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Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering

Chirwa, EMN

PhD MSc BSc Dip Eng - Associate Professor

NRF Rating: C3

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Telephone number: 012 420-5894
Fax number: 012 362-5089
E-mail address: evans.chirwa@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Water utilisation

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Makgato SS, Chirwa EMN: 2010. Performance Evaluation of AOP/Biological Hybrid System for Treatment of Recalcitrant Organic Compounds. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2010 (590169), pp 1-10, Full Text

Chabalala S, Chirwa EMN: 2010. Uranium (VI) reduction and removal by high performing purified anaerobic cultures from mine soil. Chemosphere, 78, pp 52-55, Full Text

Ngwenya N, Chirwa EMN: 2010. Single and binary component sorption of the fission products Sr2+, Cs+ and Co2+ from aqueous solutions onto sulphate reducing bacteria. Minerals Engineering, 23, pp 463-470, Full Text

Chabalala S, Chirwa EMN: 2010. Removal of uranium(VI) under aerobic and anaerobic conditions using an indigenous mine consortium. Minerals Engineering, 23, pp 526-531, Full Text

Ngwenya N, Chirwa EMN: 2010. Biological removal of cationic fission products from nuclear wastewater. Water Science and Technology, 63.1 (2011), pp 124-128.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Chirwa EMN, Smit E: 2010. Simultaneous Cr (VI) Reduction and Phenol Degradation in a Trickle Bed Bioreactor: Shock Loading Response. In IBIC2010: 2nd International Conference on Industrial Biotechnology, Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica (AIDIC), pp 55-60.

Chabalala S, Chirwa EMN: 2010. Biological Uranium (VI) Reduction by Three Facultative Pure Cultures from a Soil Consortium, a Performance Evaluation. In IBIC2010: 2nd International Conference on Industrial Biotechnology, Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica (AIDIC), pp 115-120.

 

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