- Associate Professor : School of Materials, Energy, Water, and Environmental Sciences, (MEWES)
- Area of Specialization:
- Chemistry and Applied Microbiology
- Electrochemistry and Catalysis
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- Courses taught:
- Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental degradation of Materials
- Environmental analytical instrumentation
- Memberships:
- Board member, school of MEWES
- Awards :
- GIST’s WHO is WHO 2017: awarded because of outstanding performance in Studies and performance during the PhD Programme
- Publications :
- Research Interests:
- Water Purification technologies
- Materials for Water defluoridation
- Sanitation
- Biowaste value addition and resources recovery
- Patent/Innovations :
- A novel technique involving digestive enzymes and microbes in activation of plant for fluoride adsorption Biogas burner manifold assembly.
Patent Registration Number TZ/2019/000086
- Projects (Phase-out) :
- De-FLuoridation technologies for imprOving quality of WatEr and agRo-animal products along the East African Rift Valley in the context of aDaptation to climate change (FLOWERED). 2016-2019.
- Testing and Scaling-up Application of Innovative Animal Feeding and Health Management Technologies for Improved Dairy Productivity among Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania. 2015-2019.
- Indigenous African Dyes Based Nitrogen greenly doped Titania Gratzel Solar Cells. Bilateral Joint programme COSTECH / NRF South Africa. 2013-2015.
- Inclined Plate Settlers (IPS) for pre-treatment of community potable water supply in Monduli, Nadosoito Dam. The Co-PI for the grant from 2015-2017
- ECOBOMA Project, EU 2016-2019
- Projects (Ongoing) :
- Water purification technologies, P2. Part of the larger VLIR UoS Project 2019-2023
- EWABELT Project, EU 2020-2024
- AGROVAL DANIDA 2022-2026
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Professionally, Revocatus Machunda (PhD) is an Environmental Scientist. He has a background in Chemistry and Applied Microbiology. He has over 19 years experience working as an academic staff at higher Institution of learning. Since 2011 he has been training and supervising graduate students and mentoring junior researchers.
His areas of interest lie in the fields of Environmental chemistry, Toxicology, degradation of materials and Instrumentation and analytical chemistry. His current research is in the areas of water purification (the chemistry and microbial aspects), renewable energy in the form of Biogas and Sanitation (Mapping of Sanitation facilities, developing shit flow diagrams to that end and resource recovery from fecal sludge).
He has over years worked to characterize biomasses for various applications including energy, activated carbons and catalysis.
He is also working on value addition to waste materials for various applications especially plant biomasses such as sisal; biomass derived activated carbons among others. He has worked on quantifying the environmental impacts of pesticides and other geogenic chemicals to the health of workers in specific farms and environment. He has received several grants funded by EU, DFID, COSTECH and DANIDA.
He has also worked on quantification and profiling of sanitation workers. He has published over 100 journal papers, book chapters and has two patents on defluoridation technology and Biogas burner manifold assembly.
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