D. Grant Allen

5.0k citations

131 papers · 4.0k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 31

Pollution top 0.5%
Water Science and Technology top 1%
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering top 0.5%
Biomedical Engineering top 5%
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 2%

Co-authors: Steven N. Liss Peter J. Schnurr Baoqiang Liao Ian G. Droppo Gary G. Leppard Madjid Mohseni Honghi Tran Roberta R. Fulthorpe
Topics: Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (30 papers)Odor and Emission Control Technologies (22 papers)Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (16 papers)
Cited by: Process Chemistry and Technology Pollution Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Journals: Environmental Science & Technology Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews The Science of The Total Environment
Partner nations: Canada United States South Africa

In The Last Decade

D. Grant Allen

126 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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Surface properties of sludge and their role in bioflocculation and settleability

2001 598 citations Baoqiang Liao, D. Grant Allen et al. Water Research profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Establishing a quantitative link between crystal violet absorbance and biomass in biofilms 2025 ·MethodsX ·(unknown),Radhakrishnan Mahadevan,D. Grant Allen	0
2	Biosorption of lanthanum by acidophile Euglena mutabilis biofilms and the role of extracellular polymeric substances 2023 ·Algal Research ·(unknown),Vladimiros G. Papangelakis,D. Grant Allen	10
3	Prospective Professors in Training: A Transition Program for Ph.D. Candidates in Engineering 2020 ·Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education) ·(unknown),(unknown),D. Grant Allen,(unknown),(unknown),Bryan Karney	1
4	Evaluating the effect of enzymatic pretreatment on the anaerobic digestibility of pulp and paper biosludge 2018 ·Biotechnology Reports ·Sofia Bonilla,(unknown),Torsten Meyer,Elizabeth A. Edwards,Alexander F. Yakunin,D. Grant Allen	40
5	The tail of two models: Impact of circularity and biomass non-homogeneity on UV disinfection of wastewater flocs 2017 ·Water Research ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),D. Grant Allen,Ramin Farnood	10
6	Benefits of microwave heating method in production of activated carbon 2016 ·The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering ·(unknown),D. Grant Allen,Charles Q. Jia	29
7	The effect of light direction and suspended cell concentrations on algal biofilm growth rates 2014 ·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Peter J. Schnurr,George S. Espie,D. Grant Allen	42
8	Effect of Calcium on Moving‐Bed Biofilm Reactor Biofilms 2011 ·Water Environment Research ·(unknown),D. Grant Allen	19
9	Effect of the length of the superficial plate on bending stiffness, bending strength and strain distribution in stacked 2.0–2.7 veterinary cuttable plate constructs 2011 ·Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology ·Thomas W. G. Gibson,(unknown),(unknown),D. Grant Allen,(unknown),(unknown)	6
10	Composition of activated sludge settling and planktonic bacterial communities treating industrial effluent and their correlation to settling problems 2010 ·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Nalina Nadarajah,D. Grant Allen,Roberta R. Fulthorpe	4
11	Linking performance to microbiology in biofilters treating dimethyl sulphide in the presence and absence of methanol 2009 ·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·(unknown),Yuefeng Zhang,Steven N. Liss,D. Grant Allen	24
12	Roundtable Discussion: Sustainability in the pulp & paper industry 2007 ·Industrial Biotechnology ·D. Grant Allen,Arthur J. Ragauskas,Trevor R. Stuthridge	1
13	High-temperature biotrickling filtration of hydrogen sulphide 2007 ·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·(unknown),Roberta R. Fulthorpe,(unknown),D. Grant Allen	20
14	Interparticle Interactions Affecting the Stability of Sludge Flocs 2002 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Baoqiang Liao,D. Grant Allen,Gary G. Leppard,Ian G. Droppo,Steven N. Liss	143
15	A comparison of organochlorine removal from bleached kraft pulp and paper-mill effluents by dehalogenating Pseudomonas, Ancylobacter and Methylobacterium strains 1995 ·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Roberta R. Fulthorpe,D. Grant Allen	39
16	The effect of particle morphology and concentration on the directly measured yield stress in filamentous suspensions 1995 ·Biotechnology and Bioengineering ·Madjid Mohseni,D. Grant Allen	18
17	Characterization of bacteria isolated from a bleached kraft pulp mill wastewater treatment system 1993 ·Canadian Journal of Microbiology ·Roberta R. Fulthorpe,Steven N. Liss,D. Grant Allen	56
18	Direct measurement of the yield stress of filamentous fermentation broths with the rotating vane technique 1992 ·Biotechnology and Bioengineering ·(unknown),D. Grant Allen	20
19	The Influence of “Slip” on Rheological Measurements on a Mycelial Broth of Aspergillus niger 1987 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·D. Grant Allen,Campbell W. Robinson	7
20	Oxygen transfer to mycelial fermentation broths in an airlift fermentor 1987 ·Biotechnology and Bioengineering ·Murray Moo‐Young,(unknown),D. Grant Allen,Robert Burrell,Y. Kawase	65

About D. Grant Allen

D. Grant Allen is a scholar working on Process Chemistry and Technology, Pollution and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, having authored 131 papers that have together received 4.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (30 papers), Odor and Emission Control Technologies (22 papers) and Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Process Chemistry and Technology (638 citations), Pollution (1.3k citations) and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (769 citations). D. Grant Allen has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include Steven N. Liss, Peter J. Schnurr, Baoqiang Liao, Ian G. Droppo, Gary G. Leppard, Madjid Mohseni, Honghi Tran, Roberta R. Fulthorpe, Fernando Morgan-Sagastume and Dariush Mowla. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

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