Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability

Dr JF Nure

College of Science, Engineering and Technology
School of Science
Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: enurejf@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • Ph.D Water and Wastewater Treatment (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2018)
  • MSc Environmental Engineering (Addis Ababa Science and Technology Uiversity, Ethiopia, 2018)
  • MSc Analytical Chemistry (Haramaya University, Ethiopia, 2010)
  • B Ed Chemistry/Mathematics (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, 2006)

Fields of academic interests

  • Industrial wastewater reclamation and reuse
  • Water footprint and sustainability
  • Bioremediation of wastewater (High-rate anaerobic reactor)

Journal articles
  1. Aseged Tebeje , Zemene Worku1, Thabo T.I Nkambule & Jemal Fito (2020). Adsorption of chemical oxygen demand from textile industrial wastewater through locally prepared bentonite adsorbent. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-021-03230-4
  2. Jemal Fito, Selam Abraham,&Kenatu Angassa (2020). Adsorption of Methylene Blue from Textile Industrial Wastewater onto Activated Carbon of Parthenium hysterophorus.International Journal of Environmental Research. 14,501–511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41742-020-00273-2
  3. Jemal Fito &Keneni Alemu (2019). Microalgae–bacteria consortium treatment technology for municipal wastewater management. Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering. 4:4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41204-018-0050-2
  4. Jemal Fito, Nurelegne Tefera, Helmut Kloos & Stijn W.H. Van Hulle (2019). Integrated treatment technologies for the blended sugar industry and ethanol distillery wastewaters. Environmental Processes. 6:475–491, https:// doi.org/10.1007/s40710-019-00366-x
  5. Jemal Fito, Hanan Said, Sisay Feleke, &Abebe Worku (2019). Fluoride removal from aqueous solution onto activated carbon of Catha edulis through the adsorption treatment technology. Environmental Systems Research. 8:25, https://doi.org/ 10.1186/s40068-019-0153-1.
  6. Jemal Fito, Nurelegne Tefera, Helmut Kloos & Stijn W. H. Van Hulle (2018). Anaerobic treatment of blended sugar industry and ethanol distillery wastewater through biphasic high rate reactor. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A. 53:7, 676-685. https://doi: 10.1080/10934529.2018.1438826
  7. Jemal Fito, Nurelegne Tefera, Helmut Kloos & Stijn W.H. Van Hulle (2018). Environmental impact of the metal constituents of sugar and ethanol industrial wastewater and their relation with anaerobic treatability. Sugar Tech. 21(2):265–277, https://doi: 10.1007/s12355-018-0633-z,
  8. Jemal Fito, Nurelegne Tefera, Sisay Demeku & Helmut Kloos (2017) Water footprint as an emerging environmental tool for assessing sustainable water use of the bioethanol distillery at Metahara Sugarcane Farm, Oromiya Region, Ethiopia. Water Conservation Science and Engineering. 2:165–176, https://doi:10.1007/s41101-017-0038-y
  9. Jemal Fito, Nurelegne Tefera,& Stijn W.H. Van Hulle (2017). Adsorption of distillery spent wash on activated bagasse fly ash: Kinetics and thermodynamics. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 5, 5381–5388. https://doi:10.1016/J.JECE.2017.10.009
  10. Jemal Fito Nure, Nurelegne T Shibeshi, Seyoum L Asfaw, Wim Audenaert, &Stijn WH Van Hulle (2017). COD and colour removal from molasses spent wash using activated carbon produced from bagasse fly ash of Metahara sugar factory, Oromiya region, Ethiopia. Water SA.43 (3) 470-479. https:// doi:10.4314/wsa.v43i3.12.

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Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R3fQ0VoAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7770-3789