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Professor Edison Muzenda

rofessor Edison Muzenda is a
full professor of chemical and Turning waste into
energy engineering and head
of the department of chemical,
He is also a visiting professor in the ENERGY
materials and metallurgical
Pengineering at the Botswana
International University of Science and
Technology.
department of chemical engineering at the
University of Johannesburg in South Africa.
He was previously a full professor of He is a recipient of several awards and including the Institute of Chemical
chemical engineering and research and scholarships for academic excellence. His Engineers (UK), the South African Institute
postgraduate coordinator, as well as head of research interests are in bioenergy of Chemical Engineers, and the
the environmental and process systems engineering, sustainable and social International Society for Development and
engineering and bioenergy research groups engineering, integrated waste management, Sustainability.
at the University of Johannesburg. air pollution and separation processes, His current research activities are
Professor Muzenda was also chair of the as well as phase equilibrium mainly focused on waste-to-energy
Process, Energy Environment Technology measurement and computation. projects, particularly biowaste-to-
Station management committee at the He has contributed to more than energy for vehicular application in
University of Johannesburg. 320 international peer-reviewed and collaboration with the South African
Professor Muzenda holds a BSc (Hons) refereed scientific articles in the National Energy Development
(Zimbabwe) and PhD (Birmingham, UK). He form of journals, Institute and City of Johannesburg,
has more than 18 years’ experience in conferences books and as well as waste-tyre and
academia, which he gained at various book chapters. He has plastics utilisation for fuels
institutions, including the National supervised more than and valuable chemicals in
University of Science and Technology 30 postgraduate collaboration with the
(Zimbabwe), University of Birmingham, students and more Recycling and Economic
University of the Witwatersrand (South than 260 honours Development Initiative
Africa), the University of South Africa, the and BTech research of South Africa.
University of Johannesburg and the students. He serves He is a member of
Botswana International University of as reviewer for a the South African
Science and Technology. number of reputable government’s
Professor Muzenda’s teaching interests and international ministerial advisory
expertise are in unit operations, multistage conferences and council on energy and
separation processes, environmental journals. steering committee of
engineering, chemical engineering He is a member of the City of Johannesburg
thermodynamics, professional engineering several academic and on the University of
skills, research methodology, as well as process scientific Johannesburg Biogas
economics, management and optimisation. organisations, Digester Project.
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