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Personal Details
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| Name | Dr Anurag Kandya |
| Designation | Associate Professor |
| Department | Civil, School of Technology |
| Email | Anurag.Kandya@sot.pdpu.ac.in |
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Educational Qualifications
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| B.E. (Civil Engineering, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad), 1999 |
| M.Tech. (Environmental Engineering, IIT Delhi), 2006 |
| Ph.D (Urban Micro Climate, IIT Delhi), 2015 |
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Professional Affiliation
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| Research collaboration with IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee,, ISRO, BARC, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, Indian Meteorological Department, NIT Nagpur, NIT Surat,
* Joint Secretary of Indian Society of Remote Sensing - Ahmedabad Chapter * Member-Indian Meteorological Society * Member-Indian Society for Technical Education * Member-Indian Society of Geomatics * Member-Indian Geotechnical Society |
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Awards
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| Won the 'Best Poster Award - 2020' for City level Air Pollution Mapping using Satellite data at the National Symposium on Remote Sensing for Environment Monitoring and Climate Change Assessment : Opportunities and Challenges organized at Space Application Centre, ISRO
Won the 'Summer Innovation Challenge – 2018 organized by Government of Gujarat
'Japan Prize- Best Paper Award' by International Association of Urban Climate (2015), ‘International Travel Grant’ by PanIIT Gujarat Alumni Association (2014) to represent PanIITGAA in the PanIIT-2014 Toronto Conference, * ‘Best Poster Award’ by Indian Climate Research Network (IISc Bangalore, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras and Centre for Science and Environment) (2012), * ‘Travel Grant’ by International Association of Urban Climate (2012), * ‘Young Scientist International Travel Grant’ by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2011), * ‘Young Scientist Conference Support Award’ by the European Association for the Science and Air Pollution (EURASAP) (2011), * ‘Brightest Youth Climate Leadership Fellowship’ by the British Council in association with Hindustan Times and Artic Holdings (2010), * ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ by American Society of Civil Engineers (2010), * ‘Special Presenter Award’ by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA, (2009), * ‘Young Researcher Conference Award’ by International Association of Urban Climate (2009), * ‘Research Fellowship by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)’ (2008-2009), * ‘Research Fellowship by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)’ (2006-2007), * ‘Scholarship from Ministry of Human Resource and Development’ (2004-2006) |
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Publications / Articles / Conference
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| Research based or onographs/Textbooks published |
| 'Environmental Audit - A Tool for Sustainable Development', Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Jan 2024 |
| 'Elements of Civil Engineering', , Jan 2003 |
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| Published Papers in Journals |
| 'A review of the techniques for treating the landfill leachate', Materials Today Proceedings, pp. 358-364, Mar 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.11.496 |
| 'Groundwater arsenic contamination: impacts on human health and agriculture, ex situ treatment techniques and alleviation', Environmental Geochemistry and Health, pp. 1331-1358, May 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-022-01334-5 |
| 'Recent Techniques of textile industrial wastewater treatment: A review', Materials Today Proceedings, pp. 275-285, Mar 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.11.301 |
| 'Analyzing the effectiveness of the ‘Malki Practice’ for conserving the Dang forest in Gujarat, India along with improving the socio-economic standards of the land holders.', Tree, Forest and People, pp. 1-13, Jun 2022, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100272 |
| 'Monitoring and Assessing the Environmental Noise along a Busy Traffic Corridor of Ahmedabad City, India', Current World Environment, pp. 1-12, Mar 2021, DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.16.1.20 |
| 'Statistical Assessment of the Changing Climate of Vadodara City, India During 1969-2006', European Journal of Climate Change, Jan 2021 |
| 'Simultaneous removal of COD and Ammoniacal Nitrogen from dye intermediate manufacturing Industrial Wastewater using Fenton oxidation method', Applied Water Science, Jan 2020 |
| ' Mitigating the Urban Heat Island effect through building envelope modifications', Energy and Building, Jan 2018 |
| 'Impact of urbanization and land-use/land-cover change on diurnal temperature range: A case study of tropical urban airshed of India using remote sensing data', Science of the Total Environment, Feb 2015 |
| 'Evolving Sustainable Cities through the Fabric of Technological Transformation', Procedia Engineering, Dec 2013 |
| 'Forecasting the Tropospheric Ozone using Artificial Neural Network Modelling Approach: A Case Study of Megacity Madras, India', Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nov 2012 |
| 'Urban Heat Island Assessment for a Tropical Urban Airshed in India', Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Mar 2012 |
| 'Experimental Study of Twin Round Bamboo Concrete Infill Parabolic Tied Arch', Key Engineering Materials, Jun 2012 |
| 'An Experimental Study of Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect by Novel Applications of Bamboo as a Construction Material', Journal of Heat Island Institute International, Feb 2012 |
| 'An evaluation and comparison of the various statistical and deterministic techniques for forecasting the concentration of criteria air pollutants', International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Jun 2011 |
| 'Urban Heat Island Effect over National Capital Region of India: A Study using the Temperature Trends', Journal of Environmental Protection, Apr 2011 |
| 'Dynamics of Urbanization and Its Impact on Land-Use/Land-Cover: A Case Study of Megacity Delhi', Journal of Environmental Protection, Oct 2011 |
| 'Innovations in using bamboo as a structural load bearing element: Experimental performance evaluation', International Journal of Bamboo and Rattan, Jun 2010 |
| 'An Analysis of the Annual and Seasonal Trends of Air Quality Index of Delhi', Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Aug 2006 |
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| Full Papers in Conference Proceedings |
| 'Performance Evaluation of a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP): Reliability Analysis and Removal Efficiency Assessment', , pp. 325-340, Jan 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4186-5_25 |
| 'Performance Evaluation of a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP): Reliability Analysis and Removal Efficiency Assessment', SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (SWMP), pp. 325-340, Sep 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4186-5_25 |
| 'Sewage Sludge—A Latent Biogold', , pp. 167-174, Sep 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4186-5_13 |
| 'Spatial and Temporal Trends of Downward Shortwave Radiation over Ahmedabad city, India during 2013-2022', National Symposium on GeoDiscover : Unavelling India's Spatial Frontier, pp. 82-82, Nov 2023, DOI : https://www.isgns2023.com/assets/pdf/Proceedings.pdf |
| 'Simulating the ward-wise air pollution (PM2.5) concentration using satellite data and ground observations along with the reduction targets and associated Health benefits for Ahmedabad city, India', National Symposium on GeoDiscover : Unavelling India's Spatial Frontier, pp. 40-40, Nov 2023, DOI : https://www.isgns2023.com/assets/pdf/Proceedings.pdf |
| 'Spatial and Temporal Trends of Aerosol Loading over Ahmedabad city, India during 2013-2022.', National Symposium on GeoDiscover : Unavelling India's Spatial Frontier, pp. 162-162, Nov 2023, DOI : https://www.isgns2023.com/assets/pdf/Proceedings.pdf |
| 'Decadal Vegetation Cover Change Assessment in Ahmedabad City, India using Landsat-8 NDVI dataset during 2013-2022', National Symposium on GeoDiscover : Unavelling India's Spatial Frontier , pp. 161-161, Nov 2023, DOI : https://www.isgns2023.com/assets/pdf/Proceedings.pdf |
| 'Impact of Urban Canopies on Heat Islands: A case study of megacity Delhi', NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Science Workshop 2014 , Nov 2014 |
| 'Simulating the impact of Urban Canopies on multi-meteorological properties: A case study of megacity Delhi using WRF-GIS modelling', 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change , Oct 2013 |
| 'Impact of the changing Urban Meteorology on Human Thermal Comfort', 8th International Conference on Urban Climate, Aug 2012 |
| 'The Changing Climate of Ahmedabad City: A scientific perspective based on multivariate analysis', 3rd National Research Conference on Climate Change , Nov 2012 |
| 'Simulating the impact of Urban Heat Island Effect on Air-conditioning Load: A case study of megacity Delhi', International conference on Future Directions for Weather and Climate Research in the Tropics , Dec 2012 |
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| Papers presented in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia |
| 'Reviewing the Applications of Drones in Weather and Climate Studies ', TROPMET-2023 : National Symposium on Changing Dynamics of Arid Region and Impact on Weather and Climate over Indian Subcontinent, Nov 2023 |
| 'Assessing the impact of Wastewater Treatment Technology on the quality and quantity of sewage sludge', International Conference on Environmental Sustainability, mar 2023 |
| 'Assessing the effectiveness of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETPs) for wastewater treatment: A case study of Ahmedabad city', International Conference on Environmental Sustainability, mar 2023 |
| 'Spatio-Temporal Variation of Columnar NOx across Surat city of Gujarat, India using Satellite data', International Conference on Environmental Sustainability, mar 2023 |
| 'SEWAGE SLUDGE - A LATENT BIOGOLD', Sustainable Waste Management Practices, jan 2023 |
| 'City-level Organic Solid Waste Management : A study on current practices', Sustainable Waste Management Practices, jan 2023 |
| 'Performance Evaluation of a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP): Reliability Analysis and Removal Efficiency Assessment', Sustainable Waste Management Practices, jan 2023 |
| 'Role of the Environmental Social Governance (ESG) in Improving Financial Performance of Industries: A Study of Fifty Indian Companies', International Conference on Environmental Sustainability , mar 2023 |
| 'Investigating the potential of utilization of hazardous waste', International Conference on Environmental Sustainability, mar 2023 |
| 'The changing Land Surface Temperatures in Small and Medium size cites of Gujarat during 2011-21', International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC-11), sep 2023 |
| 'Assessing Methane Emissions for Hyderabad, Telangana Using Satellite Data ', TROPMET-2023 : National Symposium on Changing Dynamics of Arid Region and Impact on Weather and Climate over Indian Subcontinent, Nov 2023 |
| 'Examining the relationship between Planetry Boundary Layer Height and Air Pollution (PM2.5 and PM10) : A study over megacity Delhi, India', TROPMET-2023 : National Symposium on Changing Dynamics of Arid Region and Impact on Weather and Climate over Indian Subcontinent, Nov 2023 |
| 'Numerical study of the Urban Heat Island effect over Ahmedabad city, India using WRF model ', TROPMET-2023 : National Symposium on Changing Dynamics of Arid Region and Impact on Weather and Climate over Indian Subcontinent, Nov 2023 |
| 'Mapping the Green Verde: Drone Pioneered Campus Green Health Evaluation and Analysis', TROPMET-2023 : National Symposium on Changing Dynamics of Arid Region and Impact on Weather and Climate over Indian Subcontinent, Nov 2023 |
| 'Assessing Methane Emissions for megacity Mumbai, India using satellite data', TROPMET-2023 : National Symposium on Changing Dynamics of Arid Region and Impact on Weather and Climate over Indian Subcontinent, Nov 2023 |
| 'Assessing the impact of Aerosol loading on Solar Radiation over Ahmedabad city of Gujarat, India using satellite data', TROPMET-2023 : National Symposium on Changing Dynamics of Arid Region and Impact on Weather and Climate over Indian Subcontinent, Nov 2023 |
| 'Analyzing the changing green cover of Ahmedabad city, India : A study of 19 years (2003-21) using satellite data, statistical analysis and GIS', International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC-11), sep 2023 |
| 'Dynamics of Land transformation in the state of Gujarat, India: A two decadal study during 2001-2021 using satellite data', International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC-11), sep 2023 |
| 'Examining the Planetary Boundary Layer Height over Ahmedabad city of Gujarat, India during 1980-2022 using MERRA-2 reanalysis data', International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC-11), sep 2023 |
| 'Enhancing the coagulation process for the treatment of wastewater by the combination of coagulants', International Conference on Environmental Sustainability, mar 2023 |
| 'Mapping the Changing Blue Cover of Ahmedabad city of Gujarat, India using satellite data ', GEO SMART INDIA 2022, Nov 2022 |
| 'Mapping the changing green cover of Ahmedabad city during 2003-21 using remotely sensed NDVI data and Statistical Analysis', GEO SMART INDIA 2022, Nov 2022 |
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