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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Ganapati D. Yadav is affiliated with the Institute of Chemical Technology in India and has contributed extensively to research in the field of engineering, particularly focusing on catalysis and biomass conversion. Their work spans various subfields such as biomedical engineering, organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, and mechanical engineering.

Their research centers significantly on catalysis for biomass conversion, biofuel production and bioconversion, and related topics including catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, polyoxometalates synthesis and applications, microbial metabolic engineering, bioproduction, biodiesel production, and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ganapati D. Yadav include:

  • The production of fuels and chemicals in the new world: critical analysis of the choice between crude oil and biomass vis-à-vis sustainability and the environment (2020), published in Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
  • Interesterification of triglycerides with methyl acetate for the co-production biodiesel and triacetin using hydrotalcite as a heterogenous base catalyst (2020), published in Catalysis Today
  • Solvent-Free Benzylation of Glycerol by Benzyl Alcohol Using Heteropoly Acid Impregnated on K-10 Clay as Catalyst (2020), published in Catalysts
  • Sustainable hydrogenation of xylose to xylitol using nickel-alumina catalysts supported on hexagonal mesoporous silica in water vis-à-vis aqueous isopropanol as solvent (2024), published in Catalysis Today
  • A waste-to-wealth and safer bio-based flame retardant: a novel approach towards a phosphorus-functionalized chitosan-banana pseudo-stem composite (2024), published in New Journal of Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ganapati D. Yadav include:

  • Vikramaditya G. Yadav
  • Saurabh C. Patankar
  • M. S. Dhawan
  • Scott Calabrese Barton
  • Devendra P. Tekale

Ganapati D. Yadav has published in several scientific venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering
  • Catalysis Today
  • Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
  • Catalysts
  • New Journal of Chemistry

Their contributions have been recognized through awards such as Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2010 and Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

Best Publications

  • Sulfated zirconia and its modified versions as promising catalysts for industrial processes

    Ganapati D. Yadav;Jayesh J. Nair

  • Pharmaceutical Industry Wastewater: Review of the Technologies for Water Treatment and Reuse

    Chandrakanth Gadipelly;Antía Pérez-González;Ganapati D. Yadav;Inmaculada Ortiz

  • Arsenic and fluoride contaminated groundwaters: A review of current technologies for contaminants removal.

    Sachin V. Jadhav;Eugenio Bringas;Ganapati D. Yadav;Virendra K. Rathod

  • Steam Reforming of Methanol for Hydrogen Production: A Critical Analysis of Catalysis, Processes, and Scope

    Apoorva M. Ranjekar;Ganapati D. Yadav

  • Heterogeneous Catalysis in Esterification Reactions - Preparation of Phenethyl Acetate and Cyclohexyl Acetate by Using a Variety of Solid Acidic Catalysts

    Ganapati D. Yadav;Pranav H. Mehta

  • Esterification of maleic acid with ethanol over cation-exchange resin catalysts

    G.D Yadav;M.B Thathagar

  • Kinetic modeling of immobilized-lipase catalyzed transesterification of n-octanol with vinyl acetate in non-aqueous media

    Ganapati D. Yadav;Archana H. Trivedi

  • Ion-exchange resin catalysis in the synthesis of isopropyl lactate

    G.D. Yadav;H.B. Kulkarni

  • Immobilized lipase-catalysed esterification and transesterification reactions in non-aqueous media for the synthesis of tetrahydrofurfuryl butyrate: comparison and kinetic modeling

    Ganapati D. Yadav;K.Manjula Devi

  • Synthesis of citronellol laurate in organic media catalyzed by immobilized lipases: Kinetic studies

    Ganapati D. Yadav;Piyush S. Lathi

  • Biomass derived chemicals: Environmentally benign process for oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-diformylfuran by using nano-fibrous Ag-OMS-2-catalyst

    Ganapati D. Yadav;Rajesh V. Sharma

  • Kinetics and mechanism of synthesis of butyl isobutyrate over immobilised lipases

    Ganapati D. Yadav;Piyush S. Lathi

  • Preparation of a novel catalyst UDCaT-5: enhancement in activity of acid-treated zirconia—effect of treatment with chlorosulfonic acid vis-à-vis sulfuric acid

    Ganapati D. Yadav;Ambareesh D. Murkute

  • Synergism of clay and heteropoly acids as nano-catalysts for the development of green processes with potential industrial applications

    Ganapati D. Yadav

  • Synthesis of bisphenol-A: comparison of efficacy of ion exchange resin catalysts vis-à-vis heteropolyacid supported on clay and kinetic modelling

    G.D. Yadav;N. Kirthivasan

  • Enzyme-catalysed optical resolution of mandelic acid via RS(∓)-methyl mandelate in non-aqueous media

    Ganapati D Yadav;P Sivakumar

  • Synergism between microwave and enzyme catalysis in intensification of reactions and selectivities: transesterification of methyl acetoacetate with alcohols

    Ganapati D. Yadav;Piyush S. Lathi

  • Novelties of heteropoly acid supported on clay: etherification of phenethyl alcohol with alkanols

    G.D. Yadav;V.V. Bokade

  • The production of fuels and chemicals in the new world: critical analysis of the choice between crude oil and biomass vis-à-vis sustainability and the environment

    Vikramaditya G Yadav;Ganapati D Yadav;Saurabh C Patankar

  • Heteropolyacid supported on montmorillonite catalyst for dehydration of dilute bio-ethanol

    Vijay V. Bokade;Ganapati D. Yadav

  • Selective decomposition of cumene hydroperoxide into phenol and acetone by a novel cesium substituted heteropolyacid on clay

    Ganapati D. Yadav;Navinchandra S. Asthana

Frequent Co-Authors

Riitta L. Keiski
Riitta L. Keiski University of Oulu
Ajay K. Dalai
Ajay K. Dalai University of Saskatchewan
Virendra K. Rathod
Virendra K. Rathod Institute of Chemical Technology
Ioannis Chatzis
Ioannis Chatzis University of Waterloo
Christopher Hardacre
Christopher Hardacre University of Manchester
Arvind Varma
Arvind Varma Purdue University West Lafayette
Tamal Banerjee
Tamal Banerjee Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Inmaculada Ortiz
Inmaculada Ortiz University of Cantabria
Bhavik R. Bakshi
Bhavik R. Bakshi The Ohio State University
Sarbajit Banerjee
Sarbajit Banerjee Texas A&M University

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