Prof. Bello started his career as a
Mechanical Engineering Technician at Nigerian Tobacco Company, Ibadan in 1969
and Petroleum Engineer with the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources (now
NNPC) in 1975. In 1977, he appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in Chemical
Engineering at the University of Lagos where he rose through the ranks to
become a Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1998. He has had extensive
industrial and public exposures. He was the National Project Manager for the
UNDP/ILO project on “Strategies for Self Employment Promotion” in 1991/1992.
This was resident within the NDE and covered twelve states of the Federation.
He, later in 1994, became a member of the Ogun State Executive Council as the
State Commissioner for Special Duties.
Prof. Bello specialized in Biochemical
Engineering processes. He has carried out researches and consultancy in Industrial
Biotechnology. He carried out pioneering works on Airlift Reactors, which led
to their consequent uses as Bioreactors. His works characterized various types
of Airlift Bioreactors, determining their intrinsic energy and mass transport
characteristics, thus enabling appropriate use for each type in the industry.
He has also carried out a research on Immobilized Enzyme and Whole Cells
system. These works focused on the more efficient utilization of enzymes at
degrading agricultural produces during industrial processing as well as finding
more economical modes of degrading starches and celluloses, for use as
industrial raw materials, e.g. in ethanol production.
Prof. Bello is a COREN Registered Engineer, a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and Fellow, the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers. Prof. Bello has written many books and has published in several scholarly journals.
