Dr. Joseph Oppong Akowuah is the Project Lead for the project “Professional Education for Renewable Energy in Ghana – ProREG”. He is the newly appointed Director of the Brew-Hammond Energy Centre at KNUST. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana.
His research focuses on post-harvest engineering, stored grain protection, techno-economic analysis, and design and development of low-capacity drying systems utilizing renewable energy sources (solar and biomass) for grain handling and processing to mitigate post-harvest loss and food waste in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Biography
Dr. Joseph Oppong Akowuah is the newly appointed Director of the Brew-Hammond Energy Centre at KNUST. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana.