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Overview

Sudhir Murthy is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research contributions focus on a range of topics that include wastewater treatment, membrane separation, and nutrient dynamics in water systems.

The main fields of study for Sudhir Murthy encompass:

  • Environmental Science

The subfields that Murthy has extensively worked in are:

  • Pollution
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Catalysis

Their research interests further extend into the following main topics:

  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Sudhir Murthy has published in a variety of journals, with frequent publication in these venues:

  • Water Environment Research
  • Water Research
  • Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation
  • Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • Applied Geochemistry

Notable recent papers include:

  • Thin-film composite polyamide membrane modified by embedding functionalized boron nitride nanosheets for reverse osmosis, 2020, Journal of Membrane Science
  • Moving forward with A-stage and high-rate contact-stabilization for energy efficient water resource recovery facility: Mechanisms, factors, practical approach, and guidelines, 2020, Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • Biodegradation of salicylic acid, acetaminophen and ibuprofen by bacteria collected from a full-scale drinking water biofilter, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Combining continuous flow aerobic granulation using an external selector and carbon-efficient nutrient removal with AvN control in a full-scale simultaneous nitrification-denitrification process, 2021, Water Research
  • Operational and structural A-stage improvements for high-rate carbon removal, 2020, Water Environment Research

Sudhir Murthy has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Bernhard Wett
  • Ahmed Al-Omari
  • Haydée De Clippeleir
  • Charles Bott
  • Rumana Riffat

The author has contributed to book publications by the Water Environment Federation, which include works such as:

  • Controlling Biofilm Thickness on Biofilter for Enhanced Micropollutant Removal in Water Reuse Application (2020)
  • Partial Denitrification Model Development in the Context of Shortcut Nitrogen Removal Processes (2020)

Best Publications

  • Control of aeration, aerobic SRT and COD input for mainstream nitritation/denitritation.

    Pusker Regmi;Mark W. Miller;Becky Holgate;Ryder Bunce

  • Mechanisms of floc destruction during anaerobic and aerobic digestion and the effect on conditioning and dewatering of biosolids.

    John T. Novak;Mary E. Sadler;Sudhir N. Murthy

  • Effect of various sludge digestion conditions on sulfonamide, macrolide, and tetracycline resistance genes and class I integrons.

    Yanjun Ma;Christopher A. Wilson;John T. Novak;Rumana Riffat

  • Cycling of volatile organic sulfur compounds in anaerobically digested biosolids and its implications for odors.

    Matthew J. Higgins;Yen Chih Chen;Douglas P. Yarosz;Sudhir N. Murthy

  • High-rate activated sludge system for carbon management – Evaluation of crucial process mechanisms and design parameters

    Jose Jimenez;Mark Miller;Charles Bott;Sudhir Murthy

  • Going for mainstream deammonification from bench to full scale for maximized resource efficiency.

    B. Wett;A. Omari;S. M. Podmirseg;M. Han

  • Phosphate complexation model and its implications for chemical phosphorus removal.

    S. Smith;I. Takács;S. Murthy;G. T. Daigger

  • Significance of design and operational variables in chemical phosphorus removal.

    A. Szabó;I. Takács;S. Murthy;G. T. Daigger

  • Method and apparatus for treating wastewater usingmembrane filters

    Daigger Glen T;Wollmann Albert M;Murthy Sudhir N;Fleischer Edwin J

  • Factors affecting floc properties during aerobic digestion : Implications for dewatering

    Sudhir N. Murthy;John T. Novak

  • Evaluating four mathematical models for nitrous oxide production by autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

    Bing-Jie Ni;Zhiguo Yuan;Kartik Chandran;Peter A. Vanrolleghem

  • Reactivation and growth of non-culturable indicator bacteria in anaerobically digested biosolids after centrifuge dewatering.

    Matthew J. Higgins;Yen Chih Chen;Sudhir N. Murthy;Donald Hendrickson

  • A dynamic physicochemical model for chemical phosphorus removal.

    H. Hauduc;H. Hauduc;H. Hauduc;I. Takács;S. Smith;A. Szabo

  • Bioflocculation management through high-rate contact-stabilization: A promising technology to recover organic carbon from low-strength wastewater

    Arifur Rahman;Francis A. Meerburg;Shravani Ravadagundhi;Bernhard Wett

  • Pretreatment of a primary and secondary sludge blend at different thermal hydrolysis temperatures: Impacts on anaerobic digestion, dewatering and filtrate characteristics.

    Matthew J. Higgins;Steven Beightol;Ushma Mandahar;Ryu Suzuki

  • Expanding DEMON Sidestream Deammonification Technology Towards Mainstream Application.

    B Wett;S M Podmirseg;M Gómez-Brandón;M Hell

  • Synergistic co-digestion of solid-organic-waste and municipal-sewage-sludge: 1 plus 1 equals more than 2 in terms of biogas production and solids reduction

    Peter Aichinger;Tanush Wadhawan;Martin Kuprian;Matthew Higgins

  • Uncoupling the solids retention times of flocs and granules in mainstream deammonification: A screen as effective out-selection tool for nitrite oxidizing bacteria

    Mofei Han;Siegfried Vlaeminck;Siegfried Vlaeminck;A Al-Omari;B Wett

  • Syntrophy of aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidisers.

    B. Wett;M. Hell;G. Nyhuis;T. Puempel

  • Impact of carbon source and COD/N on the concurrent operation of partial denitrification and anammox.

    Tri Le;Tri Le;Bo Peng;Bo Peng;Chunyang Su;Arash Massoudieh

  • Effects of potassium ion on sludge settling, dewatering and effluent properties

    Sudhir N. Murthy;John T. Novak

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Wett
Bernhard Wett University of Innsbruck
John T. Novak
John T. Novak Virginia Tech
Mark W. Miller
Mark W. Miller Boston University
Siegfried E. Vlaeminck
Siegfried E. Vlaeminck University of Antwerp
Glen T. Daigger
Glen T. Daigger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kartik Chandran
Kartik Chandran Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Zhiguo Yuan
Zhiguo Yuan City University of Hong Kong
Eakalak Khan
Eakalak Khan University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Laura L. McConnell
Laura L. McConnell Bayer (United States)
Keshab Sharma
Keshab Sharma BGC Engineering (Canada)

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