Assoc. Prof. Tawan Limpiyakorn, Ph.D.

Assoc. Prof. Tawan Limpiyakorn, Ph.D.

E-mail: Tawan.L@chula.ac.th

Education

Ph.D.          – Environmental Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2004)

M.Eng.        -Water Engineering and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand (2001)

B.Eng.        – Environmental Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (1997)

Risk in the Future

  • Global warming
  • Water scarcity
  • Declining food productivity
  • Environmental damage from energy consumption
  • Environmental quality deterioration

Vulnerability

A spatial and temporal mismatch between supply and demand of water and resources, Lack of  sustainable and resilient infrastructure for future cities

Research

  • Urban and industrial water reuse
  • Resource recovery from wastewater
  • Low energy and energy self-sufficient wastewater treatment
  • Micropollutants in environment

Research Interest

  • Nutrient and water recovery for agricultural production
  • Low energy nitrogen removal process
  • Hormones from aquaculture production
  • Nanoparticles from urban wastewater

Employment History

  • 2008-present         -Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2005-2007   – International Program in Hazardous Substance and Environmental Management, Center of Excellence for Hazardous Substance Management, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 1997-1998  – Banpan Engineering and Holding, Co, Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand

Publication

Jantharadej, K., Limpiyakorn, T., Kongprajug, A., Mongkolsuk, S., Sirikanchana, K., Suwannasilp, B.B. Microbial community compositions and sulfate-reducing bacterial profiles in malodorous urban canal sediments. 2021, Archives of Microbiology 203(5),1981-1993.
Changduang, A., Limpiyakorn, T., Punyapalakul, P., Thayanukul, P. Development of reactive iron-coated natural filter media for treating antibiotic residual in swine wastewater: Mechanisms, intermediates and toxicity. 2021, Journal of Environmental Management 298,.
Kunapongkiti, P., Rongsayamanont, C., Nayramitsattha, P., Limpiyakorn, T. Application of cell immobilization technology to promote nitritation: A review. 2020, Environmental Engineering Research 25(6),807-818.
Jantharadej, K., Mhuantong, W., Limpiyakorn, T., Mongkolsuk, S., Sirikanchana, K., Suwannasilp, B.B. Identification of sulfate-reducing and methanogenic microbial taxa in anaerobic bioreactors from industrial wastewater treatment plants using next-generation sequencing and gene clone library analyses. 2020, Journal of Environmental Science and Health – Part A Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering ,1283-1293.
Kunapongkiti, P., Limpiyakorn, T., Sonthiphand, P., Rongsayamanont, C. Partial nitrification in entrapped-cell-based reactors with two different cell-to-matrix ratios: performance, microenvironment, and microbial community. 2019, Journal of Environmental Science and Health – Part A Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering 54(9),874-883.
Giao, N.T., Limpiyakorn, T., Thuptimdang, P., Ratpukdi, T., Siripattanakul-Ratpukdi, S. Reduction of silver nanoparticle toxicity affecting ammonia oxidation using cell entrapment technique. 2019, Water Science and Technology 79(5),1007-1016.
Rongsayamanont, C., Khan, E., Limpiyakorn, T. Dissolved oxygen/free ammonia (DO/FA) ratio manipulation to gain distinct proportions of nitrogen species in effluent of entrapped-cell-based reactors. 2019, Journal of Environmental Management 251,.
Kunapongkiti, P., Pornkulwat, P., Limpiyakorn, T., Homyok, P., Nayramitsattha, P., Rongsayamanont, C. Persistence of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in entrapped cell-based partial nitrifying reactor treating ammonia-rich wastewater. 2019, Engineering Journal 23(2),1-10.
Srithep, P., Pornkulwat, P., Limpiyakorn, T. Contribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria to ammonia oxidation in two nitrifying reactors. 2018, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 25(9),8676-8687.
Pornkulwat, P., Kurisu, F., Soonglerdsongpha, S., Banjongproo, P., Srithep, P., Limpiyakorn, T. Incorporation of 13 C-HCO 3− by ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria during ammonia oxidation of sludge from a municipal wastewater treatment plant. 2018, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 102(24),10767-10777.
Thuptimdang, P., Limpiyakorn, T., Khan, E. Dependence of toxicity of silver nanoparticles on Pseudomonas putida biofilm structure. 2017, Chemosphere 188,199-207.
Giao, N.T., Limpiyakorn, T., Kunapongkiti, P., Thuptimdang, P., Siripattanakul-Ratpukdi, S. Influence of silver nanoparticles and liberated silver ions on nitrifying sludge: ammonia oxidation inhibitory kinetics and mechanism. 2017, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 24(10),9229-9240.
Tangkitjawisut, W., Limpiyakorn, T., Powtongsook, S., Pornkulwat, P., Suwannasilp, B.B. Differences in nitrite-oxidizing communities and kinetics in a brackish environment after enrichment at low and high nitrite concentrations. 2016, Journal of Environmental Sciences (China) 42,41-49.
Kayee, P., Rongsayamanont, C., Kunapongkiti, P., Limpiyakorn, T. Ammonia half-saturation constants of sludge with different community compositions of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. 2016, Environmental Engineering Research 21(2),140-144.
Kayee, P., Sonthiphand, P., Rongsayamanont, C., Limpiyakorn, T. Retraction Note to: Archaeal amoA Genes Outnumber Bacterial amoA Genes in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants in Bangkok (Microb Ecol, 2011, 62, 776-788, 10.1007/s00248-011-9893-9). 2016, Microbial Ecology 72(1),.