Sustainable Water, Energy & Environment Technologies (SWeET) Lab

Department of Chemical Engineering

Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam

Dr. Ravi Kumar Sonwani

Dr. Ravi Kumar Sonwani

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Education

Ph.D. (2020)

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

M.Tech. (2016)

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

B.Tech. (2014)

Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Research Interests

  • Wastewater Treatment (Adsorption, Bioremediation, and AOPs)
  • Waste to Value (Energy) Conversion Processes and Carbon Sequestration
  • Study of "Reactors" & "Bioreactors" for various applications
  • Air Pollution Control (VOCs)
  • Chemical milling and Maskant development for aerospace and defense industries

Professional Appointments

Research visit at National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (December 2024 to January 2025)

Under the Faculty Development Program

Assistant Professor (Nov 2021-Present)

Chemical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Petroleum & Energy (IIPE), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Post-Doctoral Fellow (July 2021-Nov 2021)

Chemical Engineering Department, ICT Mumbai-Indian Oil Campus, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Research Scholar (Jan 2021-June 2021)

Chemical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Visiting Research Student (June 2019-September 2019)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Han Yang University, Seoul, South Korea

Recent Papers

2024

Patel, D., Tripathi, K. M., Sonwani, R. K.

Waste-Derived Carbon Nano-Onions for the Removal of Organic Dye from Wastewater and Phytotoxicity Studies.

ACS omega IF: 3.7
2024

Jaiswal, V. K., Gupta, A. D., Sonwani, R. K., Giri, B. S., Singh, R. S.

Enhanced biodegradation of 2, 4-dichlorophenol in packed bed biofilm reactor by impregnation of polyurethane foam with Fe3O4 nanoparticles.

Bioresource Technology IF: 9.7
2023

Tripathi, P., Tiwari, S., Tiwari, H., Sonwani, R. K., Singh, R. S.

Techno-economic assessment of coupling ozonation and biodegradation process for the dye wastewater treatment.

Journal of Water Process Engineering IF: 7.0
2022

Thorat, B. N., Sonwani, R. K.*

Current technologies and future perspectives for the treatment of complex petroleum refinery wastewater: A review.

Bioresource Technology IF: 11.8
2022

Anand, B., Kim, K-H*, Sonwani, R. K., et al.

Removal of gaseous benzene by a fixed-bed system packed with a highly porous metal-organic framework (MOF-199) coated glass beads.

Environmental Research IF: 8.4
2021

Sonwani, R. K., Kim, K-H*, et al.

Construction of biotreatment platforms for aromatic hydrocarbons and their future perspectives.

Journal of Hazardous Materials IF: 14.2
2022

Giri, B. S., Sonwani, R. K., et al.

Highly efficient bio adsorption of Malachite green using Chinese Fan-Palm Biochar (Livistona chinensis).

Chemosphere IF: 8.9
2021

Sonwani, R. K., Swain, G., et al.

Moving bed biofilm reactor with immobilized low-density polyethylene–polypropylene for Congo red dye Removal.

Environmental Technology & Innovation IF: 7.7
2021

Sonwani, R. K., Pandey, S., et al.

Construction of integrated system for the treatment of Acid orange 7 dye from wastewater: Optimization and growth kinetic study.

Bioresource Technology IF: 11.8
2021

Swain, G., Sonwani, R. K., et al.

A comparative study of 4-chlorophenol biodegradation in a packed bed and moving bed bioreactor: Performance evaluation and toxicity analysis.

Environmental Technology & Innovation IF: 7.7
2020

Sonwani, R. K., Swain, G., et al.

Biodegradation of Congo red dye in a moving bed biofilm reactor: Performance evaluation and kinetic modelling.

Bioresource Technology IF: 11.8
2020

Sonwani, R. K., Giri, B. S., et al.

Performance evaluation of a continuous packed bed bioreactor: Bio-kinetics and external mass transfer study.

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety IF: 7.1
2020

Swain, G., Sonwani, R. K., et al.

Collective removal of phenol and ammonia in a moving bed biofilm reactor using modified bio-carriers: Process optimization and kinetic study.

Bioresource Technology IF: 11.8
2019

Sonwani, R. K., Giri, B. S., et al.

Studies on optimization of naphthalene biodegradation using surface response methodology: Kinetic study and performance evaluation of a pilot scale integrated aerobic treatment.

Process Safety and Environmental Protection IF: 7.9
2019

Sonwani, R. K., Swain, G., et al.

A novel comparative study of modified carriers in moving bed biofilm reactor for the treatment of wastewater: Process optimization and kinetic study.

Bioresource Technology IF: 11.8