Kurabachew S Duba

Duba

Postdoctoral Researcher, Duke University

Kurabachew (Kura) moved from the University of Trento, Italy to Duke to work as a postdoctoral associate. At University of Trento, he conducted research at the Green Process Engineering Research Group on supercritical technologies for the valorization of agro-industrial by-products. Prior to that, he was a lecturer in Ethiopia at Bahir Dar University, Institute of Technology where he taught undergraduate courses in Chemical Engineering. His research interests lie in the application of supercritical fluids (CO2 & water) for the environmental remediation, recycle, recovery & reuse of by-products, water/waste-water treatment, waste to energy and energy integration.

Some of his peer-reviewed journal articles include:

Kurabachew Simon Duba, Luca Fiori, Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Vegetable Oils: Different Approach to Modeling the Mass Transfer Kinetics, Chemical Engineering Transactions, Volume 43,2015, In Press

Kurabachew Simon Duba, Alessandro Alberto Casazza, Hatem Ben Mohamed, Patrizia Perego, Luca Fiori.  Extraction of Total Polyphenols from Grape Skins and Defatted Grape Seeds using Subcritical Water: Experiment and Modeling. Food and Bioproducts Processing 94 (2015) 29–38

Kurabachew Simon Duba, Luca Fiori. Supercritical CO2 Extraction of Grape Seed Oil: Effect of Process Parameters on Extraction Kinetics. J. of Supercritical Fluids 98 (2015) 33–43. 

Luca Fiori, Vera Lavelli, Kurabachew Simon Duba, Pedapati Siva Charan Sri Harsha,Hatem Ben Mohamed, Graziano Guella. Supercritical CO2 extraction of oil from seeds of six grape cultivars: modeling of mass transfer kinetics and evaluation of lipid profiles and tocol contents. J. of Supercritical Fluids 94 (2014) 71–80

M. Ali, K. S. Duba, A.S. Kalamdhad, A. Bhatia, A. Khursheed,A.A. Kazmi, N. Ahmed.  High rate composting of herbal pharmaceutical industry solid waste, Water Science and Technology, 65 (2012) 1817-25

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 1116 Hudson Hall, Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708
  • Email Address: kurabachew.duba@duke.edu

Education

Ph.D, Environmental Engineering, University of Trento, Italy
M.Tech, Civil (Environmental) Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Roorkee, India
B.Sc, Chemical Engineering, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia