Congratulations Papa Asubonteng Kumah

Papa Asubonteng Kumah is a graduating MPhil student in Renewable Energy Technologies from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KNUST. His research interests include bioenergy production, waste valorisation, renewable energy systems, and sustainable waste management.

For his MPhil research, he investigated the optimisation of orange and plantain peel waste for enhanced biogas production, focusing on the use of mechanical, mechano-chemical, and mechano-thermal pre-treatments to improve biodegradability and methane yield.

His experiments demonstrated significant improvements in methane generation efficiency, achieving up to 30% higher methane yields under hybrid pre-treatment conditions, thus showing strong potential for transforming fruit peel waste into viable renewable energy resources.

The KNUST Engineering Education Project (KEEP) has been instrumental in his academic progress, providing critical financial support. He expresses his sincere gratitude to the management and staff of KEEP, as well as his supervisors, for their unwavering support, mentorship, and encouragement throughout his studies.

Papa plans to advance his research into bioresource optimisation, anaerobic digestion system design, and circular bioeconomy applications