Kwame Tweneboah Duodu

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EDUCATION

M.S., Environmental Engineering August, 2020

Utah State University. Logan, UT

B.S., Petroleum Engineering May, 2014

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Kumasi, Ghana

LICENSES/AFFILIATION

HAZWOPER 40-hr certified training May, 2019

Engineer in Training (Passed Environmental FE exam, EIT) June, 2020

Member of American Water Works Association February,2020

PROJECTS

Extraction and analysis of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in biosolids stabilized using aerobic composting and anaerobic digestion (Ms. Research Thesis, August, 2020)

Production of biogas from duckweed biomass using anaerobic digestion (Utah State University, 2019)

Extraction and analysis of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in secondary water used for irrigation (Utah State University, 2018)

Extraction and analysis of 5 – hydroxytryptophan (5 HTP) from Griffonia seeds (Institute of Industrial Research, Ghana, 2015)

Effects of reservoir heterogeneities on carbon dioxide geosequestration (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; senior year design project, 2014)

Used Eclipse software to model homogeneous and heterogeneous reservoirs and injected with carbon dioxide to determine storage capacities of the two reservoirs

National Unilever Best Young Scientist Competition, Ghana (2006)

Manufactured a portable water treatment machine to filter household wastewater for reuse

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, Utah Water Research Lab: August 2017 – August 2020

Collected, handled and transported air, water, plant and soil samples from field to lab to test for PPCPs

Tested air quality and water quality for PPCPs (pharmaceuticals and personal care products) using LC/QQQ/MS

Did statistical data analysis of PPCP concentrations using R studio and MS Excel

Predicted transformation rates of PPCPs using mass balance and linear regression

Produced biogas from a lab-scale anaerobic digester using duckweed as feed

Determined gas composition of biogas produced from anaerobic digestion using GC/MS

Extracted and analyzed PPCPs in vegetables irrigated with secondary water

Determined risks posed by exposure to PPCPs in plants, water, aerosols and soils

Predicted fate of chemicals in the environment using EPI Suite programs

Used tracer studies to determine active volume and hydraulic retention time in a reactor

Research Assistant, Institute of Industrial Research: September 2014- August 2015

Extracted 5-hydroxytryptophan (5 HTP) from Griffonia seeds using an extraction plant with ethanol as solvent

Quantified 5- HTP concentration extracted from Griffonia seed using spectrophotometer

Intern: Ghana National Petroleum Company (July to August 2012)

Studied the business structure and operations of the company

Took classes from professionals in the engineering department of the national oil company

Wrote a report on the operations of the company

SKILLS

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), MOFLOW/ModelMuse (groundwater model),

AutoCAD (Drawing), R studio (Statistics), EPI Suite (Fate of chemicals model),

Eclipse (Reservoir simulation), LC/MS/MS and GC/MS (Chromatography)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

3rd place award; student poster competition : AWRA Conference 2019 (Saltlake City, UT)

Made presentations at AWRA Conference (Salt lake, 2019), USU Spring Runoff Conference (Logan,2019) and USU Env. Engineering Seminar (Logan, 2019)

Winner : National Unilever Young Scientist Competition Ghana (2006)

PUBLICATIONS

Author : “The Ant Colony” (2012), also online on Amazon

“Water Pollution is Killing Us”: The Pioneer Newspaper, Kumasi, Ghana, 2015

“Let’s Keep The City Clean”: The Pioneer Newspaper, Kumasi, Ghana, 2014

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