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Professor Bernadette McCabe

Professor Bernadette McCabe
Name Bernadette McCabe
Position Principal Scientist
Section Centre for Agricultural Engineering (Operations)
Office P9-104
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1623
Extension 1623
Email
Qualifications BSc(Hons) Sydney , GCertTT&L USQ , PhD Western Sydney

Fields of Research (FoR)

  • Microbiology not elsewhere classified ( 060599 )
  • Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 090499 )
  • Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 090799 )
  • 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

  • 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.

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Approved research supervisor in the area of:

  • Microbiology not elsewhere classified ( 060599 )
  • Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 090499 )
  • Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 090799 )
  • Agricultural Biotechnology not elsewhere classified ( 100199 )


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