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Personal Details
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| Name | Dr Anirban Das |
| Designation | Associate Professor |
| Department | Chemistry, School of Energy Technology |
| Email | Anirban.Das@spt.pdpu.ac.in |
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Educational Qualifications
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| Ph.D (Isotope Geochemistry, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad), 2005 |
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Professional Affiliation
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Awards
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| Project funding
1. Chemical and isotopic investigations of fluoride rich groundwaters in Gujarat and in Rajasthan (Funds approved by DST, India, letter no. SR/FTP/ES-129/2009; Sanctioned money: 22 Lacs)
2. Tracking chromium (VI) migration in groundwater using stable isotopes of Chromium (SERB, DST; Govt. Of India; 38.6 Lacs; 2017-2020)
2019-2020
1. Sulfuric acid mediated weathering in the Ganga, Yamuna and the Brahmaputra (GYB) River Basins: Constraints from Sulfur and oxygen isotopes in dissolved sulfate. (Approved for funding by MoES; Govt. Of India; Proposed amount 41.12 Lacs) Received 16.56 Lacs during 2019-20.
Awards/achievements (in last year)
1. Bharat Vikas Award (2018), by the Institute of Self Reliance (ISR), Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
(Given to people/institution for their outstanding contribution to the society, for excellent devotion their respective fields and for their contribution towards the growth of India).
2. Nominated by Director PRL to member of Technical Evaluation Committee for the procurement of IRMS.
3. Nominated by Director PRL to member of Technical Evaluation Committee for the procurement of Graphitisation system (Withdrawn for health reason).
4. Appointed by Hon’able Vice Chancellor, MohanLal Sukhadia University, Udiapur, as an external examiner for a PhD thesis (Jan7, 2019).
2019-2020
1. Nominated by Honable VC, MohanLal Sukhadia as external viva-examiner for a PhD thesis (Nov 2019).
2. Nominated by Hon'able VC Goa University as thesis expert of a PhD thesis.
3. Nominated by Director, PRL, to be a member of Technical Evaluation Committee for procurement of IRMS.
Awards/achievements (till date)
1. Postdoctoral fellowship by National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan.
2. Research fellow position by National Council of Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT), Australia.
3. Awarded Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS) long-term postdoctoral fellowship, Hiroshima University, Japan.
4. Postdoctoral fellowship at University of Ottawa, Canada.
5. Qualified in NET-Lectureship (1998; Organized by UGC)
6. Qualified in GATE (Chemistry, 1999)
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Publications / Articles / Conference
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| Articles/Chapters Published in the books |
| 'Krishna River Basin', , Jul 2017 |
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| Published Papers in Journals |
| 'Spatiotemporal variations, sources, pollution status and health risk assessment of dissolved trace elements in a major Arabian Sea draining river: insights from multivariate statistical and machine learning approaches', Environmental Geochemistry and Health, pp. 1-26, Apr 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-024-01885-9 |
| 'Exploring riverine solute behavior, dynamics, and export into the Arabian Sea from a semi-arid catchment, Western India', Environmental Earth Sciences, pp. 1-19, Jan 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-11348-6 |
| 'Heavy metals in agricultural cultivated products irrigated with wastewater in India: a review', AQUA - Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society, pp. 851-867, Jun 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.122 |
| 'Remediation processes of hexavalent chromium from groundwater: a short review', Aqua Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society, pp. 648-662, May 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.123 |
| 'Impact of soil salinity on groundwater chemistry in semi-arid regions in Western India: insights from major ion and stable isotopic (δ2HH2O, δ18OH2O, and δ13CDIC)characteristics.', Groundwater for Sustainable Development, pp. 1-10, May 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2023.100939 |
| 'A Simple Model for Quantifying Fluoride in Shallow Groundwater from Fertilizer Leaching', Journal of the Geological Society of India, pp. 1761-1764, Dec 2022, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-022-2248-y |
| 'Sources, controls, and probabilistic health risk assessment of fluoride contamination in groundwater from a semi-arid region in Gujarat, Western India: An isotope–hydrogeochemical perspective.', Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 163-175, (March 2021), Oct 2022 |
| 'Heavy Metals in Soils and Vegetation from Wastewater Irrigated Croplands near Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Risk to Human Health', Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 163-175, (March 2021), Mar 2021 |
| 'Application of X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS) spectroscopy to speciation of Lead (Pb) contaminants in plastics', Bulletin of Chemical Society of Japan, Nov 2014 |
| 'Modeling geochemical datasets for source apportionment: Comparison of least square regression and inversion approaches', Journal of Geochemical Exploration, Mar 2014 |
| 'Disproportionately high rates of sulfide oxidation from river basins of Taiwan orogeny', Geophysical Research Letters, Jun 2012 |
| 'Application of an improved ion exchange technique for the measurement of δ34S values from microgram quantities of sulfur by MC-ICPMS, ', Journal of analytical atomic spectrometry, Oct 2012 |
| 'Sources of sulfur in Deccan Trap rivers: A reconnaissance isotope study', Applied Geochemistry, Mar 2011 |
| 'Oxidation states of Antimony and Arsenic in marine ferromanganese oxides related to their fractionation in oxic marine environment', Chemistry Letters, Jun 2008 |
| 'Elemental geochemistry of river sediments from the Deccan Traps, India: Implications to sources of elements and their mobility during basalt-water interaction', Chemical geology, Jul 2007 |
| 'Sr and 87Sr/86Sr in rivers draining the Deccan Traps (India): Implications to weathering, Sr fluxes and the Marine 87Sr/86Sr record around K/T', Geochemistry, Geophysics., Geosystems, Jun 2006 |
| 'Barium in Deccan Basalt Rivers: Its abundance. Relative mobility and flux.', Aquatic geochemistry, Sep 2006 |
| 'Chemical weathering of the Krishna basin and Western Ghats of the Deccan Traps, India: Rates of basalt weathering and their controls.', Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Apr 2005 |
| 'Carbon isotope ratio of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in rivers draining the Deccan Traps, India: Sources of DIC and their magnitudes', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Jul 2005 |
| 'High Iridium concentration of alkaline rocks of Deccan and implications to K/T boundary', Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet. Sci.), Jun 2001 |
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| Papers presented in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia |
| 'Fe (III) Impregnated activated alumina for cationic and anionic dye adsorption in water', 1st International Conference on Advances in Water Treatment and Management , Mar 2022 |
| 'Accumulation of heavy metals in crops irrigated with wastewater in various parts of India: A review', 1st International Conference on Advances in Water Treatment and Management , Mar 2022 |
| 'Fluoride in Groundwater: Approach to health perspectives', 1st International Conference on Advances in Water Treatment and Management , Mar 2022 |
| 'Groundwater remediation processes from toxic hexavalent chromium: a review', 1st International Conference on Advances in Water Treatment and Management , Mar 2022 |
| ' Anthropogenic impacts on quality of groundwater collected from Kanpur city, Uttar Pradesh, India ', ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN WATER TREATMENT AND ALLIED RESEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT, Water 2020 , Jan 2020 |
| 'Heavy metals in Soil and in Vegetation due to sewage-farming around Ahmedabad city of Gujarat', International Conference on Environmental, Agricultural, Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICEACBS-2020), Jan 2020 |
| 'Hydrogeochemistry of Mahi River, India', Goldschmidt 2019, Mar 2019 |
| 'Geochemical controls on fluoride concentration in groundwater from Mehsana district, Gujarat, India', Goldschmidt 2018, Mar 2018 |
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