Professor Veena Sahajwalla
Professor Veena Sahajwalla leads the research on Sustainable Materials Processing at University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. She is the Director of Centre of Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT@UNSW) with its central research focus on sustainable materials and processes with strong emphasis on environmental and community benefits.
Veena’s research is focussed on sustainability of materials and processes, including innovative recycling of waste materials, adding value to waste resources, lowering of energy and emissions in materials technologies, environmentally sustainable materials and processes, ferro-alloys, non-ferrous metals processing, associated chemical reactions and interfacial phenomena.
Veena has invented an environmentally friendly process of recycling waste plastics in steelmaking. Nature of her research is pioneering science that uses plastic waste as an alternative to coal-based carbon for electric arc furnace steel-making. This recycling process has been patented (International publication number WO 2006/024069 A1). UNSW’s commercialisation arm, NewSouth Innovations (NSi) has signed a deal with Australia’s largest manufacturer of steel long products, OneSteel, that gives the steel-maker exclusive rights to sub-license unique technology to reduce reliance on coke and coal in electric arc furnace (EAF) steel-making. She is also a Visiting Professor at University Malaysia Perlis.
Contacts: +61 (0)2 9385 4426 | veena@unsw.edu.au