Lala Behari Sukla- Director,Biofuels &Bioprocessing Research Center,SOA(Deemed to be University),Bhubaneswar
- Professor at Siksha O Anusandhan University
Lala Behari Sukla
- Director,Biofuels &Bioprocessing Research Center,SOA(Deemed to be University),Bhubaneswar
- Professor at Siksha O Anusandhan University
Glad to receive the Prof.BS Patra Award for Excellence in Science on 29th November 2024
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Introduction
Prof. Sukla is at present research professor in Biofuels & Bioprocessing Research Center, at SOA University. . Prof. Sukla is the recipient of several prestigious awards. I have been named in the world ranking of top two per cent scientists, drawn up on the basis of a subject-wise analysis conducted by the Stanford University, USA.
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April 2017 - March 2022
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- Director at Biofuels & Bioprocessing Research Center
July 2016 - present
July 2016 - present
Education
May 1971 - May 1973
April 1966 - April 1971
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The rising global food demand needs novel approaches to increasing agricultural yield while minimizing environmental effect. Phosphorus (P) is important for almost all the physiological and biochemical processes in plants. However, the phosphorus availability in soil is limited in soil due to fixation. Excess application of phosphorus-based fertili...
ABSTRACT
The increasing global food demand, driven by rapid population growth presents a significant
challenge to modern agriculture. Chemical fertilizers, while effective in the short term, can
contribute to soil degradation, water pollution, and biodiversity loss. Hence, Sustainable
agricultural practices are essential to meet this increasing de...
Abstract:
Marine macro-algae also specified as ‘seaweeds’, a valuable resource of the ocean, contain
some of the richest and most promising sources of primary and secondary bioactive
metabolites. Red algae belonging to the Rhodophyceae family have the highest number of
bioactive compounds~53 % of all algae species and ≥1600 distinct bioactives.
Pha...
Algae contain an abundance of bioactive compounds, and from the 19th century algae have been consumed by human beings. The Rhodophyceae is class of red algae in the division Rhodophyta, which has the highest number of bioactive molecules i.e., 53% of total algal species and ~1600+ unique bio-actives. This algal bioactive has a very unique property...
The production of synthetic polymer is increasing day by day because of the growing use of synthetic textiles, which results in the amount of microplastic fibers released into the environment skyrocketing. Today synthetic microfiber pollutants are a global concern, because of their reach from Antarctica to deep-sea water with various shapes and siz...
ABSTRACT
The industrial globalization of the appeal industry to meet the rising population demand shows enormous growth in the last decade. Today the global plastic market valuation is more than 457.73 billion USD and still rising. Due to the increase in demand and its durability nature synthetic polymer is used in every daily use essential of huma...
The micro and nanoplastic have wider range of applications in the daily consumable products such as brushing, clothing and beauty product as cleanser, scrubber and shower gel etc. The pervasive occurrence of microplastics at different component of environment such as freshwater, drinking water, marine water, food, agroecosystems, biota, atmosphere,...
The micro and nanoplastic have wider range of applications in the daily consumable products such as brushing, clothing and beauty product as cleanser, scrubber and shower gel etc. The pervasive occurrence of microplastics at different component of environment such as freshwater, drinking water, marine water, food, agroecosystems, biota, atmosphere,...
77th Annual Technical Meeting
The Indian Institute of Metals (IIM)
Incorporating International Symposium on
Sustainable Transformations in Metals Industry
Organic farming will be a significant approach for farmers in the coming decades due to improved production and the preservation of soil natural properties. Phosphorus is the second most macronutrient required for plants to survive. The primary goal of this research was to know the paddy field soil nutritional status and isolate potential PSB bacte...
Despite the rising demand for lithium-ion batteries and their widespread acceptance, recycling and repurposing end-of-life lithium-ion battery materials is still a work in progress. This will help mitigate the dependence on raw materials and risks of shortage while promoting a circular economy. The present work addresses a hydrometallurgical proces...
Phosphorus (P), the second most essential nutrient, plays a remarkable role in energy transfer, storage, plant growth, and development. It is the least mobile and accessible to plants in most soil conditions as compared to the other key nutrients. Phosphate‐solubilizing fungus (PSF) plays a vital role in supplying phosphorous to plants from the soi...
Biomedical wastes (BMWs) are potentially infectious to the environment and health. They are co-dependent and accumulative during the ongoing coronavirus disease-2019(COVID-19) pandemic. In India the standard treatment processes of BMWs are incineration, autoclaving, shredding, and deep burial; however, incineration and autoclaving are the leading t...
Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change
Tungsten is an important alloying component for the production of different materials. Its efficient extraction from different sustainable resources is necessary to meet the growing demand in the future. In this context, an attempt has been made to recover it from a goldmine overburden sample using the fungal bioleaching technique. The sample conta...
The demand for nickel and cobalt are extremely met through imports in India. The annual
requirement of nickel has already reached 20,000 tonne per year and likely to be doubled by the
turn of this century. Different sources of nickel are usually the nickel sulfide and laterite ores but
unfortunately there is no known nickel sulfide ore deposit i...
Exploitation of bacterial activities in the mineral industries and environmental preservation are gaining much attention. Bioleaching is a useful tool to recover different metals from low-grade ores and wastes. It has proved its benefits in terms of cost and environment. It is applied to the heap operation for the processing of the large volume of...
The growing concern for portable devices and electric vehicles has led to an enormous rise in the demand for lithium-ion batteries. After the end of life, these LIBs act both as a secondary source for the recovery of valuable metals and simultaneously possess a threat to the environment. So they need to be recycled properly to gain economic benefit...
Nanotechnology and its various applications have brought a new revolution in the research area. Biological synthesis of nanoparticles using the biomass of microalgae is a novel and eco-friendly technique which reduces the use of different toxic chemicals. Nanoparticles are very useful materials and have wide applications due to their unique mechani...
The use of heterotrophic fungi (strains of Aspergillus and Penicillium) and bacteria (strains of Bacillus and Pseudomona) for metal recovery have been extensively studied. However, in case of nickelNickel recovery from lateritic ores, strains of Aspergillus and Penicillium are the most preferred microorganisms. Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans a chem...
Bioleaching is an environmentally safe as well as economically feasible alternative to the conventional process of metal extraction from low-grade ores. It involves the recovery of metals through microbial oxidation of metallic and/or sulfuric compounds. Wide varieties of acidophilic microbes present in the mining sites, which are necessary to decr...
The improvement in the leaching rate of Ni, V, Mo, and Al present in a spent catalyst sample was evaluated by the bacterial adaptation technique. For this purpose, leaching of the metals from the spent catalyst sample was conducted using both adapted and unadapted bacteria cultures. The evaluation was done on the basis of the variation of different...
National Conference on "Trends in Minerals & Materials Technology" Was held at SOA University ,Bhubaneswar on 30.10 2019.The theme of conference was extractive metallurgy, Mineral processing Environment.
The circadian clock serves the fitness of higher plants by controlling various aspects of plant growth and development ranging from photosynthesis to flowering and defense mechanisms. The key components of the core oscillator mediate the circadian output through transcriptional or post-transcriptional mechanisms by phase-wise expression and repress...
Aviation is one of the fastest growing industries. It connects people, culture and businesses across the globe. It supports tourism to a greater extend. It has generated about 56 million direct and indirect jobs worldwide. It has also generated more than two trillion dollars revenue. Air transport has made people’s life easier and more efficient. A...
The ore that contains <50 % of Al2O3 is called low-grade bauxite. It is suitably used for the
production of the low-valued refractory materials and abrasives. The scope of its valuable use is curtailed due
to the presence of different impurities like alumina-ferrite and alumina-silica. It cannot be used directly as
Bayer’s process feed as its high...
Organic farming in the coming decades is attracting the consideration of researchers and
accepted by farmers for improving better production capability of the soil. Uses of extreme
chemical fertilizers have lots of detrimental effects on soil composition and nutrient
management. By adopting the use of organic manure, biofertilizer, and biopesticide...
Discharge of acidic water associated with sulfide, pyrite with other metals from abandoned or active mines is the major cause of acid mine drainage in mining regions. The liquid discharged from mining sectors often contains harmful, toxic heavy metals such as copper, iron, sulfur, nickel and zinc. The production of acidic pH and presence of metals...
Dissimilatory Iron Reducing Bacteria (DIRB) in specific has found wide range of application in bio-beneficiation for removal of iron impurities from different ores and in bioremediation for detoxification of heavy metals, hazardous pollutants, etc. Numerous research works have been reported for bio-beneficiation of kaolin, bauxite by IRB. This stud...
Bioleaching process has been successfully implemented in the industrial scale for the extraction of different valuable metals like copper, gold, cobalt, and uranium. The metal dissolution from different sulphide resources in the bioleaching is performed using a great diversity of microorganisms which can easily grow in the mining environment. The m...
Fluorescent lamp and cathode ray tube (CRT) waste considered as hazardous waste by commission of European communities and resource conservation and recovery act (RCRA). Due to the presence of mercury and lead in fluorescent waste and cathode ray tube waste, it is highly toxic for environment. Simultaneously, these wastes are also a vital source of...
In this article a new spent catalyst sample preparation method was implemented for the purpose of molybdenum leaching in a single step. Further molybdenum and vanadium in the leach liquor were separated and their concentrations were enriched using the solvent extraction and stripping techniques. The impervious sulfur (S0) layer of the spent catalys...
Cobalt has widespread industrial applications but if present in excess amounts it may cause several noxious effects. Liquid-liquid extraction process can be useful in cleaning the environment from harmful chemical pollutants. Solvent extraction of cobalt using cobalt nitrate as the feed solution and trioctylamine (TOA) as the extractant in toluene...
The effluent discharge from mining cause’s serious environmental pollution such as acid mine drainage which in turn spoil the surface and ground water quality. This impact is not only restricted to water but directly/indirectly affect the flora, fauna, land topography and socio-economic of the local inhabitants. In mining sector, liquid wastes are...
Sulphuric acid leaching was employed to examine the dissolution of Mo, Ni and V from a spent catalyst sample. It could leach V and Ni more than 90% whereas Mo leaching was within 30% only. The activation energy for dissolution of three metals showed that the leaching followed the diffusion control model. The solvent extraction and stripping process...
As per World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is the cause for more
than two million deaths every year. Mostly, outdoor air pollution results in reduced
lungs function and increased respiratory disease. Therefore, breathing polluted
air is as dangerous as eating/drinking polluted food/water. TB (Tuberculosis)
is a major public health threat...
Most of the algae are microscopic known as Microalgae, where as some are quite large and known as Macroalgae. The simple cellular structure provides a large surface to volume body ratio, which gives them the ability to uptake large amount of nutrients. They are considered as the more efficient converters solar energy than higher plants. Scientists...
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The explosive growth in the electronics industries has revolutionized modern human life. This has resulted in the enhanced electronic
wastes (E-wastes) generation which affects adversely on the global environment. The E-wastes are the end life electronics devices like
computers, televisions, VCRs, stereos, copiers, mobile phones, and fax machines,...
Application of microorganisms in different process industries has become popular in recent years to reduced environmental impact. Biosurfactants are surface active substances derived from living cells useful in a wide range of industrial application. This can be applied in process industries where cleaning of water, coagulation, flocculation, dispe...
Application of Biosurfactants in Mineral Industries
The application of bio-hydrometallurgy for the metal
recovery from different resources is proved to be eco-friendly over
the past several years. The huge microbial biodiversity adaptive to
the harsh environment facilitates the metal dissolution and
detoxification during the process. There are many fundamental
biotechnical approaches being implement...
Bauxite is the major alumina (Al2O3) bearing ore used in
the aluminum manufacturing industries. The bauxite containing
less than 50% Al2O3 is called low-grade bauxite ore, which is
commonly used for the alumina based abrasives and refractories
productions. The alumina-silica and alumina-ferrite complexes are
the foremost impurities present in the l...
Dissolution of copper and zinc present in a complex sulfide concentrate were examined by applying bioleaching technique with aid of the pure Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. The leaching rate of both copper and zinc depended on three different parameters such as pulp density, initial pH and ferrous iron concentration. It increased with the increase...
Dissolution of copper and zinc present in a complex sulfide concentrate were examined by applying bioleaching technique with aid of the pure Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. The leaching rate of both copper and zinc depended on three different parameters such as pulp density, initial pH and ferrous iron concentration. It increased with the increase...
Aviation transport has made the life of people faster and efficient. Globally it has supported about 56 million jobs. Also it has generated the revenue over two trillion dollars. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has estimated that the global passenger traffic is expected to grow from 5 billion to more than 13 billion RPK from th...
Lithium (Li) procurement is becoming a matter of importance worldwide. Seawater contains large quantities of valuable minerals, some of which are very scarce and expensive in their land-based form. However, only a few minerals, the ones in high concentrations, are currently mined from the sea. The low concentration of lithium in seawater means that...
The explosive growth in the electronics industry has not only revolutionized modern human life but also led to enhance surplus e-wastes that have significant impact on the global environment. Presently e-waste is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. In developing countries abrupt increase of e-waste and its management is an emerging probl...
In the preset context, the best alternative of chemical fertilizer is necessary because of its adverse effects on the soil health. There are several alternatives available to enhance the soil fertility one of them is Azotobacter. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are known to influence plant growth by various direct or indirect mechanisms...
Over the past decade, the global demand-supply chain of nickel is constrained due to depletion of sulphidic nickel ores. However, with anticipated boom in electric vehicles (EVs), the forthcoming decade for battery demand is very bullish for nickel. Hence, there is an urgent need to extract nickel from lateritic nickel ores to meet its high demand....
Fluorescent lamp and cathode ray tube (CRT) waste considered as hazardous waste by commission of European communities and resource conservation and recovery act (RCRA). Due to presence of mercury and lead in fluorescent waste and cathode ray tube waste, it is highly toxic for environment .These wastes are also vital source of different rare earth e...
Hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) is one of the pollutants. Its presence in drinking water has shown toxicity even at the level measuring in the parts per billion. It originates from different anthropogenic sources and is finally discarded, which is the key reason for its pollution in the water environment. It comes under the regulatory standards and s...
Microalgae are photoautotrophic microorganisms found in aquatic and wetland habitats. These are known as potential producer of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, minerals, and bioactive compounds such as antioxidants (polyphenols, vitamin E, vitamin C, mycosporine-like amino acids), and pigments (chlorophylls, carotenoids, and phycobilins). Therefore...
As knowledge of Science and Technology took rapid strides over the years, man learned to tamper with nature altar to suit him. International Resource Panel Report says material resource use expected to reach nearly 90 billion tonnes in 2017, and may more than double from 2015 to 2050. “The amount of natural resources used is closely linked to the a...
Various anthropogenic activities are the major contributor of toxic element discharge into environment. The rapidly growing urbanization and industrialization are the leading cause of environmental pollution. Industrial effluent/waste water containing toxic heavy metals (Chromium, Cobalt, Cadmium, lead, Mercury etc) as well as inorganic and organic...
In the current work, the enhanced trapping of photo excited charge carriers were successfully obtained by constructing a novel visible light driven Co3O4/TiO2/rGO ternary photocatalyst through facile hydrothermal method. In ternary Co3O4/TiO2/rGO composite rGO sheets acts as charge carrier trappers and the suppression of e--h+ pair recombination wa...
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Digital transformation is emerging as a driver of sweeping change in the world around us. Digitalization reduces chance of human errors.
What Research Tells Us About the Birth of New Brain Cells
The above research is considered important as is suggests that there are factors that can stimulate and inhibit the process of adult neurogenesis. It even hints at possible models for treating degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and even reversing damage caused by traumatic brain injury.
The United Nations says we could have just 12 years left to limit a climate change catastrophe. The climate emergency has resulted from humans putting additional greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. These have heated our planet and at current levels are already a true disaster on a global scale. Unless removed, these gases will result in a level of global warming that will be catastrophic for humanity and much of the world's remaining ecosystems. http://www.caceonline.org/what-is-the-climate-emergency.html
Hydrogen makes an extraordinarily efficient and clean fuel. Three times as energy-efficient as petrol, Nasa used it to power its space shuttles. It can be used to generate electricity and only produces water as a byproduct. we must take advantage of an abundant natural resource, sugar . Biomass – trees, plants and other waste vegetable matter – is an abundant and rapidly renewable source of starch and sugars. Exploiting biomass to produce sugar, and turning that sugar into hydrogen, could lead a change in global energy production.
Cancer is not a single disease with a single type of treatment. There are more than 200 different types of cancer, each with its own name and treatment. Medical tests can look for many inherited gene mutations.
Mitigating anthropomorphic CO2 emissions is one of todays most important scientific challenges.
Energy Internet is a new development form of energy system. It realizes the integration of energy flow, information flow and business flow. More and more business model and service model innovations are stimulated in Energy Internet.
We are now living in a 400ppm carbon dioxde world with levels unlikely to drop below the symbolic milestone in our lifetimes, say scientists .
The energy resources consumption has doubled since the beginning of the century and the demand growth with the fast development in industrial sectors.
Many reagents are used as pH modifiers (like acids/ alkalis), dispersants (sodium silicate), depressants (cyanides, silicates, polymers, bisulphides), activators (copper sulphate) in the flotation process. Biological surface active reagent hold significant importance to process industry due to specificity in reaction, biodegradability, lesser toxicity, extensive applicability and possibility of their production from low cost, renewable raw materials like agro-wastes.
