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Driven to expand knowledge and expertise in crucial engineering technologies while striving to make a meaningful impact on the world
Driven to expand knowledge and expertise in crucial engineering technologies while striving to make a meaningful impact on the world
Former Engineering/Quality intern at Heineken (Nigeria Breweries) with over 4 years of industrial and academic research/laboratory experience. Currently a PhD candidate working on a United States Department of Interior’s (Desalination and Water Purification Research Program) project for the development of low-energy electrochemical desalination technologies. Other collaborative projects are from NY State Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions (Solar Redox Flow Desalination), and Department of Energy (Resource Recovery from Wastewater).
Expertise
Expertise
Renewable Energy, Water, and Sustainable Environment
Work Experience
Work Experience
Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2025
Clarkson University
Doctoral Researcher (Bureau of Reclamation/Department of Clearwater Florida; NYS CoE; and Department of Energy Research)
Developing low-energy systems to address fouling in redox flow desalination.
Developing renewable energy-storage systems to address critical sustainability challenges.
Synthesizing relevant materials and membranes for continuous electrochemical desalination.
Participating in monthly project meetups with collaborators from the University of Cincinnati.
Assisting on a Department of Energy project involving the recovery of ammonia from wastewater using battery electrode materials.
Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2025
Clarkson University
PhD Teaching Assistant
Material balance
Chemical Reactor Analysis 1
Process Control
Oct. 2018 – Mar. 2019
Heineken (Nigerian Breweries), Ijebu Ode Nigeria
Quality Control/Engineering Intern
Performed physicochemical analyses of water samples, feed stocks, and in-process/outgoing products with SAP documentation
Assisted in the regulation of the Wastewater Treatment Plant
Worked under an engineering supervisor to regulate production floor operations (over 10 standard large equipment)
Worked on a Supply Chain Bottle Recycling project (over 5000 bottles per day)
May. 2019 – Mar. 2020
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria
Undergraduate Researcher
Involved in the extraction of bio-oils from seeds to produce biodiesels (Esterification and transesterification).
Education
Education
May. 2015 – April. 2020
Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria
Fundamentals of Chemical engineering: Transport Engineering, Reaction
Engineering, Engineering Thermodynamics, Biochemical Engineering.
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
Process Systems Engineering
Chemical Engineering Analysis
And other external engineering courses
Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2025
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
MS in Chemical Engineering (awarded in 2023)
Clarkson University, Potsdam NY.
Information processing by Chemistry
Environmental Engineering design (capstone)
Advanced Thermodynamics
Plasma Engineering
Awards
Awards
Clarkson University Annual Research and Project Showcase (Summer 2021)
Clarkson University Annual Research and Project Showcase (Summer 2021)
University Startup World Cup 2020 (Denmark)
University Startup World Cup 2020 (Denmark)
Society of Petroleum Engineers National Petroquiz competition (2019)
Society of Petroleum Engineers National Petroquiz competition (2019)
2022 Ignite Presidential Award for Best
2022 Ignite Presidential Award for Best
Energy/Agriculture/Environment System
Energy/Agriculture/Environment System
Publications
Publications
The study explores water desalination through electrochemical reactions, capturing and releasing salt at electrode materials for freshwater production. Innovative system designs enhance electrode capacity for salt separation, particularly in multichannel setups with a separate electrode rinse solution. The research introduces an additive as a novel approach to boost electrode capacity and desalination performance. A custom 2/2-channel flow cell, utilizing manganese oxide electrodes and phosphate buffer-mediated redox reactions, demonstrates improved desalination capacity (68.0 ± 5.2 mg g–1) and rate (5.6 ± 1.3 mg g–1 min–1). The strategy involves the buffer promoting H+ insertion reactions, while preventing electrode dissolution.
Wastewater treatment plants represent a centralized collection point of various resources, including ammonium, that could be recovered for the production of nitrogen fertilizer. Here, we show the use of copper hexacyanoferrates (CuHCFs) as ion-conducting channels for the selective recovery of ammonium from wastewater. This model Prussian blue analogue was deposited at the surface of a cation exchange membrane (CEM) by a simple layer-by-layer precipitation method. The resulting CuHCF-CEM showed a selectivity of 5.0 ± 0.4 for NH4+ relative to Na+ using a binary mixture of synthetic wastewater (5 mM NH4Cl, 20 mM NaCl, 0.17 mA cm–2), which was nearly 5 times greater than the bare CEM. The improved selectivity was attributed to the CuHCF layer wherein NH4+ could be migrated faster as well as more favorably occupied relative to Na+. The selectivity of CuHCF-CEM for NH4+ was maintained relatively high compared with that of CEM in the presence of competing cations in a real domestic wastewater sample. This proof-of-concept study shows that selective ion-conducting channels of CuHCFs can provide a means to ammonia recovery from wastewater in electro-driven membrane processes.
Professional Memberships
Professional Memberships
American Chemical Society
The Electrochemical Society
Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
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