STAFF PROFILE
Professor Jega Jegatheesan
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Phone:
99250810
Email:
jega.jegatheesan@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- Berkessa, Y.,Yan, B.,Li, T.,Jegatheesan, J.,Zhang, Y. (2020). Treatment of anthraquinone dye textile wastewater using anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor: Performance and microbial dynamics In: Chemosphere, 238, 1 - 11
- Scandelai, A.,Zotesso, J.,Jegatheesan, V.,Filho, L.,Tavares, C. (2020). Intensification of supercritical water oxidation (ScWO) process for landfill leachate treatment through ion exchange with zeolite In: Waste Management, 101, 259 - 267
- Moazzem, S.,Ravishankar, H.,Fan, L.,Roddick, F.,Jegatheesan, J. (2020). Application of enhanced membrane bioreactor (eMBR) for the reuse of carwash wastewater In: Journal of Environmental Management, 254, 1 - 9
- Zhang, X.,Lu, M.,Mohamed Idrus, M.,Crombie, C.,Jegatheesan, J. (2019). Performance of precipitation and electrocoagulation as pretreatment of silica removal in brackish water and seawater In: Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 126, 18 - 24
- Pramanik, B.,Shu, L.,Jegatheesan, J.,Shah, K.,Haque, N.,Bhuiyan, M. (2019). Rejection of rare earth elements from a simulated acid mine drainage using forward osmosis: The role of membrane orientation, solution pH, and temperature variation In: Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 126, 53 - 59
- Yu, P.,Cao, J.,Jegatheesan, J.,Du, X. (2019). A real-time BOD estimation method in wastewater treatment process based on an optimized extreme learning machine In: Applied Sciences, 9, 1 - 12
- Adhikari, S.,Gasco, G.,Mendez, A.,Surapaneni, A.,Jegatheesan, J.,Shah, K.,Paz-Ferreiro, J. (2019). Influence of pyrolysis parameters on phosphorus fractions of biosolids derived biochar In: Science of the Total Environment, 695, 1 - 10
- Pramanik, B.,Shu, L.,Jegatheesan, V.,Bhuiyan, M. (2019). Effect of the coagulation/persulfate pre-treatment to mitigate organic fouling in the forward osmosis of municipal wastewater treatment In: Journal of Environmental Management, 249, 1 - 8
- Ravishankar, H.,MOAZZEM, S.,Jegatheesan, V. (2019). Performance evaluation of A2O MBR system with graphene oxide (GO) blended polysulfone (PSf) composite membrane for treatment of high strength synthetic wastewater containing lead In: Chemosphere, 234, 148 - 161
- McEvoy, D.,Iyer-Raniga, U.,Ho, S.,Mitchell, D.,Jegatheesan, V.,Brown, N. (2019). Integrating teaching and learning with inter-disciplinary action research in support of climate resilient urban development In: Sustainability (Switzerland), 11, 1 - 15
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Current Supervisions2 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions
Water (Treatment, Distribution, modelling) Wasterwater (MBR, Membranes in Agriculture, Aquaculture), Salt Water Intrusion, Resource Recovery (Mine Tailing Ponds, Dye and Salt from Textile Effluent), Novel Technologies (FO, MD)
- Integrated water management through the application of advanced wastewater treatments (Research Exchange with the Universidad Estuado de Maringa). Funded by: Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions - Competitive from (2018 to 2019)
- Advancing research cooperation through joint workshops between Australia and India: water scarcity and ways to reduce the impact. Funded by: Australia India Council Grant 2015 from (2015 to 2016)