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Awards

November 2018 Best oral presentation award

December 2018 Best poster presentation award

December 2018 Outstanding contribution in reviewing

May 2009 S.W. Siriwardena scholarship for the best performance in 1100 series
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
Soil Science Society of Sri Lanka
Young Scientist's Forum of Sri Lanka

Degrees:

2017
Master     Agricultural Sciences
2012
Undergraduate     Agricultural Sciences
2022
Doctorate     Other
Environmental Science

Publications resulting from Research
Journal Articles

Dissanayake, P.D., You, S., Igalavithana, A.D., Xia, Y., Bhatnagar, A., Gupta, S., Kua, H.W., Kim, S., Kwon, J.H., Tsang, D.C.W., and Ok, Y.S. (2019). Biochar-based adsorbents for carbon dioxide capture: A Critical Review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 119:109582 (IF: 10.556) (JCR Top 5% (Q1), Green & Sustainable Science & Technology: 1/35) (Published online: 26 November 2019).

Dissanayake, P.D., Choi, S.W., Igalavithana, A.D., Yang, X., Tsang, D.C.W., Wang, C.H., Kua, H.W., Lee, K.B., Ok, Y.S. Sustainable gasification biochar as a high efficiency adsorbent for CO2 capture: A facile method to designer biochar fabrication. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 124: 109785 (IF: 10.556) (JCR Top 5% (Q1), Green & Sustainable Science & Technology: 1/35) (Published online: February 2020).

Igalavithana, A.D., Choi, S.W., Dissanayake, P.D., Shang, J., Wang, C.H., Yang, X., Kim, S., Tsang, D.C.W., Lee, K.B., Ok, Y.S. (2020). Gasification biochar from feedstock mixtures of food waste and wood waste for effective CO2 adsorption. Journal of Hazadous Materials, 391: 121147 (IF: 7.650) (JCR Top 5% (Q1), Engineering, Civil: 1/125) (Published online: 03 September 2019).

Xia, Y.F., Zhang, M., Tsang, D.C.W., Geng, N., Lu, D., Zhu, L., Igalavithana, A.D., Dissanayake, P.D., Rinkebe, J., Kim, K.H., Ok, Y.S. Recent advances in control technologies for nutrient pollution from agricultural runoff: current practices and prospects. Applied Biological Chemistry, 63 (8): 1-13 (IF: 1.559) (Published online: 04 February 2020).

Igalavithana, A.D., Choi, S.W., Shang, J., Hanif, A., Dissanayake, P.D., Tsang, D.C.W., Lee, K.B., Ok, Y.S. Carbon dioxide capture in biochar produced from pine sawdust and paper mill sludge: Effect of pyrolysis temperature and steam activation. Science of the Total Environment (IF: 5.589). (Published online: 31 May 2020).

Sustainable Waste Management Workshop.
2025
icon-pin-location National University of Singapore, Singapore
3rd International conference on Biological Waste as Resource (BWR 2018)
2025
icon-pin-location The Hong Kong Education University, Hong Kong
4th Asia Pacific Biochar Conference (APBC 2018)
2025
icon-pin-location Crawn Plaza Hotel, Foshan, China
Harmful Organisms
2025
icon-pin-location Busan, Korea