Research Interests
Dr. Shafiq Alam
Primary Appointment: Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science (STJ)
Keywords: Hydrometallurgy, Metal extraction, Base and precious metals, Biomass, Bio-adsorbents, Biosorption, Mine site pollution control, Waste management
Current Research
- Base and precious metals recovery from ore or waste materials using different hydrometallurgical techniques.
- Development of environmentally benign technologies for metals recovery from ores and waste materials.
- Hydrometallurgical treatment of plant effluent / wastewater for the removal of heavy, toxic and hazardous metals.
- Mine site pollution control by removing heavy metals and controlling pH of the water bodies affected by acid mine drainage.
- Treatment of leach residue for the value added metals recovery and/or safe disposal.
- "Biomass NL" - Production of biomaterials (bioadsorbents) using biomass wastes derived from agriculture, forestry and marine resources.
- Green recovery of metals from mining/metallurgical solutions through biosorption.
- Waste Management - Effective use of biomass wastes to produce value-added products for the mining/metallurgical industries.
Future Research
- Connecting hydrometallurgical techniques to the oil and gas industry
Special Equipment and Facilities
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)
- UV/Visible Spectrophotometer
- Parr 2L Autoclaves
- Potentiostat/Galvanostat
- Fraction collector
- Balances
- Centrifuge
- Drying oven
- pH/ORP meters
- Heating mantle
- Hot plates with magnetic stirrers
- Pipettors
- Pumps
- Shakers
- Power control agitator
- Thermostatic water bath heater
- Auto titrator
- Turbidity meter
- De-ionized water system