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
- Furlong, C.,Jegatheesan, J.,Currell, M.,Iyer-Raniga, U.,Khan, T.,Ball, A. (2019). Is the global public willing to drink recycled water? A review for researchers and practitioners In: Utilities Policy, 56, 53 - 61
- Begum, S.,Anupoju, G.,Bhargava, S.,Sridhar, S.,Jegatheesan, J.,Eshtiaghi, N. (2019). Waste-to-Energy Production through a Biorefinery System In: Waste-to-Energy, Nova Science Publishers, Inc, United States
- 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
- Liyanaarachchi, S.,Muthukumaran, S.,Kaiser, J.,Rogers, P.,Shu, L.,Shon, H.,Jegatheesan, J. (2018). Computing the effective diffusion coefficient of solutes in a multi-salts solutions during forward osmosis (FO) membrane filtration: Experiments and mathematical modelling In: Journal of Environmental Management, 214, 215 - 223
- Ravishankar, H.,Roddick, F.,Navaratna, D.,Jegatheesan, J. (2018). Preparation, characterisation and critical flux determination of graphene oxide blended polysulfone (PSf) membranes in an MBR system In: Journal of Environmental Management, 213, 168 - 179
- Song, L.,Zhu, B.,Jegatheesan, J.,Gray, S.,Duke, M.,Muthukumaran, S. (2018). Treatment of secondary effluent by sequential combination of photocatalytic oxidation with ceramic membrane filtration In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25, 5191 - 5202
- Asif, M.,Hai, F.,Dhar, B.,Ngo, H.,Guo, W.,Jegatheesan, J.,Price, W.,Nghiem, L.,Yamamoto, K. (2018). Impact of simultaneous retention of micropollutants and laccase on micropollutant degradation in enzymatic membrane bioreactor In: Bioresource Technology, 267, 473 - 480
- Velasco, P.,Jegatheesan, J.,Othman, M. (2018). Recovery of Dissolved Methane From Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor Using Degassing Membrane Contactors In: Frontiers in Environmental Science, 6, 1 - 6
- Ravishankar, H.,Christy, J.,Jegatheesan, J. (2018). Graphene oxide (GO)-blended polysulfone (PSf) ultrafiltration membranes for lead ion rejection In: Membranes, 8, 1 - 13
- 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)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
2 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions9 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
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)