Fan Lü

15.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
347 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Fan Lü is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Fan Lü has authored 347 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Building and Construction, 89 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 83 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Fan Lü's work include Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (79 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (38 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (36 papers). Fan Lü is often cited by papers focused on Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (79 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (38 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (36 papers). Fan Lü collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Fan Lü's co-authors include Pinjing He, Liming Shao, Hua Zhang, Chenghao Luo, Liping Hao, Liyao Chen, Jining Zhang, Zhiguo Yuan, Zhengyu Hu and Wei Peng and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Fan Lü

328 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill: A source of ... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2019 2014 2015 2015 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill: A source of microplastics? -Evidence of microplastics in landfill leachate
    2019 628 citations Pinjing He, Liming Shao et al. Water Research profile →
  2. Application of eco-compatible biochar in anaerobic digestion to relieve acid stress and promote the selective colonization of functional microbes
    2014 480 citations Fan Lü, Liming Shao et al. Water Research profile →
  3. Biochar alleviates combined stress of ammonium and acids by firstly enriching Methanosaeta and then Methanosarcina
    2015 369 citations Fan Lü, Liming Shao et al. Water Research profile →
  4. Dissecting microbial community structure and methane-producing pathways of a full-scale anaerobic reactor digesting activated sludge from wastewater treatment by metagenomic sequencing
    2015 349 citations Fan Lü et al. profile →

Peers

Fan Lü
G. Zeeman Netherlands
Fabrizio Adani Italy
Jonathan W.C. Wong Hong Kong
Sunil Kumar India
Renjie Dong‬ China
Samir Kumar Khanal United States
Eldon R. Rene Netherlands
Panyue Zhang China
Soon Woong Chang South Korea
Xiaohu Dai China
G. Zeeman Netherlands
Fan Lü
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Countries citing papers authored by Fan Lü

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fan Lü

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fan Lü

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fan Lü. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fan Lü based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fan Lü. Fan Lü is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Qiu, Junjie, et al.. (2025). Industrial-scale biorefinery for n-caproate production from food waste. Green Chemistry. 27(17). 4611–4620. 3 indexed citations
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Lü, Fan, et al.. (2024). Wet oxidation technology can significantly reduce both microplastics and nanoplastics. Water Research. 263. 122177–122177. 8 indexed citations
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He, Pinjing, et al.. (2024). Short-chain carboxylate continuous production from food waste with in situ extraction: Novel design to reduce chemical input for pH control and alleviate membrane fouling. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(3). 112554–112554. 1 indexed citations
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Ren, Weiping, Pinjing He, Hua Zhang, & Fan Lü. (2024). Temperature is an underestimated parameter to regulate the start-up of enhanced carbon chain elongation. Renewable Energy. 234. 121221–121221. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Yujing, Hua Zhang, Xiaoxing Zhang, et al.. (2024). Dual roles of odor cleaners and pollutant producers for chemical scrubbing and biological treatment: Evidence in a food waste anaerobic digestion plant. Chemical Engineering Journal. 496. 153898–153898. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hua, et al.. (2024). Convert food waste into easily biodegradable liquid substrate: New insights into wet oxidation as a pretreatment for anaerobic digestion. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(6). 114316–114316. 3 indexed citations
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Peng, Wei, et al.. (2024). Hyperspectral Imaging Technique to Characterize Digestate and Visualize Physical Impurities in Anaerobically Digested Biowaste. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(37). 16488–16496.
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Wang, Yujing, Hua Zhang, Xiangyu Xu, et al.. (2023). Flare exhaust: An underestimated pollution source in municipal solid waste landfills. Chemosphere. 325. 138327–138327. 6 indexed citations
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Lü, Fan, et al.. (2023). Greenhouse gas emissions of municipal solid waste in Shanghai over the past 30 years: Dependent on the dynamic waste characteristics and treatment technologies. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 201. 107321–107321. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Wenwen, Pinjing He, Hua Zhang, et al.. (2023). The low dose of L-lactic acid as loess soil amendment enhances wheat rhizosphere microecosystem. Rhizosphere. 28. 100784–100784. 4 indexed citations
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Lü, Tao, et al.. (2023). Material flow analysis and global warming potential assessment of an industrial insect-based bioconversion plant using housefly larvae. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 139. 483–495. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Chao, Fan Lü, Wei Peng, Pinjing He, & Hua Zhang. (2023). Efficacy of bioaugmentation with nondomesticated mixed microbial consortia under ammonia inhibition in anaerobic digestion. Bioresource Technology. 391(Pt A). 129954–129954. 16 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ziqi, Wenzong Liu, Qun Gao, et al.. (2023). Microplastics extraction from wastewater treatment plants: Two-step digestion pre-treatment and application. Water Research. 230. 119569–119569. 20 indexed citations
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Shao, Liming, Junjie Qiu, Hua Zhang, et al.. (2021). DOM chemodiversity pierced performance of each tandem unit along a full-scale “MBR+NF” process for mature landfill leachate treatment. Water Research. 195. 117000–117000. 53 indexed citations

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