Current research trends on emerging contaminants pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs): A comprehensive review

M Kumar, S Sridharan, AD Sawarkar, A Shakeel… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical and personnel care products (PPCPs) from wastewater are a potential
hazard to the human health and wildlife, and their occurrence in wastewater has caught the …

Bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: An updated microbiological review

A Thacharodi, S Hassan, T Singh, R Mandal… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
A class of organic priority pollutants known as PAHs is of critical public health and
environmental concern due to its carcinogenic properties as well as its genotoxic …

Waste to catalyst: role of agricultural waste in water and wastewater treatment

M Kumar, S Ambika, A Hassani, PV Nidheesh - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Presently, owing to the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization activities, a
huge quantity of wastewater is generated that contain toxic chemical and heavy metals …

[HTML][HTML] Antimony contamination and its risk management in complex environmental settings: A review

N Bolan, M Kumar, E Singh, A Kumar, L Singh… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antimony (Sb) is introduced into soils, sediments, and aquatic environments from various
sources such as weathering of sulfide ores, leaching of mining wastes, and anthropogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Biochar modulating soil biological health: A review

S Bolan, S Sharma, S Mukherjee, M Kumar… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biochar can be used for multifunctional applications including the improvement of soil health
and carbon storage, remediation of contaminated soil and water resources, mitigation of …

Remediation of soils and sediments polluted with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: to immobilize, mobilize, or degrade?

M Kumar, NS Bolan, SA Hoang, AD Sawarkar… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are generated due to incomplete burning of
organic substances. Use of fossil fuels is the primary anthropogenic cause of PAHs emission …

Multidimensional approaches of biogas production and up-gradation: Opportunities and challenges

A Mishra, M Kumar, NS Bolan, A Kapley, R Kumar… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
The expanding interest towards biogas generation from biowaste via complex anaerobic
digestion (AD) opened new avenues in the improvement of biogas production processes …

Recent advances in microbial engineering approaches for wastewater treatment: a review

M Sharma, S Agarwal, R Agarwal Malik, G Kumar… - …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the present era of global climate change, the scarcity of potable water is increasing both
due to natural and anthropogenic causes. Water is the elixir of life, and its usage has risen …

Microbial degradation of recalcitrant pesticides: a review

S Bose, PS Kumar, DVN Vo, N Rajamohan… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Some pesticides such as organochlorines are of critical environmental concern because
they are highly persistent due to their stable chemical nature. As a consequence, even after …

[HTML][HTML] Actinobacteria: An eco-friendly and promising technology for the bioaugmentation of contaminants

CI Mawang, AS Azman, ASM Fuad, M Ahamad - Biotechnology reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, various eco-friendly approaches utilizing microbial species to
clean up contaminated environments have surfaced. In this aspect, actinobacteria have …