Peter Scales

A chemical credit framework to predict the removal performance of organic chemicals of concern from water through an ozonation process

Hongjiao Pang, Jianhua Zhang, Mayumi Allinson, Stephen Gray, Peter J Scales

Journal article  |  2023  |  WATER RESEARCH

Ozonation is an effective barrier for removing a wide spectrum of organic Chemicals of Concern (CoC) in a water treatment process...

Physicochemical and rheological properties of commercial almond-based yoghurt alternatives to dairy and soy yoghurts

B Devnani, L Ong, SE Kentish, PJ Scales, SL Gras

Journal article  |  2022  |  Future Foods

Agglomeration Regimes of Particles under a Linear Laminar Flow: A Numerical Study

Yunzhou Qian, Shane P Usher, Peter J Scales, Anthony D Stickland, Alessio Alexiadis

Journal article  |  2022  |  MATHEMATICS

In this work, a combined smoothed particle hydrodynamics and discrete element method (SPH-DEM) model was proposed to model particl..

Ultrasound-Assisted Extracellular Polymeric Substance Removal from the Diatom Navicula sp.: A Route to Functional Polysaccharides and More Efficient Algal Biorefineries

Bhagya S Yatipanthalawa, Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Peter J Scales, Gregory JO Martin

Journal article  |  2022  |  ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING

Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from microalgae have potential as functional polysaccharides for various food and industr..

Passive Sampling of SARS-CoV-2 for Wastewater Surveillance

Christelle Schang, Nicolas D Crosbie, Monica Nolan, Rachael Poon, Miao Wang, Aaron Jex, Nijoy John, Louise Baker, Peter Scales, Jonathan Schmidt, Bruce R Thorley, Kelly Hill, Arash Zamyadi, Chi-Wen Tseng, Rebekah Henry, Peter Kolotelo, Jeroen Langeveld, Remy Schilperoort, Baiqian Shi, Steve Einsiedel, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  Environmental Science and Technology (Washington)

The shedding of pathogens by infected humans enables the use of sewage monitoring to conduct wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). ..

Epidemiological evaluation of sewage surveillance as a tool to detect the presence of COVID-19 cases in a low case load setting

Jim Black, Phyo Aung, Monica Nolan, Emma Roney, Rachael Poon, Daneeta Hennessy, Nicholas D Crosbie, Dan Deere, Aaron R Jex, Nijoy John, Louise Baker, Peter J Scales, Shane P Usher, David T McCarthy, Christelle Schang, Jonathan Schmidt, Steven Myers, Natacha Begue, Christine Kaucner, Bruce Thorley, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

In low prevalence settings the development of sensitive and specific quantitative Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction ..

Strain softening of concentrated cohesive particulate suspensions prior to yield

Tiara E Kusuma, Peter J Scales, Richard Buscall, Daniel R Lester, Anthony D Stickland

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY

We study the viscoelastic solid properties of cohesive particulate suspensions using creep and constant rate tests in a vane-in-la..

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Giri Kattel, Jessica Reeves, Andrew Western, Wenjing Zhang, Wei Jing, Suzanne McGowan, Lan Cuo, Peter Scales, Kim Dowling, Qiang He, Lei Wang, Samantha Capon, Zenghui Pan, Jiansheng Cui, Lulu Zhang, Luo Xiao, Chun Liu, Ke Zhang, Chuanyu Gao, Zaifeng Tian, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  WIREs Water

Lignite addition during anaerobic digestion of ammonium rich swine manure enhances biogas production

Dona Thushari N Wijesinghe, Helen C Suter, Peter J Scales, Deli Chen

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Excess ammonia inhibits methanogenesis during anaerobic digestion. The addition of lignite removes ammonia/ammonium from wastewate..

Interplay between interfacial behaviour, cell structure and shear enables biphasic lipid extraction from whole diatom cells (Navicula sp.)

Bhagya Yatipanthalawa, Wu Li, David RA Hill, Zlatan Trifunovic, Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Peter J Scales, Gregory JO Martin

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

HYPOTHESIS: Bacillariophyceae (i.e., diatoms) are an important class of algae with potential use in the production of proteins and..