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Patents related to Soil Biotechnology (SBT):

  • US Patent No: 6890438″ Process for treatment of organic wastes” H. S. Shankar, B. R.Patnaik, U.S. Bhawalkar, issued 10 May 2005
  • US patent No: 7604742B2; ” Soil Conditioning Products from Organic waste, Issue Date of Patent: October, 20, 2009.
  • ”Process for treatment of Organic residues” India Patent Application MUM/384/26 April 2002, .S. Shankar, B. R. Patnaik, U. S. Bhawalkar Status : Granted
  • Process for treatment of waste water” India Patent Application MUM/383/26 April 2002, H.S. Shankar, B. R. Patnaik, U. S. Bhawalkar Status: Granted

Technical Papers related to Soil Biotechnology (SBT):

International and National Conference Publications
  • Patnaik, B.R., Bhawalkar, V.S., Shankar, H.S., “Waste Processing in Engineered Ecosystems”, 4th World Congress on Chemical Engineering, 23-27, September 2001, Melbourne, Australia (to be presented).
  • Patnaik, B.R., Bhawalkar, U.S., Shankar, H.S., “Soil Biotechnology for Solid Waste Treatment and utilization”, 18th International Conference of Solid waster technology and management, 22-26, March, 2003, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Patnaik, B.R., Bhawalkar, U.S., Kadam, A, Shankar, H.S., “Soil Biotechnology for Waste Water Treatment and utilization”, 13th ASPAC 2003, International Water Works Association Conference 13-18, October, 2003, Quezon City, Philippines
  • Yeole, U. R., Patnaik, B.R., Shankar, H.S., “Soil Biotechnology process simulation using computational fluid dynamics” Session Advanced Computations for Environmental Applications II” AIChE Annual Meeting, 7-12 Nov 2005,Austin Texas, USA
  • Kadam A.M., Oza G.H. Nemade P.D., Shankar H.S., (2006). “Reuse of Municipal Wastewater by Soil Biotechnology system-a case study”. Trombay symposium on desalination and water reuse (TSDWR 07), February 7-9, 2007, Mumbai.
  • Kadam A.M., Oza G.H, Shankar H.S., 2005. “Carbon, Nitrogen and Pathogen removal using soil filter device” in 9th International Conference, 25-26th November, 2005, Mumbai, India.
  • Nemade P.D, Shankar H.S., Kadam A.M., Oza G.H. (2007). Removal of Arsenic from Drinking Water: Recent Trends and Development. Third International groundwater conference (IGC-2007) on Water, Environment and Agriculture Present Problems and Future Challenges (Feb. 7-10, 2007), at Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.
  • Nemade P. D, Kadam A.M., Oza G.H, Dutta S. M., Shankar H.S. (2007). Adsorption of Arsenite As (III) by Soil Biotechnology and Hydrous Ferric Oxide. International Conference on Water Management and Technology Applications in Developing Countries, Kuala Lumpur 14 – 16 May 2007, Malaysia.
  • P. D. Nemade, A. M. Kadam, G. H. Oza, S. M. Dutta, H. S. Shankar. (2007). Adsorption of Arsenite from Water by Soil Biotechnology. 2nd IWA ASPIRE, Asia-Pacific regional Group conference & Exhibition on Water and Sanitation in the Asia-Pacific region: opportunities Challenges and Technology, 28 Oct-1 Nov 2007, Perth Convention Centre, Australia.
  • Pravin D. Nemade, Avinash M. Kadam, Goldie H. Oza, Supritam M. Dutta, H. S. Shankar. (2007). Arsenic Adsorption onto Hydrous Ferric Oxide (HFO) from Water. 2nd IWA ASPIRE, Asia-Pacific regional Group conference & Exhibition on Water and Sanitation in the Asia-Pacific region: opportunities Challenges and Technology, 28 Oct-1 Nov 2007, Perth Convention Centre, Australia.
  • Nemade P. D., A. V. Kadam, H. S. Shankar (2007). Removal of As (III) from Water by Constructed Soil Filter System. Int. Conference on Environment Management: Scenario & Strategies to 2020, EMASS 2020, Ujjain, 26, 27 Dec 2007.
  • Kadam A. M., Nemade P. D., Oza G. H., Sathyamoorthy M. V., Dutta S. M., Shankar H. S. (2007). Wastewater Purification Using Soil Biotechnology System, National Conference on at Govt. College of Engineering, Amravati, Maharashtra.
  • Pravin D. Nemade, A. M. Kadam, H. S. Shankar. (2008). Removal of Arsenic from Water in presence of Phosphate by Constructed Soil Filter (CSF), 8th Specialized Conference on Small Water and Wastewater Systems (SWWS) and 2nd Specialized Conference on Decentralized Water and Wastewater International Network (DEWSIN), Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, India February 5 to 9, 2008.
  • P. D. Nemade, A. M. Kadam, H. S. Shankar. (2008). Remediation of Arsenic & Iron Contaminated Groundwater Using Novel Constructed Soil Filter (CSF) System, International groundwater Conference on Groundwater Dynamics & Global Change, March 11-14, 2008, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.

Journal Publication:

  • Patnaik, B.R., Bhawalkar, U.S., Gupta, A., Shankar, H.S., Residence Time Distribution model for Soil Filters, Water Environment Research, 76(2), 168-174,2004.
  • Nemade P.D., Kadam A.M., Oza G.H., Dutta S. M., Shankar H.S. (2007). Adsorption of Arsenite and Arsenate from water by HFO. Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 296-302.
  • P. D. Nemade, A. M. Kadam, G. H. Oza, S. M. Dutta, H. S. Shankar. (2007). Effects of Anions on Arsenic Adsorption with Iron Hydroxide-A Review, Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol. 27, No. 12, pp. 1057-1064.
  • Avinash M. Kadam, Goldie H. Oza, Pravin D. Nemade, Hariharan S. Shankar. (2008). Pathogen removal from municipal wastewater in Constructed Soil Filter, Ecological Engineering. Volume 33, Issue 1, 1 May 2008, Pages 37-44.
  • Kadam, G Oza, P. Nemade, S. Dutta, H. Shankar. (2008). Municipal wastewater treatment using novel constructed soil filter system, Chemosphere, 71, 975–981.
  • P. D. Nemade, A. M. Kadam, H. S. Shankar. (2008). Adsorption of Arsenic from Aqueous Solution on Naturally Available Red Soil, Journal of Environmental Biology (in press).
  • Nemade P. D, Kadam A. M., Oza G.H, Dutta S. M., Shankar H.S. (2008). Removal of Arsenite from water by soil biotechnology, International Journal of Biotechnology (in press).
  • P. D. Nemade, A. M. Kadam, G. H. Oza, S. M. Dutta, H. S. Shankar. (2008). Remediation of Arsenic and Iron from Water using Constructed Soil Filter- a Novel Approach, Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering (in press).
  • Kadam, G. Oza, P. Nemade, H. Shankar. (2008). Wastewater Purification using Constructed Soil Filter (CSF) System, Environmental Engineering Science, in press.
  • A. Kadam, G. Oza, P. NemadePaP A. Surti ,H. Shankar, (2008). Biosorption of microorganisms on to Natural Materials: A Comparative Study, submitted to International journal of Environmental Biology (in press).
  • Kadam A. M., Nemade P. D., Oza G. H., Shankar H. S, (2008). Uptake of Nitrogen from Aqueous Solution by Adsorption on to various Low Cost Materials, International Journal of Environmental Protection(in press).

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