Dr. Cheela specializes in Waste Systems Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure, driving decarbonization through circular economy strategies. His work spans waste-to-value transformation, sustainable building materials, and resilient urban infrastructure, integrating Industrial Ecology and Value Engineering to minimize environmental impact. Through Environmental LCA-driven insights, he develops innovative, high-efficiency solutions that accelerate the transition to low-carbon, circular systems, delivering scalable impact for sustainable industrial ecosystems.
Study on the process wastewater reuse and valorisation during hydrothermal co-carbonization of food and yard waste
Design and operation of pilot-scale microbial electrosynthesis for the production of acetic acid from biogas with economic and environmental assessment
A novel bio-electro-Fenton process for eliminating sodium dodecyl sulphate from wastewater using dual chamber microbial fuel cell
Journal Articles
Das, S., Cheela, V.R.S.,Dubey, B.K., and Ghangrekar, M.M. Design and operation of pilot-scale microbial electrosynthesis for the production of acetic acid from biogas with economic and environmental assessment. Heliyon. 2024, 10, e39950
Mahle, R., Suran, S., Singh, A., Kumbhakar, P., Galvao, D. S., Cheela, V. R. S., Dubey, B., Raveendran Nair, R., Tiwary, C. S., & Banerjee, R. Sachharomyces cerevisae dry powder mediated exfoliation of graphite chunks into functionalized few-layer graphene. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 2024, 12, 11891-11900.
Dutta, D., Cheela, V.R. S., Dubey, B., Kumar, S., Goel. S. Evaluation of environmental impacts of mobile phones in India using life cycle assessment technique. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2024
Sharma, H.B., Panigrahi, S., Vanapalli, K.R., Cheela, V.R.S., Venna, S.K., Dubey, B. Study on the process wastewater reuse and valorisation during hydrothermal co-carbonization of food and yard waste. Science of Total Environment.2022, 806:150748.
Shreeniwas M. S., Chakraborty, I., Cheela, V. R. S., Shamik Chowdhury, Brajesh Dubey, Ghangrekar. M. M. A novel bio-electro-Fenton process for eliminating sodium dodecyl sulphate from wastewater using dual chamber microbial fuel cell. Bioresource Technology. 2021, 341:125850
Cheela, V.R.S., John, M., Biswas, W.K., Dubey, B. Environmental Impact Evaluation of current municipal solid waste treatments in India using LCA. Energies. 2021, 14, 3133.
Cheela, V. R. S., John, M., Biswas, W.K., and Dubey, B. “Environmental impact evaluation of landfill mining of legacy waste with onsite sorting using life cycle assessment” Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022.