Institute of Environmental Sciences & Engineering
Department: REsource REcovery and WAste TreatmeNT (REWANT) REsource REcovery and WAste TreatmeNT (REWANT)

REsource REcovery and WAste TreatmeNT (REWANT)

Dr. Zeshan

Introduction

The group started working in 2015 under the supervision of Dr. Zeshan. Starting with anaerobic treatment of solid waste and wastewater, it has evolved over time and currently involves various research areas as given in the following. The group lead has been involved in project conceptualization, methodology development, investigation, execution, monitoring and supervision as well as administration. The group has published the research results in various journals of international repute.

Research Areas

  • Bioenergy production processes (biogas, biohydrogen & microbial fuel cell systems)
  • Microalgae production for carbon utilization and resource recovery
  • Waste/biomass decomposition processes (composting, anaerobic digestion landfilling)

Projects

  1. PhD students
  • Zia Ullah (In progress). Performance evaluation of microbial fuel cell for treatment of wastewater and power generation. PhD Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Sadia Fida (In progress). Anaerobic treatment of sugar industry wastewater. PhD Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Nadeem Ullah (In progress). Evaluating the performance of Anaerobic Baffled Reactor in Treating Municipal Wastewater. PhD Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Sahar Saleem (In progress). Growth Performance of Microalgae in Porous Substrate Bioreactor (PSBR) for the Treatment of Wastewater and Methane Production. PhD Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Ammara Batool (2018). Phytoaccumulation of Heavy Metals from Municipal Solid Waste Leachate Using Constructed Wetland. PhD Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan. (Completed).
      2.  MS Students
  • Bushra Kalsoom (2023; In progress). Treatment of Beverage Industry Effluents by Microalgae-bacterial Consortia along with Biofuel Production, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Owais Ahmed (2023; In progress). Domestic Wastewater Treatment by Carrier Anaerobic Baffled Reactor, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Syeda Safina Ali (2023; In progress). Simultaneous Municipal and Saline Water Treatment with Power Generation Using Photosynthetic Microbial Desalination Cell, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • M Usman Khan (2023; In progress). Utilization of waste polyethene bags and crushed waste glass in hot mix asphalt, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Hajra Maalik (2023; In progress). Effect of Bulking Agent on Composting and GHG Emissions of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Shanza Shabbir (2023; In progress). Wastewater Treatment and Simultaneous Production of Biogas and Electricity through Microalgae-microbial Fuel Cell, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Maira Razzaq (2023; In progress). Effect of Chemical Pretreatment on Characteristics and Biogas Production of Corn Cob. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Momina Hanif Malik (2023; In progress). Extraction of Limonene from Citrus Fruit Peel & Potential Use of its Residue for Biogas Production,MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Javeria Iqbal Malik (2023; In progress). Life Cycle Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste Management for Islamabad, Pakistan, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Junaid (2023; In progress). Effect of varying organic loading rates on the production of biogas from pre-treated wheat straw in a semi-continuous Reactor, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Ghazanfar Iqbal (2022). Economic and Environmental Feasibility of Electricity Generation using Biogas from Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste for the City of Lahore, Pakistan, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Irfan (2022). Anaerobic Treatment and Biohythane Production of Food Waste, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Muneeb Hassan (2022). Effect of alkaline pretreatment of rice straw catalyzed by Pd-BiFeO3 on biogas production. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Nabia Farrukh Sohail (2022). Treatment of Wastewater Coupled with the Sequestration of CO2 by Twin Layer Cultivation of Microalgae. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Ramsha Malik (2022). Wastewater Treatment and CO2 Fixation through Revolving Algal Biofilm Photobioreactor, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Moniba Mushtaq (2021). Effect of Oxytetracycline on Anaerobic Digestion of Cattle Manure, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Tayyab Ishtiaq (2021). Economic Analysis of Handling, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste of Rawalpindi City. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Afnan Yasir (2021). Anaerobic Digestion of DAF Sludge of Petroleum Refinery Wastewater, MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Mariam Sabeeh (2020). Effect of Alkaline and Photocatalytic Pre-treatment on Characteristics and Biogas Production of Rice Straw. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Ayesha Maryam (2020). Enhancing Biogas Production from Sewage Sludge through Alkaline and Nanoparticles Pretreatment. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Asma Imam Khan (2020). Enhancing Biogas Production from wheat straw through Nanoparticle Assisted Chemical Pretreatment. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Irfan Ahmed (2019). Effect of HRT on the Performance of a Dual Chamber Continuous Flow Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) Treating Real Domestic Wastewater. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Ahmed Talal (2019). Biogas Production through Dry Anaerobic Digestion of Waste Sludge. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Sibt-e-Hassan (2018). Bioenergy Potential Assessment of Distillery Stillage and Sugarcane Industry By-Products through Anaerobic Digestion. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Junaid Khalid (2018). Effect of Alkaline Pretreatment and Iron Oxide Nanoparticles on Biogas Production from Rice Straw. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Ziaullah (2017). Effect of Different Substrates and Concentrations on the Performance of Double Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Asad Ayub (2017). Effect of Thermal Pretreatment on the Anaerobic Digestion of Sunflower                    Meal and Wheat Straw. MS Thesis, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Nazish Rafiq (2016). Economic and Environmental Benefits of Conversion of Municipal Solid Waste into Renewable energy: A Case Study of Islamabad. M.Phil Thesis, Department of Environmental Economics, PIDE, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Maliha Jabeen (2015). Biogas production through anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and rice husk under high-solids continuous mesophilic conditions at pilot scale. M.Phil Thesis, Department of Environmental Sciences, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Rizwan Haider (2014). Anaerobic digestion of municipal and industrial organic solid waste for bioenergy recovery. M.Phil Thesis, Department of Environmental Sciences, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.
     3.  UG Projects
  • Fizzah Batool, Umar Abbas and Irum Afzal (2023; In Progress). Algae Cultivation in PBR from Fishery Wastewater and Industrial CO2 for Biodiesel and Fish Feed Production, Undergraduate Final Year Project, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Basil Mansoor, Sumreen Ashraf, Umer Rehman (2022). Integration of Microalgae-Microbial Fuel Cell (Mmfc) with Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC) for Wastewater Treatment and Energy Production. Undergraduate Final Year Project, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Sumaila Ehsan, Syed Hassam Ali and Muhammad Ammar Javed (2021). Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Solid Waste of Islamabad ─ A Techno-Economic Feasibility Analysis. Undergraduate Final Year Project, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Aamash Siddiqui, Muhammad Ali Hasnain, Muhammad Ahmed, Safiullah Gill (2020). Microbial Fuel Cells Integrated with Electrocoagulation Cell for Wastewater Treatment. Undergraduate Final Year Project, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan, Muhammad Uzair, Muhammad Uzair Tariq, Hassan Raza Bharwana. (2020). Methane Production from Algae Grown on Treated Wastewater. Undergraduate Final Year Project, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Fouzia Rafi, Rabeia Malik, Ibrahim Atiq and Ahmad Kamal. (2019). Effect of varying organic loading rates on biohydrogen production from food waste in a semi-continuous reactor. Undergraduate Final Year Project, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Shaheer Ahmed, Sayed Musawir Abbas Rizvi and Mian Abdul Moeez Bin Javed (2018). Effect of inoculum treatment methods on biohydrogen production from food waste by the process of dark fermentation. Undergraduate Final Year Project, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Shiza Aslam, Rimsha Zafar and Nauman Akber (2017). Hand driven energy efficient reactor for biogas production from organic solid waste. Undergraduate Final Year Project, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Basharat Khan, Maira Razzaq, Salimullah Ayubi and Sehrish Shoukat (2016). Design and startup of a semi pilot scale reactor for high solids anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge. Undergraduate Final Year Project, IESE, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    4.  Research Project Details (Completed)

 

  1. Enhancing biogas production from sewage sludge and ligno-cellulosic waste through nanoparticles assisted chemical pretreatment (NRPU 5997), National Research Program for Universities, Higher Education Commission

Amount: PKR 4.34 million (USD 42000)

  1. Biogas production through dry anaerobic digestion of organic solid waste (SRG 895), Start-up Research Grant, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan

Amount: PKR 0.5 million (USD 5000)

  1. Development of biogas production system from waste sludge (NRPU 5996), National Research Program for Universities, Higher Education Commission

Amount: PKR 5.36 million (USD 51000)

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