CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Dr. Narasamma Nippatlapalli

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

  • Industrial Wastewater Treatment, and Solid Waste Management
  • Electrochemical Advanced Oxidation Techniques
  • Nonthermal Plasma Techniques
  • Design, and development of sustainable electrochemical, and high voltage non thermal plasma (NTP) reactors: Scale up to pilot scale reactors.
  • Develop of low-cost electrode materials with higher performance efficiency
  • Energy recovery from waste/wastewater
  • Toxicity analysis
  • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and Circular Economy (CE)
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
  • Treatment of: Industrial-, municipal- wastewater, drinking water
  • Special focus on Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC): per-poly fluorinated alkyl substances, emerging contaminants

Education

  • Postdoc., Florida State University, USA
  • Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
  • M.Tech., NIT Warangal
  • B.Tech., Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati

Latest Publications

  • Nippatla, N., & Philip, L. (2020). Electrochemical process employing scrap metal waste as electrodes for dye removal. Journal of Environmental Management, 273, 111039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111039
  • Nippatlapalli, N., & Selvaraj, A. (2022). A study on the removal of long chain perflourodecanoic acid in simulated aqueous solution using enhanced electrochemical technique: Metabolites, kinetic and isotherm model analysis. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 49, 103045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2022.103045
  • Nippatlapalli, N., Ramakrishnan, K., & Philip, L. (2022). Enhanced degradation of complex organic compounds in wastewater using different novel continuous flow non–Thermal pulsed corona plasma discharge reactors. Environmental Research, 203, 111807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111807
  • Nippatla, N., & Philip, L. (2020). Performance evaluation of a novel electrolytic reactor with rotating and non rotating bipolar disc electrodes for synthetic textile wastewater treatment. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 8(2), 103462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2019.103462
  • Nippatla, N., & Philip, L. (2019). Electrocoagulation-floatation assisted pulsed power plasma technology for the complete mineralization of potentially toxic dyes and real textile wastewater. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 125, 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2019.03.012

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