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Faculty Profile Name: Dr.Kurian Joseph Designation: Professor of Environmental Engineering Address: Centre for Environmental Studies Anna University, Chennai-600025 Phone:9840393229/044-22359021 E-Mail:[email protected] Academic Professional Experience Research and Qualification Development Projects Publication Books/Paten Honors Others s ts Academic Qualification Course / Subjects/ Name of Name of Year of Degree Specialisation University Institute Passing Regional University of Civil Engineering Engg. College 1986 B.Tech. Calicut Calicut College of Environmental University of M.Tech Engg. Engineering Kerala 1989 Trivandrum Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi Diploma in Management National Open National Open 1994 Management University University Civil Engg. Centre for Ph.D Anna University (Environmental Environmental 2001 Chennai. Engineering) Studies Professional Experience Professional Experience Professional Experience Name of the Post held Period of service Nature of Duties Organisation From To Centre for Professor 01.01.2009 Till date Teaching Environmental Engg/ Environmental Management. to M.E Studies, Associate 05.01.2006 31.12.2008 (Env.Engg/Env.Mgmnt) /M.Sc Department of Professor (Env.Sci. and B.E. (Civil) Degree Civil Engineering, Assistant 05.01.2002 04.01.2006 programmes. Research and Anna University, Professor Consultancy in the field of Chennai - 600 025 Senior 04.01.1999 04.01.2002 Environmental Engineering/ Lecturer Environmental Management. Lecturer 04.01.1993 03.01.1999 M/s. Sacede Project 18.12.1989 31.12.1992 Detailed Engineering of Water Engineers & Engineer Treatment and Wastewater Consultants (I) Pvt Treatment Projects and Project co- Ltd, Madras - ordination 600018 Research and Development Projects Research Thrust areas of research o Solid and Hazardous Waste Management o Landfill Bioreactor o Membrane Bioreactor o Zero Liquid Discharge Systems o Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation Title of Thesis of Ph.D Programme o "Studies on cotton hosiery dyeing effluents for minimization of Total Dissolved Solids by Low Salt reactive dyeing at low liquor ratio and decolourisation by physico chemical treatment” (2001) Research scholars Sl No. Name of Scholar Research Title Year of Completion 1 S.Esakku Assessment of Reclamation and Hazard 2006 Potential of Municipal Solid Waste Dumpsites 2 M.Swati Profiling of Hazardous Organics in municipal 2007 solid waste and their fate in a bioreactor landfill under tropical condition 3 G.Vishnu Characterisation of exhausted reactive dyebath 2007 and its reuse after Nanofiltration and Ozonation 4 S.Jayalakshmi Enhancement in Biohydrogen and methane 2008 generation from Kitchen waste by Acetogenic bacteria during solid phase anaerobic digestion 5 Yogalakshmi K.N Performance of Membrane bioreactor under 2008 shock load conditions 6 O.Parthiba Karthikeyan Solubilisation of Ammoniacal nitrogen in 2008 landfills under tropical environment, its effect on waste stabilization and struvite recovery 7 Suneethi S. Autotrophic Ammonia Removal in Anaerobic 2012 Membrane Bioreactor and moving bed biofilm reactor 8 Sri Shalini S Biological Removal of Ammonia Nitrogen in 2014 Landfill Bioreactos using Sharon and Anammox Processes 9 Kumar R Studies on the Effect of Dispersant Additives 2014 on inhibition of crude oil tank bottom sludge accumulation 10 Manimekalai K Life Cycle evaluation of municipal solid waste On going management options 11 Manonmani U Granular Anammox development in On going Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor for SNAD Process Journal Research Project s Sl.No. Title of the Project Sponsoring Amount Co-investigator Stratus Agency 1 Rehabilitation of Swedish Swedish Kroner Dr.R.Nagendran Completed Municipal Solid Waste International 8,69,000 Dr.K.Palanivelu during Dump sites Developmental (Rs.4.5 million) 2001- 2003 Agency (SIDA) coordinated by Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok 2 Sustainable Landfill Swedish Swedish Kroner Dr.R.Nagendran Completed Management in Asia International 1,188,925 ( Rs. during Developmental 7.2 million) 2004- 2008 Agency (SIDA) coordinated by Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok 3 Management of Total Ministry of Rs. 9,65,000/- NIL Completed Dissolved Solids in Environment during exhausted reactive dye and Forests, 2004- 2006 bath from knitted cotton Government of dyeing units India, New Delhi 4 Treatment of sewage VA Tech Rs. 6.00,000/- NIL Completed using UASB and MBR Wabag, during for biogas recovery and Chennai 2010- 2011 nutrient removal Publication s Journal Publications International Journals Kurian Joseph and C.Visvanathan (2001), Sewage reclamation meets industrial water demands of Chennai, Water lines, International Journal of appropriate Technologies for water supply and sanitation, Voil.19, No.4, pp 6-10. R. Nagendran, Kurian Joseph, S. Esakku, C. Visvanathan and Tenzin Norbu (2006), Municipal Solid Waste Dumpsites to Sustainable Landfills, Development INSIGHT, Nepal, IS 1726-7501, Issue 5, October-December 2006, pp 65-68. S. Esakku, A. Selvam, Kurian Joseph and K. Palanivelu (2005), “Assessment of Heavy Metal Species in Decomposed Municipal Solid Waste”, Chemical Speciation and Bioavailabilty Journal (CSBJ), vol. 17 (3), 95-103. Kurian Joseph (2005), Reclaimed City Sewage as Industrial Cooling Water, ET4Thai Environmental Technologies for Thai Industries, Mar-Apr 2005, pp 48-52 S. Esakku, A. Selvam, K. Palanivelu, R.Nagendran and Kurian Joseph (2006) , Leachate Quality of Municipal Solid Waste Dumpsites at Chennai, India, Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution, Vol3, No.1, pp 69-76 Kurian Joseph (2006), Stakeholder Participation in Municipal solid waste management, Habitat International, Elsever Publications,vol 30, pp 863-871 R. Nagendran, A.Selvam, Kurian Joseph, Chart Chiemchaisri (2006), “Phytoremediation and rehabilitation of municipal solid waste landfills and dumpsites: A brief review”, Waste Management 26 (2006) 1357–1369 M. Sundrarajan, G. Vishnu, Kurian Joseph (2007), “Ozonation of light-shaded exhausted reactive dye bath for reuse”, Dyes and pigments, Elseveir Publications, vol75, pp 273-278 Sundrarajan M, G. Vishnu, K. Joseph(2007), Decolorisation of exhausted reactive dye bath using ozonator for reuse, Int. J. Environ. Sci. Tech., 4 (2): 263-270, 2007 Kurian Joseph, Esakku S., and Nagendran R. (2007), “Mining of compost from dumpsites and bioreactor landfills”, International Journal of Environmental Management and Technology, Vol. 7, 3/7, 317-325 Yogalakshmi K N, Kurian Joseph and C.Visvanathan (2007), “Response of membrane bioreactor to feed starvation shock load ”, Asian Jounal of Water, Environment and Pollution, Vol.4, No.2, pp 81-86. Obuli p.Karthikeyan, M.Swati, R.Nagendran and Kurian Joseph (2007), “Performance of bioreactor landfill with waste mined from a dumpsite”, Environ. Monit. Assess., 135: pp 141-151 Swati and Kurian Joseph (2007), “Settlement analysis of fresh and partially stabilized municipal solid waste in simulated controlled dumps and bioreactor landfills”, Journal of Waste Management, Accepted 4 June 2007, available online, www.elsevier.com/locate/wasman G. Vishnu and Kurian Joseph (2007), Decolorization of Reactive Dyebath Containing High Exhaust and Low Salt Dyes by Nanofiltration and its Reuse, Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). G. Vishnu , S. Palanisamy , Kurian Joseph (2007), Assessment of fieldscale zero liquid discharge treatment systems for recovery of water and salt from textile effluents, Journal of Cleaner Production , available online http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jclepro Obuli P. Karthikeyan and Kurian Joseph (2008), “Chemical Precipitation Of Ammonia-N As Struvite (Map) from Landfill Leachate—Effect Of Molar Ratio Upon Recovery”, Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management Volume 34, No. 1 February 2008, pp 20-26 Axel Seeman and Kurian Joseph (2008), “ Needs and Fields of action for waste management in India”, Mull and Abfall 4.08 , pp 184-187 S. Esakku, Obuli P. Karthikeyan, Kurian Joseph and R.Nagendran (2008), ” Heavy metal fractionation and Leachability studies on fresh and partially decomposed solid waste”, ASCE Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive waste management, Vol.12, No.2, pp 127- 132 M. Swati , T. Rema, Kurian Joseph (2008), “Hazardous organic compounds in urban municipal solid waste from a developing country”, Journal of Hazardous Materials , Vol.160, pp 213–219 Karthikeyan, O.P.,Murugesan, S., Joseph, K. and Nagendran, R. (2008) ‘Leaching of inorganic pollutants from fresh and partially degraded Municipal Solid Waste: a lysimeter study under tropical conditions’, Int. J. Environment and Waste Management, Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2, pp.49–64. Jayalakshmi S., Kurian Joseph and Sukumaran V (2008) ‘Biohydrogen production from kitchen waste’, Int. J. Environment and Waste Management, Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2, pp.75–83 Kurian Joseph, N. Nithya (2009) ,” Material flows in the life cycle of leather”, Journal of Cleaner Production 17 (2009) 676–682. Jayalakshmi S, V. Sukumaran, Kurian Joseph (2009) Enhancement of hydrogen production from Kitchen Waste using heat treated anaerobic biogas plant slurry with pH control, Int. J. Environment and Sustainable Development, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp 23-35 Suneethi S, Kurian Joseph (2009), Membrane bioreactor technology for treatment of nitrogen rich wastewaters — A critical review, Desalination and Water Treatment, Vol 12 , pp 133–142 Jayalakshmi S , Kurian Joseph , V. Sukumaran (2009),” Bio hydrogen generation from kitchen waste in an inclined plug flow reactor”,