Surinder Deswal

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

Simultaneous measurements of main arterial roads inside the urban perimeter of Kurukshetra City (Haryana, India) regarding noise levels, traffic flow, and vehicle composition were taken and then used to develop some Traffic Noise Models (TNMs) to predict equivalent noise levels ( L e q ) from traffic flow per hour. The performance of the developed...

Hospitals (places of healing and recovery) are classified as silence areas/zones, but noise levels in hospitals have been increasing unabatedly and often exceeding the recommended limits for a healthy environment due to various noise sources and/or activities inside the wards/ICUs/OTs, outside the wards, and others. Noise in hospitals can have adve...

Climate change is the biggest health threat to humanity, profoundly impacting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), demanding urgent attention and action. This study presents the evolution and domains of the ESG concept, along with the importance of sustainability reporting. The widely accepted standards for sustainability reporting have bee...

In the present study, the support vector machine modelling technique is applied to the experimental data of single and multiple plunging jets to identify the parameters that govern the performance of plunging jets. The analysis revealed that jet velocity, jet diameter, number of jets, and jet surface area (representing the geometry/ configuration o...

Sacred groves are patches of climax vegetation protected on religious grounds subtended by cultural practices. They are considered the 'mini-biosphere' of the region and are of immense ecological significance. Sacred Groves are a rich heritage of India, and play an important role in the religious and socio-cultural life of the local people. However...

The study investigates the potential of support vector machines and neural network-based regression approaches to model the oxygen-transfer capacity from experimental data of multiple plunging jet aeration systems. The results suggest the utility of both the modeling techniques in the prediction of the overall volumetric oxygen-transfer coefficient...

The airtight sealing of modern buildings has helped in reducing spiralling energy costs but it has contributed significantly to the health problems arisen due to indoor air pollution. Synthetic building materials, which are known to emit various organic compounds, have been linked to numerous health complaints. It is estimated that approximately 30...

Environmental pollution is the primary cause of health issues for humans and leads to negative economic consequences. Heavy metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and water-borne pathogens are the main contributors to environmental and urban pollution. As a result, there is a growing demand for efficient methods to detect these harmful substances and...

Noise level assessment of a fully residential academic campus of the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana (India) has been presented in this paper. Weekday and weekend noise levels at 39 key locations in various functional areas (29 academic, 3 sensitive, 3 residential, 3 commercial and 1 outdoor activity) were measured, analysed,...

In this study, A-weighted noise levels were recorded for the entire day (24 h) at each site along the major urban roads of Kurukshetra city in India. The traffic flow (volume and composition) was also recorded simultaneously. Thereafter, the relevant noise and traffic descriptors were computed to assess the traffic noise pollution. The equivalent 2...

Present study focuses on typical noise assessment at 29 key locations in an academic area of a college during academic and non-academic hours, and comparison with Indian standards for sensitive zone. The equivalent continuous noise levels (L_Aeq) were observed to be exceeding the permissible limits of 50 dB L_Aeq during day time and 40 dB during ni...

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is an important parameter with widespread ecological implications due to its substantial influence on the dynamic interactions between the Earth’s surface and its atmosphere. LST retrieval is helpful for the evaluation of urban environments; to identify the Urban Hot Spots (UHS) within a city and suggest mitigating pl...

In the fast urbanizing world, it has become vital to study urban ecology so as to understand where and how anthropogenic activities impair the urban environment, including air quality; and how living conditions can be improved by urban planning without mortifying urban ecology. This may require innovative technological ideas to efficiently and judi...

Nitrogen pollution in water bodies has become a pressing environmental and public health issue worldwide, demanding the implementation of effective nitrogen removal strategies. This research paper delves into the performance evaluation of hybrid constructed wetlands (HCWs) as a sustainable and innovative approach for nitrogen removal, employing a c...

In recent decades, noise has emerged as one of the most annoying and tiring factors in working environments, be it in factory, workshop, academic or research setup. This paper presents the noise status and noise reduction analysis of Robotics lab in an academic institute. The average equivalent continuous noise level ([Formula: see text]) inside th...

Decentralised wastewater treatment systems, such as constructed wetlands, are becoming increasingly popular these days because they are more economical and cost-effective than conventional plants. The primary objective of this review paper is to determine the number of studies that have been conducted on constructed wetlands, specifically ‘free wat...

Chemical/synthetic coagulants are widely used to remove suspended solids and organic loads from water, but they pose several environmental and public health issues due to their chronic toxicity. The study evaluated the performance of these natural coagulants individually and in blended combinations with a synthetic coagulant, Alum, in terms of the...

Brahama Sarovar, in Kurukshetra city (India), is an ancient sacred lake where devotees perform various religious activities/offerings on daily basis, and on special occasions of solar and lunar eclipses, millions of pilgrims all over the country have mass bathing (holy-dip) for internal and external purity. Along with religious importance, this art...

Noise pollution is an emerging issue in cities around the world. Noise is a pernicious pollutant in urban landscapes mainly due to the increasing number of city inhabitants, road and aviation traffic, industrial and construction activities, and appliances or machinery used in daily life. The objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive rev...

Today, the world is on the brink of, facing a serious problem in terms of shortage of water. Alongside, the quality of water for various purposes is also deteriorating. This book “Monitoring of Groundwater Quality of North-Eastern Haryana, India” provides a reasonably deep insight into the quality of sub-surface water of the two significant industr...

The current study compared air pollution levels during the Covid-19 pandemic years (14 Nov. 2020, 04 Nov. 2021) and the previous year’s Diwali celebrations (19 October 2017, 07 November 2018, 27 October 2019) in Delhi. PM2.5, NH3, SO2, PM10, NO2, CO, and O3 concentrations were substantially higher in 2020 Diwali than in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 D...

The research study deals with the results of the yield and yield attributing characters of the wheat crop corresponding to the nine different treatments (T-1 to T-9) of paddy residue management. The wheat yield accounts for the grain yield and straw yield while the wheat yield attributing characters include the spike length, grains per spike, grain...

This article aimed to estimate the local underground water associations, which will, in turn, be applied to discuss the location of each underground water cluster in the flow system. Additionally, this investigation intended to evaluate underground water's aptness from aquifers of the study area for domestic agricultural activities and the prime so...

The purpose of the study is to examine the paddy straw management practices by farmers amidst the various difficulties faced by them in terms of machinery, resources, etc. The study was conducted in Rohtak district of Haryana (India). A well-structured interview schedule was formulated and one hundred farmers were interviewed accordingly. Simple ra...

After the harvest of crop, the disposal of the rice stubbles remains a notable area of interest in all the growing areas of rice. The present review paper explores and highlights an effective strategy of decomposing the decomposers of the paddy stubble. Due to the increasing production of rice, there is an increase in rice crop residues and stubble...

Parboiling rice mills produce a large amount of wastewater. The effluent from the rice mill contains high concentration of organic and inorganic compounds. Continuous discharge of this wastewater from rice mills could be a major cause of eutrophication of the water bodies, leading to a robust and undesirable growth of vegetation and algal bloom. Eu...

A promising method that can improve the bioavailability and biodegradability of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) is the use of biosurfactants. In this work, Biosurfactants produced from lactic acid bacteria were utilized for bioremediation of Benzo(a)Pyrene. Besides, lignocellulosic waste (Luffa acutangula) was also used as a carbon source for produ...

This investigation aims to monitor the sub-surface water quality in Yamunanagar and Ambala districts in northeastern Haryana for domestic and irrigation purposes and to possibly assess the causes leading to the impendence of prime constituents in sub-surface water. For the combined observation of two seasons each of the years 2017 and 2018, the loc...

The purpose of this study is to predict nutrient removal from wastewater by using different soft computing classifiers. A comparison of different classifiers, e.g., linear regression, nonlinear regression and artificial neural network (ANN) is done. ANN shows promising results as compared to linear and nonlinear regression. In this study, the data...

Hydro-geochemical characteristics of sub-surface water in the concerned region comprising Yamunanagar and Ambala districts of Haryana, India, were estimated. The hydro-geochemical feature of sub-surface water in the concerned region was investigated by collecting 30 sub-surface water samples. Groundwater samples from specific deposits were analysed...

Sub-surface water contamination has become a topic of main concern due to anthropogenic activities. MSTs were performed to appraise the seasonal and spatial variations in quality of sub-surface water and to trace the sources in NE Haryana. WQI was computed to analyse the quality of overall groundwater for domestic purposes during pre-and post-monso...

The objective of this study was to investigate the reduction of phosphorus from rice mill wastewater by using free floating aquatic plants. Four free floating aquatic plants were used for this study, namely water hyacinth, water lettuce, salvinia, and duckweed. The aquatic plants reduced the total phosphorus (TP) content up to 80% and chemical oxyg...

Hydro-geochemical evaluations were carried out in the Yamunanagar and Ambala districts of north-eastern Haryana to study the hydro-geochemical signatures and parameters of sub-surface water. A total of 30 representative sub-surface aqua samples were collected and appraised for prime anions and cations as well as metal ions like iron and chromium. V...

Hydro-chemical features of 30 dug-wells from Yamunanagar and Ambala districts of northeastern Haryana were monitored following analytical methods outlined in American Public Health Association or APHA, AWWA, WEF. The goal of this paper was to analyse the status of the dug-wells aqua pre-eminence for any pollution for monograph action to ensure the...

The current investigation was carried out to analyse the quality of groundwater in north-eastern Haryana, India. A total of 30 groundwater samples were taken from whole investigation area on April 2017 and evaluated for physico-chemical constituents including pH, Total Dissolved Solid, Total Alkalinity, Total Hardness, Chloride, Sulphate, Bicarbona...

The current investigation was carried out to analyse the quality of groundwater in northeastern Haryana, India. A total of 30 groundwater samples were taken from whole investigation area on April 2017 and evaluated for physico-chemical constituents including pH, Total Dissolved Solid, Total Alkalinity, Total Hardness, Chloride, Sulphate, Bicarbonat...

This dataset paper aimed to analyse the quality of groundwater of Yamunanagar and Ambala districts in North-Eastern Haryana, India rooted on the various analytical elements and hydro-chemical parameters. Also, Piper and Gibbs diagram were applied to observe hydro-chemical characteristics and controlling constituents of the underground aqua region....

Hydro-geochemical characteristics of sub-surface water in the concerned region comprising of Yamunanagar and Ambala districts of Haryana, India, were estimated. The hydro-geochemical feature of sub-surface water in the concerned region was investigated by collecting 30 sub-surface water samples. Groundwater samples from specific deposits were analy...

The present paper is the result of an investigation carried out to analyse the quality of sub-surface water in the districts of Yamunanagar and Ambala of the province of Haryana in India. The investigation was necessitated as the area combines the presence of industrial, commercial and residential units close to each other. A total of 30 groundwate...

Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) is a big problem Indian cities are facing these days. Total waste generated by the cities is around 135198.27 ton/day. This review paper aims in providing a comprehensive review of the characteristics, generation, collection, transportation, disposal, and treatability of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the cit...

A Total of 30 sub-surface water samples have been identified and collected during pre-monsoon period 2017 to investigate the aptness for irrigation and drinking purposes in the study region comprising of Ambala and Yamunanagar districts of Haryana, India. Elements i.e. SO4, Cl, HCO3, Mg, Ca, K , Na, EC, TDS and pH were appraised to evaluate the sui...

The current study was conducted for the NorthEastern Haryana, India to ascertain quality of the sub-surface water. Thirty sub-surface-water samples were collected from the region during April 2017 and analysed for physico-chemical elements and analytical parameters. The F-value in sub-surface water was appraised in northeastern Haryana (India). The...

The concept behind of this paper is to check the potential of the three regression-based techniques, i.e. M5P tree, support vector machine (SVM) and Gaussian process (GP), to estimate the infiltration rate of the soil and to compare with two empirical models, i.e. Kostiakov model and multi-linear regression (MLR). Totally, 132 observations were obt...

The rating of the condition of subsurface water in urban and rural regions of Haryana (India) is reviewed in this paper. This is completed to contrary the backdrop of its present rating, propensity, and recognizance of tenors disposing of the rating of urban subsurface water and doable alterative measures in North-Eastern Haryana. Haryana is a stat...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of flow characteristics of multiple plunging jets. A plunging jet is used for the treatment of water and wastewater in activated sludge process. In this study, two sets of plunging jets (series A and series B) were used to study the flow characteristics of multiple plunging jets. Series A a...

Landfills become the compulsion for the disposal of large amount of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW). Landfills have historically been seen as the ultimate solution for storing wastes at minimum cost. The disposal of tons of garbage daily without any treatment and segregation create heaps at landfill sites. In developing countries like India, landfills...

Vehicular emissions, rapid industrialization, fuel combustion and some other sources lead to the formation of unhealthy atmospheric conditions. As plants are immobile they are prime suspect to air pollution. The main aim of this study is to see the impact of air pollution on plant species exposed to road sides of town and also to find the sensitivi...

This paper deals with the suitability of Surface and Ground water quality of Western Yamuna Canal in Haryana, India for irrigation and other use. The major water use of this canal is for irrigation purpose (94%), domestic water use (4%) and industrial and other uses (2%).The rapid increase inurbanization and industrialization is leading towards det...

This paper investigates the potential of two variants of extreme learning machine based regression approaches in predicting the resilient modulus of cohesive soils. Support vector regression was used to compare the performance of the proposed extreme learning machine based regression approaches. The dataset used in this study was derived from liter...

This work analyses the right hand anthropometric dimensions of 1540 male industrial workers of the age ranging from 18 to 62 years belonging to four different divisions of Haryana state of India. Hand index derived from measured hand dimensions can be used to estimate differences related to sex, age and race in forensic and legal sciences. It has b...

A survey has been conducted to create a database of hand anthropometric dimensions of 878 male industrial workers from medium and small enterprises of Haryana state of India. A set of selected 37 right-hand anthropometric dimensions are measured using the techniques as per the guidelines in NASA – 1024 (1978). This database will be useful for new d...

Support vector regression based modelling approach was used to predict the shear strength of reinforced and prestressed concrete deep beams. To compare its performance, a back-propagation neural network and the three empirical relations was used with reinforced concrete deep beams. For prestressed deep beams, one empirical relation was used. Result...

There has been a growing interest in oxygenation by plunging water jets in the last few years due to there inherent advantages. The paper investigates the potential of Support Vector Machines and based regression approach to model the oxygen-transfer capacity of multiple oblique jets oxygenation systems. The approach is used in the prediction of th...

The environmental consequences of bursting firecrackers are very serious, ranging from health hazards to human beings, birds and animals to serious accidents. Many countries have banned, bursting of firecrackers on Deepawali night is a tradition and a way of celebrating this festival in India. In the present study, an effort is being made to discus...

The paper investigates the potential of support vector machines and Gaussian process based egression approaches to model the oxygen-transfer capacity from experimental data of multiple plunging jets oxygenation systems. The results suggest the utility of both the modeling techniques in the prediction of the overall volumetric oxygen transfer coeffi...

This paper investigates the potential of a Gaussian process (GP) regression approach to predict the load-bearing capacity of piles. Support vector machines (SVM) and empirical relations were used to compare the performance of the GP regression approach. The first dataset used in this study was derived from actual pile-driving records in cohesion-le...

This paper investigates the potential of support vector machines and neural network based regression approaches to model the oxygen–transfer capacity from experimental data of multiple plunging jets aeration systems. The results suggest the utility of both the modeling techniques in the prediction of the overall volumetric oxygen transfer coefficie...

A survey was conducted to collect anthropometric dimensions of male industrial workers of northern region of India in the age group of 20-60 years. About 32 anthropometric dimensions were measured of 400 and 83 male industrial workers from different states of the northern region of the country. Range, mean, Standard Deviation (SD), Coefficient of V...

This study explores a semi-supervised classification approach using random forest as a base classifier to classify the low-back disorders (LBDs) risk associated with the industrial jobs. Semi-supervised classification approach uses unlabeled data together with the small number of labelled data to create a better classifier. The results obtained by...

Air pollution in Delhi is a serious environmental problem. In this paper, the effects of meteorological conditions on local air quality are quantitatively assessed by determining the relationships between concentrations of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM), Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide...

In this study, an attempt has been made to assess the quality of groundwater for drinking purposes in the villages and towns of Panchkula District (Haryana). Ground water samples collected from different sites of Panchkula District, Haryana were analyzed for their physico- chemical characteristics. The analysis results were compared with the WHO, I...

Oxygenation by a plunging water jet is a more attractive way to effect oxygen-transfer than conventional oxygenation systems. A lot of work has been reported on the oxygen-transfer by plunging water jets. However, few studies have been carried out on hollow plunging jet. In this paper, volumetric oxygen-transfer coefficient and oxygen-transfer effi...

This paper investigates the potential of M5 model tree based regression approach to model daily reference evapotranspiration using climatic data of Davis station maintained by California irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS). Four inputs including solar radiation, average air temperature, average relative humidity, and average wind speed...

In this study, an attempt has been made to assess the quality of groundwater and municipal water for drinking purposes in the villages of Ambala District (Haryana). Ground water and municipal water samples collected from different villages of Ambala District, Haryana were analyzed for their physico-chemical characteristics. The analysis results wer...

Collaborative planning as a tool in town planning has been established. However, its use as a tool to environmental and resources planning is relatively new. Collaborative approaches emphasize that the modern environmental problems associated with infrastructure development are complex, multi jurisdictional, dynamic and a wider range of public supp...

The evolution of "office ergonomics" has been largely due to rapid growth of information technology. Nowadays most of the offices are based on the concept of non-territorial or free address offices in which a given desk, office or workstation is intended to be used by different people at different times. Ergonomics in the office environment ranges...

Offshore wind energy has significant potential to contribute to the installed capacity of grid connected power generation. India is earmarked by long cost line extending 7,562 km, over 2 million sq. km of exclusive economic zone and influenced by strong prevailing southwest monsoonal trade winds during summer covering large area of east – west coas...

The presence of toxic heavy metals in industrial effluents is one of the serious threats to the environment. Heavy metals such as Cadmium, Chromium, Lead, Nickel, Zinc, Mercury, Copper, Arsenic are found in the effluents of industries such as foundries, electroplating, petrochemical, battery manufacturing, tanneries, fertilizer, dying, textiles, me...

The mathematical equation for Separation of the binary aqueous solution is developed by using the Spiegler- Kedem theory. The characteristics of a B-9 hollow fibre module of Du Pont are determined by using these equations and their results are compared with the experimental results of Ohya et al. The agreement between these results is found to be e...

The increasing air pollution levels in urban areas, particularly in the metropolitan cities, are seriously affecting the health of the inhabiting citizens. In the present study, the ambient air quality (with respect to sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and suspended particulate matter) of the City State of Delhi is analysed in conjunction with the...

This note investigates the potential of support vector machines based regression approach to model the static pile capacity from dynamic stress-wave data. A data set of 105 prestressed precast high strength concrete spun pipe piles is used. Radial basis function and polynomial kernel based support vector machines were used to model the total pile c...

This paper investigates the prediction of pan evaporation using M5 Model Tree technique, evaluated for its applicability for predicting evaporation from meteorological data. Different combinations of input data were considered and the resulting values of evaporation were analysed and compared with those of existing techniques. The results suggest t...

Aeration by a plunging water jet is an energetically attractive way to effect oxygen-transfer than conventional oxygenation systems. In the present study, a new type of conical shaped plunging aeration device is fabricated to generate hollow inclined plunging jets (jet plunge angle of 3 π ) to investigate its oxygen transfer capacity. The results s...

An Artificial Neural Network based modeling technique has been used to study the influence of different combinations of meteorological parameters on evaporation from a reservoir. The data set used is taken from an earlier reported study. Several input combination were tried so as to find out the importance of different input parameters in predictin...

There has been a growing interest in the oxygenation by plunging water jets in the last few years due to their inherent advantages, like energy-efficient, low operation cost, etc. Though a lot of work has been reported on the oxygen-transfer by single plunging water jets but very few studies have been carried out using multiple plunging jets. In th...

This paper present results of pan evaporation estimations using Support Vector Machines (SVMs) based approach for the meteorological data from Manasgaon climatic station near Anand Sagar Reservoir, Shegaon. At this station four meteorological variables are measured simultaneously, namely, air temperature, wind speed, sunshine hours and relative hum...

Noise and air pollution due to fireworks on festivals/celebrations is one of the environmental problems that have become critical in the recent years. Most of the urban population in India as well as in abroad is facing this menace. In the present study, an effort is being made to discuss the health effects of fireworks as well as to analyse and as...

Despite numerous works reporting on oxygen transfer by plunging jets, few studies have been carried out on multiple plunging jets. In this paper, the volumetric oxygen-transfer coeffi cient and oxygen-transfer effi ciency of multiple plunging jets in a pool of water for different confi gurations in terms of varying numbers of jets and jet diameters...

The physico-chemical and bacteriological analysis was carried out to assess the water quality of a sacred water tank "Sannihit Sarovar" in Kurukshetra (India) and the results are presented in this paper. Water quality of this holy tank found impaired with mass bathing and offerings made in this Sarovar, which cause organic pollution. Different para...

This study presents the traffic induced noise pollution in Manali, a hill-station in Himachal Pradesh. Extensive acoustic measurements are carried out at four carefully selected locations along The Mall Road, which is a portion of National Highway-21 within the city limits. The contributions of the present study includes: (a) Objective acoustic mea...

Plunging jet aeration systems provide a simple and inexpensive method of supplying oxygen for wastewater treatment. Though numerous studies have been reported on aeration with a single plunging jet, very few studies are available in open literature on multiple plunging jet aeration systems. The present work is the result of an extensive laboratory...

The physio-chemical and bacteriological analysis of water quality of a sacred water tank “Brahm Sarovar” in Kurukshetra is presented in this paper. Water quality of this holy tank is impaired with mass bathing and offerings made in this Sarovar which causes organic and bacteriological pollution. The different parameters measured are temperature, pH...

Contents: Multidisciplinary nature of Environmental Science; Natural Resources (Forest, Water, Mineral, Food, Energy & Land); Ecosystems; Biodiversity and its Conservation; Environmental Pollution (Air, Water, Soil, Marine, Noise, Thermal & Nuclear), Social Issues and the Environment (Sustainable Development, Water Conservation, R & R of People, En...

Mass transfer characteristics of multiple plunging water jets are reported based on the experimental studies. The jets were generated by allowing the flow of water through a disc in which circular holes were drilled with different configurations in terms of number and diameter of openings to make the aerating device much simpler. The results of the...

One effective approach to the control of a disease involves the identification of factors responsible for natural resistance or immunity and the subsequent utilization of such knowledge in preventive therapy. A classic example of this is the researches that have led to the utilization of fluoride in several forms in the prevention of tooth decay. F...

Low Carbon Technologies (LCTs), have a central role to play in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and to move towards a low carbon economy. Under the present global scenario, developing countries like India and China need to look forward for the development and deployment of LCTs in which only industrialized countries have major stake till date....