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Chelsea Benally
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Latest papers
Enhanced biofilm formation and municipal wastewater treatment efficiency using granular activated carbon modified bio-ball carriers in moving bed biofilm reactor.
Bioresource technology · 2025
Z-scheme plasmonic Ag decorated Bi2WO6/NiO hybrids for enhanced photocatalytic treatment of naphthenic acids in real oil sands process water under simulated solar irradiation.
Journal of hazardous materials · 2023
Pristine and engineered biochar for the removal of contaminants co-existing in several types of industrial wastewaters: A critical review.
The Science of the total environment · 2022
Latest funding
- $204,325
Water Research Centre (WRC) for Circular Economy and Resilience
CFI · 2025 · Co-investigator
7 publications.
Enhanced biofilm formation and municipal wastewater treatment efficiency using granular activated carbon modified bio-ball carriers in moving bed biofilm reactor.
Yang X, Zhou Y, Zhang L, Benally C, Liu Y
Z-scheme plasmonic Ag decorated Bi2WO6/NiO hybrids for enhanced photocatalytic treatment of naphthenic acids in real oil sands process water under simulated solar irradiation.
Meng L, How ZT, Chelme-Ayala P, Benally C, Gamal El-Din M
Pristine and engineered biochar for the removal of contaminants co-existing in several types of industrial wastewaters: A critical review.
Medeiros DCCDS, Nzediegwu C, Benally C, Messele SA, Kwak JH, Naeth MA, Ok YS, Chang SX, Gamal El-Din M
Review on carbon-based adsorbents from organic feedstocks for removal of organic contaminants from oil and gas industry process water: Production, adsorption performance and research gaps.
Medeiros DCCDS, Chelme-Ayala P, Benally C, Al-Anzi BS, Gamal El-Din M
Treatment of oil sands process water using petroleum coke: Field pilot.
Zubot W, An Z, Benally C, Gamal El-Din M
High efficiency removal of heavy metals using tire-derived activated carbon vs commercial activated carbon: Insights into the adsorption mechanisms.
Shahrokhi-Shahraki R, Benally C, El-Din MG, Park J
Adsorption of organic matter in oil sands process water (OSPW) by carbon xerogel.
Benally C, Messele SA, Gamal El-Din M
Water Research Centre (WRC) for Circular Economy and Resilience
Principal investigators: Dhar, Bipro
Keywords: Water/wastewater treatment and resource recovery technologies Reactor and analytical system suites
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.
Frequent collaborators
- Mohamed Gamal El-Din and Yang Liu: 36 shared papers
- Mohamed Gamal El-Din and Chelsea Benally: 5 shared papers
- Mohamed Gamal El-Din and Scott Chang: 3 shared papers
- Yang Liu and Scott Chang: 3 shared papers
- Yang Liu and Chelsea Benally: 1 shared paper
- Scott Chang and Chelsea Benally: 1 shared paper
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Department of Renewable Resources
- Engineering
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