Snigdha Khuntia
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad
India
Biography
Dr. Snigdha Khuntia is working as Assistant Professor at School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Ahmedabad University. She has done her B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IGIT Sarang, BPUT Orissa. Snigdha has done her M.Tech and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technoology Guwahati (IITG). Her research areas are advanced oxidation processes, ozone based water/wastewater treatment, biosorption, adsorption, heavy metal removal from wastewater. Additional research includes mass transfer study of ozone, oxygen using millibubbles and microbubbles, kinetics and decomposition of ozone in water, synthesis of adsorbents for metal removal.
Research Interest
Advanced oxidation processes, wastewater treatment, biosorption
Publications
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Khuntia, S., Majumder, S. K., and Ghosh, P., Oxidation of As(III) to As(V) using ozone microbubbles, Chemosphere, 97, 120−124 (2014).
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Khuntia, S., Majumder, S. K., and Ghosh, P., Removal of ammonia from water by ozone microbubbles, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 52, 318−326 (2013).
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Khuntia, S., Majumder, S. K., and Ghosh, P., Microbubble-aided water and wastewater purification: a review, Rev. Chem. Eng., 28, 191−221 (2012).
