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Engineering and Technology D-index 47 Citations 8,249 230 World Ranking 2373 National Ranking 33

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Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Redox
  • Catalysis
  • Hydrogen

Makarand M. Ghangrekar mostly deals with Microbial fuel cell, Chemical engineering, Faraday efficiency, Catalysis and Environmental engineering. His Microbial fuel cell research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Wastewater, Chemical oxygen demand, Sewage treatment, Power density and Nuclear chemistry. His work carried out in the field of Chemical engineering brings together such families of science as Mass transfer coefficient, Granule, Ceramic and Mineralogy.

His study in Faraday efficiency is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Separator, Kaolinite and Analytical chemistry. Makarand M. Ghangrekar has included themes like Dielectric spectroscopy, Graphite and Nanotechnology, Graphene in his Catalysis study. His Environmental engineering study incorporates themes from Environmental chemistry, Bioremediation and Granulation.

His most cited work include:

  • Performance of microbial fuel cell subjected to variation in pH, temperature, external load and substrate concentration. (355 citations)
  • Performance of membrane-less microbial fuel cell treating wastewater and effect of electrode distance and area on electricity production (235 citations)
  • Characteristics of sludge developed under different loading conditions during UASB reactor start-up and granulation. (189 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Makarand M. Ghangrekar mainly focuses on Microbial fuel cell, Wastewater, Chemical engineering, Sewage treatment and Chemical oxygen demand. The concepts of his Microbial fuel cell study are interwoven with issues in Faraday efficiency, Waste management, Catalysis and Pulp and paper industry. He has researched Wastewater in several fields, including Water treatment, Total dissolved solids, Bioenergy and Granulation.

His Chemical engineering study also includes fields such as

  • Membrane, which have a strong connection to Nafion,
  • Ceramic, which have a strong connection to Separator. His Sewage treatment research includes elements of Sewage, Effluent, Electricity generation, Biogas and Process engineering. His Chemical oxygen demand study is related to the wider topic of Environmental engineering.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Microbial fuel cell (74.64%)
  • Wastewater (33.01%)
  • Chemical engineering (31.58%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Microbial fuel cell (74.64%)
  • Wastewater (33.01%)
  • Sewage treatment (28.71%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary scientific interests are in Microbial fuel cell, Wastewater, Sewage treatment, Chemical engineering and Chemical oxygen demand. His Microbial fuel cell research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Waste management, Faraday efficiency, Catalysis and Pulp and paper industry. His study in the field of Hydraulic retention time is also linked to topics like Organic matter.

His Sewage treatment study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Electricity generation, Process engineering and Sewage. Makarand M. Ghangrekar combines subjects such as Membrane and Electrochemistry, Cyclic voltammetry, Oxygen reduction reaction with his study of Chemical engineering. His work in Chemical oxygen demand covers topics such as Proton exchange membrane fuel cell which are related to areas like Nafion and Energy storage.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak: some serious consequences with urban and rural water cycle (46 citations)
  • Novel low cost proton exchange membrane made from sulphonated biochar for application in microbial fuel cells (35 citations)
  • Bioelectrochemically powered remediation of xenobiotic compounds and heavy metal toxicity using microbial fuel cell and microbial electrolysis cell (25 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Redox
  • Hydrogen
  • Catalysis

His main research concerns Microbial fuel cell, Sewage treatment, Waste management, Wastewater and Chemical oxygen demand. His Microbial fuel cell research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Faraday efficiency, Chemical engineering, Pulp and paper industry and Proton exchange membrane fuel cell. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Bimetallic strip, Oxygen reduction reaction and Oxygen reduction.

In his work, Septic tank and Anode is strongly intertwined with Biomass, which is a subfield of Pulp and paper industry. His study explores the link between Sewage treatment and topics such as Catalysis that cross with problems in Hydrogen peroxide. His Waste management research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Sanitation and Electrode material.

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Best Publications

Performance of microbial fuel cell subjected to variation in pH, temperature, external load and substrate concentration.

G.S. Jadhav;M.M. Ghangrekar.
Bioresource Technology (2009)

589 Citations

Performance of membrane-less microbial fuel cell treating wastewater and effect of electrode distance and area on electricity production

M.M. Ghangrekar;V.B. Shinde.
Bioresource Technology (2007)

417 Citations

Characteristics of sludge developed under different loading conditions during UASB reactor start-up and granulation.

M.M. Ghangrekar;S.R. Asolekar;S.G. Joshi.
Water Research (2005)

302 Citations

Rice mill wastewater treatment in microbial fuel cells fabricated using proton exchange membrane and earthen pot at different pH

Manaswini Behera;Partha S. Jana;Tanaji T. More;M.M. Ghangrekar.
Bioelectrochemistry (2010)

275 Citations

Performance evaluation of low cost microbial fuel cell fabricated using earthen pot with biotic and abiotic cathode

Manaswini Behera;Partha S. Jana;M.M. Ghangrekar.
Bioresource Technology (2010)

238 Citations

Performance of microbial fuel cell in response to change in sludge loading rate at different anodic feed pH

Manaswini Behera;M.M. Ghangrekar.
Bioresource Technology (2009)

217 Citations

Experience with UASB reactor start-up under different operating conditions

M. M. Ghangrekar;S. R. Asolekar;K. R. Ranganathan;S. G. Joshi.
Water Science and Technology (1996)

180 Citations

Application of electro-active biofilms

Benjamin Erable;Narcis Mihai Duţeanu;Makarand Madhao Ghangrekar;Claire Dumas.
Biofouling (2010)

154 Citations

Graphene supported α-MnO2 nanotubes as a cathode catalyst for improved power generation and wastewater treatment in single-chambered microbial fuel cells

Santimoy Khilari;Soumya Pandit;M. M. Ghangrekar;Debabrata Das.
RSC Advances (2013)

140 Citations

Enhancing performance of microbial fuel cell by using graphene supported V2O5-nanorod catalytic cathode

Md. T. Noori;C.K. Mukherjee;M.M. Ghangrekar.
Electrochimica Acta (2017)

118 Citations

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