The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia produces around 15 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) each year with average daily rate of 1.4 kg per person. With the current growing population (3.4% yearly rate), urbanization (1.5% yearly rate) and economic development (3.5% yearly GDP rate), the generation rate of MSW will become double (30 million […]
Author: Abdul-Sattar Nizami
Dr. Abdul-Sattar Nizami is an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES) of King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. He has a PhD in green grass: developing grass for sustainable gaseous biofuel from University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. He has Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Nizami has published more than 50 papers in the area of waste-to-energy, biofuels and bioproducts. His solid waste research group is working on various waste to energy and value added products systems such as anaerobic digestion (AD), pyrolysis, transesterification, refuse derived fuel (RDF), algae fuel and composting. He is the reviewer, guest editor and invited speaker for high impact journals, national and international conferences and scientific forums. Dr. Nizami can be reached on anizami@kau.edu.sa