Full Member
Busiswa Ndaba
Membership since:
2025
Field of activity:
Degrees:
2013
Master Engineering sciences
2010
Undergraduate Biological Systems and Organisms
My honors degree focused on environmental and medical microbiology. Whereby research was conducted based on antibiotic susceptibility profiles on staphylococcus microbial organisms identified from domestic animals.
Publications resulting from Research
2014
Ndaba, B., Chiyanzu, I., Marx, S., Obiero, G. Effect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Zymomonas mobilis on the co-fermentation of sweet sorghum bagasse hydrolysates pretreated under varying conditions, Biomass and Bioenergy, 71: 350-356.
2014
Marx, S., Ndaba, B., Chiyanzu, I., C. Schabort. Fuel ethanol production from sweet sorghum bagasse using microwave irradiation, Biomass and Bioenergy, 65:145-15.
2015
B. Ndaba, I. Chiyanzu, S. Marx Direct fermentation of sweet sorghum juice by Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium tetanomorphum to produce bio-butanol and organic acids, Biofuel Research Journal, 6 : 248-252.
2015
B. Ndaba, I. Chiyanzu, S. Marx. n-Butanol derived from biochemical and chemical routes: A review, Biotechnology Reports, 8: 1–9.
2019
S. Marx and B Ndaba. Rapid microwave-assisted liquid phase conversion of bio-ethanol to n-butanol over a heterogeneous catalyst. 2019. Biofuels, https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2018.1554947
Roopnarain Ashira, Nkuna Rosina, Ndaba Busiswa, Adeleke Rasheed. New insights into the metagenomic link between pre‐treatment method, addition of an inoculum and biomethane yield during anaerobic digestion of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes). 2019. Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.6129
Ndaba, B., Chiyanzu, I., Marx, S., Obiero, G. Effect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Zymomonas mobilis on the co-fermentation of sweet sorghum bagasse hydrolysates pretreated under varying conditions, Biomass and Bioenergy, 71: 350-356.
2014
Marx, S., Ndaba, B., Chiyanzu, I., C. Schabort. Fuel ethanol production from sweet sorghum bagasse using microwave irradiation, Biomass and Bioenergy, 65:145-15.
2015
B. Ndaba, I. Chiyanzu, S. Marx Direct fermentation of sweet sorghum juice by Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium tetanomorphum to produce bio-butanol and organic acids, Biofuel Research Journal, 6 : 248-252.
2015
B. Ndaba, I. Chiyanzu, S. Marx. n-Butanol derived from biochemical and chemical routes: A review, Biotechnology Reports, 8: 1–9.
2019
S. Marx and B Ndaba. Rapid microwave-assisted liquid phase conversion of bio-ethanol to n-butanol over a heterogeneous catalyst. 2019. Biofuels, https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2018.1554947
Roopnarain Ashira, Nkuna Rosina, Ndaba Busiswa, Adeleke Rasheed. New insights into the metagenomic link between pre‐treatment method, addition of an inoculum and biomethane yield during anaerobic digestion of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes). 2019. Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.6129