Research Areas
The following are the Research Interest of Academic Staff in the Department:
Prof. Nana Yaw Asiedu
- Attainable Regions-Development and Analysis
- Reactor Engineering
- Modeling, Simulations, and Optimization of Chemical Processes
- Biochemical Engineering
- Applied Thermodynamics
- Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Process Economics
Prof. Lawrence Darkwah
- Environmental Engineering
- Mineral Processing
- Industrial Biotechnology
- Renewable Energy Technologies
- Biodiesel production from vegetable oils
- Cyanide detoxification (cont.)
- Mine water and Environment
- Rheological Studies of Natural products
Mrs. Zsuzsanna Momade (Snr. Lecturer)
- Production of pottery glaze
- Quality of domestic water sources at Kintampo
- Mechanical activation of pozzolanas
- Production of high alumina refractory
- Study of iron ore deposit in Sierra Leone
- Purification of wastewater from the oil industry
Dr. E.G. Ankudey (Snr. Lecturer)
- Biochemical Engineering
- Petrochemistry
- Thermal Energy Storage
- Waste to Energy
Dr. Benjamin Afotey (Snr. Lecturer)
- Pollution control technologies
- Emissions measurements and modeling
- Biofuel and biogas production technologies
- Energy systems and sustainable energy technologies
- Water & wastewater treatment technologies.
Mr. E. K. Baah-Ennumh (Lecturer)
- Process Systems Control
- Environmental Systems design
- Efficient Energy Development and Utilization.
Dr. (Mrs.) Mizpah Ama-Dziedzorm Rockson (Snr Lecturer)
- Environment and Sustainability
- Cleaner Production
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Impact Assessment
- Design of Appropriate Local Capacity for Separate Collection, Handling and Treatment of Solid Wastes
- Polymer Technology and Recycling.
Dr. Daniel Adjah Anang (Lecturer)
- Energy storage systems
- Renewable energy applications
- Food product development
- Waste resource recovery
- Water/wastewater treatment
Dr. Martina Francisca Baidoo (Lecturer)
- Adsorption and Catalysis
- Petrochemistry
- Reaction Engineering and Kinetic Modelling
- Waste Recycling and Volarisation
- Biofuels and biomaterials
- Process Control
Dr. Patrick Boakye (Snr Lecturer)
- Valorization of waste/biomass into useful products (i.e. materials synthesis for environmental remediation and energy applications as well as for enhanced petroleum oil recovery)
- Thermochemical Treatment of materials: Pyrolysis and co-gasification of biomass and other resources into fuels and other chemicals
- Application of biochar as soil amendment and organic crop fertilizer for crop cultivation
- Toxicity of materials on microbes in microbial ecosystems
- Water and wastewater treatment using adsorbents (nanomaterials including biochar and polymeric composites) and membrane technology
- Polymer Synthesis and Applications
- Sustainable/ renewable Energy Technology: Biofuels production
Dr. Augustine Ntiamoah (Lecturer)
- Adsorption and membrane processes for gas separations, water and wastewater treatment.
- Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
- Biofuels and bio-based chemicals production.
Dr. Emmanuela Kwao-Boateng (Lecturer)
- Petrochemistry
- Refining of Crude Oil
- Optimization and Upgrading of Refinery Products
- Separation Processes
Dr. Jude Kwaku Bonsu (Lecturer)
- Process Integration
- process Control
- process Optimization
- Machine Learning
- Sustainable Process Engineering
- Gasification
- Green Technologies
Dr. Godfred Ohemeng-Boahen (Lecturer)
- Environmental Nanotechnology
- Water and Wastewater Treatment
- Hydrogels, Aerogels and Xerogels for environmental and biological applications
- Food Safety and Security
- Thermochemical Treatment of Waste to Energy and other valued-added products
Awarikabey Emmanuel (Lecturer)
- Environmental Sustainability
- Process Development
- Green synthesis
Dr. Eunice Sefakor Dogbe (Lecturer)
- Process systems
- Modelling and Simulation
- Applied Thermodynamics
Ms. Mary Mensah (Assistant Lecturer)
- Modeling, Simulations, and Optimization of Chemical Processes
- Biochemical Engineering
- Applied Thermodynamics