KIRUPA SANKAR

@bitsathy.ac.in

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
BANNARI AMMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology from SASTRA UNIVERISTY, TAMILNADU
Master of Technology in Biotechnology from ANNA UNIVERSITY, TAMILNADU
Doctor of Philosophy in Technology from ANNA UNIVERSITY, TAMILNADU

RESEARCH INTERESTS

BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING - WASTE TO WEALTH, FUEL CELLS, BIOREMEDIATION, BIOENERGY

Scopus Publications

627

Scholar Citations

Scholar h-index

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Scopus Publications

Investigation of pre-treatment techniques on spent substrate of Pleurotus ostreatus for enhanced biobutanol production using Clostridium acetobutylicum MTCC 11274
Ashwin Raj Suresh, Anitha Shalini Alphonse mani, and Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu
Elsevier BV

Food quality evaluation using lab-on-a-chip
Abhishek Futane, Vigneswaran Narayanamurthy, Baranitharan Ethiraj, and Kirupa Muthuvelu
Elsevier

Comparative assessment of pre-treatment techniques and process economics on marine seaweed, Gelidium pusillum, for enhanced bioethanol production
Vimal Arasan Anbuselvan, Vidhya Krishnamurthy, and Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu
Informa UK Limited

Biopreservative technologies of food: an alternative to chemical preservation and recent developments
Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Baranitharan Ethiraj, Shreyasi Pramnik, N. Keerthish Raj, Swethaa Venkataraman, Devi Sri Rajendran, Priyadharshini Bharathi, Elakiya Palanisamy, Anusri Sathiya Narayanan, Vinoth Kumar Vaidyanathan,et al.
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Investigation on future perspectives of ex-situ biogenic methane generation from solid waste coal and coal washery rejects
Vinitha Ponnudurai, Ponnusamy Senthil Kumar, Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Sivasubramanian Velmurugan, Syed Subhani, Loganathan Arumugam, and Ravikumar Rajarathinam
Elsevier BV

Recent Advancement in Biomedical Applications of Polycaprolactone and Polycaprolactone-Based Materials
Naga P.D. Dhanasekaran, Kirupa S. Muthuvelu, and Senthil K. Arumugasamy
Elsevier

Investigation on the utilization of coal washery rejects by different microbial sources for biogenic methane production
Vinitha Ponnudurai, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Sivasubramanian Velmurugan, Radha Krishna Nalajala, and Loganathan Arumugam
Elsevier BV

Modelling of adsorption of anionic azo dye using Strychnos potatorum Linn seeds (SPS) from aqueous solution with artificial neural network (ANN)
Wei Wen Wee, Mei Yuen Siau, Senthil Kumar Arumugasamy, and Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Assessing the potential of lignocellulosic energy crops as an alternative resource for bioethanol production using ultrasound assisted dilute acid pretreatment
Sangeetha Paramasivan, Shambhavi Sankar, Ratthika Senthil Velavan, Tharani Krishnakumar, Roshan Sithara Iqbal Batcha, and Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu
Elsevier BV

Outlook on biorefinery potential of palm oil mill effluent for resource recovery
Wen Yi Chia, Yen Yee Chong, Kit Wayne Chew, Elamathi Vimali, Moorthy Jayaram, Anurita Selvarajoo, Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Perumal Varalakshmi, Pau Loke Show, and Senthil Kumar Arumugasamy
Elsevier BV

A novel method for improving laccase activity by immobilization onto copper ferrite nanoparticles for lignin degradation
Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Roselin Nivetha Selvaraj, and Vignesh Babu Rajendren
Elsevier BV

Choice of Pretreatment Technology for Sustainable Production of Bioethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Bottle Necks and Recommendations
Manickam Naresh Kumar, Rajarathinam Ravikumar, Senniyappan Thenmozhi, Moorthy Ranjith Kumar, and Muthuvel Kirupa Shankar
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Evaluation and characterization of novel sources of sustainable lignocellulosic residues for bioethanol production using ultrasound-assisted alkaline pre-treatment
Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Logu Prasanth Kanagaraj, Rakhesh Vaasan Ranganathan, Keerthiharan Dhanasekaran, and Naresh Kumar Manickam
Elsevier BV

Development of co-immobilized tri-enzyme biocatalytic system for one-pot pretreatment of four different perennial lignocellulosic biomass and evaluation of their bioethanol production potential
Muthuvelu Kirupa Sankar, Rajarathinam Ravikumar, Manickam Naresh Kumar, and Uthandi Sivakumar
Elsevier BV

New insight into the effect of fungal mycelia present in the bio-pretreated paddy straw on their enzymatic saccharification and optimization of process parameters
Manickam Naresh Kumar, Rajarathinam Ravikumar, Muthuvelu Kirupa Sankar, and Senniyappan Thenmozhi
Elsevier BV

Development of natural cellulase inhibitor mediated intensified biological pretreatment technology using Pleurotus florida for maximum recovery of cellulose from paddy straw under solid state condition
Manickam Naresh Kumar, Rajarathinam Ravikumar, Senniyappan Thenmozhi, and Muthuvelu Kirupa Sankar
Elsevier BV

An Effective Conversion of Cotton Waste Biomass to Ethanol: A Critical Review on Pretreatment Processes
Moorthy Ranjithkumar, Rajarathinam Ravikumar, Muthuvelu Kirupa Sankar, Manickam Naresh Kumar, and Velayutham Thanabal
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Adsorption of anionic azo dye from aqueous solution using Strychnos potatorum Linn seeds: isotherm and kinetic studies
M. Kirupa Sankar, K. Muthu Kumar, and B. V. Ranganathan
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Food quality evaluation using lab-on-a-chip
A Futane, V Narayanamurthy, B Ethiraj, K Muthuvelu
Utilizing Microfluidics in the Food Industry, 219-234 2025

Comparative assessment of pre-treatment techniques and process economics on marine seaweed, Gelidium pusillum, for enhanced bioethanol production
VA Anbuselvan, V Krishnamurthy, KS Muthuvelu
Biofuels 15 (10), 1259-1269 2024

Ultrasound-assisted transesterification of waste cooking oil to biodiesel utilizing banana peel derived heterogeneous catalyst
C Ashok, E Sankarrajan, PS Kumar, G Janani, AR Suresh, KS Muthuvelu, ...
Biotechnology for Sustainable Materials 1 (1), 5 2024

Investigation of pre-treatment techniques on spent substrate of Pleurotus ostreatus for enhanced biobutanol production using Clostridium acetobutylicum MTCC 11274
AR Suresh, KS Muthuvelu
Bioresource Technology 394, 130228 2024

Biopreservative technologies of food: An alternative to chemical preservation and recent developments
KS Muthuvelu, B Ethiraj, S Pramnik, NK Raj, S Venkataraman, ...
Food Science and Biotechnology 32 (10), 1337-1350 2023

from Lignocellulosic Biomass
KS Muthuvelu, S Muthusamy
Microbiology of Green Fuels, 156 2023

Strategies to Enhance Biobutanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass
B Ethiraj, T Raihan, S Sarmin, A Karim, MMR Khan, KS Muthuvelu, ...
Microbiology of Green Fuels, 156-176 2023

Recent Advancement in Biomedical Applications of Polycaprolactone and Polycaprolactone-Based Materials
NPD Dhanasekaran, KS Muthuvelu, SK Arumugasamy
Encyclopedia of Materials: Plastics and Polymers 4, 795-809 2022

Investigation on future perspectives of ex-situ biogenic methane generation from solid waste coal and coal washery rejects
V Ponnudurai, PS Kumar, KS Muthuvelu, S Velmurugan, S Subhani, ...
Fuel 318, 123497 2022

Investigation on the Utilization Of Coal Washery Rejects By Different Microbial Sources For Biogenic Methane Production
LA Vinitha Ponnudurai, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu ...
Chemosphere 287, 132165 2022

Modelling of adsorption of anionic azo dye using Strychnos potatorum Linn seeds (SPS) from aqueous solution with artificial neural network (ANN)
SKAKSM Wei Wen Wee, Mei Yuen Siau
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 193 (638) 2021

Assessing the potential of lignocellulosic energy crops as an alternative resource for bioethanol production using ultrasound assisted dilute acid pretreatment
S Paramasivan, S Sankar, RS Velavan, T Krishnakumar, RSI Batcha, ...
Materials Today: Proceedings 45, 3279-3285 2021

Outlook on biorefinery potential of palm oil mill effluent for resource recovery
WY Chia, YY Chong, KW Chew, E Vimali, M Jayaram, A Selvarajoo, ...
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 8 (6), 104519 2020

A novel method for improving laccase activity by immobilization onto copper ferrite nanoparticles for lignin degradation
KS Muthuvelu, R Rajarathinam, RN Selvaraj, VB Rajendren
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2020

Chapter Bioprocess engineering: downstream processing
SA Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu
CRC Press 2019

Evaluation and characterization of novel sources of sustainable lignocellulosic residues for bioethanol production using ultrasound-assisted alkaline pre-treatment
NKM Kirupa SankarMuthuvelu,RavikumarRajarathinam,Logu Prasanth,Kanagaraj ...
Waste Management 87, 368-374 2019

New insight into the effect of fungal mycelia present in the bio-pretreated paddy straw on their enzymatic saccharification and optimization of process parameters
MN Kumar, R Ravikumar, MK Sankar, S Thenmozhi
Bioresource Technology 267, 291-302 2018

Development of co-immobilized tri-enzyme biocatalytic system for one-pot pretreatment of four different perennial lignocellulosic biomass and evaluation of their bioethanol
SU Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Naresh Manickam
Bioresource Technology 2018

Chapter Bioprocess Engineering for a Green Environment
R Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Naresh kumar Mancikam
CRC Press 2018

ICEEIS ETBC 02 EVALUATION OF PRETREATMENT METHODS OF USING DILUTE ACID AND CRUDE ENZYME ISOLATED FROM NOVEL FUNGAL STRAIN ON TYPHA ANGUSTATA
MK Sankar, R Ravikumar, R Maheshwar, J Jesinthara, B Ananthi, ...
SALVATIO'18 2018

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Choice of Pretreatment Technology for Sustainable Production of Bioethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Bottle Necks and Recommendations
MN Kumar, R Ravikumar, S Thenmozhi, MR Kumar, MK Sankar
Waste and Biomass Valorization, 1-17 2018
Citations: 90

An effective conversion of cotton waste biomass to ethanol: a critical review on pretreatment processes
M Ranjithkumar, R Ravikumar, MK Sankar, MN Kumar, V Thanabal
Waste and Biomass Valorization 8, 57-68 2017
Citations: 67

Development of co-immobilized tri-enzyme biocatalytic system for one-pot pretreatment of four different perennial lignocellulosic biomass and evaluation of their bioethanol
SU Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Naresh Manickam
Bioresource Technology 2018
Citations: 63

Development of natural cellulase inhibitor mediated intensified biological pretreatment technology using Pleurotus florida for maximum recovery of cellulose from paddy straw
KSM Naresh Kumar Manickam, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Thenmozhi Senniyappan
Bioresource Technology 2017
Citations: 29

Adsorption of anionic azo dye from aqueous solution using Strychnos potatorum Linn seeds: isotherm and kinetic studies
MK Sankar, KM Kumar, BV Ranganathan
International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 12 (9), 2957-2964 2015
Citations: 14

Chapter Bioprocess engineering: downstream processing
SA Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu
CRC Press 2019
Citations: 8

Chapter Bioprocess Engineering for a Green Environment
R Kirupa Sankar Muthuvelu, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Naresh kumar Mancikam
CRC Press 2018
Citations: 7