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Dr. Smita Raghuvanshi

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Process Engineering / Intensification (emphasis on Carbon capture
Department of Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus.
Pin # 333031
Rajasthan. India.

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. J. Barla, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta. Optimization of bacterial biorefineries for sustainable biodiesel production and flue gas reduction: a holistic approach to climate change mitigation and circular economy. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. Vol. 9, pp. 1683-1708, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4se01516a
  2. Rachael J. Barla, Suresh Gupta, Smita Raghuvanshi, Industrial scale-up of flue gas bio-mitigation with chemolithotrophs in packed bed reactors: Exploring metabolite synthesis, mass transfer, and techno-economic analysis. Chemosphere, Vol. 372, pp. 144089, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144089
  3. Taniya Kumari Shaw, Smita Raghuvanshi, Sunil Prasad Lohani, 2025. Climate - Adaptive anaerobic digestion of food waste in household digesters: Insights from extreme temperature conditions. Renewable Energy. Vol. 246, 122890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.122890
  4. Rachael Jovita Barla, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, 2024. A comprehensive review of flue gas bio-mitigation: chemolithotrophic interactions with flue gas in bio-reactors as a sustainable possibility for technological advancements. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Res. 31, 33165–33189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-024-33407-6
  5. Taniya Kumari Shaw, Deepak Rajendran, Smita Raghuvanshi, Sunil Prasad Lohani, 2024. Evaluating the influence of calcined eggshells and ultrasonication in the Co-digestion of avoidable and unavoidable Food Waste and OLS regression analysis of the reactor system. Journal of Cleaner Production. 465, 142789. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142789
  6. Sunil Prasad Lohani., Taniya Kumari Shaw, Sujesh Shrestha, Bipasyana Dhungana, Navin Kumar Jha, Haoran Chen, Abeer Mohamed, Shikun Cheng, Smita Raghuvanshi, 2024. Household biogas technology in the cold climate of low-income countries: a review of sustainable technologies for accelerating biogas generation. Progress in Energy, 6. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/ad407f
  7. Shahrukh Nawaj Alam, Bhaskar Singh, Abhishek Guldhe, Smita Raghuvanshi, Kuldip Singh Sangwan, 2024. Sustainable valorization of macroalgae residual biomass, optimization of pyrolysis parameters and life cycle assessment. Science of the Total Environment, 919, 170797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170797
  8. Rachael J. Barla, Suresh Gupta, Smita Raghuvanshi, 2024. Sustainable synergistic approach to chemolithotrophs—supported  bioremediation of wastewater  and flue gas. Scientific Reports, 14, 16529. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67053-2
  9. Rachael Jovita Barla, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, 2024. Reforming CO2 bio-mitigation utilizing Bacillus cereus from hypersaline realms in pilot-scale bubble column bioreactor. Scientific Reports, 14, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56965-8
  10. Taniya Kumari Shaw, Deepak Rajendran, Smita Raghuvanshi, Sunil Prasad Lohani, 2023. Anaerobic co-digestion of unavoidable and avoidable food-waste with addition of eggshells and applied kinetic studies. Materials Today Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.11.138
  11. Abhishek Anand, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, 2024. Assessing the bacterial consortium's potential to bio-mitigate CO2 and SO2 from simulated flue gas, wastewater bioremediation, and product characterization. 147, 86 – 100. Process Biochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procbio.2024.08.003
  12. Abhishek Anand, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, 2023. Sustainable approach for simultaneously reducing CO2 and NO emissions from synthetic industrial flue gases using bacterial consortium and domestic wastewater in a suspended glass bioreactor, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Published Online: 25 February 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-023-03934-2
  13. Abhishek Anand,  Kaustubh Tripathi, Amit Kumar,  Suresh Gupta, Smita Raghuvanshi, Sanjay Kumar Verma, Bio-Mitigation of Carbon Dioxide Using Desmodesmus sp. in the Custom-Designed Pilot-Scale Loop Photobioreactor, Sustainability, 9882, 13, 2021.  https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179882
  14. Akshya Khandelwal, Abhishek Anand, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, ‘’Integrated approach for microbial carbon dioxide (CO2) fixation process and wastewater treatment for the production of hydrocarbons: Experimental studies”, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 105-116, 9, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2021.105116
  15. Shrinidhi Sambamurthy, Smita Raghuvanshi, Kuldip Singh Sangwan, Environmental impact of recycling spent lithium-ion batteries, 2021, Procedia CIRP, 98, 2021. 631 – 636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2021.01.166
  16. Abhishek Anand, Smita RaghuvanshiSuresh Gupta, Trends in Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Fixation by Microbial Cultivations. Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports, Vol. 7, pp. 40–47, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40518-020-00149-1
  17. Apoorv Lal, Apoorva Gupta, Smita Raghuvanshi, Application of chlorine dioxide (ClO2) in controlling biofilm growth over heat exchangers: theoretical & experimental approach. International Journal of Advances in Science Engineering and Technology, Vol.8, pp. 71-75, 2020.
  18. Somesh Mishra, Smita RaghuvanshiSuresh Gupta, Carbon dioxide to bio-fuels by mixed and pure microbial cultures isolated from activated sludge: relative evaluation of CO2 fixation, biodiesel production, and thermodynamic analysis, Green House Gases: Science and Technology, Vol. 9, pp. 1135-1157, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.1922
  19. Smita Raghuvanshi, Vikrant Bhakar,  Ramakrishna Chava,  K S Sangwan, “Comparative study using life cycle approach for the biodiesel production from microalgae grown in wastewater and fresh water”, Procedia CIRP, 69, 568 – 572, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.030
  20. Rajnish Prakash Singh, Somesh Mishra, Prameela Jha, Smita Raghuvanshi,  Prabhat Nath Jha, 2018. Effect of inoculation of zinc-resistant bacterium Enterobacter ludwigii CDP-14 on growth, biochemical parameters and zinc uptake in wheat (Triticum aestivum) plant. Ecological Engineering,  116, 163-174, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.12.03
  21. Somesh Mishra, Silabrata Pahari, Shiva, K, Suvrasoumya Mohanty, Suresh Gupta, Smita Raghuvanshi, Investigation on CO2 bio-mitigation using Halomonas stevensii in laboratory scale bioreactor: Design of downstream process and its economic feasibility analysis. Journal of CO2 Utilization, Vol. 24, PP. 274 – 286, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2018.01.018
  22. Smita Raghuvanshi, Vikrant Bhakar, Chelikani Sowmya, K.S. Sangwana, “Waste water treatment plant life cycle assessment: treatment process to reuse of water”, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 61, pp. 761-766, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2016.11.170
  23. Somesh Mishra, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, Kaushik Raj, “Application of novel thermo-tolerant haloalkalophilic bacteriumHalomonas stevensii for bio mitigation of gaseous phase CO2: Energyassessment and product evaluation studies”, Process Biochemistry, Vol. 55, pp. 133-145, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procbio.2017.01.019
  24. Somesh Mishra, Piyush Chauhan, Suresh Gupta, Smita Raghuvanshi, Rajnish P. Singh, Prabhat N. Jha, CO2 sequestration potential of halo-tolerant bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa SSL-4 and its application for recovery of fatty alcohols. Process Safety and Environment Protection, Vol. 111, pp. 582-591, 2017. (IF: 4.966) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2017.08.013
  25. Subhajit Majumder, Vedansh Gupta, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, Simultaneous sequestration of ternary metal ions (Cr6+, Cu2+ and Zn2+) from aqueous solution by an indigenous bacterial consortium, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Vol. 102, pp. 786-798. 2016 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2016.06.003
  26. Subhajit Majumder, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, Application of a hybrid biofilter column for the removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution using an indigenous bacterial strain Pseudomonas taiwanensis, Bioremediation Journal, Vol. 20, pp. 10-23. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/10889868.2015.1113923
  27. Subhajit Majumder, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, Sequestration of Zn2+ from aqueous solution using Klebsiella pneumoniae: Batch kinetics and continuous studies, Journal of Water Process Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 89–104, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2016.06.010
  28. Somesh Mishra, Suresh Gupta, Smita Raghuvanshi, Pratibha Pal, Energetic assessment of fixation of CO2 and subsequent biofuel production using B. cereus SM1 isolated from sewage treatment, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 39, pp. 1247 – 1258. 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s00449-016-1603
  29. Vikrant Bhakar, D.N.S. Hemanth Kumar, Nitin Krishna Sai, Kuldip Singh Sangwan, Smita Raghuvanshi, Life cycle assessment of filtration systems of reverse osmosis units: a case study of a university campus, Procedia CIRP, 40, pp. 268 – 273, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2016.01.119
  30. Majumder, Subhajit; Gangadhar, Gayathri; Raghuvanshi, Smita; Gupta, Suresh, “A comprehensive study on the behavior of a novel bacterial strain Acinetobacter guillouiae for bioremediation of divalent copper”, Bioprocess & Biosystems Engineering. 2015, Vol. 38 Issue 9, pp.1749-1760. 10.1007/s00449-015-1416-5
  31. Somesh Mishra, Rajnish P singh, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, Deducing the Bio-Perspective Capabilities of Fe(II) Oxidizing Bacterium Isolated from Extreme Environment, Biochemistry & Analytical Biochemistry, 2015. Published online (doi:10.4172/2161-1009.1000166).
  32. Subhajit Majumder, Gayathri Gangadhar, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, "Biofilter column for removal of divalent copper from aqueous solutions: performance evaluation and kinetic modeling", Journal of Water Process Engineering, 6:136-143, 2015 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jwpe.2015.03.008).
  33. Subhajit Majumder, Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, Estimation of Kinetic Parameters for Bioremediation of Cr(VI) from Wastewater using Pseudomonas taiwanensis an isolated strain from Enriched Mixed Culture, Bioremediation, 18, pp. 236–247, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1080/10889868.2014.889075
  34. Majumder Subhajit, Raghuvanshi Smita, Gupta Suresh, "Estimation of Kinetic Parameters for Bioremediation of Cr(VI) from Wastewater using Pseudomonas taiwanensis an isolated strain from Enriched Mixed Culture", Bioremediation Journal, 18(3): 236-247, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1080/10889868.2014.889075
  35. Subhajit Majumder, Smita Raghuvanshi,  Suresh Gupta, Biodegradation kinetics of Cr (VI) by acclimated mixed culture, Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment, Vol. 15 (No. 2), pp. 181 – 184, 2011.
  36. Smita Raghuvanshi, Suresh Gupta, B. V. Babu, Growth Kinetics of Acclimated Mixed Culture for Degradation of Iso-Propyl Alcohol (IPA), Journal of Biotechnology & Biomaterials, Published online, S13:002. doi: 10.4172/2155-952X.S13-002.
  37. Smita Raghuvanshi and B.V. Babu, 2010. Biodegradation kinetics of methyl iso-butyl ketone (MIBK) by acclimated mixed culture. Biodegradation, 21, 31 – 42. DOI: 10.1007/s10532-009-9279-6
  38. Smita Raghuvanshi and B.V. Babu, 2010. Biofiltration for removal of Methyl Iso Butyl Ketone (MIBK): Experimental Studies and Kinetic Modeling. Environmental Technology, 31, 29 – 40. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593330903289705
  1. Smita Raghuvanshi and B.V. Babu , 2009. Experimental Studies and Kinetic Modeling for Removal of Methyl Ethyl Ketone using Biofiltration. Bioresource Technology, 100, 3855 – 3861.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2009.03.025

  1. B.V. Babu and Smita Raghuvanshi, 2006. Simulation Studies on Transient Model for Biofilter operated in Periodic Mode. Journal on Engineering and Technology, 1, 72-76.

Books Content

  1. Rachael J Barla, Smita Raghuvanshi, SureshGupta, Process integration for the biodiesel production from biomitigation of flue gases, Book Chapter edited by Bhaskar Singh and Abhishek Guldhe. Waste and Biodiesel Feedstocks and Precursors for Catalysts, Elsevier, 191 – 215, 2022.
  2. Anil Kumar K, Garima Verma, Smita Raghuvanshi and Suresh Gupta, Defluoridation studies using graphene oxidebased nanoadsorbents, Book Chapter edited by Sanjay K. Sharma, Advances in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Elsevier, 2020.
  3. Subhajit Majumder, Suresh Gupta and Smita Raghuvanshi, "Removal of dissolved metals by Bio-remediation". In Heavy Metals in Water, Edited by Sanjay Sharma, RSC Publishing, UK, September 2014 (DOI:10.1039/9781782620174).
  4. Smita Raghuvanshi, Subhajit Majumder, Suresh Gupta, Biofiltration: Essentials, Research and Applications. In Bioremediation and Sustainability: Research and Applications, Edited by Romeela Mohee and Ackmez Mudhoo, Scrivener Publishing LLC., USA, March 2012.
  5. Smita Raghuvanshi, Chapter-16 & 17 “Introduction to Blowers and Compressors” in the Lecture Notes “Basic Chemical Engineering Operations”, Lecture Notes compiled by B V Babu, Academic Refresher Course Programme-III for the Employees of Hindustan Zinc Limited, Udaipur, Organized by Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, November 06-December 05, 2006.
  6. B V Babu, H K Mohanta, Basu Deb Munshi, Rakesh Angira, Madhusree Kundu,A K Jana, Suresh Gupta, Pratik N Sheth, Smita Raghuvanshi , and Priya C Sande, Chemical Engineering Laboratory Manual, Educational Development Division, BITS-Pilani, 2006.