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Dr Lulit Habte Ekubatsion

Research Fellow
JKMRC
Research Fellow
Global Centre for Mineral Security
l.ekubatsion@uq.edu.au
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Dr Lulit Habte Ekubatsion
Featured projects Duration
Ore-sand: A circular economy solution to reduce mineral wastes and improve global sand sustainability
2021

Publications

Journal Articles (12)
Conference Paper (1)

Journal Articles

Franks, Daniel M., Segura-Salazar, Juliana, Gallagher, Louise, Ekubatsion, Lulit Habte, Bioantika, Golev, Artem, Stringer, Martin, Rogers, Paul, Soto-Diaz, Juan, Ardhanari, Madhumitha, Antonio, Christian and Staines, Leigh (2025). Nose to tail mining: A circular solution for sand supply and tailings reduction at scale. One Earth, 8 (2) 101198, 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101198
Shiferaw, Natnael, Habte, Lulit and Waleed, Mirza (2025). Land use dynamics and their impact on hydrology and water quality of a river catchment: a comprehensive analysis and future scenario. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 32 (7), 4124-4136. doi: 10.1007/s11356-025-35946-y
Fausto, Moscoso-Pinto, Kim, Jeongyun, Choi, Junhyun, Shin, Heeyoung, Lulit, Habte, Thenepalli, Thriveni and Ahn, Ji-Whan (2023). Application of integrated physical separation for the enrichment of rare earth elements from circulating fluidized bed coal fly ash. Journal of Energy Engineering, 32 (2), 49-59. doi: 10.5855/energy.2023.32.2.049
Habte, Lulit, Kim, Geunho, Thenepalli, Thriveni, Ahn, Young Jun, Khan, Mohd Danish and Ahn, JiWhan (2022). Inhibition of total nitrogen loss in urine through integrated alkali stabilization and carbonation. Journal of Energy Engineering, 31 (3), 47-58. doi: 10.5855/energy.2022.31.3.047
Ekubatsion, Lulit H., Thriveni, Thenepalli and Ahn, Ji W. (2021). Removal of Cd2+ and Pb2+ from wastewater through sequent addition of KR-slag, Ca(OH)2 derived from eggshells and CO2 gas. ACS Omega, 6 (42), 27600-27609. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00946
Khan, Mohd Danish, Shakya, Sonam, Thi Vu, Hong Ha, Habte, Lulit and Ahn, Ji Whan (2021). Low concentrated phosphorus sorption in aqueous medium on aragonite synthesized by carbonation of seashells: optimization, kinetics, and mechanism study. Journal of Environmental Management, 280 111652. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111652
Habte, Lulit, Shiferaw, Natnael, Thriveni, Thenepalli, Mulatu, Dure, Lee, Mee-hye, Jung, Seok-ho and Ahn, Ji Whan (2020). Removal of Cd(II) and Pb(II) from wastewater via carbonation of aqueous Ca(OH)2 derived from eggshell. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 141, 278-287. doi: 10.1016/j.psep.2020.05.036
Habte, Lulit, Khan, Mohd Danish, Shiferaw, Natnael, Farooq, Adeeba, Lee, Mee-hye, Jung, Seok-ho and Ahn, Ji Whan (2020). Synthesis, characterization and mechanism study of green aragonite crystals from waste biomaterials as calcium supplement. Sustainability, 12 (12) 5062. doi: 10.3390/su12125062
Habte, Lulit, Shiferaw, Natnael, Khan, Mohd Danish, Thriveni, Thenepalli and Ahn, Ji Whan (2020). Sorption of Cd2+ and Pb2+ on aragonite synthesized from eggshell. Sustainability, 12 (3) 1174. doi: 10.3390/su12031174
Shiferaw, Natnael, Habte, Lulit, Thenepalli, Thriveni and Ahn, Ji Whan (2019). Effect of eggshell powder on the hydration of cement paste. Materials, 12 (15) 2483. doi: 10.3390/ma12152483
Thenepalli, Thriveni, Chilakala, Ramakrishna, Habte, Lulit, Tuan, Lai Quang and Kim, Chun Sik (2019). A brief note on the heap leaching technologies for the recovery of valuable metals. Sustainability, 11 (12) 3347. doi: 10.3390/su11123347
Habte, Lulit, Shiferaw, Natnael, Mulatu, Dure, Thenepalli, Thriveni, Chilakala, Ramakrishna and Ahn, Ji (2019). Synthesis of nano-calcium oxide from waste eggshell by sol-gel method. Sustainability, 11 (11) 3196. doi: 10.3390/su11113196

Conference Paper

Lai, Quang Tuan, Habte, Lulit, Thriveni, Thenepalli, Seongho, Lee and Ahn, Ji Whan (2021). COVID-19 impacts on climate change—sustainable technologies for Carbon Capture Storage and Utilization (CCUS). Energy Technologies and CO2 Management Symposium held at TMS Virtual Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Virtual, 14-18 March 2021. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-65257-9_3
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