Environmental Science and Engineering

Location

308, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, Habitats, and Technological Innovations (SRISHTI), ESED-DESE Building

Contact Information

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  • +91-22-25769330

Email

  • kalbar [at] iitb [dot] ac [dot] in

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Prof. Pradip Kalbar

Core Faculty

Associate Professor

Background

  1. Doctor of Philosophy, 2013

    Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering (CESE),

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

  2. Master of Technology in Environmental Engineering, 2007

    Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai,

  3. Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental Engineering, 2005

    Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

Awards & Fellowships

  • Editor of Water Reuse Journal published by IWA (since Dec 2020)

  • Received “Early Research Achiever Award 2019” from IIT Bombay

  • Interventions for improving water supply in India are recommended by the Ministry of Jal Shakti for implementation in all the states.

  • Received “PRISMA - Sustainability Assessment and Policy Award -2020”- 2nd Prize for groundbreaking research on the topic: Circular Economy in a Sustainable Society

  • Young Faculty Award 2016, IIT Bombay

  • Received prestigious H.C. Ørsted Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-16) co-funded by Marie Curie Actions Program of European Union

  • Received “Excellence in Ph.D. thesis Award 2014” from IIT Bombay

Research Interest
Water Supply: Alternate low-cost designs; improving intermittent water supply; reduction in non-revenue water; water audit; GIS applications; Hydraulic modelling; Optimization
Wastewater Management: Sanitation; Sewerage; Appropriate technology selection; Reuse and Recycle; Resource Recovery; Techno-economic aspects; Natural Treatment Systems; Implementation, scale-up and adaptation of technologies
Sustainability Assessment: Life Cycle Assessment; Material Flow Analysis; Circular Economy; Urban Water-Energy-Food Nexus; Water Footprinting; Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Resilience: Infrastructure resilience; quantification of resilience; strategies to build resilience
Circular Economy: Circular economy strategy development for water, transport, C&D wastes and different sectors
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Carbon Footprinting; Urban climate change impacts and mitigation; prioritization of mitigation and adaptation strategies
Water and environmental policy: policy and governance studies related to water and other sectors