Arvind Kumar MungrayDr. Arvind Kumar Mungray is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering Department at National Institute of Technology Surat (SV-NIT). He completed his Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering) from I.I.T. Roorkee, Masters (Chemical Engineering) from IIT HU Varanasi, and B. Tech. from H. B. T. I. Kanpur (UP) (INDIA). His research area is Wastewater treatment (biological), up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor, Microbial fuel cell (MFC), nanotechnology, Decentralization of wastewater, hybrid system, Waste to Energy, etc. He received the 'Young Engineer's award' 2011 from Institution of Engineers India. He has completed/ongoing 7 Sponsored research projects from DST, NRB-DRDO, NIT (R & D) etc. He has received more than 1 crore rupees research grant from various funding sources. He has supervised 5 Ph.D. and currently 6 research scholars are ongoing. He has published more than 60 research papers in International publications with Google scholar h index 19, and seven Book Chapters. He has filed 3 Indian patents based on his research area.
He is a Life Member in professional bodies like IIChE (Indian institute of Chemical Engineers), The Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Society of Technical Education, Indian Water Resources Society, Indian Environmental Association. He is the Fellow Membership (F.I.C.C.E.) in "International Congress of Chemistry and Environment". He is currently a guest Editor of the journal 'Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments' (Elsevier), Guest Editor and Editorial Board Member of Energy NEXUS Journal (Elsevier), and Guest Editor in Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR) (Springer) Journal.
He has delivered many Expert lecture on 'Integrated planning of sustainable wastewater management' at various reputed institutions like IIT and NITs, and state Engineering Institutes. He is the Reviewer of almost 30 SCI listed journals. He is currently focused on decentralized wastewater treatment system for waste to energy generation concept by using bio-electrochemical systems. His group is currently working on the resource recovery (Electricity, fertilizer and fresh water) from neat Human Urine. His group is developed and patented Forward Osmosis membranes, novel FO-MD reactors, which are the integral part of the water recovery from waste. Currently handing a project sponsored from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for generating resources from human urine for space mission. Read More Read Less