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 Biography

Dr William Clarke's research interests are in: Organic solid and liquid waste degradation processes, including anaerobic digestion, vermicomposting and trickle flow processes for refractory organic compounds; and Measurement modeling of multicomponent systems involving biological reactions.

He received his PhD from the University of Queensland in 1993.

His current research projects are in the fields of:

  • 2003-2005, Landfill Based Rapid Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Solid Waste

  • 2002-2004, Fundamental Knowledge Generation of Organic Solid Waste-Microorganism Interactions

  • 2002-2004, Development of a Trickle Filter for Treating Sour Water from Oil Shale Processing Plants

  • 2002-2003, Development of an Invessel Digester for Treating Solid Wastes in Environmental Sensitive Tourist Locations

  • 2001-2003, Dynamics of flow and chemical transport/transformation in a subterranean estuary, funded by The Leverhulme Trust UK (L. Li, D. A. Barry, H. Prommer, A. Binley).

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