Dr. Anoop Verma

  

Designation:

Professor

Specialization:

Waste-water Treatment using Advanced Oxidation Processes

Email:

anoop.kumar@thapar.edu

Biography

Dr. Anoop Verma is working as an Professor at School of Energy and Environment, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India. He completed his B.E. (Chemical Engineering) in 2000, the M.Tech (Env. Sc. & Tech.) in 2004 and Ph.D. degree (Env. Engg.) in 2014. He has executed various R&D projects in the area of waste water treatment using Advanced Oxidation Processes. His research group is actively involved in designing solar reactors employing dual effect of photocatalysis and photo-Fenton for the treatment of real industry effluents. He has been executing research collaborations with foreign universities in terms of joint PhD supervision, joint publications and research projects.

Research Tags/ Areas:

  • Advanced Oxidation Technologies using novel composite materials
  • Pilot-scale solar reactors for water treatment/disinfection
  • Eco-sanitation
  • Solid-waste Management

Research Projects

 

Funding Agency Title Grant Amount Duration

UGC

Sonophotocatalytic treatment of wastewater From pharma Industry 

Rs. 1,00,000

2008-2010

AICTE (co-PI)

Demineralization studies of pesticides using Advanced Oxidation Processes

Rs. 10, 00,000

2009-2011

DRDO

Sonophotocatalytic treatment of pesticides over TiO2 photocatalyst using immersion well reactor

Rs. 4, 00,000

2011-2012

IEI

Fluidized bed catalytic reactor for the Degradation of Pharmaceutical active compounds (PAH) using batch reactor

 

 

Rs. 1, 00,000

2013-2014

Industry Research

Title Amount (in Lakhs) Funding agency

Pilot-scale studies for the removal of color from the tertiary treated trade effluent using Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs)

10.50

INDUSTRY SPONSORED: TRIDENT BARNALA

Utilization of secondary sludge of leather industry for bricks/ paver blocks formation

6.00

INDUSTRY SPONSORED: LEATHER INDUSTRY COMPLEX, JALANDHAR

Applications of novel composites for the removal of color from tertiary treated effluent.

5.00

INDUSTRY SPONSORED: SHREYANS, AHMEDGARH

Design and development of graphene derived

antimicrobial composite system to resist air and water borne infection in under-developed areas

of India

16.60

TIET-CEEMS

Feasibility of using Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) as pre or post treatment option for treating industry waste water: An approach towards reuse of treated trade effluent for the industry

4.48

INDUSTRY SPONSORED: TRIDENT BARNALA

Consultancy

Title Funding agency Year

Environment Audit of the industry (Air, Water and Solid)

M/s Punjab chemicals and crops protection Limited, Dera Bassi, Mohali.

2023

Water Audit

M/s Saurav Chemicals Ltd, Dera Bassi, Mohali.

2021

Detailed Environment Audit w.r.t to Air, Water and Solid, ETP Adequacy

ALM Food Products, Dera Bassi, Mohali.

2023

Detailed Environment Audit w.r.t to Air, Water and Solid, ETP Adequacy

M/s Punjab chemicals and crops protection Limited, Lalru, Mohali

2022

Air Audit

M/s Punjab chemicals and crops protection Limited, Lalru, Mohali.

2022

Water Audit

IOAL, Barnala

2022

Feasibility Reports

Rice Mills of the Region

2021-22

Audit of Ash Handling

M/S Nahar Industrial Enetrprise Ltd., Lalru

2023

 

Membership of Professional Societies

  • Life Member of The Indian Society for Technical Education
  • Life Member of The Indian Society of Environmental Chemistry and Allied Sciences (SECAS)
  • Fellow member of IEI (membership no. M-146278-9)

Description of Research Interest

Current research envisages the investigation of inexpensive composite materials (Fe-TiO2 composite) incorporating in-situ dual effect by coupling photocatalysis and photo-Fenton for the degradation of pharmaceutical wastewater using waste materials like foundry sand and fly-ash as a substitute for iron source. Scale-up studies (pilot-scale reactors) with these composite materials with nano-catalyst coating for anti-bacterial properties subsequently used for water disinfection studies. Presently, the research groups at Thapar Institute, Patiala are also actively involved in the designing of bioreactors using engineering modifications to enhance fermentative productivity for validating the concept of producing value-added product from community food waste.