Kannan Pakshirajan

Professor

pakshi[AT*]iitg.ac.in

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Environmental Technology

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Kannan Pakshirajan obtained BPharm from the Tamil Nadu Dr M.G.R. Medical University and MTech in Biotechnology from Jadavpur University. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras. He was a BOYSCAST Fellow at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands. As an Environmental Biotechnologist he has been intimately associated with toxicity removal in air, soil and water environment. He joined IIT Guwahati in 2004 and has spent over 18 years of teaching and research focusing on technologies to treat contaminated environment and toxicity removal. He has served as a Visiting Researcher in the discipline of Microbiology at National University of Ireland Galway. He is ‘DBT Nominee’ for the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) constituted at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. Pakshirajan has made significant contributions to environmental biotechnology with over 200 publications and 2 edited books.

  • Head, Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati, February 2016 - January 2019
  • Professor, Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati, April 2015 - Till date
  • Associate Dean, Students Affairs, IIT Guwahati, November 2014 - April 2016
  • Chairman, Students Welfare Board, IIT Guwahati, July 2013 - November 2014
  • Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati, September 2008 - March 2015
  • Chairman, Hostel Affairs Board, IIT Guwahati, July 2008 - June 2010
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati, July 2004 - August 2008
  • Project Officer, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, April 2004 - June 2004
  • Half-time Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemical Eng., IIT Madras, January 2000 - March 2004

  1. Biochemical Engineering Laboratory
  2. Bioprocess Engineering
  3. Biofuels
  4. Biomolecular and Cellular Process Engineering
  5. Bioseparation Engineering
  6. Chemical Reaction Engineering
  7. Environmental Biology and Microbiology
  8. Environmental Biotechnology
  9. Experimental and Analytical Techniques for Chemical Engineers
  10. Industrial Wastewater Treatment
  11. Microbial Biotechnology
  12. Microbiology
  13. Modern Biology
  14. Solid Waste Management

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Journals


1. Tanushree Paul, Ayushi Aggarwal, Shishir Kumar Behera, Saroj Kumar Meher, Shradha Gupta, Divya Baskaran, Eldon R. Rene, Kannan Pakshirajan, G. Pugazhenthi "Neuro-fuzzy modelling of a continuous stirred tank bioreactor with ceramic membrane technology for treating petroleum refinery effluent: a case study from Assam, India", Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering. DOI.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-023-02948-4, Vol.47, , P.P 91-103 , (2024)

2. Satti Venu Gopala Kumari, Kannan Pakshirajan, G. Pugazhenthi "Development and characterization of active poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) based composites with grapeseed oil and MgO nanoparticles for shelf-life extension of white button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus)", International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. DOI.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.129521, Vol.260, 2, P.P 129521- , (2024)

3. Dipak Kumar Kanaujiya, Ajay Kumar Chhantyal, G. Pugazhenthi, Kannan Pakshirajan "A novel hybrid system for continuous biodegradation and toxicity removal of low molecular weight phthalates", Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. DOI.10.1016/j.jece.2023.109983, Vol.11, 3, P.P 109983- , (2023)

4. Dipak Kumar Kanaujiya; Atharva More; Ajay Kumar Chhantyal; Rama Karn; Kannan Pakshirajan "Biodegradation of low, medium and high molecular weight phthalate by Gordonia sp. in a batch system: Kinetics and phytotoxicity analyses", Boiengineered. DOI.https://doi.org/10.1080/21655979.2023.2229094 , Vol.14, 1, P.P - , (2023)

5. Arindam Sinharoy; Biswanath Mahanty; Shishir Kumar Behera; Manan Mehta; Shalini Mantri; Raja Das; Sudeshna Saikia; Eldon R. Rene; Kanan Pakshirajan "Modelling selenite and chemical oxygen demand removal in an inverse fluidized bed bioreactor using genetic algorithm optimized artificial neural network", Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology . DOI.https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.7532 , Vol., , P.P - , (2023)

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