IITKGP

Makarand Madhao Ghangrekar

Professor

Civil Engineering

+91-3222-283440

ghangrekar@civil.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

  • Water & Wastewater Treatment / Recycling
  • Anaerobic Wastewater treatment
  • Bioelectrochemical processes, MFC, MDC,
  • Waste to Energy
Makarand M. Ghangrekar, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, is B.E. Civil Engineering, M.Tech. Environmental Engineering and Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering. He has been teaching subjects related to wastewater treatment and energy recovery. Presently he is guiding Research Scholars on the topics wastewater treatment and reuse, anaerobic wastewater treatment, bioelectricity recovery, catalyst development and membrane separator development for application in microbial fuel cell, and enhancing electrogenesis in MFC, He had been visiting Scientist to Ben Gurion University, Israel and University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK under Marie Curie fellowship by European Union and had stint as faculty of various capacities in renowned engineering colleges and research institutes. He has been working in the field of anaerobic wastewater treatment, bioenergy recovery during wastewater treatment using bioelectrochemical systems and mainly microbial fuel cell. Throught the reseach projects a demonstration plants consisting of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor to treat sewage and anaerobic digester to treat septic tank sludge has been constructed on campus for methane recovery from waste. A pilot MFC based septic tank is in operation to recover direct electricity from sewage sludge.
  • Ameliorated performance of a microbial fuel cell operated with an alkali pre-treated clayware ceramic membrane Das I., Das S. , Sharma S. , Ghangrekar M. M. By International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 45 16787-16798 (2020)
  • A novel proton exchange membrane developed from clay and activated carbon derived from coconut shell for application in microbial fuel cell. Neethu B., Bhowmick G. D., Ghangrekar M. M. By Biochemical Engineering Journal 148 170-177 (2019)
  • Biofouling Effects on the Performance of Microbial Fuel Cells and Recent Advances in Biotechnological and Chemical Strategies for Mitigation. Noori M. T., Ghangrekar M. M., Mukherjee C. K., Min B. By Biotechnology Advances 107420- (2019)

Principal Investigator

  • Aditya Choubey Centre for Re-Water Research
  • Design, Installation and Operation of Treatment Plant for UASB Effluent to Produce Portable Quality Treated Water
  • Development of a microbial fuel cell-based approach for xenobiotic bioremediation and energy generation
  • Identifying Best Available Technologies for Decentralized Waste-Water Treatment and Resource Recovery for India
  • Performance Monitoring of 1.35 MLD STP of IIT Kharagpur
  • Vetting of the tool kit and SOP prepared by OWSSB for grey water management
  • ZDHYDRO: Development of an integrated zero discharge model for sewage sludge to enhance hydrogen production

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Award of fellowship under national renewable fellowships MNRE
  • Evaluation and Testing of Water Sample Various Government and Non-Government Organisations
  • Evaluation and Testing of Water Sample NBCC (INDIA) LTD
  • PK SINHA CENTRE PROJECT Dr. Prabhantkant Sinha
  • Stimuli Responsive Artificial Leaves for Selective Solar Fuel Production Department of Science and Technology

Ph. D. Students

Aishwarya Rastogi

Area of Research: Bioremediation of wastewater

Akash Tripathi

Area of Research: Advance oxidation process

Anil

Area of Research: Sewage treatment and reuse

Arun Kumar T

Area of Research:

Azhan Ahmad

Area of Research: Bioelectrochemical wastewater treatment processes

Chabungbam Niranjit Khuman

Area of Research: Bioelectrochemical systems for wastewater treatment

Doki Manmadha Manikanta

Area of Research: Wastewater treatment

Jadhav Gorakhanath Sadashiv

Area of Research: Bioelectrochemical systems for wastewater treatment

Kiran Behera

Area of Research: Wastewater Management

Mahendra Mulkalwar

Area of Research: Sewage treatment and reuse

Mario Vino Lincy G

Area of Research: Environmental Remediation Methods

Monali Priyadarshini

Area of Research: Advance oxidation

Rajarshi Bhar

Area of Research: Solid waste management and resource recovery

Rishabh Raj

Area of Research: Advance oxidation process

Santosh Kumar

Area of Research: Algal-Bioelectrochemical process

Shraddha Yadav

Area of Research: Advance Wastewater treatment

Sunandan Naha

Area of Research:

Sundipan Bhowmick

Area of Research: Biomass and Waste Valorization

Swati Das

Area of Research: Bioelectrochemistry

Thulluru Lakshmi Pathi

Area of Research: Wastewater Treatment