RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREA OF
SPECIALIZATIONS
"To conduct both fundamental and
applied scholarly research in
environmental engineering specifically
on bioprocess engineering for industrial,
agricultural, and municipal liquid and
solid wastes treatment to alleviate the
growing environmental pollution and to
recover value-added products from waste streams".
Traditionally, the focus of pollution
control has been to get rid of
pollutants from a single medium (either
liquid, solid or gas). Often the
pollutants are simply transformed from
one medium to another (liquid to solid
or gas and vice-versa). This defeats
the holistic goal of pollution control.
Since water bodies (liquid), land
(solid) and air (gas) are three
important entities of our environment,
pristinity of these resources governs
the overall environmental quality and
the sustainability. Therefore,
pollution control in the truest sense
requires comprehension of the phenomena
that help to close the loop. Along this
line, my research efforts are directed
towards developing an integrated
environmental biotechnology that couples
waste treatment with recovery of
value-added products and bioenergy from
waste streams. I intend to develop and
continue several hypothesis-driven
research areas in environmental
biotechnology that involves both process
engineering and microbiology.
Specifically, some of my foremost areas
of research interest are:
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