hai, F.I., Modin, O., Yamamoto, K., Fukushi, K., Nghiem, L.D. (2011). Pesticide removal of a mixed culture of bacteria and white rot fungi. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (in press, doi:10.1016/j.jtice.2011.11.002)

Modin, O., Fukushi, K., Rabaey, K., Rozendal, R.A., Yamamoto, K. (2011). Redistribution of wastewater alkalinity with a microbial fuel cell to support nitrification of reject water. Water Research. 45(8), 2691-2699

Modin, O., Fukushi, K., Rabaey, K., Rozendal, R.A., Yamamoto, K. (2010). Bioelectrochemical hydrogen peroxide production – an opportunity for sustainable mitigation of membrane bioreactor fouling. Proceedings of the Biofilm Reactor Technology Conference, p.449-461, Portland, Oregon, USA, Aug. 15-18, 2010.

Modin, O., Fukushi, K., Nakajima, F., Yamamoto, K. (2010). Nitrate removal and biofilm characteristics in methanotrophic membrane biofilm reactors with various gas supply regimes. Water Research. 44(1), 85-96.

Modin, O., Fukushi, K., Nakajima, F., Yamamoto, K. (2010). Aerobic methane oxidation coupled to denitrification: Kinetics and effect of oxygen supply. Journal of Environmental Engineering-ASCE. 136(2), 211-219.

Modin, O., Fukushi, K., Yamamoto, K. (2008). Simultaneous removal of nitrate and pesticides from groundwater using a methane-fed membrane biofilm reactor (M-MBfR). Water Science and Technology. 58(6), 1273-1279.

Modin, O., Fukushi, K., Nakajima, F., Yamamoto, K. (2008). A membrane biofilm reactor achieves aerobic methane oxidation coupled to denitrification (AME-D) with high efficiency. Water Science and Technology. 58(1), 83-87.

Modin, O., Fukushi, K., Nakajima, F., Yamamoto, K. (2008). Performance of a membrane biofilm reactor for denitrification with methane. Bioresource Technology. 99, 8054-8060.

Modin, O., Fukushi, K., Yamamoto, K. (2007). Denitrification with methane as external carbon source. Water Research. 41(12), 2726-2738.
 
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