The School of Civil Engineering and Surveying

Profile

Academic Qualifications

PhD : Studies on the use of Salix viminalis for the Phytoremediation of Wastewater.  From Portsmouth University (2001)

MSc Crop Protection. From University of Bath (Long Ashton Research Station) (1989)

BSc (Hons) Environmental Biology. From University of Wales (Aberystwyth) (1983)

Teaching Interests

Environmental aspects

Research Interests

Wastewater treatment in constructed wetlands

Package plants for sewage treatment

Industrial wastewater treatment

Phytoremediation

Sustainable urban drainage

PhD Supervision

Georgios Roinas - The Fate of Hydrocarbon Pollutants in Source and Non-Source Control SUDs systems (2013)

Alexandros Tsavdaris -  An Investigation on the Hydraulic and Treatment Performance of Vegetated Sustainable Drainage Systems (2013)

Meshari Almutairi - Remediation of oil lakes in Kuwait (2014)

Aliyu Shuaibu  - Use of Animal and Forestry waste for bioremediation of oil contaminated soils in Nigeria (2016)

Selected Publications

Mant, C., Peterkin, J., May, E., and Butler, J. 2003. A feasibility study of a Salix viminalis gravel hydroponic system to renovate primary settled wastewater. Bioresource Technology 90, 19–25.

Mant, C., Costa, S., Williams, J., and Tambourgi, E. (2006). Phytoremediation of Chromium by Constructed Wetlands. Bioresource Technology 97(15), 1767-1772.

Costa-Fox, S., Mant, C., Watkins, S., Williams, J., May, E., Mouquet, H. and Hudson, S. (2008). The BEST Technology? An Engineering Evaluation of a Novel Package Treatment System. IWA 8^th Specialised Conference on Small Water and Wastewater Systems. India Feb. 2008.

Williams, J., May, E., Mant, C. and Hodkinson, B. (2008). Phytoremediation of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Lagoon Sediments. 5^th European Conference on Contaminated Sediments. Reused Foundatin. London May 14-16.