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2025

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Overview

Dinesh Mohan is affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and has a research focus primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Water Science and Technology, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Plant Science, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The primary topics that Dinesh Mohan researches include:

  • Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
  • Fluoride Effects and Removal
  • Environmental remediation with nanomaterials

The following frequent co-authors have collaborated extensively with Dinesh Mohan:

  • Charles U. Pittman (29 publications)
  • Todd Mlsna (26 publications)
  • Chanaka Navarathna (18 publications)
  • Manvendra Patel (16 publications)
  • Abhishek Kumar Chaubey (14 publications)

Dinesh Mohan has published regularly in the following venues, each with multiple works:

  • ACS Omega (3 publications)
  • Groundwater for Sustainable Development (3 publications)
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (3 publications)
  • ACS Sustainable Resource Management (3 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (2 publications)

Recent significant papers include:

  • "Engineered biochar - A sustainable solution for the removal of antibiotics from water" (2020, Chemical Engineering Journal)
  • "Seven potential sources of arsenic pollution in Latin America and their environmental and health impacts" (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "High capacity aqueous phosphate reclamation using Fe/Mg-layered double hydroxide (LDH) dispersed on biochar" (2021, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science)
  • "Ciprofloxacin and acetaminophen sorption onto banana peel biochars: Environmental and process parameter influences" (2021, Environmental Research)
  • "Biochar Adsorbents with Enhanced Hydrophobicity for Oil Spill Removal" (2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)

Best Publications

  • Pyrolysis of Wood/Biomass for Bio-oil: A Critical Review

    Dinesh Mohan;and Charles U. Pittman;Philip H. Steele

  • Biochar as a sorbent for contaminant management in soil and water: a review.

    Mahtab Ahmad;Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha;Jung Eun Lim;Ming Zhang

  • Arsenic removal from water/wastewater using adsorbents—A critical review

    Dinesh Mohan;Charles U. Pittman

  • Organic and inorganic contaminants removal from water with biochar, a renewable, low cost and sustainable adsorbent--a critical review.

    Dinesh Mohan;Ankur Sarswat;Yong Sik Ok;Charles U. Pittman

  • Activated carbons and low cost adsorbents for remediation of tri- and hexavalent chromium from water.

    Dinesh Mohan;Charles U. Pittman

  • Pharmaceuticals of Emerging Concern in Aquatic Systems: Chemistry, Occurrence, Effects, and Removal Methods.

    Manvendra Patel;Rahul Kumar;Kamal Kishor;Todd Mlsna

  • Multivariate statistical techniques for the evaluation of spatial and temporal variations in water quality of Gomti River (India)—a case study

    Kunwar P. Singh;Amrita Malik;Dinesh Mohan;Sarita Sinha

  • Single- and multi-component adsorption of cadmium and zinc using activated carbon derived from bagasse--an agricultural waste.

    Dinesh Mohan;Kunwar P. Singh

  • Effects of pyrolysis temperature on soybean stover- and peanut shell-derived biochar properties and TCE adsorption in water.

    Mahtab Ahmad;Sang Soo Lee;Xiaomin Dou;Dinesh Mohan

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    James Woodcock;Phil Edwards;Cathryn Tonne;Ben G Armstrong

  • Sorption of arsenic, cadmium, and lead by chars produced from fast pyrolysis of wood and bark during bio-oil production

    Dinesh Mohan;Charles U. Pittman;Mark Bricka;Fran Smith

  • Studies on distribution and fractionation of heavy metals in Gomti river sediments—a tributary of the Ganges, India *

    Kunwar P. Singh;Dinesh Mohan;Vinod K. Singh;Amrita Malik

  • Magnetic magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticle synthesis and applications for lead (Pb2+) and chromium (Cr6+) removal from water.

    Shalini Rajput;Charles U. Pittman;Dinesh Mohan

  • Impact assessment of treated/untreated wastewater toxicants discharged by sewage treatment plants on health, agricultural, and environmental quality in the wastewater disposal area

    Kunwar P Singh;Dinesh Mohan;Sarita Sinha;R Dalwani

  • Cadmium and lead remediation using magnetic oak wood and oak bark fast pyrolysis bio-chars

    Dinesh Mohan;Hemant Kumar;Ankur Sarswat;M. Alexandre-Franco

  • Trivalent chromium removal from wastewater using low cost activated carbon derived from agricultural waste material and activated carbon fabric cloth

    Dinesh Mohan;Kunwar P Singh;Vinod K Singh

  • Land use, transport, and population health: estimating the health benefits of compact cities.

    Mark Stevenson;Mark Stevenson;Jason Thompson;Jason Thompson;Thiago Herick de Sa;Reid Ewing

  • Modeling and evaluation of chromium remediation from water using low cost bio-char, a green adsorbent.

    Dinesh Mohan;Shalini Rajput;Vinod K. Singh;Philip H. Steele

  • Pyrolysis of Wood and Bark in an Auger Reactor: Physical Properties and Chemical Analysis of the Produced Bio-oils

    Leonard Ingram;Dinesh Mohan;Mark Bricka;Philip Steele

  • Biochar based removal of antibiotic sulfonamides and tetracyclines in aquatic environments: A critical review.

    Chathuri Peiris;Sameera R. Gunatilake;Todd E. Mlsna;Dinesh Mohan

  • Removal of Dyes from Wastewater Using Flyash, a Low-Cost Adsorbent†

    Dinesh Mohan;Kunwar P. Singh;Gurdeep Singh;Kundan Kumar

  • Health and Climate Change 2 Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    J Woodcock;P Edwards;C Tonne;BG Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles U. Pittman
Charles U. Pittman Mississippi State University
Kunwar P. Singh
Kunwar P. Singh National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
Geetam Tiwari
Geetam Tiwari Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Yong Sik Ok
Yong Sik Ok Korea University
Vinod Kumar Gupta
Vinod Kumar Gupta King Abdulaziz University
Meththika Vithanage
Meththika Vithanage University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Sarath K. Guttikunda
Sarath K. Guttikunda Urban Emissions
Mahtab Ahmad
Mahtab Ahmad Quaid-i-Azam University
Shinsuke Tanabe
Shinsuke Tanabe Ehime University
Annamalai Subramanian
Annamalai Subramanian Ehime University

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