Dr. Manaswini Behera

Publications

1Ghosh, R., Parde, D., Bhaduri, S., Purohit, P., Behera, M., 2024,Occurrence, fate, transport, and removal technologies of emerging contaminants: A review on recent advances and future perspectives, Clean Soil Air Water, https://doi.org/10.1002/clen.202300259
2Parde, D., Behera, M., Dash, R.R.,Bhunia, P., 2024, A review on anammox processes: Strategies for enhancing bacterial growth and performance in wastewater treatment, International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 191, 105812
3Bhaduri, S., Behera, M., 2024, From single-chamber to multi-anodic microbial fuel cells: A review, Journal of Environmental Management, 355, 120465.
4Bagchi S, Behera M., 2023, Pharmaceutical wastewater treatment in ceramic separator MFC: Optimisation of operating parameters to improve organic removal and power generation, Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy, 6, 100063
5Roy, S.V., Raychaudhuri, A., Behera, M., Neelancherry, R., 2023, Elimination of pharmaceuticals from wastewater using microbial fuel cell-based bio-electro-Fenton process, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, accepted, doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-28424-w.
6Raychaudhuri, A., Kumari, A., Behera, M., 2023, Investigating the potential of a ceramic-based microbial fuel cell for concomitant nutrient removal and power recovery from rice mill wastewater, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (ASCE), 27(4), 04023021-1-8, doi: 10.1061/JHTRBP.HZENG-1225.
7Gurjar, R., Behera, M., 2023, Optimization and modelling of volatile fatty acid generation in a leachate bed reactor for utilization in microbial fuel cells, Water and Environment Journal, 37, 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1111/wej.12861
8Raychaudhuri, A., Behera, M., 2023, Biodegradation and power production kinetics in microbial fuel cell during rice mill wastewater treatment, Fuel, 339, 126904, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.126904
9Gurjar, R., Behera, M., 2023, Integrating operating conditions to develop a neural network for predicting organics removal and power density in an earthen microbial fuel cell treating leachate, Biofuels 14 (1), 49-58, 10.1080/17597269.2022.2116769
10Gurjar, R.; Behera, M., 2022, Inhibition kinetics of volatile fatty acid-rich leachate on substrate utilization and electricity generation in an earthen microbial fuel cell, Environmental Processes, 9,61, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-022-00614-7
11Gurjar, R.; Behera, M., 2022, Bio-Electrochemical Performance of a Ceramic Microbial Fuel Cell Treating Kitchen Waste Leachate: Effect of Organic Loading Rate and Anode Electrode Surface Area, Fermentation, 8(10), 544. https://doi.org/10.3390/
fermentation8100544
12Raychaudhuri, A., Behera, M., 2022, Effect of operating parameters on rice mill wastewater treatment in an acidogenic chamber and MFC coupled system, Bioresource Technology Reports, 20, 101249, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biteb.2022.101249
13Bagchi S, Sahoo, R.N., Behera M., 2022, Sodium nitrate as a methanogenesis suppressor in earthen separator microbial fuel cell treating rice mill wastewater, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29, 61803–61810. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14940-0
14Gurjar, R., Behera, M., 2022, Exploring necessity to pre-treat organic fraction of waste prior to use in an earthen MFC modified with bentonite, Water Science & Technology, 86 (4), 656-671. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2022.244
15Priyanka, K., Neelancherry R, Behera, M., 2022, Sequential biological and solar photocatalytic treatment system for greywater treatment, Water Science and Technology, 86(3), 584-595, https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2022.229
16Priyanka, K., Behera, M., Neelancherry R, 2022, Greywater treatment in SBR-SND reactor – optimization of hydraulic retention time, volumetric exchange ratio and sludge retention time, Environmental Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/09593330.2022.2072238
17Raychaudhuri, A., Sahoo, R.N., Behera, M., 2022, Sequential anaerobic-aerobic treatment of rice mill wastewater and simultaneous power generation in microbial fuel cell, Environmental Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/09593330.2022.2053753
18Bagchi, S., Behera, M., 2022, Effect of pharmaceutical on performance of earthen pot microbial fuel cell, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive waste, (ASCE), 26(2), 04021057-1-8
19Raychaudhuri, A., Sahoo, R.N., Behera, M., 2021, Application of clayware ceramic separator modified with silica in microbial fuel cell for bioelectricity generation during rice mill wastewater treatment, Water Science and Technology, 84 (1), 66-76.
20Raychaudhuri, A., Behera, M., 2021, Enhancement of bioelectricity generation by integrating acidogenic compartment into a dual-chambered microbial fuel cell during rice mill wastewater treatment, Process Biochemistry, 105, 19-26.
21Thakur, I., Jena, S., Panda, R.K., Behera, M., Pattanaik, S.K., 2021, Groundwater vulnerability assessment from a drinking water perspective: case study in a tropical groundwater basin in eastern India, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (ASCE), 25 (3), 05021004
22Bagchi S, Behera M. 2021, Bioaugmentation using Pseudomonas aeruginosa with an approach of intermittent aeration for enhanced power generation in ceramic MFC, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 45, 101138.
23Bagchi S, Behera M. 2021, Evaluation of the effect of anolyte recirculation and anolyte ph on the performance of a microbial fuel cell employing ceramic separator, Process Biochemistry, 102, 207-212.
24Bagchi S, Behera M. 2021, Methanogenesis suppression and increased power generation in microbial fuel cell during treatment of chloroform containing wastewater, Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 148, 249-255.
25Raychaudhuri, A., Behera, M., 2020, Ceramic membrane modified with rice husk ash for application in microbial fuel cells. Electrochimica Acta, 363. 13726.
26Priyanka, K., Neelancherry, R., Behera, M., 2020. Greywater treatment using modified solar photocatalyst- degradation kinetics, pathway, and toxicity analysis. Separation and Purification Technology, 117319
27Bagchi, S, Behera M., 2020, Assessment of Heavy Metal Removal in Different Bio-electrochemical Systems – A Review, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (ASCE), 24 (3), 04020010.
28Raychaudhuri, A., Behera, M., 2020, Comparative evaluation of methanogenesis suppression methods in microbial fuel cell during rice mill wastewater treatment, Environmental Technology and Innovation, 17, 100509.
29Gurjar, R., Behera, M., Treatment of organic fraction of municipal solid waste in bioelectrochemical systems – A review, 2020, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (ASCE), 24(3), 04020018.
30Priyanka, K., Behera, M., Neelancherry Remya, 2020, Greywater treatment in sequencing batch reactor using simultaneous nitrification, denitrification and phosphorus removal with kinetic studies of phosphate adsorption onto corn cob, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (ASCE), 24(3), 04020017.
31Raychaudhuri, Aryama, Behera, M., 2020, Process optimization in microbial fuel cell using design of experiment methodology: A review, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (ASCE), 24 (3): 04020013.
32Bagchi, S, Behera M., 2020, Evaluating the Effect of the Antibiotic Ampicillin on Performance of a Low-Cost Microbial Fuel Cell”. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (ASCE), 24 (3), 04020011.
33Bagchi, S., Behera, M., 2020, Performance evaluation of microbial fuel cells employing ceramic separator of different surface area modified with mineral cation exchanger, SN Applied Sciences, 2, 309.
34K., Priyanka, Neelancherry R., Behera, M., 2019. Comparison of titanium dioxide based catalysts preparation methods in the mineralization and nutrients removal from greywater by solar photocatalysis, Journal of Cleaner Production, 235, 1-10
35Bagchi, S., Behera, M., 2019. Methanogenesis suppression in microbial fuel cell by aluminium dosing, Bioelectrochemistry, 129, 206-210.
36Behara, M., Ghangrakar M.M., 2017, Optimization of operating conditions for maximizing power generation and organic matter
removal in microbial fuel cell, Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, 143(4), 40160901:401609010.
37Behera, M., Jana, P.S., Ghangrekar. M.M., 2010, Performance evaluation of low cost microbial fuel cell fabricated using earthen pot with biotic and abiotic cathode, Bioresource Technology, 101(4), 1183-1189.
38Behera, M., Jana, P.S., More, T.T., Ghangrekar, M.M., 2010., Rice mill wastewater treatment in microbial fuel cells fabricated using proton exchange membrane and earthen pot at different pH, Bioelectrochemistry, 79(2), 228-233.
39More, T.T., Behera, M., Ghangrekar. M.M., 2010, Study of the effect of the cathode surface area and sonication of inoculum on the power production of the microbial fuel cell,
International Journal of Anaerobic Digestion and Renewable Energy, 1(1), 59-64.
40Jana, P.S., Behera, M., Ghangrekar, M.M., 2010, Performance comparison of up-flow microbial fuel cells fabricated using proton exchange membrane and earthen cylinder, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 35 (11), 5681-5686.
41Ghangrekar, M.M., Murthy, S.S.R., Behera, M., Duteanu, N.M., 2010, Effect of sulfate concentration in the wastewater on microbial fuel cell performance, Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 9(9), 1227-1234.
42Behera, M., Murthy, S.S.R., Ghangrekar, M.M., 2011, Effect of operating temperature on performance of Microbial fuel cell, Water Science and Technology, 64(4), 917-922.
43Behera, M., Ghangrekar, M.M., 2011, Electricity generation in low cost microbial fuel cell made up of earthenware of different thickness, Water Science and Technology, 64(12), 2468 – 2473.
44Behera, M., Ghangrekar, M.M., 2009, Performance of microbial fuel cell in response to change in sludge loading rate at different anodic feed pH. Bioresource Technology, 100 (21), 5114-5121.
1Jana, P.S., Behera, M., Ghangrekar, M.M., 2012, Effect of organic loading rate and proton exchange surface area on performance of microbial fuel cell, Journal of Environmental
Science and Engineering, 54 (9), 1-9.
1Bhaduri, S., Behera, M., Anode modification with metal wire extensions for application in the microbial fuel cell, Sustainable Advanced Technologies for Environmental Management (SATEM 2023), 20-22 December 2023, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal, India.
2Parde, Behera, M., Dash, R.R., Bhunia, P., Tenno, T., Zekker, I., Domestic Wastewater Treatment by Integrating UASB and Anammox-MBBR Technology, International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment (ICPCCE 2023), 15-16 December 2023, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
3Bhaduri, S., Behera, M., Earthen cation exchange membrane modification with sugarcane bagasse ash for enhancing performance of microbial fuel cells, International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment (ICPCCE 2023), 15-16 December 2023, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
4Rajpurohit, P., Behera, M., Treatment of Domestic Wastewater using Constructed wetland coupled microbial fuel cell (CW-MFC), International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment (ICPCCE 2023), 15-16 December 2023, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
5Bhaduri, S., Ghosh, R., Kumar, S., Behera, M., Domestic Wastewater Treatment and Simultaneous Electricity Production by Photosynthetic Microbial Fuel Cell, Challenges in Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE 2023), 5-9 November 2023, Perth, Australia.
6Parde, D., Behera, M., Dash, R.R., Performance study of low-strength wastewater treatment using a combination of UASB and Anammox-MBBR, Challenges in Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE 2023), 5-9 November 2023, Perth, Australia.
7Bhaduri, S., Alam, M.S., Behera, M., Sustainable Energy Generation and Efficient Domestic Wastewater Treatment by Multi Anodic Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells, International Symposium on Sustainable Waste Management (ISSWM 2023), 22-24 September 2023, Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India.
8Soumyadeep Bhaduri, Md. Sajid Alam and Manaswini Behera, Domestic Wastewater Treatment and Energy Production by Multi-anode Shared Cathode Microbial Fuel Cell Technology, Conference on Desalination, Brine Management and Water Recycling (DeSaltM23), 21-22 July, 2023, IIT Bombay, Maharashtra, India
9Challa Mallikarjuna, Anurag Rai, Rajesh Roshan Dash, Manaswini Behera, Removal of organics from rice mill wastewater in a moving bed biofilm reactor, 13th International Symposium on Southeast Asian Water Environment (SEAWE-13), 13-15 December 2022, Bangkok, Thailand
10Soumyadeep Bhaduri, Divyesh Parde, Ashish Mallick and Manaswini Behera, Constructed Wetland-Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Treatment of Dairy Wastewater, 3rd International Conference on Bioprocess for Sustainable Environment and Energy (ICBSEE 2022), 20-24 June, 2022, NIT Rourkela, Odisha, India
11Raychaudhuri, A., Behera, M. Effect of influent pH and hydraulic retention time on bioelectricity generation during rice mill wastewater treatment in integrated acidogenic reactor and microbial fuel cell, 2nd International Conference on Chemical, Bio, and Environmental Engineering (CHEMBIOEN 2021), 20 – 22 August 2021, NIT Jalandhar, India.
12Raychaudhuri, A., Behera, M. Kinetics of substrate utilization and power production in microbial fuel cell during treatment of rice mill wastewater, International Conference on Advances in Sustainable Research for Energy and Environmental Management (ASREEM 2021), 06 – 08 August 2021, SVNIT – Surat, India.
13Priyanka, K., Remya, N., Behera, M., Greywater treatment in continuous-flow solar photocatalytic reactor using graphite supported nitrogen-doped TiO2, In Environmental Science and Engineering. 4th International Conference on Sustainable Development of Water and Environment (ICSDWE) 2021, March 12-13, Bangkok, Thailand
14Raychaudhuri, A., and Behera, M. Electricity generation and simultaneous treatment of rice mill wastewater in acidogenic reactor-MFC integrated system: Investigation and optimization”, Challenges in environmental science and engineering (CESE 2020), 7 -8 November, 2020
15Raychaudhuri, A., and Behera, M., Enhancement of bioelectricity generation by integrating acidogenic reactor into a dual-chambered microbial fuel cell”, Upscaling and field scale application of bio-electrochemical systems for wastewater treatment and bioenergy recovery, 26 – 27 February, 2020, IIT Kharagpur, India.
16Gurjar, R., and Behera, M. Effect of operating parameters on leachate quantity and quality generated during hydrolysis of kitchen waste”. RECYCLE 2020, 13-14 February, 2020, IIT Guwahati, India
17Priyanka, K., Remya, N., Behera, M., Solar photocatalytic treatment of greywater with N-doped TiO2 for the optimization of parameters: Effect of pH, oxidant dosage and catalyst dosage, RECYCLE, 2020, 13-14 February, 2020, IIT Guwahati, India.
18Bagchi, S., Behera, M., Evaluation of the effect of analyte recirculation and anolyte pH on the performance of a microbial fuel cell employing ceramic separator, 9th International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management towards Circular Economy (9th IconSWM-CE 2019), 27 -30 November 2019, Bhubaneswar, India
19Gurjar, R., Behera, M., Treatment of volatile fatty acid rich leachate in earthen microbial fuel cell obtained from hydrolysis of kitchen waste in leach bed reactor, 9th International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management towards Circular Economy (9th IconSWM-CE 2019), 27 -30 November 2019, Bhubaneswar, India
20Raychaudhuri, A., Sahoo, R.N., Behera, M., Rice mill wastewater treatment in microbial fuel cell operated in a sequential anaerobic-aerobic configuration. 9th International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management towards Circular Economy (9th IconSWM-CE 2019), 27 -30 November 2019, Bhubaneswar, India
21Priyanka, K., Behera, M., Neelancherry Remya, Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification coupled with phosphorus removal from greywater using sequencing batch reactor, 9th International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management towards Circular Economy (9th IconSWM-CE 2019), 27 -30 November 2019, Bhubaneswar, India
22Bagchi, S., Behera, M., Effect of anolyte recirculation on organic matter removal and power generation in microbial fuel cell during wastewater treatment, 12th International Conference on the “Challenges in Environmental Science and Engineering” (CESE-2019), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 3-7 November, 2019
23Bagchi, S., Behera, M., Performance evaluation of microbial fuel cells employing ceramic separators of different surface area modified with mineral cation exchanger, 6th International Water Association-Regional Membrane Technology Conference, 10-12 December, 2018, Vadodara, Gujrat, India.
24Priyanka, K., Behera, M., Neelancherry, R., Evaluation of performance for the treatment of Greywater in sequencing batch reactor., 11th International Conference on the Challenges in Environmental Science and Engineering, CESE, 4-8 November, 2018, Bangkok, Thailand.
25Dhulipala, V.R., Gurjar R., and Behera, M., Bioelectricity Generation from Kitchen Waste in a Low Cost Earthenware Microbial Fuel Cell. Recycle (International Conference on Solid Waste Management), IIT-Guwahati, India, 22-24 February, 2018
26Behera, S., Behera, M., Performance of low cost microbial fuel cell using earthenware separator, International Conference on Water, environment, energy and Society, AISECT University Bhopal, 15-18 March, 2016.
27Behera, S., Behera, M., Evaluation of low cost Microbial fuel cell employing clayware separator of different thickness, International Conference on Waste Management “RECYCLE 2016’, IIT Guwahati, 1-2 April, 2016
28Ghangrekar. M.M., Murthy, S.S.R., Behera M., Duteanu, N.M., Effect of sulfate concentration in the wastewater on microbial fuel cell performance, Journees d Electrochimie 2009, Sinaia, Romania – (6-10 July, 2009).
29Behera, M., Jana, P.S., Ghangrekar, M.M.,Electricity generation and wastewater treatment in a low cost up-flow microbial fuel cell fabricated with earthen cylinder, International Symposium on Bioenergy, IIT Kharagpur, India – (5-7 January, 2010).
30Jana, P.S., Behera, M., Ghangrekar, M.M., Wastewater treatment and electricity generation in novel up-flow microbial fuel cell under different organic loading rates, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Energy and Environment (ICETEE-2010), Chennai, India – (7-8 January, 2010).
31Behera, M., Jana, P.S., Ghangrekar, M.M., Electricity generation from synthetic wastewater and real sewage in an up flow dual chambered microbial fuel cell, International
Congress of Environmental Research (ICER-10), University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius- (16-18 September, 2010).
32Behera, M., More, T.T., Jana, P.S., Ghangrekar, M.M., Rice mill wastewater treatment using microbial fuel cell, IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition, Montreal, Canada – (19-24 September, 2010).
33Behera, M., Murthy, S.S.R., Ghangrekar, M.M., Effect of Operating Temperature on Performance of Microbial Fuel Cell, IWA-Microbes in Wastewater and Waste Treatment, Bioremediation and Energy Production (MWT-2011), BITS Pilani, Goa campus, India- (24-27
January, 2011).
34Bandaru, S.S.R., Behera, M., Ghangrekar, M.M., Performance and economics of low cost clay cylinder microbial fuel cell for wastewater treatment, World Renewable Energy
Congress, Linkoping, Sweden – (8-13 May, 2011)
35Behera, M., Ghangrekar, M.M., Electricity generation in low cost microbial fuel cell made up of earthenware of different thickness, 8th IWA Leading Edge Conference on Water
and Wastewater Technologies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands- (6-10 June, 2011).
36Ghangrekar M.M., Behera, M., Using wastewater as fuel in a low cost bioelectrochemical system to generate direct electricity, International Symposium on New Horizons in Bioenergy
Research, IIT Kharagpur, India – (14-16 January, 2013).
37Ghangrekar. M.M., Murthy, S.S.R., Behera M., Duteanu, N.M., Effect of sulfate concentration in the wastewater on microbial fuel cell performance, Journees d Electro-chimie, 6-10 July, 2009, Sinaia, Romania.
1More, T.T., Behera, M., Ghangrekar. M.M., Study of the effect of the cathode surface area and sonication of inoculum on the power production of the microbial fuel cell, National conference on Anaerobic Digestion and Renewable Energy through Microbes (ADREM-2009), BITS Pilani, Goa campus, India – (13-15 January, 2009).
2Behera, M., Bhattacharjee, S., Assessment of risk due to intake of groundwater contaminated with heavy metals at some places of West Bengal, India, National Conference onEnvironmental Pollution and Health-Problems and Solutions, organized by the International Development Centre Foundation in collaboration with CPCB, Delhi and COEH, India, (19-20 April, 2007).

Patents

Patent No: 414560, Indian patent entitled “Earthen pot-based proton exchanger cum anode chamber and microbial fuel cell (MFC) obtained thereof” (Date of Grant: 24/12/2022)
Microconstituents in the Environment: Occurrence, Fate, Removal and Management, Wiley, ISBN: 9781119825258.

Advances in Environmental Electrochemistry, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780443188206.