Anil Dhanda

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | IIT KGP · Department of Civil Engineering

The presence of refractory micropollutants in natural waters poses significant environmental and health risks. Preferably, advanced oxidation techniques like electro-Fenton (EF) and bio-electro-Fenton (BEF) are used to mitigate micropollutants; nevertheless, their field-scale implementation is limited by prohibitive catalyst cost. As an alternative...

There is currently a critical gap in knowledge regarding the application of microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) in industrial wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Resource Recovery from Industrial Wastewater through Microbial Electrochemical Technologies fills this gap by offering a comprehensive guide for researchers, students, an...

Transition metal oxides supported on carbon have emerged as robust catalysts for energy recovery and environment applications, like fuel cells. In this investigation, a series of catalysts with copper tin oxide (CuO-SnO2) anchored over nitrogen doped reduced graphene oxide (N-rGO) namely N-rGO-CuSn, rGO-CuSn, and N-CuSn were synthesised for oxygen...

Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a progressive technology that can sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce high-value multi-carbon organic compounds. However, the limited organic production rate is the primary bottleneck, limiting the real-life application of this technology. To overcome this challenge, the present investigation explores sludg...

This investigation evaluated the efficacy of microbial fuel cell (MFC) employing cathode catalysed with reduced graphene oxide embedded on graphitic carbon nitride nanocomposite. The catalyst showed an excellent electrochemical response with a minimal charge transfer resistance of 11.5 Ω, compared to the conventional Pt/C (10.1 Ω). The physicochemi...

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have been the prime focus of research in recent years because of their distinctive feature of concomitantly treating and producing electricity from wastewater. Nevertheless, the electrical performance of MFCs is hindered by a protracted oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), and often a catalyst is required to boost the cathod...

Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is an upcoming technique for the treatment of wastewater while simultaneously producing electricity. The performance of MFC is attenuated by several overpotentials, such as activation losses, mass transfer losses, slow metabolic rates, and internal resistance. For reducing the activation overpotential of the cathodic oxyge...