Research areas
The major focus areas of research at CESE are: Water Supply; Water & Wastewater Treatment, Tertiary treatment options, Urban and Industrial Solid Waste Management, Environmental Management; and Environmental Systems Modelling & Optimization, GIS for Environment, Industrial Effluent and Sludge Management Nanotechnology, Air pollution monitoring of indoor and outdoor environments, Aerosol and air quality, Health impact of air pollutants, Carbon dioxide sequestration methods, Detection of pathogenic microbes in drinking water, Evaluation of disinfection processes and byproducts, Detection of trace and emerging contaminants in treated water and wastewater, Chemical and biological processes for the removal of trace and emerging contaminants from water List of current research topics:
- Advanced oxidation processes for the removal of persistent organic and inorganic compounds from industrial wastewater
- Reductive remediation of organic pollutants such as chlorinated pesticides, textile dyes using zerovalent metals and bimetallic systems
- ( N & P) removal from wasterwater using a combination of physicochemical and biological process,
- Development of technologies for arsenic removal from water
- Treatment of leachate (generated from municipal solid waste landfill) using physico chemical processes
- Application of natural coagulants for water and wastewater treatment
- Treatment of textile wastewater by biological and physicochemical processes
- Eco-centric and lowcost wastewater treatment systems
- Fate and transport of pollutants in aquatic and subsurface systems
- Biotransformation and biodegradation of oily sludge and toxicity evaluation
- Biodegradation of endocrine disrupting chemicals such as lower and higher phthalate esters and chlorinated pesticides,
- Bacterial cellulose: An alternative greener approach for the production of cellulose
- Application of biochemical processes (enzyme catalyzed processes) for cleaner production technologies
- Hazardous waste minimization and pollution prevention
- Biomonitoring and microbial bioassays for toxicity testing
- Detection and monitoring of bacteria and viruses in potable water
- Mechanical biological treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW)
- Energy recovery from solid recovered fuel (derived from MSW) and sludge generated from sewage treatment plants and industries
- Hazardous, municipal & biomedical waste management
- Air pollution dispersion modelling
- Air quality monitoring and management,
- Indoor and integrated air pollution exposure assessment
- Aerosol and air quality
- Environmental health assessment
- Environmental noise assessment
- Health impacts of air pollutants
- Hot gas cleanup (thermal gasification)
- Satellite remote sensing for air quality
- Nanopowder synthesis, Nanotechnology for the treatment of wastewater and disinfection processes
- Environmental statistics and design of experiments
- Environmental Impact assessment of construction activities and industrial activities
- Ecoindustrial networking
- Environmental policy and preventive environmental management
- Environmental and Water Resources Systems: development of optimization models for surface water quality management, irrigation water management, floodplain planning and management, landfill leachate contamination risk assessment, optimal design of water & wastewater conveyance systems, design & evaluation of water quality monitoring network
- Uncertainty Modeling and Decision Science for Environmental Systems: probabilistic, fuzzy and interval approaches; multiattribute decision making Hydroclimatic Extremes and Flood Management: multivariate flood and drought frequency analyses
- Nonstationary modeling of hydroclimatic extremes, mapping vulnerability to natural and humaninduced hazards using GIS, flood risk mapping, nearrealtime flood forecasting,
- Environmetrics: multivariate statistical surface water quality assessment, evaluation of trophic states, rationalization of water quality monitoring stations.