A5051652474- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Landfill Environmental Impact Studies
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Mine drainage and remediation techniques
- Tailings Management and Properties
- Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization
- Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Building materials and conservation
- Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Landslides and related hazards
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Underground infrastructure and sustainability
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2013-2025
University of Kassel
2024-2025
Nanyang Technological University
2020
Microplastics (MPs) are emerging persistent contaminants in the terrestrial subsurface, and evidence has emerged for significant effects of MPs on biological ecosystem functions soils. Main MP sources include land spreading sewage sludge biowaste composts, plastic mulching film used horticultural fields, waste water irrigation leachate from landfills, among others. This updated state-of-the-art review paper describes recent experimental numerical research developments understanding...
Covid-19 is proving to be an unprecedented disaster for human health, social contacts and the economy worldwide. It evident that SARS-CoV-2 may spread through municipal solid waste (MSW), if collected, bagged, handled, transported or disposed of inappropriately. Under stress placed by current pandemic on sanitary performance across all MSW management (MSWM) chains, this industry needs re-examine its infrastructure resilience with respect processes, from identification, classification,...
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has posed severe threats to humans and the geoenvironment. findings of acute respiratory syndrome 2 (Sars-CoV-2) traces in waste water practice disinfecting outdoor spaces several cities world, which can result into entry disinfectants their by-products storm drainage systems subsequent discharge rivers coastal waters, raise issue environmental, ecological public health effects. aims current paper are investigate potential operate as transmission routes...
This paper reports the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on practice and delivery geotechnical geoenvironmental engineering (GGE) education modules, including lectures, lab sessions, student assessments research activities, based feedback from faculty members in 14 countries/regions around world. Faculty have since adopted a series contingent measures to enhance teaching learning experience during pandemic, which includes facilitating active learning, exploring new content related public...
The revitalisation of the global economy after Covid-19 era presents environmental geotechnics with opportunity to reinforce need for a change in paradigm towards green, circular and promote aggressively use development sustainable technologies management practices. This paper aims assist this effort by concentrating on several thematic areas where sustainability solutions future improvements are sought. These include re-entry construction demolition wastes, excavated materials, industrial...
Pandemic outbreaks are a major challenge in terms of human health and environmental impact. Pandemics cause an increase waste production, significant reduction recycling, the release disinfectants into environment. In order to minimize negative impact on environment, it is essential acquire develop universal methods for dealing with pandemic Based data provided by Polish Indian hospitals, Anthropocene epoch generation management hazardous medical was evaluated. To determine pandemic, were...
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic not only has created a health crisis across world but is also expected to impact negatively global economy and societies at scale that maybe larger than 2008 financial crisis. Simultaneously, it inevitably exerted many negative consequences on geoenvironment which human beings depend. current paper articulates role environmental geotechnics in elucidating mitigating effects pandemic. It belief all authors Covid-19 presents...
Plastics are an essential commodity due to their superior engineering properties, durability and low cost for utilization in various commercial products. However, the degradation of plastics several environmental stresses has led formation microplastics (MPs). MPs have risen top concerns affinity pollute environment pass it food chain, threatening human health. In this context, attempts been made extract characterise from aqueous solid matrices. A problem that not only hampers research but...
ABSTRACTRubber manufacturers, and especially the automobile industry, along with urban local bodies, recyclers, society by large, are facing a major challenge in terms of reuse and/or valorization huge quantities Waste Rubber, read as WasRub. The WasRub being highly resistant to thermal, biological, chemical, photochemical degradation, due its cross-linked (vulcanized) structure, is threat ecosystem. Thus, need hour devise novel strategies methodologies that would facilitate bulk utilization...
Surface and subsurface fire in municipal solid waste landfills (including dumpsites) is a complex intricate phenomenon, frequency of which expected to increase due climate change. Partial or incomplete combustion landfill at low temperatures during fires leads the generation toxic compounds, including hydrocarbons, particulate matter hazardous gases, contaminate surrounding geoenvironment ultimately pose severe health hazards living entities. Under these circumstances, it need hour...
Biochemical decomposition of municipal solid waste (MSW) in landfills leads to the generation leachate, gases and humus substances. In this context, a methodology assess D ecomposition MSW , designated as DecoMSW has been developed; based on series tests conducted samples fresh those retrieved from active bioreactor landfill (BLF) cells age 13 48 months. Furthermore, spatial temporal variation (i) physical (composition) (ii) chemical (pH, volatile solids, total organic carbon, elemental...
Composting enables microbial decomposition of biodegradable organic fractions municipal solid waste (OFMSW) and converts them into a valuable resource having profuse application in agriculture horticulture. The efficiency composting, primarily, would depend upon physico-chemico-biological properties the feedstock (moisture content, particle size matter) operational parameters (temperature, aeration rate frequency, presence bulking agents microorganisms). However, lack appropriate selection...