Achinta Bordoloi

Achinta Bordoloi

  • College of Engineering

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Research Assistant Professor

Office Location

1947 N 12th St Rm 415

Phone

215-204-7802

Research Interests

  • •. Advanced oxidation technologies for wastewater treatment
    •. Fate and removal of emerging contaminants such as antibiotic resistant bacteria, antibiotic resistant genes, associated biological contaminants from wastewater and surface water
    • Bioremediation and biodegradation in engineered biological systems for waste gas and wastewater treatment
    • Development of novel bio-carriers in moving bed bioreactors (MBBR) to remove high loads of nitrogen from wastewater
    • Valorisation of high value products from biomass, food waste and marine resources
    •. Bioprocessing of food and nutraceuticals through green and sustainable technologies (subcritical water and enzymatic extraction) by a biorefinery approach
    • Anaerobic digestion and bioenergy

Selected Publications

Featured

  • Das, D., Bordoloi, A., Achary, M.P., Caldwell, D.J., & Suri, R.P.S. (2022). Degradation and inactivation of chromosomal and plasmid encoded resistance genes/ARBs and the impact of different matrices on UV and UV/H2O2 based advanced oxidation process. Sci Total Environ, 833, p. 155205. Netherlands. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155205

  • Bordoloi, A. & Goosen, N.J. (2020). A greener alternative using subcritical water extraction to valorize the brown macroalgae Ecklonia maxima for bioactive compounds. Journal of Applied Phycology, 32(4), pp. 2307-2319. doi: 10.1007/s10811-020-02043-1

  • Bordoloi, A., Gapes, D.J., & Gostomski, P.A. (2019). The impact of environmental parameters on the conversion of toluene to CO2 and extracellular polymeric substances in a differential soil biofilter. Chemosphere, 232, pp. 304-314. England. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.05.192

  • Bordoloi, A. & Gostomski, P.A. (2019). Carbon recovery and the impact of start-up conditions on the performance of an unsaturated Pseudomonas putida biofilm compared with soil under controlled environmental parameters in a differential biofilter. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 94(2), pp. 600-610. doi: 10.1002/jctb.5807

  • Bordoloi, A. & Gostomski, P.A. (2019). Fate of degraded pollutants in waste gas biofiltration: An overview of carbon end-points. Biotechnol Adv, 37(4), pp. 579-588. England. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2018.09.002

Recent

  • Greyling, N., Bordoloi, A., & Goosen, N.J. (2021). Optimising enzymatic conditions of monkfish (Lophius vomerinus) heads hydrolysis towards potential waste biomass valorisation. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 11(6), pp. 2711-2722. doi: 10.1007/s13399-020-00650-z

  • Bordoloi, A. & Goosen, N. (2020). Chapter Eleven Green and integrated processing approaches for the recovery of high-value compounds from brown seaweeds. In Seaweeds Around the World: State of Art and Perspectives, 95 (pp. 369-413). doi: 10.1016/bs.abr.2019.11.011

  • Swart, J., Bordoloi, A., & Goosen, N.J. (2019). Optimization of phosphate recovery from monkfish, Lophius vomerinus, processing by-products and characterization of the phosphate phases. J Sci Food Agric, 99(6), pp. 2743-2756. England. doi: 10.1002/jsfa.9450