Dr Frederic Coulon
Lecturer in Bioremediation & Resources Management
Location: Building 56b, Cranfield campus
E: f.coulon@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 754981
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Frederic Coulon is research active in treatment and remediation processes for pollution control across contaminated land, waste, and wastewater sectors. Dr Coulon is the Course Director of the Waste and Resource Management postgraduate programme.
Current research projects are on:
- Anaerobic digestion of biodegradable municipal solid waste
- Fat, Oil and Greases (FOG) degradation and treatments
- Carbon capture and storage risk management
- Contaminated soil bioremediation and risk assessment
- Hazardous waste management framework in the United Arab Emirates
- Impact of Engineered Nanoparticles (ENP) on the operation of wastewater treatment.
Fred is also facilitating the Cranfield’s bespoke training of the UK Government’s Environment Agency inspectors on the management of greenhouse gas emissions from landfill sites
He is a member of the American Chemistry Society and the Society for Brownfield Risk Assessment (SoBRA UK). He is also contributing to the UK Standing Committee of Analysts on Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (SCA-TPH).
Clients
- ACO Building Drainage (UK)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), UK
- Agency of England and Wales (EA)
- QUESTOR
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- London Technology Network (LTN)
- National Grid plc
Background
Dr Coulon has 10 years expertise in environmental chemistry, oil microbial ecology and chemical ecological fate modelling. He has a Master degree in Fundamental and Applied Microbiology from University of Western Brittany (France) and a PhD in Biology and Environmental Chemistry from University of Perpignan (France).
He is leading the organic analyses in the Department of the Sustainable Systems. He has published 50 research papers, books and conference proceedings with substantive contributions to oil remediation and environmental risk management. He is also affiliated to the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) and the Chartered Institution of Waster and Environmental Management (CIWEM).
Two recent and successfully completed projects are the BBSRC/BERR-funded industrial consortium (BIOREM_35 and BB/B512432/1) on optimising biopile processes for weathered hydrocarbons within a risk management framework, and a co-funded Environment Agency, United Utilities research project on micropollutant fate in wastewater (AMP4 DS).
The BBSRC research has developed a combined biological, chemical and ecotoxicological risk assessment and technology verification strategy for biopiling to help building confidence among stakeholders. The water utility project has improved our knowledge of micropollutant fate in sewage treatment systems, contributing to recommendations on revised operating strategies to maximize metals removal. Further to this, he completed a research project on the evaluation of anaerobic digestion process for derived-MBT organic solid wastes (Grantscape No. CU/MBT/REP/8). The project provided insight into the potential use of anaerobic digestion technology for treating organic solid waste and understanding how waste characteristics influenced the biogas production.
Dr Coulon has established international research collaborations with the Universities of Pau, France (Prof. R. Duran) on microbial diversity and structure in polluted environments, Tianjin University, China (Prof. X. Li and Dr H Sui) on bioremediation strategies and risk assessment and University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (Prof C. Trois) on landfill leachate treatments and anaerobic digestion of farm waste.
