Dr Bolaji Shemfe


Research Fellow
MSc PhD
+44 (0)1483 684433
39 BA 01

Academic and research departments

Centre for Environment and Sustainability.

About

My qualifications

2013 - 2016
PhD
Cranfield University
2009 - 2010
MSc
University of Surrey

Research

Research interests

Research projects

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Publications

Shemfe, M.B.; Gadkari, S.; Sadhukhan, J. Social Hotspot Analysis and Trade Policy Implications of the Use of Bioelectrochemical Systems for Resource Recovery from Wastewater. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3193.  doi

Shemfe, M., Gadkari, S., Yu, E., Rasul, S., Scott, K., Head, I.M., Gu, S., Sadhukhan, J., 2018. Life cycle, techno-economic and dynamic simulation assessment of bioelectrochemical systems: A case of formic acid synthesis. Bioresoure Technology 255, 39–49 (2018) doi

Sadhukhan, J., Joshi, N., Shemfe, M., & Lloyd, J.R. Life cycle assessment of sustainable raw material acquisition for functional magnetite bionanoparticle production. Journal of Environmental Management, 199, 166-125 (2017). doi

Shemfe, M., Gu, S. & Fidalgo, B. Techno-economic analysis of biofuel production via bio-oil zeolite upgrading: An evaluation of two catalyst regeneration systems. Biomass and Bioenergy, 98, 182-193 (2017). doi

Shemfe, M., Whittaker, C., Gu, S. & Fidalgo, B. Comparative evaluation of GHG emissions from the use of Miscanthus for bio-hydrocarbon production via fast pyrolysis and bio-oil upgrading. Appl. Energy, 176, 22-33 (2016). doi

Pearce, M., Shemfe, M. & Sansom, C. Techno-economic analysis of solar integrated hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgae. Appl. Energy, 166, 19-26 (2016). doi

Shemfe, M., Fidalgo, B. & Gu, S. Heat integration for bio-oil hydroprocessing coupled with aqueous phase steam reforming. Chem. Eng. Res. Des., (2015). doi

Shemfe, M., Gu, S. & Ranganathan, P. Techno-economic performance analysis of biofuel production and miniature electric power generation from biomass fast pyrolysis and bio-oil upgrading. Fuel, 143, 361-372 (2015). doi

Book chapters

Somorin, T,  Sowale, A,  Ayodele, A.S, Shemfe, M and  Kolios, A. Clean Technologies and Innovation in Energy, in: Adesola, S and Brennan, F. (Eds), Energy in Africa - Policy, Management and Sustainablity, Palgrave Macmillian, (2018)

Shemfe, M., Sadhukhan, J. & Ng, K.S. Bioelectrochemical systems for biofuel (electricity, hydrogen, and methane) and valuable chemical production, in: Gnaneswar, V. (Ed.), Green Chem. Sustain. Biofuel Prod., Apple Academic Press, (2017)

Conferences

Shemfe, M., & Sadhukhan, J. Life Cycle Assessment of Microbial Electrosynthesis of Chemical Products. Energy for Economic Development and Welfare Workshop, IIP Dehradun, India (2017)

Shemfe, M., & Sadhukhan, J. Chemicals from Biomass: Chemistry, Synthesis, Engineering and Sustainability Analyses. 25th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition- EUBCE, Stockholm (2017)

Shemfe, M., & Sadhukhan, J. Software Development for Bioelectrochemicals Systems. 25th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition- EUBCE, Stockholm (2017)

Honorato, J.A., Martinez, E, Torres-Garcia, E, Ng, K.S., Sadhukhan, J. & Shemfe, M. Jatropha-based biorefinery systems. Research Forum 2016, Royal College of Surgeons, London (2016)

Shemfe, M., & Fidalgo, B. Comparative Techno-Economic Analysis of Bio-Hydrocarbon Production from Pyrolysis-Derived Bio-Oil via Hydroprocessing and Zeolite Cracking. 16th AIChE annual meeting, San Francisco (2016)

Ng, K.S, Sadhukhan, J, & Shemfe, M. Resource Recovery from Municipal Solid Wastes: A Case Study in the UK. 16th AIChE annual meeting, San Francisco (2016)

Ng, K.S, Sadhukhan, J, & Shemfe, M. Carbon Dioxide Reduction and Carbon Dioxide Reuse in Advanced Biorefineries. 16th AIChE annual meeting, San Francisco  (2016)

Shemfe, M. “Techno-economic analysis of bio-hydrocarbon production via bio-oil zeolite upgrading: evaluation of two catalyst regeneration systems”. SUPERGEN Bioenergy Hub Assembly, Rothamsted Research (2015)

Fidalgo, B. and Shemfe, M. “Heat integration of bio-oil hydroprocessing coupled with aqueous phase steam reforming”. UK-Mexico Biorefinery Research International Workshop, Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo Mexico (2015)