Ashok Pandey

Ashok Pandey
Indian Institute of Toxicology Research | IITR · CITAR

PhD, FBRS, FRSB, FNASc, FIOBB, FISEES, FAMI

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Introduction
Ashok Pandey currently works at the Centre for Innovation and Transnational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow. Ashok research and technological development efforts focus on Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, , focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth & energy, industrial enzymes, and platform chemicals
Additional affiliations
February 1987 - December 2015
National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
Position
  • Head of Department

Publications

Publications (1,105)
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This review article intends to report the advances in the production and application of biochar from macroalgae and microalgae and its utilization in anaerobic digestion (AD), aiming to achieve zero waste and promote a circular economy. Biochar, a carbon-rich material derived through pyrolysis or gasification, offers environmental and agricultural...
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Replacing the goods procured from fossil matter with other products gained over renewable resources has become a global concern in the current scenario. A major shift to bio-based elements appears vital to evade the predominant negative impacts instigated by various chemical elements on the surrounding. In this regard, with special inference on ove...
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Plastic and mixed plastic waste (PW) has received increased worldwide attention owing to its huge rate of production, high persistency in the environment, and unsustainable waste management practices. Therefore, sustainable PW management and upcycling approaches are imperative to achieve the objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development...
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Engineering Applications in Livestock Production covers the recent advancements and technological developments in the field of livestock production engineering in great detail. The major advances covered in this book include the use of artificial intelligence, image processing, Internet of Things, novel animal product processing technologies, farm...
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Facing the problems concerning greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international ocean shipping has meant that the latest regulations of the International Maritime Organization, issued on 1 st January 2023, have come into force, with the aim of reducing GHG emissions from maritime activities. Hydrogen has been suggested as an alternative fuel to ac...
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The agri-food industry creates a vast amount of waste each year. This is not just a problem for waste management, in terms of finding space to store waste and preventing escape of harmful waste into the environment; it also represents a loss of resources: the chemicals and energy which have gone into the production of this waste. If current waste s...
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Biochar is found to possess a large number of applications in energy and environmental areas. However, biochar could be produced from a variety of sources, showing that biochar yield and proximate analysis outcomes could change over a wide range. Thus, developing a high-accuracy machine learning-based tool is very necessary to predict biochar chara...
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Humans are producing ever-increasing volumes of waste and contaminants, and it is not difficult to understand that resource exploitation is increasing in tandem with resource depletion. When compared to the previous century, today’s global resource utilization, economic activity, and population are all considerably larger. Devastating environmental...
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Bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) is a highly crystalline, highly polymerized material with a high aspect ratio, excellent flexibility, high water holding capacity, tensile strength,and other unique features. High purity cellulose can be produced with a variety of physio-chemical properties based on that growth medium and kinds of fermentation processe...
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Biochar, a promising carbon-rich and carbon-negative material, can control water pollution, harness the synergy of sustainable development goals, and achieve circular economy. This study examined the performance feasibility of treating fluoride-contaminated surface and groundwater using raw and modified biochar synthesized from agricultural waste r...
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Background Environmental concerns are escalating globally due to rising pollution, with heavy metals like vanadium posing health risks even at 2 ppm. Industries like steel and semiconductors discharge vanadium, presenting environmental hazards. However, there's a lack of sustainable treatment methods for vanadium removal. This study aims to develop...
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Hydrogen (H2) plays an important role in the energy transition toward a zero-carbon economy, in which green H2 could replace fossil fuels in the refining, petrochemical, fertilizer, steel, cement, electricity, and transportation sectors. More importantly, the deployment of green H2 strategies could ensure energy security and create an efficient way...
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Microplastics (MPs) as a kind of emerging contaminants, widely exists in various kinds of medium, sewage sludge (SS) is no exception. In the sewage treatment process, a large number of microplastics will be deposited in SS. More seriously, microplastics in sewage sludge can migrate to other environmental media and threaten human health. Therefore,...
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Antimony (Sb) has been classified as a high-priority contaminant in the environment. Sb contamination resulting from the use of antimony containing compounds in industry necessitates the development of efficient methods to remove it from water and wastewater. Adsorption is a highly efficient and reliable method for pollutants removal owing to its a...
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Plastic production and its unplanned management and disposal, has been shown to pollute terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments. Petroleum-derived plastics do not decompose and tend to persist in the surrounding environment for longer time. Plastics can be ingested and accumulate into the tissues of both terrestrial and aquatic animals,...
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Nanocellulose, a subset of nanomaterials made from cellulose, one of the world's most plentiful natural resources, has the potential to offer environmentally friendly, renewable, and sustainable building blocks with enhanced properties for a variety of applications in the nanotechnology field. This article describes the impact of glutaraldehyde (GA...
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The book titled Advances in Biological Wastewater Treatment Systems is a part of the Elsevier comprehensive book series on Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering (Editor-in-Chief: Ashok Pandey). Biological wastewater treatment is an effective and common treatment step in several industrial and municipal wastewa- ter facilities wor...
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The book titled Membrane Technology for Sustainable Water and Energy Management is a part of the Elsevier comprehensive book series Current Developments in Biotechnol- ogy and Bioengineering (Editor-in-Chief: Ashok Pandey). As water is an indispensable essential element in maintaining life and all human activities, meeting the demand for water in t...
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Cellulase production by fungi is tightly regulated in response to environmental cues, and understanding this mechanism is a key pre-requisite in the efforts to improve cellulase secretion. Based on UniProt descriptions of secreted Carbohydrate Active enZymes (CAZymes), 13 proteins of the cellulase hyper-producer Penicillium janthinellum NCIM 1366 (...
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The worsening of our environment followed by the necessity of energy security are prominently noted to be the fundamental perspectives associated with the fossil-based linear economy. However, the constant efforts by the scientific community in this regard result in the emergence of a prominent view targeting the transformation towards the sustaina...
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The scientific community has profoundly relied on the recovery of various elements with special inference on the renewable energy-powered desalination of wastewater. Advanced developments in modern science and technology allow them to accomplish the aforesaid target using the various desalination approaches including zero discharge technology, mult...