Fortunate Farirai is a Renewable Energy Expert. She is the current National team Leader for Green Hydrogen Atlas Africa Project in Zimbabwe
The increase on the visibility of women in the green hydrogen sector is important.
Fortunate Farirai is the Founder and Director of Sustenergy. She is the current National Team Leader for Green Hydrogen Atlas Africa Zimbabwe. She is also pursuing a Post Doctoral research on green hydrogen with the Southern Africa Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Managegement (SASSCAL).
Farirai F., Shonhiwa, C., Mupa, M. and Daramola, M.O., Compositional Analysis of
Zimbabwean Sugarcane Bagasse Ash towards the Production of nano silicon for solar cell
application. Oral Presentation. 12th Zimbabwe International Research Symposium. 13-15
February 2019. Harare, Zimbabwe.
Farirai, F., Mupa, M., Daramola, M.O., Sol-gel Coupling Method for Extraction of High
Purity Silica from Sugarcane Bagasse Ash for Solar Cell Application. Grad Flash
Presentation. 10th Cross Faculty Postgraduate Research Symposium. 3-4 September 2019,
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2nd Prize Faculty of Engineering
and the Built Environment).
3. Farirai, F., Airo, M.A., Otieno, F.O., Mupa, M. and Daramola, M.O., Sugarcane bagasse ash
derived nano silicon for application in inorganic-organic hybrid bulk heterojunction solar cells.
Oral Presentation. Seminar. 21 November 2019, Department of Physics, University of
Catania, Sicily, Italy.
1. Farirai, F., Shonhiwa, C., Mupa, M. and Daramola, M.O. (2019) Compositional Analysis of Zimbabwean Sugarcane Bagasse Ash towards Production of Nano Silicon for Solar Cell Application. In Valorization of Biomass to Value-Added Commodities. M.O Daramola and
A.O Ayeni, Eds. Springer Nature Publisher (In press)
2. Farirai, F., Ozonoh, M., Aniokete, C.T., Eterigho-Ikelegbe, O., Zeyi, B., Mupa, M. and
Daramola, M.O.(2020) Methods of Extracting Silica and Silicon from Agricultural Waste
Ashes and Application of the Produced Silicon in Solar Cells, A mini-review. International
Journal for Sustainable Engineering, DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2020.1720854.
3. Farirai, F., Mupa, M., Daramola, M.O. (2020) An improved method for the production
of high purity silica from sugarcane bagasse ash obtained from a Bioethanol Plant Boiler.
Particulate Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/02726351.2020.1734700
4. Farirai, F., Airo, M.A., Otieno, F.O., Mupa, M. and Daramola, M.O., Sugarcane bagasse ash
derived nano silicon for application in organic-inorganic hybrid solar cell (submitted).
