Sidney Omelon
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Group:
Full Member
Department:
Mining & Materials Engineering
Area(s):
Sustainable Infrastructure & Urban Development
Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience
Current research:
Prof. Omelon's work focuses on phosphorus capture from waste in a form that can be re-used. She works with municipal waste from the ROPEC, precipitating carbonate apatite from anaerobic digestate with CO2 captured with a limestone-water mixture. This process will divert phosphate from an unusable iron phosphate product found in biosolids to a carbonate apatite product that could be used by phosphorus fertilizer producers. She is also pursuing a research program into the effects of carbon dioxide on cement hydration reactions and kinetics.
Areas of interest:
Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience
Sustainable Infrastructure and Urban Development
Stream:
SDG 2 Zero Hunger
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 13 Climate Action