Publications 

Anurag Jaswal, Rajat Goswami, Piyush Pratap Singh, Tarak Mondal, “Optimizing pine needle pyrolysis: the role of pre-treatment in boosting bio-oil quality for sustainable energy production”, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, (2025) 1-15. (IF: 3.5) DOI: 10.1007/s13399-025-06588-4.

Akanksha Goyal, Piyush Pratap Singh, Arghya Banerjee, Tarak Mondal, “DFT insights into bio-oil model oxygenates interaction on Co and Fe doped LaNiO3 perovskite catalyst”, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 102 (2025) 101570. (IF=3.2) DOI: 10.1016/j.jics.2025.101570.

Ajeet Kumar, Daya Shankar Pandey, Tarak Mondal, “Experimental investigation of process parameters for hydrogen-rich syngas production from rice husk gasification”, Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action, 6 (2025) 100061. DOI: 10.1016/j.scca.2025.100061.

Anurag Jaswal, Vijay Garule, Tarak Mondal,  “Transforming Waste into Wealth: Cu Catalysts Supported on Metal-Incorporated Mesoporous Silica Derived from Rice Husk Ash for Furfural Hydrogenation”, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, (2025) (IF: 3.5) (Under review).

Piyush Pratap Singh, Anurag Jaswal, Ajay Singh, and Tarak Mondal “From Waste to Clean Energy – An Integrated Pyrolysis and Catalytic Steam Reforming Process for Green Hydrogen Production from Agricultural Crop Residues”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 12 (2024) 2058-2069. (IF: 7.1) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c07519

Piyush Pratap Singh, Anurag Jaswal, Rajan Singh, Tarak Mondal, and Kamal K. Pant, “Green hydrogen production from biomass – An assessment of the potential of conventional and advanced bio-oil steam reforming processes”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 50 (2024) 627-639. (IF: 8.1) DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.10.099

Subhashini, Tarak Mondal, “The effect of heterogeneity of composition of littered real-world plastic waste on slow pyrolysis: kinetic models and reaction mechanism”, Journal of Energy Institute 117, (2024) 101853. (IF: 5.7) DOI: 10.1016/j.joei.2024.101853.

F Khan, C Shekhar, T Mondal, M Sabapathy, “Rapid removal of methylene blue and tetracycline by rough particles decorated with Pt nanoparticles”, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 26 (2024) 4. (IF=2.2) DOI: 10.1007/s11051-023-05904-1

Anurag Jaswal, Vijay Garule, Akansha Pandey, Piyush Pratap Singh, Tarak Mondal, Prakash Biswas, “Selective furfural hydrodeoxygenation over Cu-Fe catalysts with In-Situ Cu@ Fe3O4 formation”, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 2024. (IF: 5.9) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiec.2024.04.011 

Piyush Pratap Singh, Anurag Jaswal, Neelkanth Nirmalkar and Tarak Mondal, “Synergistic effect of transition metals on perovskite catalyst LaNi0.5M0.5O3 (M = Ni, Co, Cu, and Fe) for catalytic steam reforming of bio-oil to produce green hydrogen”, Renewable Energy, 207 (2023) 575-587. (IF: 9) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.03.057

Anurag Jaswal, Piyush Pratap Singh, Tarak Mondal, ‘Production of 2-methylfuran, a promising 2nd generation biofuel, by the vapor phase hyrodeoxygenation of biomass-derived furfural over TiO2 supported Cu-Ni bimetallic catalysts’, Fuel Processing Technology, 245 (2023) 107726-117743. (IF: 7.2) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2023.107726

Subhashini and Tarak Mondal, “Experimental investigation on slow thermal pyrolysis of real-world plastic wastes in a fixed bed reactor to obtain aromatic rich fuel grade liquid oil”, Journal of Environmental Management, 344 (2023) 118680-118691. (IF: 8) DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118680

Piyush Pratap Singh, Neelkanth Nirmalkar and Tarak Mondal ‘Catalytic steam reforming of simulated bio-oil for green hydrogen production using highly active LaNixCo1-xO3 perovskite catalyst’ Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 6 (2022) 1063-1074. (IF: 5) DOI: 10.1039/d1se01786a.

Anurag Jaswal, Piyush Pratap Singh, and Tarak Mondal ‘Furfural – A versatile, biomass-derived platform chemical for the production for renewable chemicals’, Green Chemistry, 24 (2022) 510-551. (IF: 9.3) DOI: 10.1039/D1GC03278J

Piyush Pratap Singh, Mohit Trivedi, Tarak Mondal and Neelkanth Nirmalkar, ‘A novel strategy to enhance the cooling effectiveness in a confined porous jet impingement using non-Newtonian fluids’ International Communication in Heat and Mass Transfer, 126 (2021) 105362-105370. (IF: 6.4) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2021.105362.