Research

Research Interest

· Environmental Engineering and Biochemical Engineering

Ø Biofiltration of Volatile Organic Compounds and heavy metal pollutants

Ø Carbon Capture Utilization utilizing bacterial route

· Environmental Management systems

ØEnvironmental Impact Assessment of various processes

ØLife cycle inventory analysis of industrial processes

ØLife cycle impact assessment of industrial processes

Ph.D. Students

S No.	Name of Candidate	Title of Thesis	Role	Date of Completion
1.	Subhajit Majumder (2009PHXF440P)	Studies on Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater using Biofiltration	Co-Supervisor	Awarded in March, 2016
2.	Somesh Mishra (2011PHXF007P)	Experimental studies on bio-mitigation of carbon dioxide (CO₂)	Supervisor	Awarded in April, 2017
3.	Abhishek Anand (2017PHXP0014P)	Process development for bio-mitigation of flue gases using bacterial route and production of value added products	Supervisor	Ongoing
4.	Rachael Jovita Barla (2019PHXP0068P)	Experimental and theoretical investigations of non-photosynthetic bio-mitigation of flue gas (CO₂, SO_X, and NO_X) by chemolithotrophs in the bioreactor system.	Supervisor	Ongoing
5.	Taniya Kumari Shaw (2020PHXP0469P)	Broadly in Anaerobic Digestion of Organic Waste	Supervisor	Course Work

Dissertation Students

S No.	Name of Candidate	Title of the Project	Date of Completion
1.	Isha Nagpurkar	CO₂Mitigation by Microalgae	December, 2012
2.	Pratibha Pal	CO₂ mitigation using mixed culture	December, 2013
3.	Garima Verma	Development of an efficient system for defluoridation of drinking water using nano adsorbents	May, 2016
4.	Siva Krishna	Reactive extraction of products obtained from CO₂ mitigation	May, 2016
5.	Harshal Dongre	Removal of trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) using biofiltration technique	May, 2016
6.	Ch. Ramakrishna	LCA of biodiesel production from microalgae grown in wastewater	May, 2017
7.	Akshay Khandelwal	Development of Continuous Bio-mitigation of CO2 and Recovery of Products (Fatty acids and Fatty alcohol) from Leachate	May, 2019
8.	Shrinidhi	LCA of Recycling Spent LiBs from Electric Vehicles	May, 2020
8.	Aravindh N.	Bio mitigation of flue gases (CO₂, SO_x, NO_x) through algal route	May, 2021
9.	Arjun S.	Experimental understanding and life cycle impact assessment of anaerobic digestion of food waste	Ongoing

BE Projects - Study Project / Lab Project / Design Project

Application of environmental impact assessment method for integrated solid waste management activities.
Implementation of Process Integration in LCA
Physicho-Chemical Analysis & Environmental Impact Assessment of Textile Industry Effluent
E- waste management
Life Cycle Inventory Analysis on Bio-Medical Waste Management between different Health Care Institutions of Southern Tamilnadu, India
Life cycle for coal fired power plants assessment
A detailed study on carbon credits and carbon footprints
Environmental rules, regulations and permits
Risk Management for Chemical Industries
Life cycle assessment for urea production plant
Life cycle inventory analysis for sugar plant
Role of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Nanotechnology
Implementation of Fuzzy Logic for Environmental Impact Assessment
Solvent-Solvent extraction of products from Carbon dioxide mitigation
Removal of heavy metals from waste water using graphene oxide based nano adsorbents
Non-photosynthetic conversion of flue gases (CO₂/SOx/NOx) in lab scale bioreactor
Experimental approach for design & development of anaerobic reactor for conversion of mess waste (solid waste) into bio-gas
Life cycle assessment (LCA) of RO systems
Estimation of emission factors from various data sets available in literature or other sources/ Bodies.
Life cycle assessment studies of flue gas
Life cycle inventory analysis (LCI) for comparative analysis for removal of flue gases from various methods
Development of effective technology for defluoridation of drinking water using nanoadsorbents
Solvent solvent extraction for the recovery of products from carbon dioxide mitigation
Modeling and simulation of continuous bioreactor for the CO₂ mitigation
Lab to pilot scale studies for effective development of biofilter system
Strategies of data collection for life cycle assessment of process
Life cycle assessment of fuel cells using Umberto Nxt tool (LCA tool)
Anaerobic digestion of food waste
Life cycle inventory studies of anaerobic digestion of food waste
Analysis of design parameters for anaerobic digestion of food waste
Life cycle assessment of fuel cells using Umberto Nxt tool (LCA tool)

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Title of the Project	Funding Agency	Participation	Amount (Lakhs)	Year	Status
Process development for bio-mitigation of flue gases (CO₂, SO_x, and NO_x) using chemolithotrophs and production of value-added products.	SERB	PI	31.61	2019 - 2022	Ongoing
Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds (Chlorinated VOCs, Non methane hydrocarbons, ethylene glycol) from waste streams using Biofiltration	DST- fast-track	PI	14.5	2012 – 15	Completed
Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewater using Biofiltration	UGC	PI	5.50	2012 – 15	Completed
Experimental Studies on Bio-mitigation of CO₂	BITS Pilani	PI	1.2	2011-2013	Completed

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