CE 642: Subsurface Investigation and Instrumentation

Problematic soil

Ground improvement

Solid waste management

Sustainable construction material

Nanomaterials

Construction biotechnology

Contaminant remediation and containment

Soil pollution

KPCSD (Kiran C Patel Centre for Sustainable Development) COVID-19 research award-2020, IIT Gandhinagar.

Journals:

Taki, K., Choudhary, S., Gupta, S., & Kumar, M. (2020). Enhancement of geotechnical properties of municipal sewage sludge for sustainable utilization as engineering construction material. Journal of Cleaner Production, 251, 119723.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119723

Taki, K., Gahlot, R., Kumar, M. (2020). Utilization of Fly Ash Amended Sewage Sludge as Brick for Sustainable Building Material with Special Emphasis on Dimensional Effect. Journal of Cleaner Production, 275, 123942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123942

Taki, K., Raval, N. P., & Kumar, M. (2021). Utilization of sewage sludge derived magnetized geopolymeric adsorbent for geogenic arsenic removal: A sustainable groundwater in-situ treatment perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, 295, 126466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126466

Taki, K., Mukherjee, S., Patel, A. K., & Kumar, M. (2020). Reappraisal Review on Geopolymer: A New Era of Aluminosilicate Binder for Metal Immobilization. EnvironmentalNanotechnology, Monitoring & Management, 14,100345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enmm.2020.100345

Gahlot, R., Taki, K., Kumar, M. (2020). Efficacy of Nanoclay as the Potential Adsorbent for Dyes and Metal Removal from the Wastewater: A Review. Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring & Management, 14, 100339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enmm.2020.100339

Taki, K., Gogoi, A., Mazumder, P., Bhattacharya, S. S., & Kumar, M. (2019). Efficacy of vermitechnology integration with Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) and activated sludge for metal stabilization: A compliance study on fractionation and biosorption. Journal of environmental management, 236, 603-612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.01.006

Mukherjee, S., Thakur, A. K., Goswami, R., Mazumder, P., Taki, K., Vithanage, M., & Kumar, M.(2021). Efficacy of agricultural waste derived biochar for arsenic removal: Tackling water quality in the Indo-Gangetic plain. Journal of Environmental Management, 281, 111814. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111814

Gogoi, A., Taki, K., & Kumar, M. (2020). Seasonal dynamics of metal phase distributions in the perennial tropical (Brahmaputra) river: Environmental fate and transport perspective. Environmental Research, 183, 109265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109265

Devi, U., Taki, K., Shukla, T., Sarma, K. P., Hoque, R. R., & Kumar, M. (2019). Microzonation, ecological risk and attributes of metals in highway road dust traversing through the Kaziranga National Park, Northeast India: implication for confining metal pollution in the national forest. Environmental geochemistry and health, 41(3), 1387-1403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-018-0219-4

Borah, R., Taki, K., Gogoi, A., Das, P., & Kumar, M. (2018). Contemporary distribution and impending mobility of arsenic, copper and zinc in a tropical (Brahmaputra) river bed sediments, Assam, India. Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 161, 769-776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.06.038

Mazumder, P., Sharma, S. K., Taki, K., Kalamdhad, A. S., & Kumar, M. (2020). Microbes involved in arsenic mobilization and respiration: a review on isolation, identification, isolates and implications. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-020-00549-8

Kumar, M., Mazumder, P., Mohopatra, S., Thakur, A. K., Dhangar, K., Taki, K., Patel, A. K., Bhattacharya, P., Mohapatra, P. K.,  Rinklebe, J.,  Kitajima, M.,  Furumai, H., Sonne, C.,  Kuroda. K. (2020). A Chronicle of SARS-CoV-2. Part-II: Seasonality, Environmental Fate, Transport, Inactivation, and Antiviral Drug Resistance. Hazardous material, 405, 124043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124043

Kumar, M., Taki, K., Gahlot, R., Sharma, A., & Dhangar, K. (2020). A chronicle of SARS-CoV-2: Part-I-Epidemiology, diagnosis, prognosis, transmission and treatment. Science of The Total Environment, 139278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139278

Conference:

Kumar, V. G. K., Taki, K., Gupta, S., & Sachan, A. (2020). Improving “Shrinkage-Swelling” Response of Expansive Soil Using Bio-calcite and Exopolysaccharide Produced by Bacillus sp. In Advances in Computer Methods and Geomechanics (pp. 83-98, Vol. 2). Springer, Singapore. International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), March 5-7, 2019 at IIT Gandhinagar,(India). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0890-5_8

Taki, K., & Sharma, S. (2020). Synthesis of Bentonite Clay-Based Geopolymer and Its Application in the Treatment of Expansive Soil. In Advances in Computer Methods and Geomechanics (pp. 133-143, Vol.2). Springer, Singapore. International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), March 5-7, 2019 at IIT Gandhinagar,(India). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0890-5_12

Taki, K., & Bhattacharya, P. (2020). Comparative study of expansive and non-expansive soils stabilized with lime and Rice Husk Ash (RHA). In Advances in Computer Methods and Geomechanics (pp. 553-563, Vol. 1). Springer, Singapore. International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), March 5-7, 2019 at IIT Gandhinagar,(India). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0886-8_45

Book/ Book Chapter:

Patel, A. K., Bhagat, C., Taki, K., & Kumar, M. (2020). Microplastic vulnerability in the sediments of the Sabarmati river of India. In Resilience, Response, and Risk in Water Systems (pp. 127-138). Springer, Singapore.

Poster:

Taki, K., Thakur, K. A., Kumar, M. (2018). Synthesis of Bentonite clay based geopolymer for removal of heavy metals from drinking water. Proceedings of Twentieth National Symposium on Environment (NSE-20), December 13-15, 2018 at IIT Gandhinagar, (India), 301-302.

Ram, B., Taki, K., Patel, A. K., Kumar, M. (2018). Abundance of microplastic of solid waste dumping site: A case study of Ahmedhabad and Guwahati. Proceedings of Twentieth National Symposium on Environment (NSE-20), December 13-15, 2018 at IIT Gandhinagar, (India), 307-308.

Kumari, O., Taki, K., Kumar, M. (2018). The imprecation of Advanced Institution; a study of tribal Belief and Customs in Arunachal Pradesh and Water Management. Proceedings of Twentieth National Symposium on Environment (NSE-20), December 13-15, 2018 at IIT Gandhinagar, (India), 341.