Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering

Annual Report 2007-2008 Highlights of CESE Activities The Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE) has a dedicated group of faculty members with multi-disciplinary background and interests. Currently, the Centre offers M.Tech. and Ph.D. programmes in Environmental Science and Engineering, which are interdisciplinary in nature and consist of course work followed by a research project. The post-graduate programs and activities of the Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT, Bombay are focused towards addressing the needs and challenges of major industrial sectors and governmental sectors, like MHRD, CPCB, SPCB, MNES, DBT, MoEF, CSIR, DST, AICTE and international agencies like WB, US EPA. The centre also offers institute courses such as Environmental Studies (compulsory course in response to the Supreme Court directive) and Environmental Science and Engineering (elective course) for sensitizing the students across all disciplines towards the urgent need for protection and restoration of environment by adapting environmentally friendly life styles. The above courses are unique and cover engineering, biological and socio-economic aspects of environmental problems. The centre has plans for major expansion of teaching and research activities. The centre proposes to increase the strength of existing M. Tech and Ph.D. programmes. In addition, there is a proposal to offer new programmes (integrated B.Tech–M.Tech and post B.Sc–M.S.-Ph.D) which will provide unique opportunity to train students in basic science with strong foundation in engineering. Future direction includes active participation of CESE faculty members in web-teaching and internet communication to open opportunities for interacting with foreign students and establishing partnership with universities within and outside country for collaborative teaching and research activities. CESE has established strong links and collaborations with leading industries, academic institutions and national/international agencies by conducting sponsored research projects and offering consultancy and technical services. Major on-going research deals with contemporary topics like

• Clean technologies and industrial pollution prevention, • Integrated treatment and disposal of hazardous waste • Bio-medical waste management • Biodegradation of complex industrial wastewaters (fertilizer, food, paper, coke oven,

diary, distillery, petrochemicals) and wastewaters containing halogenated aromatics, nitro-aromatics and other mixed substrates

• Bioseparation of reactive textile dyes and their degradation using chemical and biological methods

• Remediation of halogenated pesticides and adsorbable organic halides using zero-valent metal catalysis

• Biodegradation of complex non-aqueous liquid pollutants (NAPLs e.g. oil and tar) • Development and application of toxicity/mutagenicity tests for emissions and

effluents • Development of novel biological and chemical reactors • Air pollution monitoring in major cities of India, modeling and health risk analysis

• Aerosol and PAH emission factors, aerosol inventory, transport modeling and source apportionment

• Environmental impact assessment of developmental projects • In-situ and ex-situ remediation of contaminated groundwater and aquatic

environments • Biofuels & bioenergy • Clean-up of contaminated rivers • Application of GIS and GPS for management of environment. • Treatment of potable water contaminated with pollutants such as arsenic and fluoride

using novel and inexpensive methods for application to rural areas • Application of nanotechnology for environment • Monitoring biological air quality using molecular biology tools

In addition to teaching and research activities, faculty members of CESE also play a pivotal role by serving as (a) members of various advisory committees in industrial sectors and governmental organizations and (b) editorial board members of reputed international and national journals. The centre is also actively engaged in organizing workshops, conferences and CEP courses which regularly attract participants from industries and governmental sectors. The centre celebrated the World Environment Day on 5th June, 2008 with strong support from ESEA (Environmental Science and Engineering Association of CESE Students). Dr. Deepak Kantawala was the chief guest at the function. This celebration involved several presentations by eminent professionals, poster presentations by CESE students and panel (consisting of CESE alumini, industrialists and academicians) discussion that provided a unique platform for the critical review of the curriculum of academic programmes offered/to be offered by CESE.

1. Publications

• Books/Chapter in Books Arceivala S. J. and Asolekar S. R.

“Wastewater Treatment for Pollution Control” (3rd Edition, First Reprint). McGraw Hill Educational Publications (India) Ltd., New Delhi (2007).

Asolekar S. R. Rainwater Harvesting in Mumbai, Chapter-7 in the book entitled “Sustainable Futures”, Ed. Margaret Robertson, pp 100-125, ACER Press, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia (2007). Gupta S.K., Basu D., Hung Y. and Wang L. K. “Waste Treatment in Iron and Steel Manufacturing Industry.” Ed. L. K. Wang, N. K. Shammas and Y. Hung, Waste Treatment in the Metal Manufacturing, Forming, Coating and Finishing Industries, Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment series, Volume II, Taylor and Francis Group, LLC (2007).

Gupta S.K. and Basu D.

“Pollution abatement using biological treatment systems.” Ed. Dr. S. R. Garg, Environmental Pollution and Health Risk to Man and Animals (2007).

Barai S.V., Dikshit A.K. and Sharma S. “Neural Network Models for Air quality Prediction: A Comparative Study”, in Soft Computing for Industrial Applications edited by Ashraf Saad, Erel Avineri, Keshav Dahal, Muhammad Sarfraz and Rajkumar Roy, Vol. 39 of Advances in Soft Computing Series, Springler Berlin Heidelburg, Germany, pp. 290-305, 2007

• Paper in Proceedings – International Asokan P., Saxena M. and Asolekar S.R. Application of Coal Combustion Residues and Marble Processing Residues for Immobilising and Recycling of Hazardous Jarosite Waste. In: I. Zandi, R.L. Mersky and W,K. Shieh (eds.). Proc. “23rd International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management”, Philadelphia, USA, April 2008, pp 1298- 1317, ISSN: 1091-8043. Vanjari S.R. and Asolekar S.R. Integated Waste Management for the city of Nashik in India.. In the proceeding of “23rd International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management”, Philadelphia, USA, April 2008, Session 4-A. Mahindrakar A.B., Chaturvedi M.K.M. and Asolekar S.R. Significance of Using Recycled Water to Augment Water Shortage in the Context of 24 x 7. In the proceedings of “10th International Conference on Achieving 24x7 Continuous Water Supply”, organized by the Indian Water Works Association in Mumbai during January 11-12, 2008. Tilwankar A.K., Kurle C.C. and Asolekar S.R. Sustainable Wastewater Management Strategy for Enabling 24 x 7 Water Supply in Rural Community. In the proceedings of “10th International Conference on Achieving 24x7 Continuous Water Supply”, organized by the Indian Water Works Association in Mumbai during January 11-12, 2008. Asokan P., Saxena M. and Asolekar S.R. Coal Combustion Residues for Safe Management of Hazardous Jarosite Waste. In: Jadhav, G. N. and Khosla, N.K. (eds.). Proc. “International Seminar on Mineral Processing Technology”, IIT Bombay. Mumbai, India, February 22-24, 2007, pp 709-713. Patil R.S. Indoor Air Quality Measurements of Particulates in Commercial Kitchens”, Symposium on Air Quality Measurements Organized by AWMA, SFO, US, 29 April – 2 May, 2007. Chauhan M.S. and Dikshit A.K. "Decolourisation of Distillery Wastewater in India: Current Status and Future Trends", 10th

International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST 2007), Kos Island, Greece, pp. 220-227, September 5-7, 2007. Upadhyay D. and Dikshit A.K. “Endosulfan Removal by Rizopus Arrihzus Biomass”, 4th International Conference on Environmental Education, organized by Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad, November 26-28, 2007. Barai S.V., Dikshit A.K. and Sharma S. “Self-Organizing Feature Map Model for Air Quality Prediction”, in Special Session on Natural Computing in Infrastructure Engineering and Management, at the 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI 2007), Pune, December 17-19, 2007. Chauhan M.S. and Dikshit A.K. “Decolourisation of Distillery Wastewater: A Biotechnological Approach”, International Conference on Biotechnology for Sustainable Development (BSD2008), National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, January 7-9, 2008. Singh, S.S. and Dikshit A.K. “COD and Color Removal Of Distillery Spent Wash Using Fungal Bioreactor”, International Conference on Biotechnology for Sustainable Development (BSD2008), National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, January 7-9, 2008. Upadhyay D. and Dikshit A.K. “Endosulfan Removal by Bacilus Magetarium Biomass”, International Conference on Biotechnology for Sustainable Development (BSD2008), National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, January 7-9, 2008. Vyajayanthi J. P. and Sumathi S. “Reductive Degradation of 2-Nitrophenol Using Palladized Bacterial Cellulose Cubes”, Accepted for oral presentation in the International Conference on Environment and Technology (ICERT), University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, May 28-30th, 2008. Vyajayanthi J. P., Patel U.D. and Sumathi S. (2008) Decolourization of Drrimarene red Dye using Palladized Bacterial Cellulose in a Rotating Catalyst Contact Reactor. Accepted for podium presentation in WEFTEC-08, Chicago Illinois, USA, October 18-22, 2008. Manojkumar B. and Chaudhari S. “EBPR Sludge development with Cow-dung seed and stable EBPR with isolated PAO-ARTHROBACTER SPP”, accepted for poster presentation in IWA organized 4th Sequencing Batch Reactor conference to be held in Rome, Italy on 7-10 April 2008

Mukherji S. and Chavan A. “Treatment of Oil Contaminated Wastewater using Algal-Bacterial Biofilms in RBC”, Second Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Jointly Organized by US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and IIT Madras, Irvine, CA, USA, 27 Feb – 1 March, 2008 (Poster Presentation). Venkataraman A., Mujawar L., Sai V. V. R., Ruparelia J. P., Contractor A., Mukherji S. and Mukherji S. “A Polyaniline/Polystyrene Sulfonate/Glutaraldehyde Based Sensor for Detection of E coli in Water” The 8th Workshop on Biosensors and Bioanalytical �-Techniques in Environmental and Clinical Analysis, Organized by International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry and BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, Oct 3-8, 2007. (Oral Presentation) Ruparelia J.P., Chatterjee A.K., Duttagupta S.P. and Mukherji S. “Antibacterial Activity of Silver and Copper Nanoparticles” Second Conference on Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials, Natural History Museum, London, UK, Organised by SETAC, SEB and the Environment Agency, Sept. 24 – 25, 2007. (Oral Presentation) Parvez S., Venkataraman C. and Mukherji S. "Toxicity Estimation of 2, 3 and 4 component mixture of HOCs and Inertpretation of Interaction effects” 11th International Congress of Toxicology (ICT-2007), Montreal, Canada, organized by The Society of Toxicology of Canada and National Research Council, Canada, July 15-19, 2007, (Poster Presentation) Karmakar S. and Simonovic S.P. “Bivariate Flood Frequency Analysis using Copula with Parametric and Nonparametric Marginals”, Flood 2008, Fourth International Symposium on Flood Defence, May 6-8 (2008), Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Canada.

Peck A., Black J., Karmakar S. and Simonovic S.P. “A Web-based Flood Information System”, Flood 2008, Fourth International Symposium on Flood Defence, May 6-8 (2008) Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Canada.

• Paper in Proceedings – National Patel R. and Sumathi S. A sequential biological-chemical method for the removal and decolourization of reactive black5 dye. Proceedings of the specialized conference organized by International Water Association (IWA), Institute of National Research of Agronomy (INRA), France and Kumuraguru College of Technology, India February 5th-9th, Coimbatore, India (2008). Ruparelia J.P., Chatterjee A.K., Duttagupta S.P. and Mukherji S.

“Synthesis of Carbon Nanomaterials and Effects of Post Treatment on Removal of Heavy Metals from Water”, The 2nd National Conference on Current Trends in Technology, NUCONE 2007, Nov 29-Dec 1, 2007, held at Institute of Technology, Nirma University of Science and Technology, Ahmedabad. (Oral Presentation & paper in proceedings) Chavan A. and Mukherji S. “Effect of Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids on Oxygen Transfer in Rotating Biological Contactor”, National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Engineering (NCFCE-2007), in IIT Guwahati, Organized by Dept. of Chemical Engg, IIT Guwahati, Dec 12-14, 2007 (Oral Presentation, Received Best Presentation Award in the Transport Phenomena Session).

• Papers in Journals – International Anushuya R. and Gupta S.K. "Effect of Effluent Recycling and Shock Loading on the Biodegradation of Complex Phenolic Mixture In Hybrid UASB Reactors", Bioresource Technology, 99(9), (2008), pp. 3745-3753. Anushuya R. and Gupta S.K. "Effect of Hydraulic Retention Time on the biodegradation of Complex Phenolic Mixture from Simulated Coal Wastewater in a Hybrid UASB Reactors, Journal of hazardous materials,153 (1-2), (2008), pp. 843-851. Anushuya R. and Gupta S.K. "Effect of COD/NO3-N Ratio on the Performance of Hybrid UASB Reactor Treating Phenolic Wastewater”, Desalination, 232 (2008), pp. 128-138. Basu D. and Gupta S.K. “Performance of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor treating simulated wastewaters containing 1,1,2 Trichloroethane and 1,1,2,2 Tetrachloroethane”. Special Issue: Treatment processes for mixed organic wastes, residual biosolids and wastewaters - The International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (Inderscience). (Accepted on 16.05.08) Basu D. and Gupta S.K. "Reductive dechlorination of 1,2-Dichloroethane using anaerobic sequencing batch reactor", Water Science and Technology, 57/2,2007, pp. 225-229. Majumder P. S. and Gupta S. K. “Degradation of 4-chlorophenol in UASB reactor under methanogenic conditions”, Bioresource Technology, 99(10), 2008, pp. 4169-4177.

Majumder P. S. and Gupta S. K. “Effect of carbon sources and shock loading on the removal of chlorophenols in sequential anaerobic–aerobic reactors”, Bioresource Technology, 99(8), 2008, pp. 2930-2937. Majumder P. S. and Gupta S. K. “Removal of chlorophenols in sequential anaerobic–aerobic reactors”, Bioresource Technology, 98(1), 2007, pp.118-129. Tiwari V., Jiang J., Sethi V. and Biswas P. “One Step Synthesis of Noble Metal-Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites in a Flame Aerosol Reactor”, Applied Catalysis A: General (2007), doi:10.1016/j.apcata.2008.05.003, Article in press Singh R.K., Murty H.R., Gupta S.K. and Dikshit A.K. “Development of Composite Sustainability Performance Index for Steel Industry”, Ecological Indicators, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp.565-588 (2007). Alam J.B., Dikshit A.K. and Bandyopadhyay M. “Kinetic Study of Sorption of 2,4-D and Atrazine on to Runner Granules”, Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 511-517 (2007). Singh R.K., Murty H.R., Gupta S.K. and Dikshit A.K. “Development and Implementation of Environmental Strategies for Steel Industry”, International Journal for Environmental Technology and Management, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 69-86 (2008). Singh R.K., Murty H.R., Gupta S.K. and Dikshit A.K. “Integrated Environmental Management in Steel Industries”, International Journal for Management and Decision Making, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.103-128 (2008). Sudhakar Y. and Dikshit A.K. “Removal of Endosulfan From Water Using Wood Charcoal - Adsorption and Desorption”, Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 2, pp. 102-109 (2008). Patel U.D. and Sumathi S. Dechlorination of chlorophenols using magnesium-palladium bimetallic system. Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 147, pp. 431-438 (2007). Gautam S. K. and Sumathi S. Studies on dechlorination of DDT [1, 1, 1-trichloro-2, 2-bis (4-chlorophenyl) ethane] using magnesium/palladium bimetallic system. Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. B139, pp. 146-153 (2007).

Gautam S. K. and Sumathi S. Complete dechlorination of DDE/DDD using magnesium/palladium system. Water Environment Research, Vol. 79, issue No. 4, pp. 430-435 (2007). Patel U.D. and Sumathi S. Electrochemical treatment of pentachlorophenol in water and pulp bleaching effluent. Separation and Purification Technology, Vol. 61, pp.115-122 (2008). Patel U.D. and Sumathi S. Complete dechlorination of pentachlorophenol using palladized bacterial cellulose in a rotating catalyst contact reactor. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 319, Issue 2, pp. 462-469 (2008). Patel U.D. and Sumathi S. Effects of solvent, pH, salts and resin fatty acids on the dechlorination of pentachlorophenol using magnesium–silver and magnesium–palladium bimetallic systems. Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 156, Issue 1-3, pp. 308-316 (2008). Patel R. and Sumathi S. Kinetic and equilibrium studies on the biosorption of reactive black 5 dye by Aspergillus foetidus. Bioresource Technology, Vol. 99, pp. 51-58 (2008). Prathibha K. and Sumathi S. Biodegradation of mixture containing monohydroxybanzoate isomers by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Vol. 24, No.6, pp. 813-823 (2008). Bhuptawat H., Folkard G.K. and Chaudhari S. “Laboratory evaluation of a of a water-treatment sequence using Moringa oleifera seed coagulant”, International Journal of Water, Vol 3,issue 3, pp. 291-315 (2007). Lodha B. and Chaudhari S. “Optimization of Fenton-biological treatment scheme for the treatment of aqueous dye solutions”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Volume 148, Issue 1-2, pp. 459-466 (2007). Chaudhari S. and Tare V. “Removal and Recovery of Heavy Metals from Simulated Wastewater using Insoluble Starch Xanthate (ISX) Process” Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste Management, ASCE, in press. Paikaray S., Banerjee S. and Mukherji S. “Surface characteristics of shales and implications on sorption” Environmental Chemistry Letters, Vol. 6, pp. 91-94 (2008). Ruparelia J.P., Duttagupta S.P., Chatterjee A.K. and Mukherji S.

“Potential of Carbon Nanomaterials for Removal of Heavy Metals from Water” Desalination, Vol. 232, pp. 145-156 (2008). Ruparelia J.P., Chatterjee A.K., Duttagupta S.P. and Mukherji S. “Strain Specificity in Antimicrobial Activity of Silver and Copper Nanoparticles” Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 4(3), pp. 707-716 (2008). Chavan A. and Mukherji S. “Treatment of Hydrocarbon-rich Wastewater using Oil Degrading Bacteria and Phototrophic Microorganisms in Rotating Biological Contactor: Effect of N:P Ratio” Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 154, pp. 63-72 (2008). Paikaray S., Banerjee S. and Mukherji S. “Geochemistry of Shales from the Paleoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic Vindhyan Supergroup: Implications on Provenance, Tectonics and Paleoweathering” Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Vol. 32, pp. 34-48 (2008). Chavan A. and Mukherji S. “Dimensional analysis for modeling oxygen transfer in rotating biological contactor” Bioresource Technology, Vol. 99, pp. 3721-3728 (2008). Mohanty G. and Mukherji S. “Biodegradation Rate of Diesel Range n-Alkanes by Bacterial Cultures Exiguobacterium aurantiacum and Burkholderia cepacia” International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, Vol. 61, Issue 3, pp. 240-250 (2008). Chavan A. and Mukherji S. “Effect of Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids on Oxygen Transfer in Rotating Biological Contactor”, International Journal of Chemical Sciences, Vol. 5(4), pp. 1893-1901 (2007). Mohanty G. and Mukherji S. “Effect of an emulsifying surfactant on diesel degradation by cultures exhibiting inducible cell surface hydrophobicity” Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Vol. 82, pp. 1004-1011 (2007). McMahon V., Garg A., Aldred D., Hobbs G., Smith R. and Tothill I.E. “Composting and bioremediation process evaluation of wood waste materials generated from the construction and demolition industry”, Chemosphere, Vol. 71, pp. 1609-1628 (2008). McMahon V., Garg A., Aldred D., Hobbs G., Smith R. and Tothill I.E. “Evaluation of the potential of applying composting/ bioremediation techniques to waste

materials generated within the construction industry”, Waste Management. (2008) (Available online) Garg A., Mishra I.M. and Chand S. “Catalytic oxidative treatment of diluted black liquor at mild conditions using CuO/ CeO2 catalyst”, Water Environment Research, Vol. 80, pp. 136-141 (2008). Garg A., Smith R., Hill D., Simms N. and Pollard S. “Wastes as co-fuels - the policy framework for solid recovered fuel (SRF) in Europe, with UK implications”, Environ. Sci. Tech., Vol. 41, pp. 4868-4874 (2007).

• Papers in Journals – National

Asolekar S. R. and Chaturvedi M.K.M.

Sustainable Treatment of Domestic and Industrial Wastewaters: Significance of Constructed Wetlands. J Social Policy Res Inst, Vol 2 (2), pp. 35-44, July-Dec, 2007. Sarma W.V.S.S. and Dikshit A.K. “Choosing Appropriate Option for Artificial Groundwater Recharge”, Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 393-400 (2007). Chauhan M.S. and Dikshit A.K. “Coagulation of Anaerobically Digested Spent Wash by Divalent Salts”, Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 481-485 (2007). Chauhan M.S. and Dikshit A.K. “Treatment of Anaerobically Digested Spent Wash by Coagulation Using Alum and Ferric Salts”, Journal of Institution of Public Health Engineers India, Vol. 2007-2008, No. 4, pp. 25-29 (2008). Raji S., Mitra S. and Sumathi S. Dechlorination of chlorobenzoates by an isolated bacterial culture. Current Science, Vol. 93, No. 8, pp. 1126-1129 (2007).

II. Conferences (Participation)

• International S.R. Asolekar Participated in organization of the 10th International Conference on Achieving 24x7 Continuous Water Supply”, organized by the Indian Water Works Association in Mumbai during January 11-12, 2008.

Participated in organization of the International Conference on “E-Waste Management in India: A Sustainable Solution” organised by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering in Mumbai during 18 - 19 May, 2007.

S.K. Gupta "Reductive dechlorination of 1,2-Dichloroethane using anaerobic sequencing batch reactor", IWA specialist conference, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, June 24-2, 2007. A.K. Dikshit Participated in the 10th International Conference on “Environmental Science and Technology” (CEST2007) organized by The University of the Aegean, Athens, Greece on September 5-7, 2007 at Kos and presented a paper on Decolourisation of Distillery Wastewater in India: Current Status and Future Trends in the Technical Session on Industrial Wastewaters. S. Mukherji Second Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Jointly Organized by US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and IIT Madras, Irvine, CA, USA, 27 Feb – 1 March, 2008. The 8th Workshop on Biosensors and Bioanalytical �-Techniques in Environmental and Clinical Analysis, Organized by International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry and BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, Oct 3-8, 2007. (Oral Presentation)

• National Asolekar S. R. Integrated Approaches to Urban Water Management. Invited paper presented at the conference entitled: “India’s Tryst with Urbanization - VISION 2015” organized by the D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering and NMIMS in Vile Parle (West), Mumbai during January 12-13, 2008. Asolekar S. R. Significance of Systemic Integrated Approach for Strengthening EIA Process in India. Invited paper presented at the “Brainstorming Conference on EIA” organized by the EIRA Division of the NEERI, Nagpur on October 25, 2007. Asolekar S. R. Amelioration of Microclimates in Forest Canopies. Invited paper presented at the “Conference on Microclimates in Forests” organized by the Forests Research Institute, Deheradun on May 21, 2007. A.K. Dikshit Represented IIT Bombay in the Indo-French Workshop on Water and Wastewater (IFUWWT) held at IIT Madras, February 4-5, 2008 to share results under joint research projects and to deliberate on the MoU for exchange of faculty, staff and students between

participating Indian and French Institutions. Also delivered an invited talk on Waste Management for Urban and Semi-urban Areas during the workshop. S. Mukherji National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Engineering (NCFCE-2007), in IIT Guwahati, Organized by Dept. of Chemical Engg, IIT Guwahati, Dec 12-14, 2007. Garg A., I. M. Mishra; S. Chand Treatment of synthetic pulp and paper mill effluent using thermo-chemical precipitation and wet oxidation processes. All India Seminar on "Advances in Effluent and Environmental Control Measures in Chemical and Allied Industries" during February 9-10, 2008 at New Delhi, India.

III. Invited Lectures

• International S.R. Asolekar Invited to deliver the Seminar “Education for the Sustainable Future” in the International Symposium on “Energy and Environment” organized by the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, Washington University, Saint Louis, State of Missouri, USA during May 4 – 7, 2007.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, State of Louisiana, USA on May 2nd, 2007.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago campus, State of Illinois, USA on May 9th, 2007. S. Mukherji “Bioluminescence Inhibition of Chemical Mixtures Containing Naphthalene: Interpretation of Interaction Effects”, presented at TOXEN Research Centre & Department of Biological Sciences, University du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada, May 17, 2007. “Treatment of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-rich Wastewater Using Algal-Bacterial Biofilm Reactor” presented at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA, May 21, 2007. “Treatment of Oily Wastewater in Rotating Biological Contactor” presented at Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, May 24, 2007.

• National R.S. Patil

Climate Change and other Significant Aspects for Air Pollution, Conf. on “Show Casing Science by Indian Women Scientists”, 8-10th March, 08, Delhi, organized by Task Force by Women in Science. V. Sethi Vehicular Research and Development Establishment (DRDO), Ahmednagar : Recent advances in aerosol characterization. A.K. Dikshit Delivered lectures on 1) Trends in Distillery Industries in India: Past and Future, and 2) Managing Distillery Waste to Achieve Zero Discharge at the CEP short term course on ‘Pollution Control Techniques for Distillery Waste” organized by CESE, IIT Bombay, June 5-9, 2007. 3) Environmental Auditing, 4) Case Studies on Environmental Auditing, and 5) Environmental Life Cycle Assessment at the course on “Pollution Control and Management of Environment” for Mechanical Engineers organized jointly by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay and IPCL at IPCL Nagothane on August 18-19, 2007. 6) Environmental Management in Industries, 7) Environmental Management System, and 8) Case Studies on Environmental Management System at the course on “Pollution Control and Management of Environment” for Mechanical Engineers organized jointly by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay and IPCL at IPCL Nagothane on August 25-26, 2007. 9) Environmental Profile of Distillery Industries in India, 10) Approaches to Distillery Wastes Management, and 11) Physico-chemical Treatment for Decolourisation at the QIP-cum-CEP short term course on ‘Distillery Wastewater Management: Achieving the Goal of Zero Discharge” organized by CESE, IIT Bombay, October 29-November 2, 2007. 12) Environmental Biotechnology for Pollution Control on the occasion of Biotechnology Day celebrations at the Marathi Bhasa Bhawan, Santracruz (E) organized by the University of Mumbai, November 14, 2007. 13) Application of GIS in Siting Landfill Sites, 14) Planning and Design of Municipal Solid Waste Management System for a Mega City, and 15) Case Study of Greater Mumbai at the QIP short term course on "Advancements on Solid Waste Management" organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, November 19-23, 2007. 16) EIA of Fertilizer Industry – Case Study 1, 17) EIA of Fertilizer Industry – Case Study 2, and 18) GIS Utility in EIA at the Management Development Programme on 'EIA for Development Projects' organized by National Institute for Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, January 29, 2008. 19) Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks, 20) Air Quality Prediction using Neural Networks, and 21) Optimization of Wastewater Treatment using MATLAB at the Short Term Training Programme on 'Marvels of MATLAB in Engineering' organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, Rizvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, January 30, 2008.

22) Treatment of Distillery Wastewater for Its Decolourisation, 23) Tertiary Treatment of Distillery Wastewater for Reduction of COD and Colour, 24) Integrated Physico-Chemical and Fungal Treatment for Decolourisation of Anaerobically Digested Molasses Spent Wash, 25) Fungal Bioreactors for Decolourisation of Distillery Wastewater, and 26) Decolourisation of Distillery Wastewater using Integrated Anaerobic-Oxidation-Anaerobic Treatment at the CPCB Sponsored Short-term Course on ‘The Treatment of Distillery Wastes’ organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, March 4, 2008. A. Garg Delivered the guest lecture in short term course on “Distillery wastewater management” at IIT Roorkee, India during 3-5 March, 2008. Delivered a talk as Guest speaker in one day Seminar on “Solid waste management” jointly organized by Birla College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Kalyan and Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation, Kalyan, India on 5th January, 2008.

IV. Patents Filed A.K. Dikshit Patent no. 206831 has been awarded on 15th May 2007 entitled “A Process for Preparing an Adsorbent for Water Arsenic Treatment” Sumathi S. Sumathi Suresh and Upendra D. Patel “Reactor for Reductive Conversion Reactions Using Palladized Bacterial Cellulose” filed for Indian patent, 2007 (application number: 691/MUM/2007), pending. Sumathi Suresh and Upendra D. Patel “Reactor for Reductive Conversion Reactions Using Palladized Bacterial Cellulose” filed for PCT (international) patent through financial assistance provided by Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India, 2008 (application number: PCT/IN2008/000213), pending

V. Honorary Work S.R. Asolekar

Member of the “Expert Committee” constituted by the Govt. of Maharashtra in October 2007; entrusted with recommending clearance for the High-rise Buildings after investigating environmental suitability of the tower-projects having more than 20 floors and taller than 70 meter height.

Member of the quasi-judicial Supreme Court Authority entitled “Dahanu Taluka Environmental Protection Authority” entrusted with the conservation of the eco-fragile region of Dahanu Taluka and surroundings constituted by the Honorable Supreme Court of India since its inception i.e. March 1997.

R.S. Patil Member, Editorial Board, Jnl. of Scientific and Industrial Research, Published by NISCAIR, New Delhi, Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2010. Member, National Expert Committee on Vehicular Pollution Control, CPCB, Delhi, 2008. Member, Program Advisory Committee in Atmospheric Sciences under SERC, DST, GOI, 2004-4010. V. Sethi Reviewer DST, IFM Secretary and IRCC Advisory Committee A.K. Dikshit Chairman, technical sessions on Industrial Wastewaters – Sludge Treatment in the 10th International Conference on “Environmental Science and Technology” (CEST2007) organized by The University of the Aegean, Athens, Greece on September 5-7, 2007 at Kos. Dignitary for the National Conference on Environmental Biotechnology (BioZeal ’07) organised by the Department of Biotechnology, Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, Mumbai on October 5-6, 2007. Also delivered Keynote on Applications of Environmental Biotechnology for Pollution Control on October 6, 2007. Expert Member, Selection Committee for Environmental Engineers, Heavy Water Board, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, Mumbai on November 20, 2007. Sumathi S. Associate editor for Journals published under Asian Network for Scientific Communication (since February 2007), Editorial board member of open access journal of Waste Management Bertham publishers. Technical reviewer for the following journals: Bioresource Technology, Separation and Purification Technology, International Journal of Biomolecules; Journal of Colloid and Interface Science; Journal of Hazardous Materials, Indian Journal of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research. Technical reviewer for Project proposals sponsored by Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Govt. of India, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, Rajiv Gandhi Science and Technology Commission, Mumbai, India. S. Mukherji Reviewed papers for Indian Journal of Biotechnology Reviewed Projects submitted to Department of Biotechnology

A. Garg Reviewed research papers submitted to reputed research journals (Chemosphere, Waste Management, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials).

VI. Significant Awards & Distinctions S. Karmakar "A two-phase grey fuzzy optimization approach for water quality management of a river system " – by S. Karmakar and P. P. Mujumdar has been selected as one of the 25 hottest articles of Advances in Water Resources (Pub: Elsevier, Netherlands) for the periods of Jan.-March, 2007; April-June, 2007.

Report from Department 1. May highlight the major activities in the following area :

• R & D activities – list sponsored projects

S.R. Asolekar “Cost Effective and Environmentally Sound Dismantling of Obsolete Vessels” sponsored by the European Union [October 2005 to February 2009]

“Physico-Chemical Ex-situ Remediation of Soils, Sediments, or Aquifers Contaminated by Hazardous Wastes” sponsored by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, GoI, New Delhi [July 2005 to June 2007] R.S. Patil Development of Air Pollution Source Profiles for Indian Cities, Project by CPCB, Virendra Sethi and Rashmi S. Patil, 2006-2008. EIA of the Navi Mumbai International Airport, Team Member, 07-08, CIDCO. V. Sethi Development of air pollution source profiles was undertaken. Methods of sampling for combustion and non-combustion sources were developed. Methods for measurement of elements (ICP), ions (IC) and molecular markers (GC-MS) were developed for the appropriate (low) range of concentrations expected, sponsored by CPCB (Co-investigator Prof. P.P. Parikh)

A flame and furnace based experimental set-up for synthesis of nano-composites has been developed, sponsored by DST also under MoU with WUStL and under Indo-US Forum.

Control of tar vapour and particulate in gasifier generated producer gas was accomplished by controlling the time-temperature profile. Thermophoresis was used for early removal of sub-micrometer sized particulate, and a heat exchanger was developed for removal of tar vapour by condensation, sponsored by MNRE (Co-investigator Prof. P.P. Parikh).

A.K. Dikshit “Assessing Environmental Impacts of Regional Urban Air Pollution using GIS” sponsored by IRCC, IIT Bombay (Completed and closed in March 2008) Sumathi S. “A Sequential Biological-Chemical Method for Rapid and Complete Removal of dyes from Textile Mill Effluents”, sponsored by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, (Completed and closed in 2007). “Zero-Valent Metal Based Catalysts for Dehalogenation of AOX (adsorbable organic halides) Compounds in Pulp and Paper Industrial Effluents”, Sponsored by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, Govt. of India), (March 2007-2010). “Development of reactors using palladium immobilized on bacterial cellulose for remediation of water contaminated with pentachlorophenol and lower chlorinated phenols”, Sponsored by Department of Science & Technology (DST, Govt. of India), (March 2008-2011). S. Mukherji

Project sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, GOI, New Delhi: "Application of Oil Biodegrading Cultures for Treatment of Oil-Water Emulsion Wastes" Co. PI. Prof. S.K. Gupta, CESE (Completed-Aug 2007)

Collaborative International sponsored project jointly sponsored by McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and IIT Bombay under McGill India Research Initiative (MISRI) programme, “Bacterial Attachment to Petroleum Oils for Enhanced Bioremediation of Contaminated Environments and Bioprocessing in Reactors” Co. PI: Prof. S. Ghoshal, Dept. of Civil Engg., and Prof. Nathalie Tufenkji, Dept. of Chemical Engg (completed-Sept 2007) Consultancy projects S.R. Asolekar Retainership for advice on matters related to environmental management for [1] ITC, Pulp and Specialty Paper Division, Bhadrachalam [2] MIDC, Mumbai [3] Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran, Mumbai A.K. Dikshit Principal Investigator for Consultancy Project on “Removal of BOD, COD and TSS from Wastewater by Means of Mechanical Treatment” sponsored by Hans Huber A.G., Berching, Germany (February 2007- ongoing)

• Extension Activities

(Important seminars, CEPs, short courses, workshops, conferences, any other events)

A.K. Dikshit Organised CEP short term course on Pollution Control Techniques for Distillery Waste, conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, June 2007. Was invited as faculty for the course on “Pollution Control and Management of Environment” for Mechanical Engineers held at IPCL Nagothane, August 18-26, 2007. Organised CEP / QIP short term course on Distillery Wastewater Management: Achieving the Goal of Zero Discharge, conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, October 2007.

List of Faculty Members and their Specialization

Shyam R. Asolekar Professor & Head Hazardous waste treatment and disposal technologies; Treatment of leachates and industrial wastewaters; Modeling of environmental systems (lake, river, ocean, atmosphere); Monitoring of marine pollution using remote sensing; Cleaner production and preventive environmental management. Rashmi S. Patil Professor Air pollution dispersion modeling for industries; Vehicles and urban area sources, Regional and long range transport of pollutants; Indoor and integrated air pollution exposure assessment; Air quality monitoring and data management; Aerosol science; Environmental impact assessment of developmental projects. S.K. Gupta Professor Physico-chemical processes for water and wastewater treatment; Biological systems for wastewater treatment including removal of priority pollutants; Environmental impact assessment and solid & hazardous wastes management. Virendra Sethi Professor Formation and dynamics of combustion aerosols; Powder production; Drinking water quality in distribution systems; Transport of particulate pollutants in distribution systems; Transport of particulate pollutants in distribution systems; Characterization of waterborne suspensions; Sustainability issues. Sumathi Suresh Professor Microbiological processes (biodegradation/biotransformation & biouptake) for treatment of industrial wastewater; Chemical catalysis for transformation and degradation of highly persistent pollutants using zero-valent metals, bimetallic system and immobilized metals; Enzyme mechanism and action; Biotechnological options for cleaner technologies. Sanjeev Chaudhari Professor Toxic metals removal and recovery from industrial wastewater treatment; Innovative bioreactor development for reclamation of wastewater; Nutrient removal from wastewater; Evolving scientific basis and methods for the application of traditional natural coagulants for water purification. A.K. Dikshit Professor Water and wastewater treatment; Urban solid waste management; Environmental systems modeling and optimization; GIS applications to environment related problems; Environmental life cycle impact analysis; Environmental planning and impact assessment and management.

Suparna Mukherji Associate Professor Fate and transport of toxic pollutants in aquatic systems and in the subsurface environment; Biotransformation of complex organic pollutants; Toxicity evaluation of complex pollutants and Sorption phenomena and hazardous waste minimization. A. Garg Asst. Professor Industrial wastewater treatment using chemical treatment, Municipal solid waste management, Energy from waste, Water and wastewater systems, Air pollution control technologies. S. Karmakar Asst. Professor Environmental and Water Resources Systems - development of optimization models for surface water quality control, irrigation water management, floodplain planning and management, solid waste management; Uncertainty Modeling in Environmental Systems - probabilistic approach, fuzzy sets theory and interval optimization; Water Conveyance Systems and Hydraulic Designs - optimal design of water & waste water conveyance systems and hydraulic structures; Flood Risk Management - flood vulnerability analysis using GIS, multivariate flood frequency analysis. P.P. Parikh Emeritus Fellow (AICTE) C. Engines (Fuels, Alternate Fuels, Emissions, Dual-fuel and Bio-fuel Gas Engines) Biomass gasification (design and development of gasifier and gasifier engine systems, Qualifying testing and certification)

• Significant Collaborations

Partner in a consortium of five universities-industries in Europe aiming at a four year long research project sponsored by the European Union on matters related to environmental management of ship-breaking activities.

• New Infrastructure Various equipment for research on treatment, disposal, and leaching of hazardous pollutants from contaminated soils, sludges, asbestos and glass wool and hazardous wastes – especially solidification and stabilization and preparation of alternate building materials made from waste solid matrixes.

Annexure “A”

Annual Report – 2006-2007 Statistical Information of Departments

1. Student Intake M.Tech. : 17 Ph.D. : 6

2. Degrees Awarded

M.Tech. : 9 Ph.D : 3

3. Sponsored Projects :

Ongoing Projects (No.) : 8 New Projects (No.) : 1 Completed projects : 3 Faculty involved : 7

4. Consultancy No. of Jobs : 2 No. of faculty involved : 2

5. Faculty / Scientific staff publications

Books / Chapter in Books : 5 Papers in International Journals : 38 Papers in National Journals : 5

6. Faculty Participation in Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

International Conference / Workshops (abroad) : 3 International Conference/Workshops (in India) : 3 National : 6

7. Patents : 3