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”, international journal of hydrogen energy, Vol. 3 4 , pp 8854 – 8858  S.Sri Shalini, Obuli P.Karthikeyan, Kurian Joseph (2010), Biological stability of municipal solid waste from simulated landfills under tropical environment, Bioresource Technology, Vol.101, pp 845-852  K.N. Yogalakshmi , Kurian Joseph (2010), “ Effect of transient sodium chloride shock loads on the performance of submerged membrane bioreactor, Bioresource Technology xxx (2010) xxx–xxx, Article in Press.  Ganesh, G., Karthikeyan, and Joseph, K. (2010) ‘Enhancing the hydrolysis step in anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste using rumen fluid’, Int. J. EnvironmentalTechnology and Management, Vol. 13, Nos. 3/4, pp.311–321.  Vidhya Lakshmi, D. and Joseph, K. (2010) ‘Physico-chemical characteristics of leachate from a common hazardous waste disposal facility in South India’, Int. J. Environmental Technology and Management, Vol. 13, Nos. 3/4, pp.348–361.  S. Suneethi , Kurian Joseph (2011), Batch culture enrichment of ANAMMOX populations from anaerobic and aerobic seed cultures, Bioresource Technology 102 , 585–591  Obuli P. Karthikeyan, S. Murugesan, Kurian Joseph, Ligy Philip (2011), Characterization of Particulate Matters and Volatile Organic Compounds in the Ambient Environment of Open Dump Sites, Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology, Volume 1, Issue 2: 140-150, Euresian Publications © 2011 eISSN 2249 0256Available Online at: www.environmentaljournal.org  S. Suneethi , Kurian Joseph (2011), ANAMMOX process start up and stabilization with an anaerobic seed in Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (AnMBR), Bioresource Technology 102 (2011) 8860–8867  M. Swati; O. P. Karthikeya; Kurian Joseph; C. Visvanathan; and R. Nagendran (2011), Pilot Scale Simulation of Landfill Bioreactor and Controlled Dumping of Fresh and Partially Stabilized Municipal Solid Waste in a Tropical Developing Country, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, Vol. 15, No. 4, October 1, 2011  S. Sri Shalini , Kurian Joseph (2012), Nitrogen management in landfill leachate: Application of SHARON, ANAMMOX and combined SHARON–ANAMMOX process, Waste Management 32 , 2385– 2400  Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan, Kurian Joseph and S. Esakku “Methane emission potential of open dumps in Chennai: a case study”, Int. J. of Environmental Technology and Management, Vol.15, No.3/4/5/6, pp.291 - 304  Kurian Joseph , S. Rajendiran , R. Senthilnathan, M. Rakesh (2012) , Integrated approach to solid waste management in Chennai:an Indian metro city, J Mater Cycles Waste Management, 14:75–84  S.Suneethi, Kurian Joseph(2013), Autrotrophic ammonia removal from landfill leachate in anaerobic membrane bioreactor, Environmental technology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09593330.808241  Sri Shalini S and Kurian Joseph (2013),” Startup of SHARON and ANAMMOX process in landfill bioreactors using aerobic and anaerobic ammonium oxidizing biomass, Bioresource Technology, 149, pp474-485  S. Sri Shalini, J. Kurian, J. W. C. Wong (“Aerobic and anaerobic ammonium-oxidising bacterial enrichment from municipal solid waste”, Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1007/s13762-013-0486-7, (2015) 12:1107–1122  K. Rathinasamy & K. Joseph (2015) Inhibition of Accumulation of Crude Petroleum Storage Tank Bottom Sludge by Using Polymer Dispersants, Petroleum Science and Technology, 33:2,178-185, DOI: 10.1080/10916466.2014.945596

National Journals

 Kurian Joseph and V. Rajendiran (1995), Activated Carbon from Acidic sludge of a Petrochemical Complex, Indian Journal of Environmental Health Vol.37, pp.172-178.  Kurian Joseph and K. Natarajan (1997), Studies on wastewater from Automobile Service Stations, Indian Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 39, No.1, 37-43.  Kurian Joseph, CETPs for Pollution control in SSIs, Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India),Vol. 80, Aug. pp 1-4. (1999).  Kurian Joseph and Jaiprakash Narain G.B (2000), An integrated approach for management of total dissolved solids in hosiery dyeing effluents, Journal IAEM,vol.27, pp.203-207  Girija Devi G. and Kurian Joseph (2004), Solid Phase Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Solid Waste, Journal of Indian Association for Environmental Management, Vol. 31, No.2, pp 147-152  Kurian Joseph and C. Visvanathan (2005), Membrane Bioreactor: Solution to Decentralised Wastewater Reclamation, Everything About Water, New Delhi.,May June 2005, pp 36-42  S. Shantha Kumar and Kurian Joseph (2005), Evaluation of waste minimization options in Hosiery dyeing units, Journal of Indian Association for Environmental Management, Vol. 32, pp 122-130  Jayalakshmi S and Kurian Joseph (2005),” Solid Phase digestion of kitchen Waste”, Indian J.Environmental protection, Vol.25,no.7,July 2005, , pp 612-616  S.Shobana and Kurian Joseph (2006), Water conservation and waste minimization in a research and development laboratory, Journal of Indian Association for Environmental Management, Vol. 33, pp 24- 29  S.Vaidyanathan and Kurian Joseph (2006), “ Design and evaluation of Aeration using submersible pump” Journal of Indian water works association, Vol XXXVIII, No.2, pp 59-63  Shobana Ramesh and Kurian Joseph (2006), “ Electronic waste generation and management in an Indian city”, Journal of Indian Association for Environmental Management, Vol. 33, No.2, pp 100-105  Kurian Joseph (2006), Decentralised wastewater treatment systems, Everything About Water, New Delhi.,October 2006, pp 68-70  S.Shantha Kumar and Kurian Joseph (2006) “Waste minimization in hosiery textile dyeing- a case study”, Jr.of Industrial Pollution Control, Vol.22, No.2,pp-345-352  M.Sundararajan, G.Vishnu and Kurian Joseph (2006),” Ozonation of Exhausted Dark shade reactive dyebath for Reuse”, Journal of Environmental science and Engg., Vol.48,No.4, pp 285-292, October 2006.  Swati. M, O. P. Karthikeyan, Kurian Joseph and R. Nagendran (2007), “Landfill Bioreactor – A biotechnological solution for waste management”, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, Vol 66, 670-674.  E. Selina Kavitha and Kurian Joseph (2007), ”Biomethanation of Vegetable Wastes”, Journal of the IPHE,India, Vol.2007-08, No.3,pp 9-12  G.Vishnu and Kurian Joseph (2007), ”Dye Rejection and salt passage in Nanofiltration of Reactive dye bath”, Journal of the IPHE,India, Vol.2007-08, No.3,pp ,21-26  S.Jayalakshmi, Kurian Joseph and V.Sukumaran (2007), “Methane production from Kitchen waste using Escherichia coli.”, Journal of Environmental science and Engg., Vol.49,No.2, pp 99-102, April 2007.  Prasanna K and Kurian Joseph (2007), “ Management of waste from Stone Processing Industry”, Journal of Environ. Science and Engg., Vol. 49, N0.4, pp 273-276  E. Selina Kavitha and Kurian Joseph (2007), “ Biochemical methane potential of vegetable waste”, Journal of Environ. Science and Engg., Vol. 49, N0.4, pp 259-264  Kurian Joseph and Kanimozhi R (2007),” Ozonation of secondary treated tannery effluents”, Journal IAEM, Vol.34 (3), pp 183-187  Theivavalli V and Kurian Joseph (2008), ” Rehabilitation plan for municipal solid waste dumpsites – A case study”, Journal IAEM, Vol.35 (2), pp 77-82  S. Thirumalini and Kurian Joseph (2009), ” Correlation between Electrical Conductivity and Total Dissolved Solids in Natural Waters, Malaysian Journal of Science 28 (1): 55-61  Joseph J.S and Joseph K. (2009) “ Studies on Surfactant Removal in Waste Stabilisation Pond”, Journal of Indian Association for Environmental Management’, Vol.36, No.2, pp 124-128  Suneethi S and Kurian Joseph (2009) “ Degradation of Carbofuran by Ozonation”, Journal of Environ. Science and Engg., Vol.5, No.2, pp.127-132  J.Samuel Joseph and Kurian Joseph(2010), “Studies on surfactant removal in waste stabilization Pond”, Journal of the Institution of Public health Engineers, India, Vol 2010-11, No.1, pp10-13

 Conferences/seminars publications

International Conferences / Seminars

 Kurian Joseph and K.R. Ranganathan (1996) " Anaerobic Waste Treatment Technology in India –A Profile", Proceedings of the international seminar on Anaerobic Technology for Waste and Wastewater Management at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 9-13, Dec 1996.  Kurian Joseph and G.B. Jaiprakash Narain (1999) " Solid Waste Management practices in India and Research proposals" presented at the Asian Regional Workshop on Environmental Technologies organised by AIT Bangkok on 27-29 January (1999).  Kurian Joseph (1999) “Siting of a Centralised Hazardous Waste Treatment Disposal facility (CHWTDF)” First International Seminar on Safety and Fire Engineering, Cochin, India November 24-26, 1999.  Kurian Joseph and R. Nagendran (2000), “Siting of Centralised Hazardous waste incineration facility” presented at Intl. Conference on Hazardous waste management, CES, Anna University, Chennai,during 27-29 January 2000.  Kurian Joseph (2000), “Upgradation of Municipal Solid Waste Dumps” Proposal on environmentally sustainable Solidwaste landfill management in asia, presented at the Asian Regional Workshop II on Environmental Technologies organised by AIT Bangkok on 13-14 July 2000.  Schindler F.,Nagendran R and Kurian Joseph (2001) , “ Economics of membrane Technologies for water and wastewater reclamation”, Procs. Seminar on Membrane Technologies for Water and wastewater Reclamation, CES, Anna University, 15-16 February 2001  Kurian Joseph, R.Nagendran, K.Palanivelu and S.Thayumanavan (2001), “Landfill Mining”, presented at Seminar on Solid Waste Management, organized by University of Peradeniya, 27th August 2001, Colombo, SriLanka  Kurian Joseph, R. Nagendran, Chart Chiemchaisri and C.Visvanathan (2002),”Energy from Sustainable Landfills”, presented at the International conference on Techno-Commercial Aspects in Waste to Energy, at MREC, Jaipur during March 1-3,2002  Kurian Joseph, S. Esakku, K. Palanivelu and A.Selvam (2003), Studies on landfill mining at solid waste dumpsites in India, Presented in Sardinia 2003, – IX International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium Sardinia, Italy, October 2003. This paper was selected for the “Kriton Curi” award for the best paper in waste management from developing countries.  C.Visvanathan, J.Tränkler, B.F.A.Basnayake, C.Chiemchaisri, Kurian Joseph and Z. Gongming (2003), Landfill management in Asia – notions about Future approaches to appropriate and sustainable solutions, SARDINIA 2003 – IX International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Italy, 6-10 October 2003.  R. Nagendran, A. Selvam and Kurian Joseph. (2003), “Effect of MSW Floral Diversity and Plant Growth – A Case Study at Perungudi and Kodungaiyur Dumping Grounds, Chennai, India. Presented in ARRPET organized workshop at Kasetsart University, Thailand, October 2003  Kurian Joseph (2004), “Environmental and Health Aspects of Textile Industry”, An International Roundtable on Health and Environmental Issues in Tanneries and textile Industries”, January 22-24, 2004, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India  Kurian Joseph (2004), “Cleaner Production for Textile Industries”, An International Roundtable on Health and Environmental Issues in Tanneries and textile Industries”, January 22-24, 2004, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India  Swati M. and Kurian Joseph (2005), “Bioreactor Landfills – A global vista on the emerging technology for sustainable management of municipal solid waste”, Prithvi 2005 – Global Ecomeet – Sustainable Land use and Waste Management, February 19-28, 2005, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.  Kurian Joseph, R.Nagendran and C. Visvanathan (2005), “Sustainable Approach for Management of Dumpsites in Asia”, Twentieth International Conference on “Solid Waste Technology and Management”, Philadelphia, PA, USA, April 3-6, 2005.  Kurian Joseph, S. Esakku, R. Nagendran and C. Visvanathan (2005) “A Decision Making Tool For Dumpsite Rehabilitation In Developing Countries”, Proceedings Sardinia 2005, X International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Italy.  S. Esakku, Kurian Joseph and R. Nagendran. (2005), “Methodological Constraints and Challenges in Sampling and Characterization for Dumpsite Rehabilitation”, Proceedings Sardinia 2005, X International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Italy.  M.Swati, Kurian Joseph and R. Nagendran (2005), “Bioreactor Landfill Lysimeter Studies on Indian Urban Refuse” Proceedings Sardinia 2005, X International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Italy.  C. Visvanathan, J. Trankler, P. Kuruparan, B.F.A. Basnayake, C. Chaiemchaisri, Kurian Joseph and Z. Gongming (2005), “Asian Regional Research Programme on Sustainable Solid Waste Landfill Management in Asia”, Proceedings Sardinia 2005, X International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Italy.  Kurian Joseph (2006) “Technological options for Waste management in Asian cities”, International Interdisciplinary conference on Sustainable Technologies for Environmental protection”, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, 7-9 January 2006  Shobana Ramesh and Kurian Joseph (2006), “Electronic waste management – Issues and Strategies”, Poster presented in CWG International Workshop on Solid Waste, Health and the Millennium Development Goals, Kolkata, 1 – 5 Feb’ 2006  Kurian Joseph (2006), “Landfill Bioreactors for Sustainable Disposal of Solid Wastes in Asia”, International Workshop on Biotechnology of Anaerobic Bacteria and Archaea, Agarkar Research Institute, Pune, March 3-4, 2006  Kurian Joseph, R. Nagendran and Obuli. P. Karthikeyan (2006), “Stabilization of wastes from dumpsite in leachate reciculation and flushing bioreactors” - Procs. Asia Pacific Landfill Symposium APLAS – IV, Shanghai, China, November 2006.  Swati. M and Kurian Joseph, (2006) “Accelerated degradation of organic fraction of solid waste in tropical environment by leachate recirculation”, Proceedings of ORBIT 2006, Fifth International Conference on Biological Waste Management, Weimar, Germany, Sept 13-15, 2006, Part 4, pp 1247- 1254.

 Yogalakshmi.K.N. and Kurian Joseph (2006), “Effect of Sudden Hydraulic Shock Load on the Performance of Membrane Bioreactor , International Conference on Environment 2006 (ICENV 2006), 13-15 November 2006, Penang, Malaysia.  Kurian Joseph, C.Visvanathan, B.F.A.Basnayake, C.Chiemchaisri and Z.Gongming (2006), “Asian Regional Research Networking for Sustainable Landfill Management”, Procs. 8th Asian Academic Network for environmental safety and waste management (AANESWM), Anna University, Chennai ,11-13 December 2006  Kurian Joseph (2007) “Waste reduction, reuse and recycle initiatives in India”, Procs.International symposium on recent trends in cleaner technologies and environmental management, Pondicherry Engineering College, 6 January 2007,pp -872-878  M. Swati, T. Rema and Kurian Joseph (2007), “Hazardous organic pollutants in municipal solid waste: Qualitative screening and batch studies on co-disposal of phenol”, Proceedings of the International conference on cleaner technologies and environmental management, PEC, Pondicherry, India, January 4-6, pp- 264-269.  Kurian Joseph and Nagendran R. (2007), “Top down and bottom up approach for sustainability of waste management in developing countries”, Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Cagliari, Italy, October 1-5, 2007.  Kurian Joseph (2007), “Electronic waste management in India – Issues and Strategies” Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Cagliari, Italy, October 1-5, 2007.  Obuli P. Karthikeyan, Kurian Joseph and R. Nagendran (2007), “Leachate recirculation to reduce the pollution potential of waste mined from open dumpsite – a lysimeter study”, Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Cagliari, Italy, October 1-5, 2007.  S. Esakku, A. Swaminathan, Obuli. P. Karthikeyan, Kurian Joseph and K. Palanivelu (2007), “Municipal solid waste management in Chennai city, India”, Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Cagliari, Italy, October 1-5, 2007.  Visvanathan C., Kurian Joseph, Chiemchaisri C., Zhou G., and Basnayake B.F.A. (2007), “Integrated networking for sustainable solid waste management in Asia”, International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, Chennai, India, September 5-7, 2007,  Kurian Joseph, Nagendran R., and Thansekaran K. (2007), “Interventions for sustainable management of municipal solid wastes”, International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, Chennai, India, September 5-7, 2007  Swati M. and Kurian Joseph (2007), “Fate of Phenol, Diethyl Phthalate and Dibutyl Phthalate in bioreactor landfill and control dump lysimeters” International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, Chennai, India, September 5-7, 2007  Obuli. P. Karthikeyan and Kurian Joseph (2007), “Municipal solid waste treatment in simulated bioreactor landfills operated with high Ammonia-n concentration”, International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, Chennai, India, September 5-7, 2007  S. Esakku, Obuli. P. Karthikeyan, R.Nagendran, K.Palanivelu, Kurian Joseph, K.P.M.N. Pathirana, A.K. Karunarathna and B.F.A. Basnayake (2007), “Seasonal variations in leachate characteristics from municipal solid waste dumpsite in India and Sri Lanka”, International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, Chennai, India, September 5-7, 2007  Kurian Joseph, (2007), “Lessons from Municipal Solid Waste Processing initiatives in India”, International Symposium MBT 2007, Wasteconsult International, Germany, 22-24 May 2007 ,pp 1-11  Kurian Joseph (2007), “Current Situation and Issues on Solid waste management in India”, Third Expert meeting on Solid Waste management in Asia and Pacific Islands, Okayama, Japan, 7-9, November 2007  Kurian Joseph and R. Nagendran (2007),” Management of open dumpsites in Asia – Challenges and Opportunities”, EcoTech 2007,6th International Conference on waste and wastewater treatment, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 26-28 November 2007, pp 291-300  Chart Chiemchaisri and Kurian Joseph (2007),” Application of Bioreactor landfill technology to municipal solid waste management : Asian Perspective ”, EcoTech 2007,6th International Conference on waste and wastewater treatment, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 26-28 November 2007, pp 255-264  R.Nagendran, Kurian Joseph and L Umayal (2007),” Biopesticide effects of Compost Generated from municipal Solid waste”, EcoTech 2007,6th International Conference on waste and wastewater treatment, University of Kalmar, Sweden, 26-28 November 2007, pp 121-130  Kurian Joseph (2008), “Dumpsite Rehabilitation and Landfill mining” and “Research on Sustainable landfill management in Asia” International PhD Course in Environmental Engineering Sciences for Eco- Cyclic Systems, Nepal, 15-17 October 2008  Kurian Joseph (2009), “Hazardous Waste Management-Indian Scenerio”, 6th Expert meeting on Solid Waste management in Asia and Pacific Islands, Nagoya, Japan, September 16-18, 2009.  S.Suneethi and Kurian Joseph (2009), “Application of ANAMMOX for treatment of Nitrogen Management in Landfill Leachate”, presented as a technical paper in 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Solid Waste and Environment, held from August 12 – 14, 2009, in Anna University, Coimbatore (India).  S.Suneethi and Kurian Joseph (2009), “Enrichment of ANAMMOX bacteria in Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) for the treatment of Nitrogen rich landfill leachate”, presented as a technical paper in International Conference on Solid waste Management, held from November 4 – 6, 2009, in Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India).  Sri Shalini, S. Suneethi and Kurian Joseph (2009), “ANAMMOX and SHARON process for Nitrogen Management in Landfill Bioreactor” presented as a technical paper in International Conference on Solid waste Management, held from November 4 – 6, 2009, in Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India).  S.Suneethi and Kurian Joseph (2010), “Enrichment of ANAMMOX bacteria from Anaerobic digester sludge”, presented as a technical paper in the 3rd International Perspective on Current and Future State of Water Resources and the Environment, held from January 5 – 7, 2010, in Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai (India).  S.Suneethi and Kurian Joseph (2010), “Start up and Stabilization of ANAMMOX process in an Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (An MBR)”, presented as a technical paper in the International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technologies for Waste and Wastewater Treatment, Remediation, Emissions Related to Climate, Environmental and Economic Effects, during November 22nd to 24th, 2010, held at Kalmar, Sweden  Kurian Joseph (2010), “Climate Change – Concerns, Adaptation and Mitigation”, Invited talk at the 11 th International and 1 st International Conference on Technological Trends – ICTT 2010, held at College of Engineering Trivandrum, 23-27 November 2010.  Kurian Joseph (2011), “Environmental management in food processing industry”, International Workshop on Recent Trends in Food Processing-The Global Scenerio, Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal sciences University, Koduvalli, Chennai, 8-9 December 2011.  Kurian Joseph (2011), “Green Economy – an Indian Perspective”, International conference on Green Technology and Environmental Conservation”, Sathyabama University, Chennai, December 15-17, 2011.  Kurian Joseph(2011), Participated in the Expert Pannel on Waste Management of Single Use Hygiene Products at Brussels, Belgium – June 8-9, 2011  Kurian Joseph (2012), “Municipal Solid waste management Technology in India – Country Report and Best Practices, 7th Asian-Pacific Landfill Symposium, Bali, 8-11 October 2012.  Kurian Joseph (2012), “Waste reduction, reuse and recycling initiatives in India” and “ Indian Initiatives on Electronic waste management”, 10th Expert Meeting on Solid Waste Management in Asia and Pacific Islands 20-22 February 2012, Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Tottori city, Japan  Kurian Joseph (2013), “Energy Recovery from Wastes – Indian Scenario”, 12th Expert Meeting on Solid Waste Management in Asia and Pacific Islands 26- 28 February 2013, Tokyo, Japan  Kurian Joseph (2014), “Mercury Waste Management-Indian Scenario”, 13th Expert Meeting on Solid Waste Management in Asia and Pacific Islands 10-12 March 2014, Kyoto University, Japan  Kurian Joseph (2014), “Waste Recycling and Recovery Technologies – Emerging Trends and Future Prospects in Indian Context”, 6th Indo German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 2014 at Potsdam, Germany during 22-25 May 2014  S. Suneethi , Kurian Joseph(2014), Autotrophic ammonia removal from landfill leachate using anaerobic membrane bioreactor, Linnaeus ECO-TECH ‘14, Kalmar, Sweden, November 24-26, 2014  S. Sri Shalini, Kurian Joseph (2014), In situ nitrogen management in landfill bioreactors using combined sharon and anammox processes, Linnaeus ECO-TECH ‘14, Kalmar, Sweden, November 24- 26, 2014

National Conferences / Seminars

 Kurian Joseph (1995), "Pollution Control in Dairy Industry" Seminar on pollution control in food and dairy Industry, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Madras on 10-10-1995.  Kurian Joseph (1996), "Environmental Statement - A tool for Environmental Management": Proceedings of the National Workshop on Environmental Management of Industries in Core Sector held at KREC on may 17-18, 1996. pp.120-124.  Ranganathan K.R. and Kurian Joseph " Industrial Effluent Management for Clusters of Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Units". Proceedings of the Sixth National Symposium on Environment sponsored by DAE, Govt. of India, at Coimbatore from Jan 7-9, 1997.  Kurian Joseph and Jaiprakash Narain G.B. (1997), " EIA of Construction" Proceedings of the seminar on construction Engineering and Management for infrastructure development at Anna University, Chennai on 20-22, March 1997.  Kurian Joseph (1998) "Economic Dimensions of International Environmental Agreements and Ecological Standards" National Seminar on Environment cost of Economic Development, University of Madras, 16-17 April 1998.  Kurian Joseph and Jaiprakash Narain G.B.(1999), " Environmental Management Standards – ISO 14000" Presented at Textech 99 organised by Indian dyes and Chemicals, Tirupur on 21 March 1999.  Kurian Joseph and K.R. Ranganathan (1999) “Cleaner production and institutions” first Indian Round table conference on cleaner production, national productivity council, New Delhi on 31st August, - 1st September 1999.  Kurian Joseph and Jaiprakash Narain G.B. (1999) “An integrated approach for TDS Management in Hosiery dyeing effluents”, IAEM Annual Conference, NEERI, Nagpur on 17- 18 December  Kurian Joseph and Jaiprakash Narain G.B (2000), “TDS minimization in Hosiery dyeing effluents by Low Salt dyeing at low liquor ratio”, Envirotech 2000, New delhi during 19-21 April, 2000.  Kurian Joseph and Jaiprakash Narain G.B (2000), “A Cleaner Production approach for Waste management in Hosiery Textile dyeing industry”, National Workshop on “ Environmental Planning framework for water resources management in Tamil Nadu, organized by WRO and World Bank Institute during 23-24 November, 2000.  Kurian Joseph (2001 ) “ Cleaner Production – Integrated production and process measures”, GTZ- UTK workshop on Pollution Control in Textile industry”, organized at Tirupur on 8-10 march 2001.  Kurian Joseph and Ranganathan K.R (2001) “An approach for TDS management in Industrial Effluents” World Bank funded Training Programme at EPTRI Hyderabad, 16–20 July 2001.  Kurian Joseph (2001) “ Management of Total Dissolved Solids in Industrial effluents” 17th National convention of Environmental Engineers, The institution of Engineers (I), held at Trivandrum , 23-25 November 2001  Kurian Joseph, R.Nagendran, K.Palanivelu and S.Thayumanavan (2001) “ Rehabilitation of municipal solid waste dumpsites” 17th National convention of Environmental Engineers, The institution of Engineers (I), held at Trivandrum , 23-25 November 2001  Kurian Joseph (2001), “Technologies for Sustainable Management of Solid Wastes”, Environment Conclave 2001, organized by Confederation of Indian Industry, 21-22, November 2001, Chennai  Kurian Joseph, C.Visvanathan, J.Trankler, B.F.A.Basnayake, C.Chiemchaisri and Z.Gongming (2003), Regional Networking for Sustainable Landfill Management in Asia, Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Landfill Management, CES, Anna University, Chennai , 3-5 December 2003.  S. Esakku, K. Palanivelu and Kurian Joseph (2003). Assessment of heavy metals in a municipal solid waste dumpsite, Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Landfill Management, CES, Anna University, Chennai, 3-5 December 2003.  Yogalakshmi K.N and Kurian Joseph (2003), ”Membrane bioreactor for wastewater reclamation”, Procs. National conference on Biological treatment of Wastewater and waste Air, Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, August 28-29,2003, pp 360-373.  Jayalakshmi S and Kurian Joseph (2004), “Anaerobic digestion for energy recovery from municipal solid waste”, Procs. National seminar on Biodegradation of municipal and industrial wastewater, Periyar Maniammai College of Technology for Women, 07-08 May 2004, pp 20-34  Kurian Joseph (2004)“Bioreactor Landfills” Regional Workshop on “Sharing MSW Best Practices, Institutional Reforms & Financial Incentives through Methane Migration” organized by United States – Asia Environmental Partnership (US – AEP), American Consulate General, Chennai on 4th November 2004  Kurian Joseph (2005), “Educating engineers for preventive environmental management”, Procs. Role of technical Education in Sustainable Development”, Anna University, Chennai on 24-26 March 2005,pp 29-36  Nagendran R and Kurian Joseph (2005), “Sustainability of Technical education in India”, Procs. Role of technical Education in Sustainable Development”, Anna University, Chennai on 24-26 March 2005,pp 196-202  M.Swati and Kurian Joseph (2005), “Leachate recirculation as a process based approach to enhance municipal solid waste stabilisation”, National Seminar on Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Strategies, Annamalai Nagar, October 22.2005  M. Swati, Obuli. P. Karthikeyan, Kurian Joseph and R. Nagendran (2005). “Landfill bioreactor – a biotechnological solution for waste management”, National Conference on Path to Health-Biotechnology Revolution in India”, Chennai, November 24-26,2005  Kurian Joseph and R.Nagendran(2005) “Dumpsite rehabilitation and sustainable landfilling”, National workshop on “Incineration and Solid Waste Management” held at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai during 29-30, April 2005  Kurian Joseph (2006), “E-Waste – Source and Impacts”, Seminar on e-Waste, C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre, Chennai, Feb’ 23, 2006  Kurian Joseph (2006) , “Remediation of existing landfill site”, Workshop on Municipal solid waste management, Tamil Nadu pollution Control Board, Chennai, Feb’ 25, 2006.  Kurian Joseph (2006) “ Municipal Solid Waste Management in India – Current Status and emerging Trends”, Procs. National Seminar on Environmental management and waste disposal, NSS College, Pandalam, Kerala, March 27-28, 2006.  Kurian Joseph (2006) “Sustainable landfill management through bioreactors”, Professional development programme on MSWM – planning, collection, handling and disposal options, Engineering staff college, Hyderabad, June 21, 2006.  Obuli. P. Karthikeyan and Kurian Joseph (2006), “ANAMOX a novel process for nitrogen management in bioreactor landfill” National Seminar on Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management, 27-28 April 2006, Periyar Maniammai College of Technology, Tanjore  Kurian Joseph , G.Vishnu and S.Palanisamy (2006), “Membrane based zero liquid discharge treatment systems for recovery of water and salt from textile effluents”, Technical meet on Advanced membrane Technology, FICCI- Resource conservation and management services, September 1-2, 2006, Chennai.  Kurian Joseph (2006) “ Sources of pollution and waste minimization in Textile Industries” and ‘Treatment and Reuse of Dyeing Effluent”, Seminar on Industrial wastewater treatment and reuse, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, 9 December 2006, Tirupur.  Obuli P. Karthikeyan and Kurian Joseph (2007), “Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (ANAMMOX) process for nitrogen removal – A review”, Proceedings of Biological methods of waste treatment and management in South India symposium, Chennai, TN, India, February 15, 2007.  Obuli P. Karthikeyan and Kurian Joseph (2007), “Bioreactor landfills for sustainable solid waste management”, Proceedings of National Conference on Sustainable Energy and Waste Management, Coimbatore, India, April 27 – 28 2007.  Kurian Joseph (2008), “ Municipal solid waste management in India – Status and Perspectives”, All India Seminar on Solid Waste Management, Institution of Engineers (India) – Tamilnadu Centre at IIT Chennai, 22-23 February 2008.  Kurian Joseph (2008), “ Municipal solid waste management in India – Status and Perspectives”, National workshop on Environmental sustainability, SRM University, June 5, 2008, pp 65-74  S. Suneethi and Kurian Joseph (2008), “Membrane bioreactor – An emerging alternative technology for treatment of industrial wastewaters”, Procs. DAE- BRNS Biennial Symposium on Emerging Trends in Separation science and technology”, University of Delhi, 12-14 March 2008, pp 373-374  S. Suneethi and Kurian Joseph (2008), ”Advances in treatment of nitrogen rich wastewaters”, National conference on Urban Environment – Present scenerio and Future Strategies”, Bangalore University, December 27-27, 2008, p 68  Kurian Joseph (2010), Electronic Waste Management – An Indian Outlook”,Procs. Kerala Environment Congress 2010 on Solid and Liquid Waste Management held at Centre for Environment and Development, Trivandrum, 24-26 June , 2010., pp48-60  Kurian Joseph (2010), “Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation”, Procs. National seminar on Green Chemistry, Alphonsa College, Palai, 15-16 July 2010, pp 15-25  Kurian Joseph (2011), “ Electronic waste management in India-Issues and Strategies”,EMEP 2011, National Conference on E Waste Management for Environmental Protection, LICET and LIFE, Loyola College, Chennai, 18, March 2011.  Kurian Joseph (2011), “Issues in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process”, AICTE sponsored national seminar on Environmental Impact Assessment, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, August 26, 2011.  Kurian Joseph (2011), “Carbon foot print assessment of products and service” National seminar on carbon management in the current global scenario, AMET University, Chennai, October 20, 2011  Kurian Joseph (2012), “ Electronic waste management initiatives in India”, National conference on E waste management using biological tools: an Eco friendly approach (NCEMBT -2012), CERD and LIFE, Loyola College, Chennai, 8-9, March 2012.  Kurian Joseph (2012), “Classification and Siting of landfill”, Workshop on Landfill design and Construction, Indian Geotechnical Society, Chennai Chapter, Colin Mckinzie Auditorium, Anna University, Chennai on 28 April, 2012  Kurian Joseph (2012), “Environmental Management System for Health Care Sector” , Mainstreaming Environmental Management in the Health Care Sector, 23.11.12 at TNPCB Auditorium.  Kurian Joseph (2012), “Environmental Statement – A tool for Waste reduction”, Training Program on Environmental Statement Preparation and its importance”, Environmental Training Institute, Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board, Chennai on 14 December 2012.  Kurian Kurian Joseph (2013), “Waste management and waste to energy policy in India”, Workshop on current status and future perspectives on Biomass utilization and Waste to energy in India” Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Japan and CES, Anna University Chennai, 30 August 2013, Chennai.  Kurian Joseph (2013), “End of life vehicles –issues and strategies”, National conference on “Technologies for wealth from waste” Loyola Institute of Frontier Energy and Loyola College, Chennai, 8-9, January 2013.  Kurian Joseph (2013)” Planning and Designing Scientific Research”, UGC sponsored Short term course on Research Methodology, Techniques of Writing Research Articles and PhD Thesis Preparation on 9 March, 2013 at Dept.of Civil Engg, Anna University, Chennai.

 Books/Patents

 Kurian Joseph (2010), “ Municipal Solid Waste Management in India”, Chapter 6 in the Book titled “ Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands” Edited by Agamuthu P and Masaru Tanaka, Society of Solid Waste management Experts in Asia and the Pacific Islands, Penerbit ITB, Indonesia, ISBN 978-979-1344-78-4  Kurian Joseph and C.Visvanathan (2008), “Dumpsite Rehabilitation”, Landfill Research Focus, Ed. Ernest C. Lehmann, Nova Science Publishers Inc, ISBN: 1600217753, Chapter 12, pp 337-360  Hogland, W., Joseph, K., Marques, M., (2008) Financial Aspects on Landfill Mining and Land Reclamation. In “WASTEconomics: Turning waste liabilities into assets” , Yeoh, J. And Tang, K., (eds), Middlesex University Press, ISBN 978 1 904750 28 4, pp 57-69  Gilbert M. Masters, Kurian Joseph and R.Nagendran (2007), “Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt.Ltd, Delhi  Kurian Joseph and R. Nagendran (2004), Essentials of Environmental Studies, Pearson Education, Singapore  Kurian Joseph, R. Nagendran , K. Palanivelu , K. Thanasekaran and C. Visvanathan (2004), Dumpsite Rehabilitation and Landfill Mining , CES, Anna University, Chennai, India under ARRPET.  C.Visvanathan, Josef Trankler, Zhou Gongming, Kurian Joseph, B.F.A. Basnakake, Chart Chiemchaisri (2004), Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia, AIT, Bangkok under ARRPET  M. Narayana Rao, V. Kothandaraman, V.N. Rayudu, Kurian Joseph and E.S.M Suresh, Environmental Engineering Laboratory Manual for Water Analysis, TTTI, Chennai under CIICP, Project (1998).

Honors

“Kriton Curi” award for the best paper in waste management from developing countries in Sardinia 2003, – IX International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium Sardinia, Italy, October 2003.

 Others

Contribution in Major Consultancy Projects in the field of specialization.

 Completely involved in the Detailed Engineering of the cooling water circulation, makeup water treatment and contaminated water treatment systems of continuous casting plant under Durgapur Steel Plant modernization. Activities included process design, development of process control philosophy for the automation controlled by PLC, procurement assistance including preparation of operation & maintenance manual, co-ordination among the in-house department such as civil, instrumentation, piping and electrical, consultants and client. (1989-92)  Involved in the Detailed Engineering of Ballast Water treatment plant for 2nd Oil Jetty of Halida Dock Complex, Calcutta Port Trust. Activities include process design, development of process flow diagrams and control philosophy, general arrangement drawings, technical specification and co- ordination among the in house disciplines, consultants and client. (1991-92)  Involved in the Basic Engineering of Floor Wash Water treatment plant for Mahul Refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, Bombay and Sewage Treatment Plant for TISCO. Activities included basic design, preparation of Layout, process flow diagrams, process Control Philosophy, Hydraulic flow diagrams, technical specification etc. (1992)  Completely involved in the execution / supervision of Civil Works for the Effluent treatment plant for Nilambur Chilling Plant, Kerala. (1992).  Design of water transmission and Distribution System for Madras City. Activities included collection of basic data, analysis using computer package and report preparation for water distribution system for four zones. (1994-95)  Environmental Impact Assessment of Hyundai Car Project near Sriperumbudur, near Chennai. Activity included noise impact assessment of the project, (1996)  Environmental and Social Assessment of Tirupur Area Development Project. Activities included analysis of Project alternatives for Industrial effluent management under the project. (1996)  Preparation of Manual for "Environmental Audit of Sugar Industries" for Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India. This involves Environmental Audit of three typical Sugar industries and preparation of a manual that can guide the industries for conduct of Environmental Audit. (1996-97).  Involved in the preparation of guidelines on "Identification, Characterization and analysis of Hazardous Wastes" sponsored by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India (1997-98).  Performance evaluation of Mechanical Surface aerators, for M/s Pure Tech Engineering Private Limited Chennai (1998).  Project Leader, in the "Environmental Impact Assessment of Hazardous Waste incineration facility" at Manali, near Chennai (1999).  Involved in the feasibility studies on Modernisation of the Effluent Treatment Plant for M/s. Tamilnadu Co-operative Textile Processing Mills Ltd., Erode.(1999)  Involved in the Technical Appraisal of the Detailed Project Reports for Chennai City Waterways Improvement under NRCD for MoEF, New Delhi (2000)  Project Leader in Environmental Impact Assessment of a Diesel Power Plant Expansion Project (2000)  Project Leader in Technical evaluation of Common Effluent Treatment (CETP) project for small scale industrial clusters in Tamil Nadu. (1996-2001)  Project Leader in Pollution Load Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment of a Linear Alkyl Benzene Plant (2003).  Project Leader in the Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment of a Hazardous Sludge Disposal Facility for the CETPs in Tirupur (2003).  Project leader in the Carrying Capacity Assessment of M.S ingots, Chlor Alkali and Ferro Alloy industries in Pondicherry” sponsored by the Directorate of industries, Pondicherry (2003)  Project leader for the “Ecological and Environmental damage assessment of Noyyal and Amaravathy River Basin due to Pollution by Industries”, sponsored by the Loss of Ecology Authority, Chennai (2004).  Facilitator for establishing and running of Five Waste Minimisation Circles for the Textile industry in Tirupur (2004)  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Development of microbiological quality standards for disposal of urban wastewater”, sponsored by the Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi (2004).  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment of a Pharmaceutical Industry”, sponsored by M/s Shasun Chemicals, Pondicherry (2005)  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Studies of chemical units located in SIDCO Industrial Estate, Mettur Dam, Salem District” sponsored by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (2005)  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Environmental Assessment of a Complex Fertiliser Industry”, sponsored by M/s Coramandel, Fertilisers Ltd, Ennore (2005).  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Expert opinion on the management of total dissolved solids and hazardous wastes at M/s Madura coats private limited, Ambasamudram” (2005)  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Environmental Assessment of Caterpiller India Pvt Ltd, Thiruvallur (2005).  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Evaluation of the Landfill Cell-1” of M/s Sterlite Industries (I) Ltd, Tuticorin” (2006).  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Environmental and Safety Audit of the existing Carbon Black Factory of M/s. Hi-Tech Carbon, Gummidipoondi, Thiruvallur (2006).  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Pollution Load Assessment of M/s. Tagros Chemicals, Cuddalore (2006)  Team Member in the consultancy work on the evaluation of “Zero Liquid treatment systems for the Common Effluent Plants for the textile industries” in Tirupur (2007)  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Pollution Load Assessment” of M/s. Tanfac Industries Ltd., Cuddalore (2007)  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Study to estimate methane emanated from the Poultry litter” for M/s. Subhashri Bio Energies P. Ltd., Tiruchengode (2007)  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Study of pollution potential of zinc sulphate manufacturing industry” for Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Chennai (2007)  Retainer consultant for M/s. Global Envirotech, Chennai (2007)  Project leader for the consultancy work on “Study of pollution load assessment due to product change” of M/s. Shasun Chemicals & Drugs Ltd., Cuddalore (2008).  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Complex”, sponsored by Public Works Department, Government of Tamil Nadu (2008)  Team member for the consultancy work on “Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment of Modern State Library Complex”, sponsored by Public Works Department, Government of Tamil Nadu (2008)  Project leader for the consultancy work on “Design of Demonstration Landfill Unit for Udumalpet Municipality ” funded by the Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi (2008).  Project leader for the consultancy work on “Waste Processing and Disposal options for municipal solid wastes in Tamilnadu and associated costs” funded by the Madras School of Economics, Chennai (2008).  Project leader for the consultancy work on “Evaluation of Red Mud Storage System” of M/s Madras Aluminium Company Limited, Mettur (2009).  Resource person to Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for the preparation of the Status Report of Industrial Pollution (large and small scale) in Tamil Nadu (2009)  Project leader for the consultancy work on ‘Characterization of Municipal Solid Wastes” from Ambattur, Valsaravakkam, Maduravoyal, Poonamallee and Thiruverkkadu Municipalities in Tamil Nadu (2009).  Project Leader for the “Environmental and Waste Audit” of M/s Tagros Chemicals India Ltd., Cuddalore. (2009)  Project Leader for the “Validation of the Zero Discharge Scheme adequacy of Integrated Pint Manufacturing Unit at Hosur” of M/s. Kansai Nerolac Paints, Hosur (2010)  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment of the New Tamil Nadu Secretariat”, sponsored by Public Works Department, Government of Tamil Nadu (2010)  Project Leader for the consultancy work on “Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment of the Flood Diversion Canal from Kannadian Channel to Drought Prone Areas in Tirunelveli ”, sponsored by Public Works Department, Government of Tamil Nadu (2010)  Project Leader of the consultancy work on “ Technical evaluation of the revised process scheme to achieve Zero Liquid Discharge and brine reuse’ for Arulpuram CETP, Tirupur (2011)  Project Leader of the consultancy work on “ Environmental Audit in and around three used lead acid battery (ULAB) recycling units in Chennai” for Blacksmith Institute, India (2011)  Project Leader of the consultancy work on “Technical Review of the Landfill Bioreactor proposal for the Kanjurmar Waste Processing and Disposal” by M/s Anthony Lara Enviro Solutions Pvt.Ltd, Mumbai (2011).  Project Leader of the consultancy work on  “ Technical evaluation of the improvement works to achieve Zero Liquid Discharge and brine reuse’ for Vettuvapalayam CETP, Tirupur (2012)  “ Technical evaluation of the revised process scheme to achieve Zero Liquid Discharge for Park CETP, Tirupur (2011)  “ Technical evaluation of the revised supplementary process scheme to achieve Zero Liquid Discharge’ for Angeripalayam CETP, Tirupur (2012)  “ Technical evaluation of the revised supplementary process scheme to achieve Zero Liquid Discharge’ for Eastern CETP, Tirupur (2012)  “ Technical evaluation of the revised supplementary process scheme to achieve Zero Liquid Discharge’ for Sirupooluvapatti CETP, Tirupur (2012)  Project Leader of the consultancy work on Technical evaluation of the revised supplementary process scheme to achieve Zero Liquid Discharge’ for Mangalam CETP, Tirupur (2012  Project Leader of the consultancy work on Environmental Impact of Change in product mix by Petro Araldite Pvt Ltd, Manali (2013)  Project Leader of the consultancy work on Environmental Impact of Change in product mix by Clariant Chemicals, Cuddalore (2013)  Project Leader of the consultancy work on Performance Evaluation of the Chinnakkarai Common Effluent Treatment Plant, Tirupur (2014)  Project Leader of the consultancy work on Performance Evaluation of the Rayapuram Common Effluent Treatment Plant, Tirupur (2014)  Project Leader of the consultancy work on Performance Evaluation of the Park Common Effluent Treatment Plant, Tirupur (2015)

Organization of Training programmes and Seminars for professionals  Two day training programme on "Environmental Audit for Cement Industries" sponsored by MoEF, Government of India conducted at CES, Anna University on 28 & 29 August 1995.  Ten day refresher course on "Water Supply Distribution Network Analysis using computers" sponsored by CPHEEO and conducted by CES on 14-24 February 1995, 13-23 February 1996 and 12- 22 February 1997.  Organization of a National seminar on "Anaerobic Technologies for Waste Treatment" at CES, Anna University on 11-12, December 1997.  Organization of National Seminar on "TDS removal from Textile Effluent" at CES, Anna University on 26 March, 1998.  Training Programme on "Hazardous Waste Management" for Officials of PCB and Ports and Harbour sponsored by CPCB at CES on 20-21 March 1998.  Lecture on " Solid Waste Management and Environmental Protection" at 5 Training Programmes on ESR Profile organised by Tamil Nadu Institute of Urban Studies at Chennai for Municipal Officials (1997-98).  Training programme on "Environmental Audit and Waste Minimisation in Tannery sector" organised by ETI, TNPCB, October, 1998.  Training programme on “Operation and Maintenance of CETPs for small scale textile Industry” conducted on 6 – 10 December 1999 at CES, Anna University, Chennai  Seminar on “Environmental Management Systems” conducted at CES, Anna University, Chennai on 18 February 2000.  Seminar on “Industrial Wastewater Reclamation” organized by IEA at CES, Anna University, Chennai on 8 May 2000.  Seminar on “Membrane technologies for water and wastewater reclamation” at CES, Anna University, Chennai on 15-16 February 2001.  Seminar on “ Natural and Decentralised Waste Treatment systems” organized by IEA and CES, Anna University, Chennai on 15 March 2002  Workshop on “Sustainable Landfill Management” organized by Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University, Chennai-600 025 during December 3-5, 2003  Training Programme on Environmental Management in Electroplating Industries, at Madurai on 31 July 2004 and at CES, Anna university, Chennai, 29th September 2004  Training Programme on Environmental Management in Electroplating Industries, at Coimbatore on 25 February 2005  Policy workshop and Training Programme on Municipal solid waste management, CES, Anna University on 21-25 August 2006.  Training the Trainer Programme on Municipal solid waste management, CES, Anna University on 18-22 December 2006.  International Conference on “Sustainable Solid Waste Management” organized by Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University, Chennai-600 025 during September 8-10, 2007  Workshop on Current Status and Future Perspective on “Waste Biomass Utilization and Waste to Energy in India” organized by Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University, Chennai-600 025 on 30 August 2013 in association with Tottori University of Environment Studies, Tottori, Japan.

 Details of visits abroad

Sl.No. Country Visited Duration Purpose 1. Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh 09.12.1996 to 13.12.1996 International Seminar on Anaerobic Technologies City ) for Waste management 2. Thailand ( Asian Institute 03.08.1998 to 11.09.1998 Training Programmes on Cleaner production, of Technology, Bangkok ) Environmental risk Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment 3. Thailand ( Asian Institute 27.01.1999 to 29.01.1999 Asian Regional Workshop on Environmental of Technology, Bangkok ) Technologies 4. Thailand ( Asian Institute 13.07.2000 to Second Asian Regional Workshop on of Technology, Bangkok ) 14 .07.2000 Environmental Technologies 5. Thailand ( Asian Institute 26.02.2001 to 27.02.2001 Startup workshop of Asian Regional Research of Technology, Bangkok ) Programme on Environmental Technologies (ARRPET) 6. Sri Lanka ( Colombo and 27.08.2001 to Seminar on Solid Waste management and Country University of Peradeniya ) 31.08.2001 Workshop of ARRPET 7. Thailand ( Asian Institute 18.03.2002 to Annual Review workshop of Asian Regional of Technology, Bangkok ) 20.03.2002 Research Programme on Environmental Technologies (ARRPET) 8. Tongji University, 18-20, October 2002 To participate in the Second workshop on solid Shanghai, China waste landfill management 9. Thailand ( Asian Institute 1-4, October 2003 Annual Review workshop of Asian Regional of Technology, Bangkok Research Programme on Environmental Technologies (ARRPET) 10. Cagliari (Italy) – 6-10,October 2003 Ninth International Waste Management and SARDINIA 2003 Landfill Symposium 11. Thailand ( Asian Institute 8-10, November 2004 Annual Review workshop of Asian Regional of Technology, Bangkok Research Programme on Environmental Technologies – II (ARRPET-II) 12. Philadelphia, PA, USA 3-6 April 2005 Twentieth International Conference on “Solid Waste Technology and Management”, 13. Thailand ( Asian Institute 5-7 December 2005 Annual Review workshop of Asian Regional of Technology, Bangkok Research Programme on Environmental Technologies – II (ARRPET-II) 14. Thailand ( Asian Institute 31 May – 1 June 2006 Workshop on Persistent Organic Pollutants of Technology, Bangkok (POPs) 15. Sri Lanka 11-14, June 2006 National Workshop and Seminar on “Regional (University of Peradeniya) Guidelines for Sustainable Management of Municipal Solid Waste in Asia”. 16. Thailand ( Asian Institute 6-10, November 2006 Annual Review workshop of Asian Regional of Technology, Bangkok Research Programme on Environmental Technologies – II (ARRPET-II) 17 Hanovar, Germany 22-24 May 2007 MBT 2007, Waste consult International, Germany 18 Cagliary, Italy October 1-5, 2007. Eleventh International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium 19 Okayama, Japan 7-9, November 2007 Third Expert meeting on Solid Waste management in Asia and Pacific Islands 20 University of Kalmar, 26-28 November 2007 EcoTech 2007,6th International Conference on Sweden waste and wastewater treatment 21 Thailand ( Asian Institute 12-14, November 2007 Annual Review workshop of Asian Regional of Technology, Bangkok Research Programme on Environmental Technologies – II (ARRPET-II) 22 Tongji University, 27-29 March 2008 ARRPET II Project Review Workshop to finalise Shanghai, China the Phase III proposal focusing on “Integrated waste management in Asia”. 23 Kathmandu, Nepal 15-17 October 2008 Resource Person - International PhD Course in Environmental Engineering Sciences for Eco- Cyclic Systems 24 Bangkok, Thailand 10-13, February 2009 Kick off meeting of the Project on “ Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia (ISSOWAMA) funded by the European Commission 25 Nagoya, Japan 16-18 September 2009 6th Expert meeting on Solid Waste management in Asia and Pacific Islands 26 Brussels, Belgium, June 8-9, 2011 Expert Pannel on Waste Management of Single Use Hygiene Products 27 Tottori, Japan 20-22 February 2012 10th Expert meeting on Solid Waste management in Asia and Pacific Islands 28 Bali, Indonesia 8-11 October 2012. 7th Asian-Pacific Landfill Symposium 29 Tokyo, Japan 26- 28 February 2013 12th Expert meeting on Solid Waste management in Asia and Pacific Islands 30 Kyoto, Japan 11-13 March 2014 13th Expert meeting on Solid Waste management in Asia and Pacific Islands 31 Potsdam, Germany 22-25 May 2014 6th Indo German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 32 Tokyo, Japan 22-26 February 2015 13th Expert meeting on Solid Waste management in Asia and Pacific Islands and meeting of Drafting committee of Asia Pacific 3R Status Paper

Academic Research (List of Thesis Guided for M.E./M.Sc Programmes)

 Analysis of Mercury flow from coal combustion (2015)- V.Kiruthika  Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic plantain wastes using rumen microorganisms for Biomethanation (2015)- George Mani  Struvite Recovery from sewage sludge using air agitated fluidized bed reactor (2014)-Janani Hemalatha  Hydrothermal Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste(2014)-Kalaichelvan S  Performance Assessment of Source level Composting for Biodegradable Wastes(2014)-Anjana Elizabeth David  Evaluation of Anammox Process Performance in a packed Bed Anaerobic Bioreactor(2014) – Tharini S  Carbon and nutrients removal by integrated Anaerobic –Aerobic Bioreactor (2013)- Deepika J  Nutrient removal from wastewater using anoxic/aerobic membrane bioreactor (2013) – Aashefa K  Fractional Crystallisation of Mixed Salt Evaporator Residue (2013) – Guhankumar P  Encapsulation and solidification of salt bearing evaporator residues (2012) - Kavitha V  Studies on management of Absorbent Hygiene Product wastes (2012) – S.Nishanthini  Denitrification and combined nutrient removal in anoxic membrane bioreactor (2012) – Lekshmy R.S  Environmental and Economic Analysis of End of life vehicle management practices in Tamilnadu (2012) –Satakopan S  Characterisation and physicochemical treatment of effluent from a plastic waste recycling plant. (2012) – Saranya Sriram  Studies on Waste oil and used oil management in the Automotive Sector (2011) – Jhanani S  Carbon Removal and Biogas Generation from domestic sewage using upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor (2011) – Akila Soorianarayanan  Studies on membrane bioreactor for reclamation of UASB Treated sewage (2011)- Ranjan Rai  Sustainability Assessment of Tannery Industries (2010)- Dayana Alexander  Energy footprint of water systems (2010)- Deepa  Carbon and Water footprint of Energy (2010)-Pradeep  Studies on Removal of Surfactants in Waste Stabilisation Ponds (2009) – Samuel Joseph J  Micro level Analysis of Solid Waste Collection in a Zone of Metro City (2009) – Thirumurugan N  Leachability of Hazardous Components from Red Mud (2009)- T.Sarah John  Treatment of Wastewater using Microbial Fuel Cell (2009) – Arhoul Cynthia Shiny  Characterisation and Treatment of leachate from a Hazardous Waste Landfill(2009)–Vidhya Lakshmi D  Degradation of Fluoroaromatic compounds by Ozonation (2008)  Comparative evaluation of emerging technologies for treatment of sewage from Peri urban and Rural areas (2008)  Biological stability of municipal solid waste from simulated landfills (2008)  Characterisation and planning for management of biodegradable waste in Chennai City (2008)  Characterisation and management of Construction debris and drain silt in Chennai City (2008)  Life Cycle Assessment of knitted Cotton T Shirt (2008)  Household Hazardous Waste Management for a Metro City (2008)  Correlation of Electric Conductivity and Total Dissolved Solids in Solutions of Natural and Industrial Origin (2007)  Evaluation of Conventional and Membrane Bio Reactor Treatment for Tannery Effluent (2007)  Conversion of Refinery Oily Sludge in to Fuel Pellets (2007)  Studies on Reuse and Recycle of Plastic Wastes (2007)  Bioliquefaction and Municipal Solid Waste by Rumen Fluid (2007)  Rehabilitation Plan for Municipal Solid Waste Dumpsites in Tamil Nadu (2007)  Characterisation of Poultry Litter and Evaluation of its Biochemical Methane Potential (2007)  Degradation of Carbofuran by Ozonation (2007)  Environmental Management in Garment Washing Units (2006)  Reuse of Exhausted Low Salt Reactive Dye Baths After Ozonation and Adsorption (2006)  Performance Evaluation of a Biomethanation Plant for Vegetable Wastes (2006)  Electronic Waste Management Plan for a Metro City (2006)  Waste Management Plan for a Stone Processing Industry (2006)  Studies on Ecoprofile of Indian Leather (2005)  Evaluation of Zero Discharge Treatment Systems for Hosiery Dyeing Units (2005)  Evaluation of Waste Minimisation options in Hosiery Dyeing Units (2004)  Water and Waste Audit of Pharmaceutical Laboratory (2004)  Ozonation of Secondary Treated Tannery Effluents (2004)  Removal of Pathogen Indicators in a Decentralised Wastewater Treatment System (2004)  Pretreatment of Secondary Treated Tannery Effluents for Reverse Osmosis (2003)  Evaluation of Anaerobic Filters using Gravel and Slag as Media (2003)  Phytorehabilitation of Municipal Solid Waste Dumpsites (2002)  Vermicomposting of Municipal Solid Waste from Dumpsite (2002)  Solid State Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Solid Waste (2002)  Strategic Planning of Solid Waste Management in a Municipal Area (2001)  Composting of Food wastes from Anna University Campus (2001)  Utilization of Biogas Slurry as Feed in Aquaculture (2001)  Reuse of Reactive dye baths decolourised by Ozonation.(2000)  Rehabilitation and performance evaluation of a waste stabilization pond (2000)  Studies on Ozonation of reactive Dyeing effluents(1999)  Management of Sludge from Hosiery Dyeing Effluent Treatment Plants(1999)  Decolourisation of secondary treated distillery effluent by chemical treatment (1998).  Coagulation studies on Textile Dyeing effluent for colour removal (1997).  Monitoring of Ground water quality around a solid waste Dumping site in Madras and Characterization of leachate from a simulated solid waste dump (1996).  Treatability studies on Wastewater from Automobile Service Station (1995).  Adsorption studies on Multisolute systems containing phenol, Cadmium and Nickel (1995).  Activated Carbon from Acidic Sludge of Madras Petrochem Ltd., (1994).  Air quality impact study for a Coal fired thermal power plant (1994)

Membership of Professional Associations

Life member of

 Indian Water Works Association (LM-1759).  Indian Association for Environmental Management (LM-797).  Indian Society for Technical Education (LM-13996).  Institution of Public Health Engineers (India) LM-1083).  National Solid Waste Association of India.