Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Systems, Habitats and Technological Innovations Lab

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SRISHTI Lab

Dr. Pradip Kalbar
Associate Professor

Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair in Climate and Sustainability

Room No. 308,

Environmental Science and Engg. Dept. (ESED)

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Powai, Mumbai 400 076

Maharashtra, India

Office Tel.: +91 22 2576 9330

Email: kalbar@iitb.ac.in

Google Scholar SCOPUS ORCID

Co-founder - Ajivam Water Pvt. Ltd.

This is a startup company co-founded by me and my student to deliver innovative and low-cost solutions for water supply systems. As per the rules of IIT Bombay, I am Non-Executive Director (Advisory role) and my past PhD student Dr. Anujkumar Ghorpade is full time Director.

The technology developed during Dr. Ghorpade's Ph.D. is transferred to this start-up by IIT Bombay for scale-up and commercialization.

https://ajivamwater.com/

Brief CV

Research and Professional Interests

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