A Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a chartered chemical engineer with 10 years working experience in the water Industry and 10 years’ experience in fundamental and applied research. I have extensive experience in the wastewater treatment sector and process engineering consultancy, focusing on technical design and process optimization. I have contributed to full process deliverables and contributed to wastewater treatment and energy-from-waste projects. Currently, I am a research scientist, working on wastewater treatment & reuse technologies, as well as advanced oxidation processes. My research focuses on technologies for degrading micro-organic pollutants from treated sewage effluent and developing oil and gas produced water treatment technologies. With strong analytical skills and a focus on process improvements, I have delivered tangible solutions to industry stakeholders. I have excellent verbal, written and communication skills. My extensive industrial background, coupled with my current R&D experience give me the opportunity to add value to the wastewater industry.

1. Wastewater Treatment

2. Operation and Design of WWTPs

3. Beneficial Reuse applications of treated wastewater streams

4. Oily water separation technologies

5. Membrane fabrication 

6. Brine management

7. Biological wastewater treatment

2007 - 2010

Wessex Water UK - Process Engineer

1. Outline and detailed design and operation of sewage treatment plants.
2. Carried out extensive process reviews for different sewage treatment plants across the region and prepared process spreadsheets to review capacity of the existing assets on site and design new assets to cater for development within the catchment.
3. Preparation of spreadsheets for equipment sizing and design specifications of wastewater treatment projects
4. Developing process flow diagrams (PFDs) and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) for sewage treatment plants and pumping stations.
5. Carried out extensive sampling surveys across various treatment units of existing treatment plants to monitor current capacities and ensure no risk to final effluent discharge compliance.

2010 - 2012

CH2MHILL - Technical Consultant Engineer

1. Project Oversight and Coordination: Primary liaison between Wessex Water UK and CH2MHILL on technical aspects of process improvements and upgrades on wastewater treatment plant projects.
2. Process engineering support for outline and detailed design and capital maintenance projects in AMP4 & AMP5, including advanced digestion schemes.
3. Preparing process reviews & process survey reports; managing sampling surveys.
4. Preparing specifications for odour modelling and asbestos surveys on various treatment works, preparing technical reports.
5. Lead Process Engineer in the outline and detailed design of Taunton STW Advanced Digestion (£5.1M) and Advanced Digestion project at Trowbridge STW (£10m).
6. Project managed the installation and trial of new Sinap and Kubota membranes across all the membrane plants in the Wessex Water Region.

2012 - 2014

Wessex Water UK - Senior Commissioning Engineer

1. Daily management and operation of the sewage treatment plant, including sludge treatment processes.
2. Identifying and troubleshooting treatment plant process bottlenecks to improve treatment efficiency to achieve compliance.
3. Worked closely with instrumentation engineers to develop and implement control strategies to optimize treatment plant process efficiency, ensuring compliance with environmental discharge regulations.
4. Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams including civil engineers, area scientists and M&E engineers to integrate and commission control systems for wastewater treatment plants.
5. Commissioning & Optimization of drum thickeners, centrifuges, and sludge processing facilities on various wastewater treatment plants around the Wessex water region; tertiary aerated sand filters, ferric dosing systems amongst others.
6. Commissioned and project-managed the upgrade of Weston Super mare STW to treat a population equivalent of 800,000 to include new activated sludge lanes, new storm tanks and new final tanks. Carried out analysis of on-site processes to ensure that compliance is achieved.
7. Designed and developed wastewater treatment processes by selecting appropriate treatment technologies and carrying out feasibility studies and environmental impact assessments.

GeNECO, UK - Senior Process Engineer/Project manager

2014 - 2015

1. Served as lead process engineer on municipal wastewater infrastructure projects including advanced wastewater treatment and reuse schemes and sewage treatment plant upgrades.
2. Leading the preparation of plans, specifications, cost estimates, technical reports, and other project documents.
3. Carried out analysis on the anaerobic digesters and the Acid Phase Digesters on site to determine VFA content and bio-gas yield.
4. Involved in the design and trial of the new gas to grid plant at Avonmouth STW, a time advanced technology to treat methane, which will produce high quality bio-methane suitable for use in homes and in vehicles. Food waste and sewage waste will be used to produce up to 2000m3 of bio-methane an hour, enough to fuel over 8000 homes a year.

Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute (QEERI), HBKU

Research Scientist

2015 - Present

1. New U.S. Provisional Patent Application granted: No. 63/546,986 Title: DEVICE FOR OIL ABSORPTION BASED ON FIBER-BASED MEDICAL WASTE Applicant: Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development Inventor(s): Oluwaseun Ogunbiyi, et al. Filing Date: November 2, 2023
2. Awarded the Hamad Bin Khalifa Innovation fund HBKU-OIIR-IIF-07-02- MediSorb – Cycle 7 awardee (HBKU Innovation fund) – Industry partner – Green Boom (QAR 50,000) – Principal Investigator
3. Removal of Cyanotoxins in Drinking Water Using Advanced Oxidation Processes, Principal Investigator, Qatar (2018 – 2021) - National Research Fund, January 2016-December 2019, USD 511,582.00.
4. Prototyping of an Efficient Oil-Water Separator to Remove Emulsified Oil from Oil and Gas Produced Water for Safe Disposal and Beneficial Reuse, Principal Investigator, QNRF Technology Development Fund (TDF), June 2017-May 2018, USD 68,000
5. Project managed key research activities within QEERI to investigate new technologies for Treated Sewage Effluent Reuse in Qatar and investigating advances in produced water treatment using advanced membrane technologies for the benefit of implementation in Qatar.
6. Operation of Ion Exchange pilot plant, Reverse Osmosis pilot plants and MF/UF/NF/RO membrane rigs for wastewater treatment and seawater desalination
7. Successfully designed, commissioned, and operated an Advanced Oxidation Processes Pilot plant to remove micro-organic pollutants (MOPs) from Treated Sewage Effluent. The AOP pilot plant consists of three primary technologies namely (i) ozone (O3) (ii) ozone-hydrogen peroxide (O3-H2O2), and ultraviolet-hydrogen peroxide (UV-H2O2).
8. Successfully designed, commissioned, and operated an oil-water prototype system to separate oil from water for application in oil spill clean ups.