CO2 mineralisation, Natural mineralisation, Carbon capture utilisation and sequestration (CCUS)

Hills, Colin, Tripathi, Nimisha and Carey, Paula (2021) Managed pathways for CO2 mineralisation: analogy with nature and potential contribution to CCUS-led reduction targets. Faraday Discussions, 230. pp. 152-171. ISSN 1359-6640 (Print), 1364-5498 (Online) (doi:10.1039/D0FD00142B)

Iidustrial and biomass waste, valorisation, CO2 mineralisation, circular economy

Hills, Colin and Tripathi, Nimisha (2021) 39 ways to save the planet. [Creative Performance or Reading]

Mine spoil, Disposal, Land Degradation, Re-vegetation, Age gradient, Root proliferation, Carbon Development and accretion, Microbial biomass C, Carbon budget

Tripathi, Nimisha, Singh, Raj S. and Hills, Colin D. (2016) Soil carbon development in rejuvenated Indian coal mine spoil. Ecological Engineering, 90. pp. 482-490. ISSN 0925-8574 (doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.01.019)

Soil, Zinc, Remediation, Modified chitosan

Tripathi, Nimisha, Choppala, Girish, Singh, Raj S. and Hills, Colin D. (2017) Impact of modified chitosan on pore water bioavailability of zinc in contaminated soil. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 186. pp. 94-99. ISSN 0375-6742 (doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2017.12.005)

Waste, Construction, Valorisation

Tripathi, Nimisha, Hills, Colin D., Singh, Raj S. and Carey, Paula J. (2017) Construction: use waste for building. Nature, 550 (457). ISSN 0028-0836 (Print), 1476-4687 (Online) (doi:10.1038/550457d)

biomass residue, ash, carbon capture and utilisation (CCU), valorisation, construction products

Tripathi, Nimisha, Hills, Colin D., Singh, Raj S. and Singh, Jamuna S. (2020) Offsetting anthropogenic carbon emissions from biomass waste and mineralised carbon dioxide. Scientific Reports, 10:958. ISSN 2045-2322 (Online) (doi:10.1038/s41598-020-57801-5)

biomass residue, ash, valorisation, CO2 gas, emission reduction

Hills, Colin D., Tripathi, Nimisha, Singh, Raj S., Carey, Paula J. and Lowry, Florence (2020) Valorisation of agricultural biomass‑ash with CO2. Scientific Reports, 10:13801. ISSN 2045-2322 (Online) (doi:10.1038/s41598-020-70504-1)

biomass residue/waste, biomass ash, CO2 mineralisation, construction materials, cement replacement, CO2 emission reduction

Tripathi, Nimisha, Hills, Colin D., Singh, Raj S., Kyremeh, Stephen and Hurt, Andrew (2024) Mineralisation of CO2 in wood biomass ash for cement substitution in construction products. Frontiers in Sustainability, 5:1287543. ISSN 2673-4524 (Online) (doi:10.3389/frsus.2024.1287543)

biomass, waste, utilisation, low-carbon, products

Tripathi, Nimisha, Hills, Colin, Singh, Raj S and Atkinson, Christopher J. (2019) Biomass waste utilisation in low-carbon products: harnessing a major potential resource. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2:35. ISSN 2397-3722 (Online) (doi:10.1038/s41612-019-0093-5)

chitosan, contamination, heavy metals, adsorption, kinetic models

Tripathi, Nimisha, Choppala, Girish, Singh, Raj S., Srivastava, Prashant and Sheshadri, Balaji (2016) Sorption kinetics of zinc and nickel on modified chitosan. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 188 (9):507. ISSN 0167-6369 (Print), 1573-2959 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10661-016-5499-5)

chitosan, zinc, contamination, soil, immobilisation, remediation

Tripathi, Nimisha, Choppala, Girish and Singh, Raj S. (2016) Evaluation of modified chitosan for remediation of zinc contaminated soils. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 182 (B). pp. 180-184. ISSN 0375-6742 (Print), 1879-1689 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2016.08.011)

coal mining, mine spoils, revegetation, natural recovery, soil rebuilt, C sequestration

Tripathi, Nimisha, Singh, Raj S and Nathanail, C Paul (2013) Mine spoil acts as a sink of carbon dioxide in Indian dry tropical environment. Science of the Total Environment, 468-69. pp. 1162-1171. ISSN 0048-9697 (Print), 1879-1026 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.09.024)

food waste, utilisation, anaerobic digestion, bio-gasification

Singh, Raj Shekhar, Singh, Ranjeet K. and Tripathi, Nimisha (2022) Food waste utilization for the production of biogas by anaerobic digestion: a case study in coal capital of India. In: Yadav, Shalini, Negm, Abdelazim M. and Yadava, Ram Narayan, (eds.) Environmental Management in India: Waste to Wealth. Earth and Environmental Science - Earth and Environmental Science (R0) . Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 147-166. ISBN 978-3030938963; 978-3030938970 ISSN 978-3-030-93897-0 (Online) (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93897-0_8)

industrial solid waste, CO2 mineralisation, valorisation, carbon capture utilisation and storage

Hills, Colin, Tripathi, Nimisha, Lake, Craig, Carey, Paula, Heap, Dougal and Hills, Alistair (2019) Chapter 10. Mineralisation of CO2 in solid waste. In: North, Michael and Styring, Peter, (eds.) Carbon Dioxide Utilisation: Volume 1 Fundamentals To Production Processes. De Gruyter STEM - Carbon Dioxide Utilization, 1 . De Gruyter Brill, Berlin, pp. 165-187. ISBN 978-3110665499; 978-3110563191; 978-3110563092; 3110563096 (doi:10.1515/9783110563191-010)

pet coke, sulphur, microbial leaching, Thiobacillus species, bio-desulphurisation

Tripathi, Nimisha, Singh, Raj S. and Hills, Colin D. (2018) Microbial removal of sulphur from petroleum coke (petcoke). Fuel, 235. pp. 1501-1505. ISSN 0016-2361 (doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2018.08.072)