Metali Sarkar

1. Name of Assignment or Project: Options for Advanced Treatment and Resource Recovery for Decarbonization of Wastewater Utilities in the Bengaluru Metropolitan Area

Year: 2022-2023

Location: Bengaluru, India

Client: The World Bank Group and BWSSB

Main Project features: The primary objective of this assessment is to Identify and assess the options for advanced treatment of wastewater and recovery and utilization of resources, such as biogas, biosolids and reusable water in the expanded Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palika area including the 110 villages, and to develop a regional strategy and plan for efficient and sustainable wastewater treatment and reuse.

Positions held: Team Member

Activities performed: a) Identified and summarized the characteristics of advanced wastewater treatment technologies, including international examples of application of these technologies;

b) Reviewed and assessed the potential for production of biosolids from the advanced

treatment technologies and suggested possible commercial utilization of these biosolids.

c) Assessed the potential to produce biogas and its proposed possible utilization for electricity production and/or commercial utilization for transport or other applications;

d) Coordinated with different team members and officials of Bengaluru Wastewater Utilities to collect data and finalize interim task reports

e) Compilation of final report and submission to PI.

2. Name of Assignment or Project: NMCG-TERI Centre of Excellence on Water Reuse

Year: 2022-2026

Location: New Delhi, India

Client: National Mission for Clean Ganga, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India

Main project features:

This Centre envisions to become a Globally recognized Centre, having interface between the policy makers, regulatory authorities, funding & financial Institutions, R&D, academia, knowledge and consultancy partners, technology developers & providers and end-users including the industry and ULBs in the field of Wastewater Treatment and Reuse.

Positions held: Senior Researcher/ R&D and Technology

Activities performed: a) R&D on improvement, implementation and integration of wastewater treatment technologies.

b) Writing Proposals, developing new Projects and Consultancy Projects,

c) Process Design, Operation, Engineering and troubleshooting of STPs, R&D experimentation, data processing and interpretation.

d) Content development, course design for capacity building, organizing seminars, Events Conferences etc.

3. Name of assignment or project: Study of Yamuna Frothing in Delhi

Year: 2024

Location: Delhi, India

Client: Department of Environment, Govt. of NCT of Delhi.

Main project features: This study aims to identify the sources, nature, and extent of pollution contributing to foaming, develop strategies for mitigation, and explore alternatives to detergents and foaming agents that are responsible for this environmental challenge.

Positions held: Co-PI

Activities performed: a) Extensive sampling of 30 locations which included river stretch, open drains, dhobi ghats, STPs and ETPS. Analysis of 28 parameters to identify the source of problem. Identified area sources such as colonies, industrial areas, etc., contributing to the pollution load n the River.

b) Device Short, medium and long term Statergies for the policy makers to mitigate the problem.

c) Submission of Inception Reports and Preodical Reports to funding Agency.

d) Conduct meeting necessary to achieve the Scope of work

• Successfully completed several projects with bilateral organization like World Bank
• Closely working with Indian Govt
• Organization, ministries and embassies on implementation of sustainable wastewater management practices to fulfill various national missions
• Designed Training and capacity building modules for stakeholders (practitioners, policy makers and regulators) of water management sector on advanced and innovative technologies for wastewater management
• Working on circular economic approaches for wastewater management
• Handled queries and prepared proposal regarding adoption of TERI’s in house Advanced Oxidation Process based Technologies (TADOX) from multiple industry clients
• Writing of project proposals and review articles

• CORE SUBJECTS TAUGHT: Chemical Process Calculations, Chemical Reaction Engineering-I&II, Fluid Mechanics, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Modelling and Simulation in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Process Technology
• ELECTIVE SUBJECTS TAUGHT: Environmental Pollution Control, Biomass Energy, Pulp, and Paper Technology, Biochemical Engineering, Environmental Management Systems, Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering, Introduction to Multiphase flow, Nuclear Engineering, Material Science & Engineering
• Worked as Academic coordinator, Administrative Coordinator, ERP, Time Table, Exam coordinator, DQAC and BOS member simultaneously
• Prepared and maintained documents for NBA and NAAC accreditation (Criteria 2)
• Trainer - PTC-CREO software at Product Design & Development Lab
• Prepared course material including laboratory experiments, lectures, exams, homework, and practice problems
• Managed weekly laboratory (CAD Lab and Flow-sheeting Lab on ASPEN PLUS)
• Supervised students in final year projects on Extraction of tannin and essential ingredients from turmeric

Trainer - PTC-CREO software at Product Design & Development Lab.

Prepared course material including laboratory experiments, lectures, exams, homework, and practice problems.

Managed weekly laboratory (CAD Lab and Flow-sheeting Lab on ASPEN PLUS )

Supervised students in final year projects on Extraction of tannin and essential ingredients from turmeric).