Young Affiliate Alumnus
Mudhoo Ackmez
Senior Lecturer
Current nationality
Mauritius
Current country of residence
Mauritius
Affiliation / Institution
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mauritius, Reduit 80837, Mauritius
Biodata
Ackmez Mudhoo holds a First Class B.Eng. (Hons.) degree in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, an M.Phil. degree by research Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, all from the University of Mauritius. His research interests span (i) bioremediation of organic residues and pollutants, (ii) green chemistry approaches for enhanced biomass pretreatment, (iii) adsorption, and (iv) mathematical analysis and modeling of related processes. He is a Senior Lecturer in the department and has > 13 years experience in lecturing and research. He also reckons two years’ full-time experience (2006-2008) as ‘Chemical Process Engineer’ in the design, operation and maintenance of a sewage treatment plant. He was the Chairperson of the Local Organising Committee for MAURITIUS 2011 – 1st International Conference on Waste Management in Developing Countries and Transient Economies, 5–8 September 2011, CODWAP Conference under CODWAP Project Framework. He has also been a TWAS Affiliate for the 2013-2017 Tenure, and served as Associate Editor for 'Environmental Chemistry Letters' (Springer). His ORCID ID is http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5712-6673.
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Bioremediation of solid & liquid wastes Bioenergy (biogas & biohydrogen) production, Ultrasound & microwave–assisted biomass processing, Adsorption
AFFILIATED FROM
2013
AFFILIATED UNTIL
2017
Section
05. Engineering & Computer Sciences
TWAS Regional Office
TWAS Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Partner (TWAS-SAREP)
Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
Mauritius
Public contact information
Website, social media accounts or additional info
MY SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Savoo, S. & Mudhoo, A., 2018. Biomethanation macrodynamics of vegetable residues pretreated by low-frequency microwave irradiation. Bioresource Technology, 248A, 280-286. (IF:5.651)
Chukowry, P.K., Mudhoo, A. & Santchurn, S.J., 2017. Bacillus algicola decolourises more than 95% of some textile azo dyes. Environmental Chemistry Letters, 15(3), 531-536. (IF:3.594)
Martinez-Jimenez, F.D., Maciel, M.P., Mudhoo, A., de Alencar Neves, T., Rostagno, M.A. & Forster-Carneiro, T., 2017. Influence of ultrasound irradiation pre-treatment in biohythane generation from the thermophilic anaerobic co-digestion of sugar productio
Sivagurunathan, P., Kumar, G., Mudhoo, A., Rene, E.R., Saratale, G.D., Kobayashi, T., Xu, K., Kim, S.-H. & Kim, D.-H., 2017. Fermentative hydrogen production using lignocellulose biomass: An overview of pre-treatment methods, inhibitor effects and detoxi
Kumar, G., Mudhoo, A., Sivagurunathan, P., Nagarajan, D., Ghimre, A., Lay C.-H., Lin, C.-Y., Lee, D.-J. & Chang, J.-S., 2016. Recent insights into the cell immobilization technology applied for dark fermentative hydrogen production. Bioresource Technolo
Bansal, M., Mudhoo, A., Garg, V.K. & Singh, D., 2014. Preparation and characterization of biosorbents and copper sequestration from simulated wastewater. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 11(5), 1399–1412. (IF:1.915)2
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Last updated on 12/07/2023