Assistant Professor-Ad hoc

Dr Mohit Aggarwal

Department of Civil Engineering

Interests
  1. Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis
  2. Water and Wastewater Treatment
  3. Biomass Valorization and Resource Recovery

Education

2014

Panjab University Chandigarh
B.E

2018

NIT Trichy
M.Tech

2024

IIT Bhubaneswar
Ph.D

Research Interests

Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis

  • Conducting LCAs to evaluate environmental impacts of various processes, including biofuel production and wastewater treatment. Performing TEAs to assess economic feasibility of sustainable manufacturing processes.

Water and wastewater Treatment

  • Investigating pollutant removal mechanisms from wastewater, focusing on emerging contaminants, such as PFAs and pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals. Modelling pollutant removal using several statistical and machine learning techniques.

Biomass valorization and resource recovery

  • Exploring biofuel production from diverse feedstocks like agricultural residues and microalgae. Optimizing thermochemical processes such as pyrolysis, gasification and hydrothermal liquefaction to improve yields of biochar, bio-oil and syngas.

Awards & Fellowships

  1. 2023 – International Travel Grant – Science and Engineering Research Board
  2. 2021 –Startup grant – Technological Incubation Centre, IIT Bhubaneswar

List of Publications

  • Mohit, A., Mishel, K., & Remya, N. (2024). Life Cycle Assessment and Technoeconomic Assessment of Biofuels Produced from Polyculture Microalgae Cultivated in Greywater. Journal of Environmental Management.
  • Mohit, A., & Remya, N. (2024). Exploring Effects of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus on Greywater Treatment by Polyculture Microalgae using Response Surface Methodology and Machine Learning. Journal of Environmental Management.
  • Mohit, A., Remya, N., & Priyadarshini, U. (2024). Multifaceted application of modified biochar for water and wastewater treatment. Environment Quality Management.
  • Mohit, A., & Remya, N. (2023). Optimization of biochar production from greywater grown polyculture microalgae using microwave pyrolysis. Bioresource Technology.
  • Mishra, B., Remya, N., & Aggarwal, M. (2023). Production of engineered algal biochar through microwave pyrolysis for nutrient recovery from aqueous solution. Environmental Quality Management.
  • Mohit, A., & Remya, N. (2023). Pyrolysis characteristics and kinetics study of native polyculture microalgae using thermogravimetric analysis. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery.
  • Mohit, A., & Remya, N. (2023). Low-Cost Greywater Treatment Using Polyculture Microalgae—Microalgal Growth, Organics, and Nutrient Removal Subject to pH and Temperature Variations during Treatment. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology.
  • Aggarwal, M., & Remya, N. (2021). The state-of-the-art production of biofuel from microalgae with simultaneous wastewater treatment: Influence of process variables on biofuel yield and production cost. BioEnergy Research.
  • Aggarwal, M., & Remya, N. (2021). Application of native mix algal strain for gray water treatment and biofuel production: Preliminary study. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste.
  • Mohit, A., & Remya, N. (2022). Removal of the pharmaceutical compounds from wastewater by biochar. BioChar: Applications for Bioremediation of Contaminated Systems, 217.
  • Mohit, A., & Remya, N. (2022). Integrated Wastewater Treatment and Biofuel Production Using Microalgae. In Microbial Technologies for Wastewater Recycling and Management (pp. 331-339). CRC Press.
  • Mishra, B., Mohit, A., & Remya, N. (2022). Application of Biochar for Removal of Emerging Contaminants. New Trends in Emerging Environmental Contaminants, 211-224.
  • Aggarwal, M., Saravanan, S., Jacinth Jennifer, J., & Abijith, D. (2019). Delineation of groundwater potential zones for hard rock region in Karnataka using AHP and GIS. Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications.

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