Specialisation:

Renewable Energy and Chemicals; Environmental Bioengineering; Advanced Wastewater treatment; Bioengineering; Circular Economy; Waste biorefineries; Life Cycle Analysis

Major Professional Contributions:

1. Technology for biohydrogen production from wastewater (demonstrated at pilot plant with 10 m3 capacity) (MNRE, Government of India) (2017)
2. Waste Biorefinery Facility (10,000 liter capacity), CSIR-IICT (2017)
3. Zero Discharge Effluent treatment design for Chloro-alkali wastewater streams
4. Designed and installed full scale anaerobic suspended film up flow reactor for treating chemical based wastewater.
5. Developed a process to treat bulk drug effluent employing anaerobic fixed film reactor.
6. Development of methodology to identify mercury contamination in environmental matrix and established a process for safe disposal of mercury contaminated soil, M/S Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB), Hyderabad.
7. Designed and installed pilot scale anaerobic biofilm reactor facility (2.5 m3) for treating bulk drug effluents (DSIR- PATSER Program, Government of India).
8. Laboratory and pilot plant studies (2 m3) for the composite chemical wastewater treatment using UASB and ASP for CETP application
9. Design of effluent treatment plant (ETP; 0.5 MLD) for treatment of combined sewage in flowing Nalla at Siricilla (in situ)
10. Effluent treatment plant design for effluents of Hydrazine-Hydrate plant.
11. Chemical Disinfection Treatment Unit (CDTP) for Liquid Biomedical Waste Pre-treatment
12. Carrying capacity based strategic planning for sustainable industrial development of Visakhapatnam region based on water (surface) and soil quality. Environmental Protection and Training Research Institute (EPTRI), Government of Andhra Pradesh.
13. Review of effluent standards and development of emission standards for basic organic chemical manufacturing industry, M/s Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), New Delhi.
14. Evaluation of environmental status of textile unit based on wastewater characterization, quantification and ETP performance, M/s Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB).
15. Performance evaluation of effluent treatment plants
16. Environmental performance evaluation studies
17. Rapid environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies
18. Environmental Auditing for M/S Rallis Chemical Ltd., Hyderabad and M/S UNI-SANKYO, Hyderabad.
19. Technical report on ‘Strategic Research Agenda supporting the Roadmap for biofuel production in India and EU’ SAHYOG Project Grant agreement no: 289615, EU-DBT Project (2014) (Prepared by in collaboration with Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Italy, TERI, ARTI, Deutsches Zentrumfür Luft - und Raumfahrte.V. (DLR), Germany, GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar, JNU, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Netherlands Enterprise Agency – Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, The Netherlands, Tezpur University, VlaamseInstellingvoorTechnologischOnderzoek (VITO), Belgium, Wageningen University & Research Centre Food &Biobased Research, The Netherlands, WIP Renewable Energies, Germany)
20. Strategic Research Agenda on bio-based economy in EU and India, A report produced within the framework of the project SAHYOG (Strengthening Networking on Biomass Research and Biowaste Conversion-Biotechnology for Europe India Integration, http://www.sahyog-europa-india.eu/images/SAHYOG-Strategic_Research_Agenda-Final.pdf)
21. Report on ‘Sustainable systems in the post-2015 development agenda: Keeping societies, economies and ecosystems resilient’ through, International Expert Group on Earth System Preservation, The Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability, and Institute of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Germany

Consultancy Areas:

Advanced Wastewater treatment; Carrying Capacity and Sustainability Evaluation Studies; Environmental Impact assessment and auditing studies; Soil Bioremediation; Environmental Electro-microbiology.

Sector Associated With:

R&D

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