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South Africa
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
19012
World Ranking
1948
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Faizal Bux is affiliated with Durban University of Technology in South Africa, specializing in Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, with a strong focus on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Pollution, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work predominantly explores topics including:

  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Biodiesel Production and Applications
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Faizal Bux has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Algal Research
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • Chemosphere

Selected recent papers by Faizal Bux reflect diverse environmental science topics:

  • Microplastics in the environment: Interactions with microbes and chemical contaminants (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants (2022), Nature Communications
  • Role of Microalgae in Global CO2 Sequestration: Physiological Mechanism, Recent Development, Challenges, and Future Prospective (2021), Sustainability
  • Improving the feasibility of aquaculture feed by using microalgae (2021), Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Coronaviruses in wastewater processes: Source, fate and potential risks (2020), Environment International

Frequent collaborators contributing to Faizal Bux's research include:

  • Sheena Kumari
  • Ismail Rawat
  • Isaac Dennis Amoah
  • Faiz Ahmad Ansari
  • Poovendhree Reddy

Best Publications

  • Dual role of microalgae: Phycoremediation of domestic wastewater and biomass production for sustainable biofuels production

    I. Rawat;R. Ranjith Kumar;T. Mutanda;F. Bux

  • Biodiesel from microalgae: A critical evaluation from laboratory to large scale production

    Ismail Rawat;R. Ranjith Kumar;Taurai Mutanda;Faizal Bux

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Bioprospecting for hyper-lipid producing microalgal strains for sustainable biofuel production.

    T. Mutanda;D. Ramesh;S. Karthikeyan;S. Kumari

  • Microalgae as multi-functional options in modern agriculture: current trends, prospects and challenges.

    Nirmal Renuka;Abhishek Guldhe;Radha Prasanna;Poonam Singh

  • Microplastics in the environment: Interactions with microbes and chemical contaminants

    F.K. Mammo;I.D. Amoah;K.M. Gani;L. Pillay

  • Towards a sustainable approach for development of biodiesel from plant and microalgae

    Bhaskar Singh;Abhishek Guldhe;Ismail Rawat;Faizal Bux

  • An evaluation of the efficacy of using selected solvents for the extraction of lipids from algal biomass by the soxhlet extraction method

    Krishan Ramluckan;Faizal Bux;Kandasamy G. Moodley

  • Microalgal cultivation using aquaculture wastewater: Integrated biomass generation and nutrient remediation

    Faiz Ahmad Ansari;Poonam Singh;Abhishek Guldhe;Faizal Bux

  • Advances in synthesis of biodiesel via enzyme catalysis : Novel and sustainable approaches

    Abhishek Guldhe;Bhaskar Singh;Taurai Mutanda;Kugen Permaul

  • Considerations for application of biosorption technology to remediate metal-contaminated industrial effluents

    B. W. Atkinson;F. Bux;H. C. Kasan

  • BODIPY staining, an alternative to the Nile Red fluorescence method for the evaluation of intracellular lipids in microalgae.

    T. Govender;L. Ramanna;I. Rawat;F. Bux

  • Efficacy of drying and cell disruption techniques on lipid recovery from microalgae for biodiesel production

    Abhishek Guldhe;Bhaskar Singh;Ismail Rawat;Krishan Ramluckan

  • Overview of the potential of microalgae for CO2 sequestration

    V. Bhola;F. Swalaha;R. Ranjith Kumar;M. Singh

  • PAM fluorometry as a tool to assess microalgal nutrient stress and monitor cellular neutral lipids.

    S. White;A. Anandraj;F. Bux

  • The optimization of biomass and lipid yields of Chlorella sorokiniana when using wastewater supplemented with different nitrogen sources.

    Luveshan Ramanna;Abhishek Guldhe;Ismail Rawat;Faizal Bux

  • Heterotrophic cultivation of microalgae using aquaculture wastewater: A biorefinery concept for biomass production and nutrient remediation

    Abhishek Guldhe;Faiz A. Ansari;Poonam Singh;Faizal Bux

  • Dual role of Chlorella sorokiniana and Scenedesmus obliquus for comprehensive wastewater treatment and biomass production for bio-fuels

    Sanjay Kumar Gupta;Faiz Ahmad Ansari;Amritanshu Shriwastav;Narendra Kumar Sahoo

  • Investigation of combined effect of nitrogen, phosphorus and iron on lipid productivity of microalgae Ankistrodesmus falcatus KJ671624 using response surface methodology

    Poonam Singh;Abhishek Guldhe;Sheena K. Kumari;Ismail Rawat

  • Biodiesel synthesis from microalgal lipids using tungstated zirconia as a heterogeneous acid catalyst and its comparison with homogeneous acid and enzyme catalysts

    Abhishek Guldhe;Poonam Singh;Faiz Ahmad Ansari;Bhaskar Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Ismail Rawat
Ismail Rawat Durban University of Technology
Yogesh Chandra Sharma
Yogesh Chandra Sharma Indian Institute of Technology BHU
Ahmed Tawfik
Ahmed Tawfik Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology
Shinichi Ookawara
Shinichi Ookawara Tokyo Institute of Technology
Anushree Malik
Anushree Malik Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Huu Hao Ngo
Huu Hao Ngo University of Technology Sydney
Jerker Fick
Jerker Fick Umeå University
Giorgio Mannina
Giorgio Mannina University of Palermo
Kartik Chandran
Kartik Chandran Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Radha Prasanna
Radha Prasanna Indian Agricultural Research Institute

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