Recent Publications 

1.      R. Saravanane  and S. Sundararaman (2009). Effect of Loading rate and HRT on the removal of cephalosporin and their intermediates during the operation of a membrane bioreactor treating pharmaceutical wastewater. Environmental Technology (Taylor and Francis), Vol. 30 (10), 1017-1022.

2.      R. Saravanane and S. Tamizhvendane (2009), Antibiotic liquid waste disposal – A potential threat and environmental compatibility, Current Science, Vol. 96(10), p. 1297.

3.   R. Saravanane and S. Sundararaman (2009) Effect of organic loading rate and critical flux on the removal of Cephalosporin and 7- ACA antibiotic intermediates during the operation of submerged flat Sheet membrane system treating pharmaceutical wastewater, 6th IWA Leading-Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies (LET 2009), 23-25 June 2009, Singapore.

4.      R. Saravanane and B. Radjaram (2009). Biohydrogen production by anaerobic co-digestion of press mud and domestic sewage. International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (in Press).

5.      Sri B. Muruganandam, R. Saravanane M. Lavanya and R. Sivacoumar (2008) Effect of Innoculum –substrate ratio on acclimatization of pharmaceutical effluent in an anaerobic batch reactor. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering,  Vol. 50 (3), pp. 191-196.

6.   Manda Chitti Babu, R. Saravanane and R. Sivacoumar (2009). Anaerobic      pretreatment and increased solid destruction for vegetable solid waste codigested with cattle slurry, Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering,  Vol. 51 (1), pp. 67-72

7.      S. Tamijevendane ,  R. Saravanane, R. Rajesh and R. Sivacoumar (2009). Anaerobic stabilization and conversion of transformed intermediates of pharmaceutical effluent in a fluidized bed reactor. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering  (In press).

     8.  S Balasubramanian and R.  Saravanane (2009).  Development of Conductometric Biosensor for Monitoring Microbial Biomass in Biological Treatment system. Water Science and Technology (under Review)

9         V. Murugaiyan and R. Saravanane (2009). Influence of Pharmaceutical Effluent
on the Physico – Chemical Behavior and Geotechnical Characteristics of Clayey and Silty Soils.  International Journal of Soil, Sediment and Water (In press).

10     S.Balasubramanian  and  R. Saravanane (2009)  Development of conductometric biosensor for monitoring microbial biomass in biological treatment system, 10th IWA Specialist Conference on Instrumentation Control and Automation, 14-17 June 2009, Cairns, Australia.

11     R. Saravanane  and S. Sundararaman (2008). Effect of Loading Rate and HRT on the removal of Cephalexin and 7- ACA antibiotic intermediates during the operation of submerged flat sheet membrane System for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment, Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), WEFTEC 2008, Session 50 , pp. 3348-3357

12.  R. Saravanane and S. Jayakumar (2009)  “Detrimental Effects on Coastal Concrete Structures by Ulva Fasciata”  Journal of Construction Materials, Thomas Telford, London (in press )

13. R. Saravanane and S. Jayakumar (2009) “Biodeterioration of Coastal Concrete Structures by Macro Algae- Chaetomorpha Antennina” Journal of Materials Research,

Revista Ibero- Americana de Materiais,  Brazil (in press)

14. R. Saravanane  and Tamizh vendane  and R. Sivacoumar  (2010)    "Anaerobic stabilisation and and conversion of transformed intermediates of anti-biotic pharmaceutical waste sludge in a fluidized bed reactor", Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science, NEERI (accepted)

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