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Santhana Krishnan

Also known as: Dr. Santhana

Universiti Sains Malaysia, Prince of Songkla University, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, University of Madras, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Research areas: Environmental Science · Water Science and Technology · Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production · Biofuel production and bioconversion · Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

ORCID iD 0000-0001-7901-3637
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Dr. Santhana Krishnan is a senior lecturer for the Environmental Engineering Program at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Before joining USM, he was a lecturer (Energy Technology Program) in the Department of Interdisciplinary Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, Hatyai, Thailand. He was a full-time postdoctoral researcher (3.5 years) in the same institution, at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, Hatyai, Thailand. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering in 2017 at the University of Malaysia, Pahang, Malaysia. Dr. Santhana has worked as a senior research analyst (pre-doctoral) for a few of India’s leading corporate techies for five years after completing his master’s degree. In February 2018, he went to the University of Technology Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, for a 3-year postdoctoral program on biohydrogen/methane energy scale-up. Dr. Santhana has a cumulative experience of around 6.5 years in postdoctoral research and an additional 5 years in the industrial sector. In addition, He did his postdoctoral secondment at Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, University of Autonomous Barcelona (UAB), Spain.

Main research areas: Chemical Engineering/Biotransformation, Wastewater Engineering, Energy & Environmental Engineering, Bioreactors, Biofuels, Hydrogen Production, Methane Production, Process Control, Resource Recovery, and Bioconversion. He has been involved in national and international research and industrial projects. He has published more than 70 ISI papers in prominent journals in Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley and has authored 10 book chapters. He has been a reviewer for various journals published by Elsevier, Wiley, RSC, and Springer. His ongoing projects involve biomethanation, resource recovery, designing and fabricating bioreactors for biohydrogen production, and wastewater treatment.


Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mXn7v_kAAAAJ&hl=en

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  • Fundamental study on biohythane production from palm oil effluent using two stage reactor Universiti Malaysia Pahang
    2018 - 2020

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