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Contents

  1. College
  2. School
  3. Department
  4. Research Interests
  5. Awards & Honours
  6. Teaching Areas
  7. Selected Publications (14)
  8. Conferences Attended
  9. Summary of Profile
  10. Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Augustine Omoniyi Ayeni

Senior Lecturer

B.Sc. (Chemical Engineering, O.A.U., Ile-Ife), M.Sc.(Chemical Engineeing, UNILAG), Ph.D.(Chemical Engineering, Covenant, Ota))

College

College of Engineering

School

Departments

Department

Chemical Engineering

Research Interests

separation processes, fuels and chemicals from wastes, bioenergy, wastewater treatment, modelling and optimization, chemical reaction engineering, bioprocess engineering

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WQiFHMwAAAAJ&hl=en

Awards & Honours

1. Task team member International Council for Scientific Union(Region of Africa) Science plan on sustainable energy, Pretoria, South Africa.

2. Chief S.L. Edu PhD memorial grant award 2008 sponsored by Chevron Nigeria Limited in association with Nigerian Conservation Foundation.

3. CSIR-TWAS, Italy fellowship for research and advanced training 2009 tenable at NEERI, Nagpur, India.

4. Prestigious University of the Witwatersrand URC-NRF grantholder linked Postdoctoral fellowship award 2015-2017 at the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Teaching Areas

Engineering Mathematics, Separation Processes, Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Transport Phenomenon, Biochemical Engineering, Thermodynamics

Selected Publications (14)

1. Effective alkaline peroxide oxidation pretreatment of shea tree sawdust for the production of biofuels: Kinetics of delignification and enzymatic conversion to sugar and subsequent production of ethanol by fermentation using Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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2. ALKALINE PEROXIDE OXIDATION PRETREATMENT OF CORN COB AND RICE HUSKS FOR BIOCONVERSION INTO BIO-COMMODITIES: PART A-ENZYMATIC CONVERTIBILITY OF PRETREATED RICE HUSKS TO REDUCING SUGAR

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3. The effect of sewage concentartions and materials of construction of sewage digester on biogas production

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4. Production of wara cheese from locally sourced coagulants and its nutritional evaluations

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5. Distillery wastewater decontamination by the Fenton Advanced Oxidation method

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6. Compositional analysis of lignocellulosic materials: Evaluation of an economically viable method suitable for woody and non-woody biomass

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7. Modeling of criteria air pollutant emissions from selected Nigeria petroluem refineries

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8. Effective gravimetric characterization for lignocellulosic biomass: Comparison of NaOH-H2O2 and Ca(OH)2-H2O2 oxidation pretreated sugarcane bagasse.

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9. Optimization of enzymatic digestibility of sodium hydroxide- hydrogen peroxide oxidative pretreated siam weed for reducing sugar production

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10. Fuels And Chemicals From Biomass: An Appraisal.

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11. Reducing Sugars Production By Enzymatic Saccharification Of Sodium Hydroxide-Hydrogen Peroxide Pretreated Sugarcane Bagasse.

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12. Utilization of lignocellulosic waste for ethanol production: Enzymatic digestibility and fermentation of pretreated shea tree sawdust

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13. Hydrogen peroxide and lime based oxidative pretreatment of wood waste to enhance enzymatic hydrolysis for a biorefinery: Process parameters optimization using response surface methodology

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14. Optimization of pretreatment conditions using full factorial design and enzymatic convertibility of shea tree sawdust

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Conferences Attended

1. International conference on Carbon Capture & Storage organised by South African Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage, Sandton, Johannesburg, October,2015.
2. Ayeni, A.O., Adeeyo, O.,Oresegun, O.R. Compositional analysis of lignocellulosic materials: Evaluation of an economically viable gravimetric method suitable for woody and non-woody biomass. International Conference of Turning The Knowledge of Science into Development. Covenant University, 8–11 July, 2014, Ota, Nigeria.
3.The 43rd Annual conference exhibition and general meeting of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, Uyo,November 14 - 16 2013.
4.International Conference on Bio-energy from Waste: Green Chemistry Intervention, Nagpur, India, November 25 - 26, 2010.
5. International Conference/Workshop on Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, 13 - 17 July, 2009.

Summary of Profile

Dr. Augustine Omoniyi Ayeni graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile - Ife Osun State with a Second Class Honours division in Chemical Engineering in 1997. He proceeded to the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos for his M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from 2000 - 2002.He later joined Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering in October,2005. He received his Ph.D.(Chemical Engineering) degree from Covenant University, Canaan land, Ota.
Among his academic achievements is the award of PhD research grant of Chief S.L. Edu memorial research grant 2008 sponsored by the Chevron Oil Nigeria in association with Nigerian Conservation Foundation, Lekki, Ajah Lagos.He was also awarded an Advanced Research and Training fellowship 2009 by the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World(TWAS). This gave him a research stay at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute,Environmental Biotechnology Division, Nagpur, India from August 2010 - August 2011. He is a Task Team member of the science plan(Sustainable Energy) of International Council for Scientific Union - Region of Africa(ICSU-ROA)based in Pretoria, South Africa. He is also a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.He is also a Registered Engineer (COREN: R.26927).He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at University of the Witwatersrand, School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineeering, Johannesburg, South Africa.
He is married and blessed with Children.



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Curriculum Vitae

Augustine Omoniyi AYENI_CV_2015.pdf 390.85 kB
 
 
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