Manan Shah

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

In several urban industrial regions affected by air pollution, it is crucial to monitor air quality in order to improve the quality of life and prevent any damage to health. This paper mainly focuses on the prediction of air quality index (AQI) using two different machine learning algorithms SVM and KNN. In recent times, machine learning has become...

The word nanotechnology became a humming word of decennary. Nanotechnology application hikes oil and gas industry growth, as witnessed by undertaken research in the past few years. The application of nanotechnology has penetrated through different disciplines in the petroleum industry. This study covers nanotechnology applications in exploration, d...

Breast cancer is the single most complex cancer type, affecting thousands around the globe annually. With the recent studies highlighting epigenetic signatures in breast cancer detection, this landscape can be exploited to inhibit breast cancer potentially. This paper comprehensively explores epigenetic signatures in breast cancer, elucidating thei...

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles, disrupting brain cell communication, causing atrophy, and leading to cognitive decline. It poses a substantial global health challenge, necessitating urgent research. Molecular biomarkers, reflecting AD progression, have been identified i...

The technological advancements in the field of agriculture have increased to a great extent in recent years, and many techniques have evolved from other techniques. Some methods are improved or upgraded from the previous versions by implementing a new model or using better hardware devices. This has been helpful for the farmers in increasing crop p...

Smart devices are interconnected devices that collect and exchange data wirelessly through sensors, routers, etc. Industries use IoT to optimize their functioning to reduce environmental impacts and make a more sustainable approach. Some of the objectives would be: increasing resource efficiency by monitoring patterns and optimizing the usage, moni...

The integration of renewable energy sources like geothermal with the food production sectors could reduce dependence on fossil fuels and contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specially focusing on food security and climate protection. Geothermal water can generate electricity and serve as a water supply, providing reliable a...

This chapter narrates about the geothermal potential fields of India. Here the four majors fields of India namely the NW-SE Himalayan Arc, North East Region, and Andaman Nicobar Islands, Son-Narmada-Tapti Lineament (So-Na-Ta), West Coast Continental Margin, Gondwana Graben. The major Himalayan arc includes geothermal fields like Puga, Chhumthang, M...

There are several metals, base metals and rare earth elements which can be extracted using geothermal water. This chapter talks about such methods which helps to extract individual type of elements. The most popular methods are adsorption, ion exchange, solvent extraction, molecular recognition technology and magnetic segregation. Some precious met...

Geothermal resource assessment has always been a tricky affair. The assessment can be done at the several stages of the development which assures the stake holders investing in the project. In this chapter several methods of geothermal resource assessment have been discussed as per its application at different stages. Mostly the type of methods whi...

There are several applications of geothermal water in form of direct and indirect form of utilization. This chapter talks about the applications which are going to be helpful in terms of societal benefits. Some popular societal benefits are Honey processing, milk pasteurization and greenhouse gas emissions. The designing and working principals of t...

One of the major uses of geothermal water is power generation cycles. This chapter talks about the types of geothermal power generation cycles. This chapter talks about the types of steam generation cycles like flash steam, single flash steam cycle, double flash steam cycle and dry steam. Another most popular technique for low enthalpy geothermal e...

The agricultural sector, which heavily depends on water, must develop better water management techniques and look into possible ways to meet supply and demand due to issues related to water scarcity and the need for a profitable and sustainable agri-food chain. Geothermal groundwater can be used to create both electricity and heat. As a result of i...

Geothermal power, a renewable energy source that harnesses the Earth's internal heat, has the capacity to generate electricity at a rate of around 15,000 TWh per year, exceeding global annual energy consumption. This chapter investigates the progress made in the field of geothermal power generation, hybridization, and storage, focusing on their pot...

In this work, we report a composite of NiFe2O4 with NiFe2O4/TiO2 prepared by a planetary ball mill for the reactive grinding method, where operating parameters of (sunwheel 200 rpm and jar 350 rpm) for 11 h were optimized. XRD, particle size by zeta sizer, VSM, UV-NIR spectrometer show that the catalyst has been successfully prepared, having improv...

Communication with people with hearing or speaking disabilities is always difficult when there is no knowledge of sign language. The presence of sign language is not enough to communicate smoothly, this process requires another easy medium for communication to make it more efficient, that is, via a digital medium. This paper proposes using Feed-For...

Nanotechnology has emerged as a revolutionary technology that has been applied in the oil and gas industry for over a decade, spanning the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. Nanotechnology has made significant contributions to the exploration of crude oil and natural gas, both in underground and deep-water environments. It has also played...

It is generally known that public opinion and stock market dynamics are inextricably linked. With the growth of social and web-based media, online platforms have emerged as a key gauge of public mood. This digital environment produces a lot of data quickly. This extensive dataset's analysis offers priceless insights into the general public's percep...

Air quality in metropolitan areas has deteriorated due to growing urbanisation and industrialisation, leading to severe health and significant economic consequences. This paper discusses the particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10 forecasting performances of three Machine Learning algorithms: SVM, Random Forest, and k-NN. In our comparisons, we attempt t...

Many regions of the world have unpredictable rainfall, making agriculture impossible to sustain without diverse irrigation technologies. Irrigation has a huge impact on crop productivity, but traditional irrigation systems can be replaced with Advanced and Smart irrigation techniques, which can enhance production yield even more. In arid regions wh...

The field of digital image watermarking has collected considerable attention from researchers and scholars, that eventually presents interesting challenges and opportunities for technological advancements. We can successfully address issues with multimedia access control by utilizing technological advancements, such as transform domain techniques,...

Water is an essential element in nature. It is used in drinking, irrigation, and industry mainly. Human health is directly linked to groundwater quality and is affected by poor groundwater quality caused by excessive fertilizer application and unhygienic circumstances. Because of increased pollution, investigating the water quality became a point o...

Desalination is a tried-and-true method for obtaining clean water from the ocean’s brackish waters and recycling and reusing water. It requires a fair amount of energy, so it is necessary to create sustainable energy systems to lessen energy use and environmental impact. For thermal desalination procedures, thermal sources can be great heat sources...

The four evolutionary stages have brought us to Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is nothing but the 4th Industrial Revolution which will change the production processes. The implementation of Industry 4.0 in the pharmaceutical sector will make the manufacturing of complex drugs easier. The arrival of Industry 4.0 and its advanced technologies such as art...

Discharge of untreated water may cause serious health diseases. There have been studies on effluent concentration from wastewater treatment plants of pharmaceutical and personal care product industries. In this paper, the authors have reviewed the concentration of water discharged through the surface water and effluent of wastewater treatment plant...

With the advancement of technology in recent decades and the implementation of international norms to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, automakers have focused on new technologies connected to electric/hybrid vehicles and electric fuel cell vehicles. Alternative fuel sources like hydrogen and electricity have been introduced as a sustainable, lowe...

One of the biggest problems the globe is currently experiencing is the availability of safe freshwater for drinking, especially in rural and dry regions. Drinking fresh water is among the basic requirements for surviving all life on Earth, along with food and energy. Rapid economic growth and poverty increase the demand for clean water. There are n...

Water has been accessible for all the occupants of earth since ages and it has supplemented to the endurance and sustain of the equivalent. The accompanying portion manages the investigation of the immediate use of the water accessible in the Gandhinagar and territories encompassing its closeness for this situation rundown of regions have been shor...

Water is essential for human survival. Its quality must be maintained to prevent any potential health problems. Pollution and contamination are likely causes of the water quality decline. This may occur if the world's rapidly expanding population and industrial facilities fail to clean their effluent correctly. The Water Quality Index, often known...

Carbon dioxide emission has emerged as a major concern in the 21st century. The rising global average temperature and its impact on climate change has a major impact on the socioeconomic affairs of the world. This rise, directly causes the melting of the polar ice caps which in turn, brings about many other issues including extinction of polar anim...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate and analyse the water quality in the Tulsishyam region in terms of corrosive and scaling properties. Thermal water samples (TWS), groundwater samples (GWS), and riverwater samples (RWS) were collected and analysed for a variety of geochemical parameters in various locations throughout the Tulsishyam region....

Dissatisfaction is the first step of progress, this statement serves to be the base of using Artifcial Intelligence in predicting stock prices. A great deal of people dreamed of predicting stock prices faultlessly but it remained only as a dream for those visionaries at that time. The legacy of those visionaries led to the discovery of something co...

While it's true that humans are skilled at recognizing faces, what about computers? Machinery is transforming conventional human labor in today's technologically sophisticated world. These cutting-edge machines may be programmed to recognize faces in inconceivable ways, a process known as facial recognition or computer vision. In this study, we pre...

Due to global warming and the salinity of drinkable natural resources, water scarcity has become a significant impediment to the development of many regions of the world, prompting the development of novel desalination techniques for brackish and seawater. The only way to satisfy society's freshwater demands is to transform abundant seawater into p...

Good education enriches people's lives in a significant way. An educational institution's success can be measured using its students' progress. Analyzing student performance is essential for academic institutions as well as their educators. It helps them strategize to improve the student's performance as a whole and individually. We here propose a...

The continuous rise in CO2 emission into the environment is one of the most crucial issues facing the whole world. Many countries are making crucial decisions to control their carbon footprints to escape some of their catastrophic outcomes. There has been a lot of research going on to project the amount of carbon emissions in the future, which can...

This paper shows the comparison of the various conventional technologies used for desalination and the advantages of using renewable energy such as solar and geothermal in place of them. The comparative analyses of the various techniques using geothermal and solar have been included. The efficiency, productivity rate, cost, etc. have been compared....

Nanotechnology has paved the path into our daily lives in the form of consumer products, ranging from food products to the textile we wear. With this huge inflow of nanoproducts, research has been able to draw conclusions that these products are environment friendly and sustainable for our planet. This particular chapter will bring out the intrinsi...

The widespread utilization of oil and coal for heating, electricity generation, and cooling causes various regional and worldwide environmental issues, such as a substantial accumulation of greenhouse gases. Renewable energy resources are one of the viable solutions to the present climate challenges in this area. Hydrogen is a power source that can...

In this challenging world, social media plays a vital role as it is at the pinnacle of data sharing. The advancement in technology has made a huge amount of information available for data analysis and it is on the hotlist nowadays. Opinions of the people are expressed and shared across various social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Inst...

In the current study, the effect of torrefaction temperatures (125-175 °C) and catalyst quantity (5-15 g) on co-pyrolysis of torrefied sawdust (TSD) and polystyrene (PS) are investigated to obtain value-added products. The role of torrefaction in co-pyrolysis of TSD: PS was analyzed to understand the product yields, synergy, and energy consumption...

Quality water is used for various daily chores like drainage, drinking, sanitation, agricultural, and other industrial applications, thus being the need of the hour. Water is a dominant raw material in manufacturing pharmaceuticals and chemicals; reliable and superior water sources are needed for many processes, including cooling, refining, and mat...

Water is utilized everywhere in the world without being monitored sufficiently for its quality. Several parameters need to be considered for the purpose of quality analysis and assessment. In this review, we tried to cover various available mathematical methods to find the quality of water for drinking and irrigation purposes. Some of them are The...

In recent years cryptocurrencies are emerging as a prime digital currency as an important asset and financial system is also emerging as an important aspect. To reduce the risk of investment and to predict price, trend, portfolio construction, and fraud detection some Artificial Intelligence techniques are required. The Paper discusses recent resea...

For decades, concrete has been one of the most used materials in the construction industry around the world. Concrete consists of various materials of which cement is an essential component, majorly contributing in better bonding between aggregates and contributes in strength. But when it comes to sustainability, this material has contributed about...

In the domain of natural language processing, part-of-speech (POS) tagging is the most important task. It plays a vital role in applications like sentiment analysis, text summarization, opinion mining, etc. POS tagging is a process of assigning POS information (noun, pronoun, verb, etc.) to the given word. This information is considered in the cont...

Groundwater is consumed by a large number of people as their primary source of drinking water globally. Among all the countries worldwide, nations in South Asia, particularly India and Bangladesh, have severe problem of groundwater arsenic (As) contamination so are on our primary focus in this study. The objective of this review study is to provide...

By 2040, India hopes to have completed its energy supply to fulfill the country’s rising energy demands. Renewable and conventional sources must be used in an environmentally acceptable manner to achieve sustainable growth. India must enhance its use of renewable and clean energy sources, including geothermal, wind, and solar, to satisfy its growin...

In this research, the performance of Ag-Fe co-doped TiO2 (Ag-Fe CT) nanophotocatalyst for degradation of diflouro triazole acetophenone (DTA) from aqueous solutions under solar and UV radiations was compared. The novel photocatalyst was synthesized using a sol–gel method with varying Ti to Ag mole ratio (10, 25, 30, 40, 55). Synthetic wastewater wa...

The effluents released from textile industries mainly consist of dyes, metals and other pollutants. Dyes often are discharged in wastewater streams causing adverse effect on the environment. To eliminate these harmful dyes, various techniques are emerging out of which nanotechnology is the most reliable and safer. Nanotechnology offers convincing a...

Groundwater pollution of arsenic and fluoride is a serious issue; it has gained a serious amount of consideration in the previous few years and the researchers are working towards various ways to control the pollution. They have got such great attention because of their ability, aggregation in the human body and toxicity. Fluoride and arsenic enter...

Besides air, water is the most essential and irreplaceable element to ensure the continuance of life. According to data, only 71% of Earth's surface is covered with water; 96.5% is present in seas and ocean, 1.7% in groundwater, and 1.7% in ice and glaciers. Eventually, less than 0.3% of fresh water is available as rivers, lakes, and precipitates i...

Numerous recent studies have attempted to create efficient mechanical trading systems through the use of machine learning approaches for stock price estimation and portfolio management. Using the ability to foresee the future trends of the stock performance, the return of investment can be maximized for short-term trading. This paper will review va...

For many years, there has been literature on study abroad, student mobility, and international student exchange; however, the scope & depth of this work has expanded dramatically in the recent two decades. Most of this research in comparative education studies is rarely published in its primary publications. This study report aims to give a complet...

IoT plays an important role in the overall development and advancement of the country as it is the key ingredient for the development of the smart environment. IoT is a network of physical objects, devices that contain embedded technologies such as sensors, controllers, etc., which can sense, communicate, and interact with the system to carry out d...

Water scarcity has become a major issue in many parts of the world. By 2050, most countries will face water scarcity due to population expansion and climate change. Desalination is now widely used to overcome freshwater scarcity in regions where brackish or saltwater is accessible. Thermal-based processes are increasingly used in desalination plant...

Breathing polluted air can cause severe health impacts, which might be irreversible in many cases. However, these issues can be tackled with the existing and improving technologies, which can help the government keep track of the air pollution issue to take proactive measures. We have observed that the influence of the neural network, machine learn...

Criminalistics is another name for forensic science. It uses science in a criminal investigation as governed by judicial criteria of acceptable, relevant, and admissible evidence and criminal procedure. Forensic science has been around for a long time and has seen considerable changes, from fingerprint identification to DNA analysis and digital for...

Coloured wastewater is a major issue of today for human health and ecology. Among all available processes such as physical, chemical, biological and electrochemical methods, photocatalysis can be a promising solution because of its ability to degrade colour-causing compounds completely by converting them into simpler molecules (H2O, CO2) depending...

Solar energy is clean energy that will reduce the dependency on fossil fuels and provide us an efficient sustainable source of energy. This paper showcases how effective and efficient use of solar energy through a hybrid photovoltaic-thermal solar system combining with domestic hot water, space heating, and cooling in India, near the Tropic of Canc...