Professor Robert Kagi

Director

BSc (Hons), PhD, MBA (UWA), FRACI, CChem
Field of interest: Organic geochemical studies of waters and petroleum

Contact Details

Centre for Applied Organic Geochemistry
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987
Perth WA 6845
Building 304 - 214C
Phone +61 (0) 8 9266 7882
Fax +61 (0) 8 9266 3547
Email R.Kagi@curtin.edu.au

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Research Projects

• Improved Drinking Water Quality: Chemical and Microbiological Investigations of Advanced Drinking Water Treatment Technologies
• Characterisation of Natural Organic Matter in Source and Treated Waters
• Development of a Dissolved Organic Carbon Detector for Use in Size Exclusion Chromatography to Determine the Molecular Weight Distribution of Natural Organic Matter in Natural Waters
• Reactions of Organic Matter in the Sedimentary System
• Characterisation of the Source of Sedimentary organic matter
• Macrocyclic Alkanes: Markers for the Freshwater Alga Botryococcus braunii
• The Formation of Sedimentary Alkylbiphenyls from Algal Lipid Precursors
• Reconstructing Petroleum Migration Pathways Through Analysis of Polar Compounds
• Temperature and Pressure Effects on the Isotopic Composition of Natural Gas
• Novel Molecular Sieve Methods for Compound Specific Isotope Analysis

Key Publications

Heitz, A., Blythe, J., Allpike, B., Joll, C.A. and Kagi, R.I. (2003) Plastic tastes in drinking water: Factors affecting the chemistry of bromophenol formation. Water Science and Technology 2, 179-184.

Heitz, A., Kagi, R.I. and Alexander, R. (2000) Polysulfide in pipewall biofilms: Its role in the formation of swampy odour in distribution systems. Water Science and Technology 41, 271-278.

Joll, C.A., Simanjuntak, W., Heitz, A., Vuong, S. and Kagi, R.I. (2000) Application of solid-phase microextraction to the analysis of trihalomethanes in drinking water. In Proceedings of Envirotech 2000, Watertech, Sydney, Australia, 9-12 April.

Gagnon, M.M., Grice, K. and Kagi, R.I. (1999) Biochemical and chemical parameters for aquatic ecosystem health assessments adapted to the Australian oil and gas industry. APPEA Journal 39, 584-598.

Grice, K., Kagi, R.I. and Alexander, R. (1999) Compound specific 13C/12C and D/H isotopes: Instrumentation and applications to petroleum and environmental geochemistry. In Proceedings of the 8th ISMAS Symposium on Mass Spectrometry, Hyderabad, India, Vol 1, 235-244.