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Education

• PhD (Environmental Engineering) (Anna University, Chennai)
• M.S. (Environmental Technology) (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
• B.E. (Environmental Engineering) (Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore)

Experience

• June 2024 – Present, Assistant Professor III, Civil Engineering, SSN College of Engineering
• Sep 2021 – May 2024, Professor and Head, Civil Engineering, Hindustan Institution of Technology and Science, Chennai
• Jan 2021 – Aug 2021, Associate Professor and Head, Civil Engineering, Hindustan Institution of Technology and Science, Chennai
• Jun 2015 – Jan 2021, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Hindustan Institution of Technology and Science, Chennai
• Mar 2010 – Jun 2014, Junior Research Fellow, CES, Anna University, Chennai
• Jun 2009 – Jan 2010, Lecturer, Civil Engineering, SRM Easwari Engineering College, Chennai
• Jun 2008 – May 2009, Lecturer, Bharath University, Chennai
• Sep 2006 – Dec 2007, Project Associate, Indian Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai

Professional Affiliation

• Member, International Association of Hydrogen Energy, USA.
• Member, American Chemical Society, US A
• Member, International Water Association, Netherlands
• Member, Indian Association of Hydrogen Energy and Advanced Materials, India
• Member, Indian Society of Technical Education, India

Awards And Recognition

• Received the NCHEAM SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD on the occasion of ‘4th National Convection on Hydrogen Energy and Advanced Materials (NCHEAM’15)’ organized by Energy Centre, MANIT, in association with University of Kerala & IAHEAM from 28-29th November, 2015.
• Received Hindustan Innovative Awards 2017 for the innovative research on CO₂ Sequestration’
• Received Award Young Faculty in Envionmental Engineering 2017 by Venus International Foundation.
• Received Travel Grant from SERB to participate in an International Conference ‘Pollution Control 2017’ held in Melbourne during July 2017.
• Received fund of $2500 from International Association of Hydrogen Energy, USA to present a paper in World Hydrogen Energy Congress 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during 17-22, June 2018.
• Received fund of Rs.2,00,000/- from DST-SERB, Government of India for conducting the second international conference Sustainable Environment and Energy (ICSEE 2019).
• Received grant as visiting Researcher from Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia during Sep 2019
• Received grant as visiting researcher from Universiti de La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain during feb 2022.
• Received fund of Rs.25,000/- from Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and organized 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Environment, Energy and Construction (ICSEEC-2021) during 16th and 17th December 2021.
• Received grant as visiting professor from King Mongut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand

Courses Taught

          Municipal Solid Waste Management, Air and Noise Pollution Control, Applied Hydrology, Collection and Treatment of Wastewater, Sustainable Engineering Practices, Environmental Science and Engineering, Engineering Graphics, Environmental Design and Drawing, Engineering Geology, Transport Engineering, Construction Technology, Energy Management, Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology, Marine Pollution Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Industrial Wastewater Treatment etc.

Research Interest

Environmental Engineering – Advanced oxidation Technologies for Water, Wastegas, Wastewater Treatment and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production, Air Quality Modeling and Waste Gas Treatment by Biofiltration, Bio-fuel production.

Supervision

Graduated 5 PhD students and 9 M.Tech Students

Research Projects

Publication

Latest 10 publications

• Shanmugam K, Preethi V*, Angeline Prabhavathy, Sri Chandana, A Study on the Mechanical and Durability Properties of Bacterial Culture with Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBS) as Partial Replacement for Cement, Case Studies in Construction Materials 19(9):02325, 2023 DOI:10.1016/j.cscm.2023.02325.
• Ananth S, Preethi V*, Annenewmy B, Sathish Kumar M, Solar Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Pulp and Paper Wastewater, Int. J.Hydrogen Energy, 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.03.381
• Shankar M.V., Preethi V, A Critical Review on Core/Shell Based Nanostructured Photocatalysts for Improved Hydrogen Generation, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 48;2023:11754-11774. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.01.059
• Shanmugam, K., Angeline, P., Preethi, V., Identification of Calcium Carbonate Producing Novel Bacillus Cereus KOV15 Isolated from Soil Microbial Communities Towards Greener Construction Materials, Oxidation Communications, 2022, 45(1), pp. 81–92.
• Sankar Sekar, Preethi Vijayarengan*, V S Srivishnu, Highly-efficient photocatalytic activity of TiO2 -AC nanocomposites for hydrogen production from sulphide wastewater, 47, 40275-40285, 2022; International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.02.019
• V Preethi*, Solar hydrogen production in India, 2022; Environmental Development and Sustainability, 25, 2105–2135, 2023 DOI:10.1007/s10668-022-02157-1
• Sankar S, Preethi V*, Saravanan S, Deuk YK, Sejoon L, Excellent photocatalytic performances of Co3O4–AC nanocomposites for H2 production via wastewater splitting, Chemosphere, 2022, 286, 131823 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131823
• V Navakoteswara Rao, Preethi Vijayarengan*, Urupalli Bhargav, Shankar Muthukonda Venkatakrishnan, Gram-scale synthesis of ZnS/NiO core-shell hierarchical nanostructures and their enhanced H2 production in crude glycerol and     sulfide      wastewater, 2021, 199, 111323, Environmental Research, 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111323.
• Sankar Sekar, Sejoon Lee, Preethi Vijayarengan*, Biomass Activated Carbon-Decorated Spherical β-Ni(OH)2 Nanoparticles for Enhanced Hydrogen Production, Journal of Water Process Engineering 38(27):101669, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2020.101669
• V Navakoteswara Rao, N. Lakshmana Reddy, M. Mamatha Kumari, P. Ravi, M. Sathish, K.M. Kuruvilla, V. Preethi*, K. Raghava Reddy, T.M. Aminabhavi*, M.V. Shankar*., Photocatalytic H2 production coupled with pollutant removal from sulphide wastewater: Surface and interface control of photo-excitons in Cu2S@TiO2 core-shell nanostructures, Applied Catalysis B Environmental 254, (2019) 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.04.090
• M Anthony Raja and V. Preethi* Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production using Bench-scale Trapezoidal Photocatalytic Reactor under Visible and Solar Irradiation, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45 (2020) 7574-7583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.08.204

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