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    Dr Gunjan Kumar Agrahari

    Chemical Engineering
    Assistant Professor
    Ph D 2013 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    M Tech 2007 Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow
    B Tech 2002 Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jhansi

     

    2016 – Till Date Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi
    2013 – 2015 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Katholieke University Leuven, (KU Leuven), Belgium

     

    • Membrane Processes
    • Microbial Fuel Cells

    Title: “Membrane Solvent Extraction Processes For Extracting Rare Earth Elements From Leach Solutions Of Monazite Sands And Recyclable Consumer Products”,

    Funding Agency: Under Extra Mural Research Grant (now Core Research Grant), Science & Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology Government of India

    Principal Investigator: Gunjan Kumar Agrahari, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Amethi

    Co-Investigator: Prof Debashish Sengupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

    Year: 2018

    Book

    • Gunjan Kumar Agrahari(corresponding and first author)and SudhaAgrahari
      “Shale Gas: A Futuristic Non-conventional Energy Resource”, in, A. Sharma et al. (eds.), Low Carbon Energy Supply, Green Energy and Technology,  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7326-7_19
      Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
    • Gunjan Kumar Agrahari "Osmotic microbial fuel cell: Generation of energy, and recovery of reusable water from waste aqueous streams."—in “Global Trends in Low Carbon Energy Supply Technologies”, forthcoming book (under preparation)

    Peer Reviewed Publications

    1. Gunjan K. Agrahari, NishithVerma, Prashant K. Bhattacharya “Application of hollow fiber membrane contactor for the removal of carbon dioxide from water under liquid–liquid extraction mode” Journal of Membrane Science, 375, (2011) 323-333. (IF: 6.578; Journal H-index: 200)
    2. Gunjan K. Agrahari, Sajal K. Shukla, Nishith Verma, Prashant K. Bhattacharya “Model prediction and experimental studies on the removal of dissolved NH3 from water applying hollow fiber membrane contactor” Journal of Membrane Science, 390-391, (2012), 164-174. (IF: 6.578)
    3. Gunjan K. Agrahari, AshutoshRawat, NishithVerma, Prashant K.Bhattacharya “Removal of dissolved H2S from wastewater using hollow fiber membrane contactor: Experimental and mathematical analysis” Desalination, 314, (2013), 34-42.(IF: 6.603; Journal H-index: 139)
    4. Gunjan K. Agrahari, Niharika Pandey, NishithVerma, Prashant K. Bhattacharya “Membrane contactor for reactive extraction of succinic acid from aqueous solution by tertiary amine” Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 92 (2014) 2705-2714.(IF: 2.795; Journal H-index: 80)
    5. Gunjan K. Agrahari, Nishith Verma and Prashant K. Bhattacharya “Removal of benzoic acid from water by reactive extraction using hollow fiber membrane contactor: Experiment and modeling” CLEAN-Soil Air Water, 42(7), (2014), 901-908. (H-index: 51)
    6. Ashutosh Rawat, Gunjan K. Agrahari, Nishith Verma, Prashant K. Bhattacharya “Mathematical Analysis of Removal of Dissolved Acidic Gases from Aqueous Stream Using Membrane Contactor” International Journal of Chemical Engineering and Applications, 4(5), (2013), 290-294.

    Conferences:

    1. Gunjan Kumar Agrahari “Ultrasonic assisted anaerobic membrane bioreactor for treatment of contaminated aqueous streams under mesophilic (30-40 ºC) or thermophilic (50-60 ºC) temperature ranges.”Workshop on The Recent Developments In Microbial Fuel Cell And Membrane Bioreactor Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Feb 02-03, 2018.
    2. Gunjan K. Agrahari, S.K. Shukla, Nishith Verma, Prashant K. Bhattacharya “Removal of dissolved ammonia from wastewater employing hollow fiber membrane contactor” Proceedings of 11th World Filtration Congress, Graz, Austria, April 16-20, 2012.
    3. Ashutosh Rawat, Gunjan K. Agrahari, Niharika Pandey, Prashant K. Bhattacharya “Mathematical Analysis of Removal of Acidic Gases from Synthetic Waste Water Stream Using Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactor and Comparison with Experimental Results” 4th International Conference on Chemical Engineering and Applications (CCEA 2013) Paris, France, October 12-13, 2013.
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