Prof. S.AMAL RAJ Professor, Centre for Environmental Studies

Cellphone : 9003221411 e-Mail ID : [email protected]

Address : G-1, RAJ PARIS VILLA, 69&70 JANAKPURI I STREET -42

Present Position

Professor, Centre for Environmental Studies, College of Engineering , , Chennai from December-2009.

Previous Positions

Professor, Centre for Environmental Studies, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai from December-2009.

Associate professor, Centre for Environmental Studies, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai during December-2006 and December-2009.

Assistant Professor, Centre for Environmental Studies, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai during December-2003 and December-2006.

Other Employment

Lecturer (Sr. Grade) in Civil Engineering, Crescent Engineering College, , Chennai for 1 year and 8 months.

Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, Arulmighu Mennakshi Amman College of Engineering, Vadamavandal for 1 year and 10 months.

Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Arulmigu Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering, Vadamavandal for 1 year and 4 months.

Degree

B.E. in CIVIL ENGINEERING , KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY, 4 YEARS (1985 - 1989).

Research Degree

Ph.D. in ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING from Faculty of CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS, CHENNAI, (1994 - 1999). Title: STUDIES IN AEROBIC TREATMENT OF WASTEWATERS USING A CROSS FLOW MEDIUM TRICKLING FILTER.

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Area of Specialisation

Biological Treatment of Wastewater and Water Quality Modelling

Membership in Professional Organization

ISTE, IGS

Research Guidance

Number of Ph.D Scholars Guided : 2 Number of Ph.D Scholars Guiding : 3 Number of M.E./ M.Tech. Projects Guided : 35 Number of M.E./ M.Tech. Projects Guiding : 6 Number of Ph.D Scholars Guiding as Joint-Supervisor : 2

Papers Published in Journals

Research Papers Published in International Journals : 15 Research Papers Published in National Journals : 12

1. "Nitrification of Synthetic Wastewater in a cross flow medium trickling filter", Bioprocess Engineering, published by Springer. Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 149-154 (1998).

2. S. Amal Raj and D.V.S. Murthy, " Carbon oxidation and nitrification ofdairy wastewater using a trickling filter", Journal of Environmental Science andHealth Part-A , Vol. 34, Issue 6, pp. 1317-1327 (1998).

3. "Synthetic dairy wastewater using crossflow medium trickling filter", Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part-A , published by Dekker. Vol. 34, Issue 2, pp. 357-369 (1999).

4. S.Amal Raj and D.V.S.Murthy, "Comparison of the trickling filter modelsin the treatment of synthetic dairy wastewater", Bioprocess Engineering, Vol. 21, Issue 1, pp. 51-55 (1999).

5. S.Amal Raj and D.V.S.Murthy, "A modified trickling filter model based onexisting trickling filter performance", Journal of Pollution Research , Vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 535-538 (2001).

6. S. Amal Raj and D.V.S. Murthy, "Treatment of ammonia-urea plantwastewater using cross flow medium trickling filter.", Indian Journal ofEnvironmental Protection, Vol. 22, Issue 11, pp. 1231-1235 (2002).

7. S. Amal Raj and R. Srinivasa Raghavan, "Removal of chromium fromsynthetic effluent by adsorption on activated carbon.", Indian Journal ofEnvironmental Protection, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 69-72 (2002).

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8. S. Amal Raj and D.V.S. Murthy, "Immobilization of nitrifying biofilm in cross flow medium trickling filter", Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol. 23, Issue 12, pp. 1377-1381 (2003).

9. S. Amal Raj, "Adsorption behavior of nickel on activated carbon.", Indian Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol. 24, Issue 7, pp. 530-533 (2004).

10. S. Amal Raj and Venkatasamy, G, "Treatment of distillery spentwash byUpflow Anaerobic trickling filter", Journal of Indian Public Health Engineers, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 9-11 (2006).

11. J. Satish and S. Amal Raj, "A study on the biodegradation of petrochemicalwastewater.", Journal of Indian Public Health Engineers, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 36-41 (2006).

12. N. Hajarabeevi, I. Mohammed Bilal, S. Amal Raj and K. Palanivelu, " Textile Anionic Dyes Recovery Using Tri-n-Butyl Phosphate as Carrier throughSupported Liquid Membrane", Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering, Vol. 49, Issue 1, pp. 33-40 (2007).

13. V.Srinivasan and S.Amal Raj, "Environmental management plan for bridge across creek.", Journal of Indian Public Health Engineers, Vol. 3, pp. 29-34 (2008).

14. Harini santhanam, S. Amal Raj and K.Thanasekaran, "Prediction and capability of three empirical models in estimating the chlorophyll: a Comparative case study of ecosystem.", International journal of Ecology and development, Vol. 14, pp. 95-107 (2009).

15. Harini santhanam, S. Amal Raj and K.Thanasekaran, "Influence of the sediment composition and total organic carbon on distribution of benthic organism at lagoon, south east coast of ", Journal of Ecotoxicology and environment modeling, Vol. 19, Issue 6, pp. 541-548 (2009).

16. Harini santhanam, S. Amal Raj and K.Thanasekaran, "Selection of ecosystem indicators as tools to assess the ecosystem health of coastal lagoons and their implication in management", Asian journal of water, environment and pollution, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 59-64 (2009).

17. S.Amal Raj, J.Jagaveni and Harini santhanam, "Treatment of pharmaceutical effluent using upflow anaerobic filter", Journal of Indian Public Health Engineers, Vol. 1, pp. 19-24 (2009).

18. Harini santhanam and S. Amal Raj, "Carlson’s index, a poor cursor of tropic status assessment of pulicat lagoon, south east coast of india", International journal of Environmental Studies, Vol. 67, Issue 1, pp. 17-25 (2010).

19. Harini santhanam and S. Amal Raj, "A new fuzzy logic based model for chlorophyll-a in pulicat lagoon, India.", International Journal of Environmental Research, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 837-848 (2010).

20. Harini santhanam and S. Amal Raj, " Construction of ecosystem models for costal lagoons-A case study of pulicat lagoon in the context of world lake vision", Technical paper-Engineering today, pp. 1-5 (2010).

21. Harini santhanam, S. Amal Raj and K.Thanasekaran, "Comparison of the performances of two indices of tropic status for depicting the status of pulicat lagoon ecosystem.", Journal of Environment science and engineering, Vol. 53, Issue 4, pp. 413-422 (2011).

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22. S.Amal raj, G.Venkatasamy and Harini santhanam, " Performance of up-flow anaerobic filter in the treatment of distillery spent wash", Journal of Environment science and engineering, Vol. 53, Issue 9, pp. 27-30 (2011).

23. Joycelin Leebana, V., Harini Santhanam, Geetha, K. and Amal Raj, "Biodegradation of direct golden yellow, a textile dye by Pseudomonas putida. Desalination and water treatment.", Vol. 39, pp. 1-9 (2012).

24. Sivasankaran Ayyaru, Pournan Letchoumanane, Sangeetha Dharmalingam and Amal Raj Stanislaus, "Performance of sulfonated polystyrene-ethylene-butylene-polystyrene membrane in microbial fuel cell for bioelectricity production", Journal of power sources, Vol. 217, pp. 204-208 (2012).

25. S.Sathish Kumar, P.MaheshKumar, harini Santhanam, M.R.Stalin John and S.Amal Raj, "A new logic- based model to predict nitrated in groundwater using Artificial Neural Network", EM international journal, pp. 635-641 (2013).

26. P.MaheshKumar, harini Santhanam, M.R.Stalin John and S.Amal Raj, "Modelling of chlorophyll- A concentrations in pulicat lagoon, Southeast coast of India using ANN", Intrnational journal of science Research, Vol. 2, pp. 2277-8179 (2013).

27. K.Geetha and S.Amal Raj, "Influence of cathode electron acceptors and anode microbes improving electricity generation in Dual- chamber microbial fuel cell using Distillery Wastewater", (2013).

Papers Presented in Programmes

Research Papers Presented in International Programmes : 1 Research Papers Presented in National Programmes : 1

1. , organised by IISc Bangalore, India .

2. on eContent Development Skills for Teachers.

Programme Organized

1. Course Coordinator, National level Short Course on "Water Supply Distribution and Network Analysis using Computers" from 10-Feb-2004 to 20-Feb-2004.

2. Coordinator, National level Short Course on "Water Supply Distribution and Network Analysis using Computers" from 08-Feb-2005 to 18-Feb-2005.

3. Course Coordinator, National level Short Course on "Water Supply Distribution Network Analysis using Computers" from 07-Feb-2006 to 17-Feb-2006.

4. Course Coordinator, National level Short Course on "Water Supply Distribution and Network Analysis using Computers" from 06-Feb-2007 to 16-Feb-2007.

5. Course Coordinator, National level Short Course on "Water Supply Distribution and Network Analysis using Computers" from 12-Feb-2008 to 22-Feb-2008.

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6. Course Coordinator, National level Short Course on "Water Supply Distribution and Network Analysis using Computers" from 06-Jul-2009.

7. Course Coordinator, National level Short Course on "Computer Application for Water Distribution System Management" from 09-Feb-2010 to 19-Feb-2010.

Programme Attended

1. Participated in a National level workshop on "Anaerobic Digestion of Wastewaters" organized by Sardar Vallabb.

2. Attended a National level Short Course on "ISO 14000 Environment Management System" organized by IIT Madras, Chennai-36, India from 12-Jul-1999 to 13-Jul-1999.

3. Attended a National level Short Course on "Environmental Monitoring" organized by IIT Madras, Chennai-36, India from 07-May-2001 to 11-May-2001.

4. Attended a National level Short Course on "Soil and Water Pollution" organized by IISc Bangalore, India from 01-Dec-2003 to 05-Dec-2003.

5. Attended a National level Short Course on "Modelling Approaches for Environmental and Water Resources Systems Management" organized by AICTE, India from 04-Aug-2008 to 09-Aug-2008.

6. Participated in a National level workshop on "Anaerobic Digestion of Waterwaters" organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India from 22-Feb-2010 to 26-Feb-2010.

7. Attended a National level Short Course on "Environmental Impact Assessment: Guidelines & Procedures" organized by IIT Madras, India from 19-Jul-2010 to 24-Jul-2010.

8. Participated in a National level workshop on "eContent Development Skills for Teachers" organized by Anna University, India from 15-Sep-2010.

9. Attended a National level Short Course on "Emerging Contaminants: Analysis, Fate, Treatment and Modelling" organized by National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India from 09-Jul-2012 to 13-Jul-2012.

10. Attended a National level Short Course on "Instrumental Methods of Analysis" organized by Anna University, India from 14-Dec-2012 to 21-Dec-2012.

11. Attended a International level Short Course on "Minimization or Alternate Use of Reduction of Hazardous Waste Generation and Management" organized by Anna University-TNPCB, India from 26-Feb-2013.

12. Attended a National level seminar on "Trends on Water Management" organized by Anna University-IDA-TNPCB-NIOT, India from 22-Mar-2013.

13. Attended a National level Short Course on "Modelling Approaches for Free Surface Flow and Water Quality Management" organized by IIT-Madras, India from 18-Nov-2013 to 23-Nov-2013.

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14. Participated in a National level workshop on "Carbon Accounting and Energy Efficiency" organized by Anna University, India from 06-Feb-2014.

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