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Nagamany Nirmalakhandan

Nagamany Nirmalakhandan

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
56
Citations
9157
World Ranking
2902
National Ranking
875

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
9683
World Ranking
3167
National Ranking
1221

Overview

Nagamany Nirmalakhandan is affiliated with New Mexico State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to industrial and manufacturing engineering, water science and technology, pollution, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work encompasses several specialized topics, including:

  • Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
  • Phosphorus and nutrient management
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
  • Algal biology and biofuel production

They have published extensively in various journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Algal Research
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • Bioresource Technology

Recent publications by Nagamany Nirmalakhandan include:

  • Wastewater infrastructure for sustainable cities: assessment based on UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), 2020, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
  • Nitrogen-Fertilizer Recovery from the Centrate of Anaerobically Digested Sludge, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • Removal and recovery of nutrients from municipal sewage: Algal vs. conventional approaches, 2020, Water Research
  • Evaluating wastewater treatment infrastructure systems based on UN Sustainable Development Goals and targets, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Metagenomic insights into virus removal performance of an algal-based wastewater treatment system utilizing Galdieria sulphuraria, 2020, Algal Research

The scientist collaborates frequently with a core group of coauthors, which includes:

  • I.S.A. Abeysiriwardana-Arachchige
  • S.P. Munasinghe-Arachchige
  • H.M.K. Delanka-Pedige
  • Catherine E. Brewer
  • Yanyan Zhang

Best Publications

  • Renewable and sustainable approaches for desalination

    Veera Gnaneswar Gude;Nagamany Nirmalakhandan;Shuguang Deng

  • Optimization of direct conversion of wet algae to biodiesel under supercritical methanol conditions

    Prafulla D. Patil;Veera Gnaneswar Gude;Aravind Mannarswamy;Shuguang Deng

  • Performance evaluation of an activated sludge system for removing petroleum hydrocarbons from oilfield produced water

    Gilbert T Tellez;N Nirmalakhandan;Jorge L Gardea-Torresdey

  • Microwave energy potential for biodiesel production

    Veera Gnaneswar Gude;Prafulla Patil;Edith Martinez-Guerra;Shuguang Deng

  • Optimization of microwave-assisted transesterification of dry algal biomass using response surface methodology.

    Prafulla D. Patil;Veera Gnaneswar Gude;Aravind Mannarswamy;Peter Cooke

  • Comparison of direct transesterification of algal biomass under supercritical methanol and microwave irradiation conditions

    Prafulla D. Patil;Veera Gnaneswar Gude;Aravind Mannarswamy;Peter Cooke

  • Anaerobic fermentation of cattle manure: modeling of hydrolysis and acidogenesis.

    M. Myint;N. Nirmalakhandan;R.E. Speece

  • QSAR model for predicting Henry's constant

    Nagamany N. Nirmalakhandan;Richard E. Speece

  • Temperature effect on hydrothermal liquefaction of Nannochloropsis gaditana and Chlorella sp.

    Harvind Kumar Reddy;Tapaswy Muppaneni;Sundaravadivelnathan Ponnusamy;Nilusha Sudasinghe

  • Low temperature desalination using solar collectors augmented by thermal energy storage

    Veera Gnaneswar Gude;Nagamany Nirmalakhandan;Shuguang Deng;Anand Maganti

  • Removal of dissolved organic carbon and nutrients from urban wastewaters by Galdieria sulphuraria: Laboratory to field scale demonstration

    S.M. Henkanatte-Gedera;T. Selvaratnam;M. Karbakhshravari;M. Myint

  • Modeling dark fermentation for biohydrogen production: ADM1-based model vs. Gompertz model

    Venkataramana Gadhamshetty;Yalini Arudchelvam;Nagamany Nirmalakhandan;David C. Johnson

  • Evaluation of an ozonation system for reduced waste sludge generation.

    E. Egemen;J. Corpening;N. Nirmalakhandan

  • Hydrothermal liquefaction of high- and low-lipid algae: Bio-crude oil chemistry

    Feng Cheng;Zheng Cui;Lin Chen;Jacqueline Jarvis

  • Prediction of aqueous solubility of organic chemicals based on molecular structure

    Nagamany N. Nirmalakhandan;Richard E. Speece

  • Feasibility of microalgal cultivation in a pilot-scale airlift-driven raceway reactor.

    Balachandran Ketheesan;Nagamany Nirmalakhandan

  • Desalination using solar energy: Towards sustainability

    Veera Gnaneswar Gude;Nagamany Nirmalakhandan;Shuguang Deng

  • Evaluation of a thermo-tolerant acidophilic alga, Galdieria sulphuraria, for nutrient removal from urban wastewaters.

    T. Selvaratnam;A.K. Pegallapati;F. Montelya;G. Rodriguez

  • Use of QSAR models in predicting joint effects in multi-component mixtures of organic chemicals

    S. Xu;N. Nirmalakhandan

  • Toxicity of mixtures of organic chemicals to microorganisms

    N Nirmalakhandan;V Arulgnanendran;M Mohsin;B Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuguang Deng
Shuguang Deng Arizona State University
Veera Gnaneswar Gude
Veera Gnaneswar Gude Mississippi State University
Peter H. Cooke
Peter H. Cooke New Mexico State University
Pei Xu
Pei Xu New Mexico State University
Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey
Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey The University of Texas at El Paso
Timothy J. Strathmann
Timothy J. Strathmann Colorado School of Mines
Samir Kumar Khanal
Samir Kumar Khanal University of Hawaii at Manoa
Richard T. Sayre
Richard T. Sayre Los Alamos National Laboratory
Judith K. Brown
Judith K. Brown University of Arizona

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