Professor Bernadette McCabe
Name | Bernadette McCabe |
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Position | Principal Scientist |
Section | Centre for Agricultural Engineering (Operations) |
Office | P9-104 |
Location | Toowoomba Campus |
Phone | +61 7 4631 1623 |
Extension | 1623 |
Qualifications | BSc(Hons) Sydney , GCertTT&L USQ , PhD Western Sydney |
Fields of Research (FoR)
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Microbiology not elsewhere classified
( 060599)
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Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
( 090499)
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Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
( 090799)
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Agricultural Biotechnology not elsewhere classified
( 100199)
Research interests
Energy and resource recovery of agro-industrial waste; Biogas; Anaerobic digestion processes; Agricultural energy independence; Biomethane potential testing; Waste water analysis; Activity testing and degradability analysis; Greenhouse gas mitigation; Biosolids and digestate management; regional circular economy
Professional memberships
Member of Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts
National Task Leader for the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Bioenergy Program Task 37: Energy from Biogas
Industry affiliations
Member of Bioenergy Australia
Member of AusBiotech
USQ Research affiliations
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Centre for Agricultural Engineering (CAE)
Currently teaching courses/programs
On secondment to NCEA 2014-2022
Teaching 2011-2013
REN3302 Sustainable Resource Use
BIO8412 Biotechnology for Sustainable Systems
BIO1100 Biology Concepts
BIO1104 Introductory Microbiology and Immunology
NSC1500 Biophysical Sciences in Nursing
Teaching experience(Tertiary)
39 Years
Administrative responsibilities
Research Program Team Leader: Energy and Bioresource Recycling
Research most recent
Harris, P.W and McCabe, B.K (2020). Process optimisation of anaerobic digestion treating high strength wastewater in the Australian Red Meat Processing industry. Applied Sciences. DOI: 10.3390/app10217947.
Hill, A., Tait, S., Baillie, C., Virdis, B., McCabe, B., (2020). Microbial electrochemical sensors for volatile fatty acid measurement in high strength wastewaters: A review. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2020.112409
McCabe B.K, Harris P.W, Antille D.L, Schmidt T., Lee S., Hill A. & Baillie C. (2020). Toward profitable and sustainable bioresource management in the Australian red meat processing industry: A critical review and illustrative case study, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2020.1712310
Publications in ePrints
Hill, Andrew and Tait, Stephan and Baillie, Craig and Virdis, Bernardino and McCabe, Bernadette (2020) Microbial electrochemical sensors for volatile fatty acid measurement in high strength wastewaters: A review. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 165:112409. ISSN 0956-5663
McCabe, Bernadette K. and Harris, Peter W. and Antille, Diogenes and Schmidt, Thomas and Lee, Seonmi and Hill, Andrew and Baillie, Craig (2020) Toward profitable and sustainable bioresource management in the Australian red meat processing industry: a critical review and illustrative case study. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 50 (22). pp. 2415-2439. ISSN 1064-3389
Alexander, Samuel and Harris, Peter and McCabe, Bernadette K. (2019) Biogas in the suburbs: an untapped source of clean energy? Journal of Cleaner Production, 215. pp. 1025-1035. ISSN 0959-6526
Janke, Leandro and McCabe, Bernadette Kathleen and Harris, Peter and Hill, Andrew and Lee, Seonmi and Weinrich, Soren and Marchuk, Serhiy and Baillie, Craig (2019) Ensiling fermentation reveals pre-treatment effects for anaerobic digestion of sugarcane biomass: an assessment of ensiling additives on methane potential. Bioresource Technology, 279. pp. 398-403. ISSN 0960-8524
Schmidt, Thomas and Harris, Peter and Lee, Seonmi and McCabe, Bernadette K. (2019) Investigating the impact of seasonal temperature variation on biogas production from covered anaerobic lagoons treating slaughterhouse wastewater using lab scale studies. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 7 (3 - Article 103077)). pp. 1-10.
Approved research supervisor in the area of:
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Microbiology not elsewhere classified
( 060599)
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Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
( 090499)
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Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
( 090799)
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Agricultural Biotechnology not elsewhere classified
( 100199)
Research topics