CEESD l Profile of Edem Cudjoe Bensah

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Edem Bensah

Bioenergy Coordinator – CEESD

Lecturer/Researcher – Kumasi Polytechnic, Kumasi, Ghana

Phone: +233 24 6450842

cudjoe.ebensah@kpoly.edu.gh

Qualification

MSc (Mechanical Engineering –Thermofluids and Energy Systems), KNUST

Journal publications and presentations

Antwi E., Bensah E. C., Ahiekpor J. (2011). Use of solar water distiller for treatment of fluoride-contaminated water: the case of Bongo district of Ghana, Desalination, doi: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.05.044

Bensah E. C., Ahiekpor J., Boateng C. (2011). Migrating from subject-based to competency-based training in Higher National Diploma Chemical Engineering: the case of Kumasi Polytechnic. Education for Chemical Engineers, doi:10.1016/j.ece.2011.04.001

Bensah E. C., Mensah M., Antwi E. (2011). Status and prospects for household biogas plants in Ghana – lessons, barriers, potential, and way forward. International Journal on Energy and Environment, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2011 pp.887-898

Arthur R, Baidoo M. F., Brew-Hammond A., Bensah E C. (2011). Biogas generation from sewage in four public universities in Ghana: a solution to potential health risk. Biomass and Bioenergy, doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.04.019

Antwi E., Bensah E. C. et al. (2010). Ghana’s biofuels policy: challenges and the way forward. International Journal on Energy and Environment, Volume 1, Issue 5; pp. 805 – 814

Bensah E. C., Brew-Hammond A. (2010). Biogas technology dissemination in Ghana: history, current status, future prospects, and policy implications. International Journal on Energy and Environment, Volume 1, Issue 2; pp. 277 – 294

Bensah E. C., Ahiekpor J., Antwi E. (2010). Improving sanitation in Ghana: role of sanitary biogas plants. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 5(2): 125-133. Medwell Journals.

Bensah E. C., Brew-Hammond A. (2009). Biogas technology in Ghana: a study of opportunities and constraints. Proceedings from Sunyani Polytechnic Lecture Series V, Sunyani, Ghana

Bensah, E. C., Brew-Hammond A. (2008). Biogas Effluent and Food Production in Ghana. Proceedings from Fourth National Conference on Ghana Society of Agricultural Engineering, Cape Coast, Ghana

Bensah E. C., Antwi E. (2011). Anaerobic wastewater treatment plant for the treatment of organic waste and wastewater at kumasi abattoir: A CDM project. Growing green through the rule of law: Capacity Building for carbon markets for Africa, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, African Center for Development Law and Policy. Accra, Ghana, July

Mensah M., Antwi E., Bensah E. (2010). Integrated Waste Management in Western Africa (IWWA). National Environmental Sanitation Conference 2010, Kumasi, Ghana

Arthur R., Bensah E. C. (2010). Feasibility study on the construction of biogas plants for all public universities and polytechnics in Ghana, Special seminar for biogas, The Energy Centre - KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, Funded by Ghana Education Trust Fund.

Ahiekpor J., Antwi E., Bensah E. C., Quansah A., Killoren D. (2009). Production of gel-fuel as a possible replacement for fuel wood in rural Ghana, Presented at the 3rd Mondialogo/UNESCO engineering conference in 2009, Stuttgart, Germany.

Membership in professional and other bodies

Corporate Member: Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE)
Senior Research Associate: The Energy Centre, College of Engineering, KNUST

Professional Appointments/ Experience

2009 – Present: Bioenergy coordinator, CEESD, Kumasi, Ghana.
2009 – Present: Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Department, Kumasi Polytechnic
2008 – 2009: Senior Instructor, Chem. ical Engineering Department, Kumasi Polytechnic, Ghana.
2006 – 2007: Volunteer, Subriso D/A J.S.S., Ahanfo-ano north district, Ghana
2005 – 2006: Assistant Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Department, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.

Research interests

Thermodynamics, bioenergy, biosanitation, integrated solid/liquid waste management, CDM, competency-based training (CBT) curriculum development