Khursheed Karim
Visiting Assistant Professor
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Dr. Karim's primary research interests are renewable energy production from biomass and bioremediation of environmental pollutants. His research work includes fermentation process optimization for bioenergy (methane and ethanol) production from biomass, phytoremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon, bacterial source tracking, and bioreactor hydrodynamics.
Education
ME, Environmental Engineering, University of Allahabad, India, 1997
BE, Civil Engineering, University of Mangalore, India, 1993
Selected Publications
Karim, K., and Gupta, S.K. (2006) "Effect of shock and mixed nitrophenolic loadings on the performance of UASB reactors," Water Research, In Press.
Karim, K., Hoffmann, R., Klasson, K.T., and Al-Dahhan, M.H. (2005) "Anaerobic digestion of animal waste: Effect of mode of mixing," Water Research, 39(15), 3597-3606.
Vesvikar, M.S., Varma, R., Karim, K., Al-Dahhan, M.H. (2005) "Flow Pattern Visualization in a Mimic Anaerobic Digester: Experimental and Computational Studies", Water Science and Technology, 52(1-2), 537-543.
Karim, K., Klasson, K.T., Hoffmann, R., Dresher, S.R., DePaoli, D.W. and Al-Dahhan, M.H. (2005) "Anaerobic digestion of animal waste: Effect of mixing," Bioresource Technology, 96(14), 1607–1612.
Karim, K., Varma, R., Vesvikar, M., and Al-Dahhan, M.H. (2004) "Flow pattern visualization of a simulated digester" Water Research, 38, 3659-3670.
Angenent, L.T., Karim, K., Al-Dahhan, M.H., Wrenn, B.A., Domíguez-Espinosa, R. (2004) "Production of bioenergy and biochemical from industrial and agricultural wastewater", Trends in Biotechnology, 22(9), 473-485.
Karim, K., and Gupta, S.K. (2003) "Continuous transformation and degradation of nitrophenols under denitrifying conditions," Water Research, 37(12), 2953 – 2959.