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50
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8291
World Ranking
5043
National Ranking
1852

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kalliat T. Valsaraj is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and engineering, with a focus on air quality, pollution, and environmental impacts related to public health.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

Within these disciplines, subfields of particular emphasis are:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Civil and Structural Engineering

The research topics frequently addressed in their publications are:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Water Systems and Optimization
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Kalliat T. Valsaraj include:

  • Effects of Weathering on Microplastic Dispersibility and Pollutant Uptake Capacity, 2022, published in ACS Environmental Au
  • Potential link between compromised air quality and transmission of the novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) in affected areas, 2020, published in Environmental Research
  • Air quality improvement during triple-lockdown in the coastal city of Kannur, Kerala to combat Covid-19 transmission, 2020, published in PeerJ
  • Lignin-Zein Composite: Synthesis, Three-Dimensional Printing, and Microbial Degradation, 2021, published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Long-Term Variations of Air Quality Influenced by Surface Ozone in a Coastal Site in India: Association with Synoptic Meteorological Conditions with Model Simulations, 2020, published in Atmosphere

The venues where the scientist frequently publishes include:

  • Atmosphere
  • The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
  • ACS Environmental Au
  • Environmental Research
  • PeerJ

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts are:

  • M. K. Satheesh Kumar
  • T. Nishanth
  • Avinashkumar V. Karre
  • Bhuvnesh Bharti
  • M. G. Manoj

Kalliat T. Valsaraj has been recognized by professional societies through fellowships, including:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2015)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009)

Best Publications

  • A review of observations of organic matter in fogs and clouds: Origin, processing and fate

    Pierre Herckes;Kalliat T. Valsaraj;Jeffrey L. Collett

  • Elements of Environmental Engineering: Thermodynamics and Kinetics

    Kalliat T. Valsaraj

  • Chemical and microbiological parameters in New Orleans floodwater following Hurricane Katrina.

    J H Pardue;W M Moe;D McInnis;L J Thibodeaux

  • Adsorption and reaction of trace gas-phase organic compounds on atmospheric water film surfaces: a critical review.

    D. J. Donaldson;Kalliat T. Valsaraj

  • Relationships between micelle-water and octanol-water partition constants for hydrophobic organics of environmental interest

    K.T. Valsaraj;L.J. Thibodeaux

  • Contaminant fluxes from sediment due to tubificid oligochaete bioturbation

    D.D. Reible;V. Popov;K.T. Valsaraj;L.J. Thibodeaux

  • Immobilization of aqueous Hg(II) by mackinawite (FeS)

    Jianrong Liu;Kalliat T. Valsaraj;Istvan Devai;R.D. DeLaune

  • Characterization of dissolved organic matter in fogwater by excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy

    Justin E. Birdwell;Kalliat T. Valsaraj

  • Soil Washing Potential of a Natural Surfactant

    D. Roy;R. R. Kommalapati;S. S. Mandava;K. T. Valsaraj

  • Aerobic biodegradation kinetics of four anionic and nonionic surfactants at sub- and supra-critical micelle concentrations (CMCs)

    Chunlong Zhang;Kalliat T. Valsaraj;W.David Constant;Dipak Roy

  • Development of an optical fiber monolith reactor for photocatalytic wastewater Treatment

    Hongfei Lin;Kalliat T. Valsaraj

  • Solubility of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene (TNT) in Water

    Kyoung S. Ro;Asha Venugopal;D. Dean Adrian;David Constant

  • Efficiency of capping contaminated bed sediments in situ. 1. Laboratory-scale experiments on diffusion-adsorption in the capping layer

    X.Q. Wang;L.J. Thibodeaux;K.T. Valsaraj;D.D. Reible

  • Separation of Organic Dyes from Wastewater by Using Colloidal Gas Aphrons

    D. Roy;K. T. Valsaraj;S. A. Kottai

  • Marine Oil Fate: Knowledge Gaps, Basic Research, and Development Needs; A Perspective Based on the Deepwater Horizon Spill

    Louis J. Thibodeaux;Kalliat T. Valsaraj;Vijay T. John;Kyriakos D. Papadopoulos

  • Fog chemistry in the Texas–Louisiana Gulf Coast corridor

    Suresh Raja;Ravikrishna Raghunathan;Xiao-Ying Yu;Taehyoung Lee

  • Photocatalytic Degradation of Gaseous Organic Species on Photonic Band-Gap Titania

    Maoming Ren;R. Ravikrishna;Kalliat T. Valsaraj

  • Efficiency of capping contaminated sediments in situ. 2. Mathematics of diffusion-adsorption in the capping layer

    Greg J. Thoma;Danny D. Reible;Kalliat T. Valsaraj;Louis J. Thibodeaux

  • Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and select aldehydes in cloud and fog water: the role of the aqueous phase in impacting trace gas budgets

    B. Ervens;B. Ervens;Y. Wang;J. Eagar;W. R. Leaitch

  • Atmospheric pollution in a semi-urban, coastal region in India following festival seasons

    T. Nishanth;K.M. Praseed;K. Rathnakaran;M.K. Satheesh Kumar

  • On the enrichment of hydrophobic organic compounds in fog droplets

    K.T. Valsaraj;G.J. Thoma;D.D. Reible;L.J. Thibodeaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Danny D. Reible
Danny D. Reible Texas Tech University
Ronald D. DeLaune
Ronald D. DeLaune Louisiana State University
Pierre Herckes
Pierre Herckes Arizona State University
Jeffrey L. Collett
Jeffrey L. Collett Colorado State University
Krishnaswamy Nandakumar
Krishnaswamy Nandakumar Louisiana State University
Kyoung S. Ro
Kyoung S. Ro United States Department of Agriculture
Taehyoung Lee
Taehyoung Lee Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Barbara Ervens
Barbara Ervens University of Clermont Auvergne
Philip K. Hopke
Philip K. Hopke Clarkson University
Vijay T. John
Vijay T. John Tulane University

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