Dr Atul Kumar is a Scientist B in the IPCA Centre for Waste Management & Research at TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi. He is also associated as Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, TERI SAS. He worked as a postdoctoral research scientist for sustainability assessment of Agri-food system at Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom. His research work is mainly focussed on the application of life cycle sustainability assessment for various products and processes. He possesses good command of SimaPro, one of the most widely used LCA software for environmental impacts analysis. He did his PhD and master’s in Environmental Science and Engineering from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. He has a dual engineering degree in Mechanical and Civil. He also did a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law and Policy from NLU, Delhi. He extensively worked on sustainable management of municipal solid waste using waste to energy technologies. He worked in the development of problem-solving techniques of various solid waste related problems such as municipal solid waste, e-waste, plastic waste, biomedical and hazardous wastes. He developed some empirical, statistical and machine learning models to solve waste related problems. Dr. Atul executed a MoEFCC funded project for hazardous waste inventorization and environmental auditing of various hazardous wastes generating industries. He has published various research and review articles in peer reviewed international journals with high impact factor. He has presented his research work at various international and national conferences.

Publications

• Aryan, Y., Kumar, A., and Samadder, S.R. (2023). “Environmental and economic assessment of waste collection and transportation using LCA: A case study”. Environmental Research (Elsevier), 231, 116108. (Impact Factor: 8.3) [Quartile: Q1].
• Kumar, A., and Samadder, S.R. (2023). “Development of lower heating value prediction models and estimation of energy recovery potential of municipal solid waste and RDF incineration”. Energy (Elsevier), 274, 127273. (Impact Factor: 9) [Quartile: Q1].
• Kumar, A., Bharadwaj, S., and Samadder, S.R. (2023). “Evaluation of methane generation rate and energy recovery potential of municipal solid waste using anaerobic digestion and landfilling: a case study of Dhanbad, India”. Waste Management & Research (SAGE), 41 (2), 407 – 417. (Impact Factor: 3.9) [Quartile: Q2].
• Kumar, A., and Samadder, S.R. (2022). “Assessment of energy recovery potential and analysis of environmental impacts of waste to energy options using life cycle assessment”. Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 365, 132854. (Impact Factor: 11.1) [Quartile: Q1].
• Kumar, A., and Samadder, S.R. (2020). “Performance evaluation of anaerobic digestion technology for energy recovery from organic fraction of municipal solid waste: A review”. Energy (Elsevier), 197, 117253. (Impact Factor: 9). [Quartile: Q1].
• Kumar, A., Samadder, S.R., Kumar, N., and Singh, C. (2018). “Estimation of the generation rate of different types of plastic wastes and possible revenue recovery from informal recycling”. Waste Management (Elsevier), 79, 781-790. (Impact Factor: 8.1). [Quartile: Q1].
• Khan, D., Kumar, A., and Samadder, S.R. (2018). “Public Acceptance Study of Environmentally Suitable Landfill Sites: A Case Study”. Current Science (Indian Academy of Sciences), 115 (11), 2122-2129. (Impact Factor: 1). [Quartile: Q4].
• Kumar, A. and Samadder, S.R. (2017). “An empirical model for prediction of household solid waste generation rate- A case study of Dhanbad, India”. Waste Management (Elsevier), 68, 3-15. (Impact Factor: 8.1). [Quartile: Q1].
• Kumar, A., and Samadder, S.R. (2017). “A review on technological options of waste to energy for effective management of municipal solid waste”. Waste Management (Elsevier), 69, 407-422. (Impact Factor: 8.1). [Quartile: Q1].
• Khan, D., Kumar, A. and Samadder, S.R. (2016). “Impact of socioeconomic status on municipal solid waste generation rate”. Waste Management (Elsevier), 49, 15-25. (Impact Factor: 8.1). [Quartile: Q1].