User:Praveen Kolar

Contact Info



 * Praveen Kolar
 * North Carolina State University
 * 278 Weaver Labs
 * Raleigh, NC 27695-7625
 * Phone: 919-513-9797, Fax: 919-515-7760
 * pkolar@ncsu.edu

Education

 * 2008, PhD, The University of Georgia
 * 2004, MS, Louisiana State University
 * 1995, MS, Indian Institute of Technology

Research interests

 * 1) Value added waste management
 * 2) Synthesis of novel catalysts for use in air pollution mitigation and biomass to energy

Publications

 * 1) Kolar, P and J. R.Kastner. 2009. Room-temperature oxidation of volatile organic compounds using nano catalysts synthesized by electrochemical deposition (accepted for publication), Transactions of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers


 * 1) Kolar, P and J. R.Kastner. 2009.  Low-temperature catalytic oxidation of aldehyde mixtures using wood fly ash: kinetics, mechanism, and effect of ozone (in review), Chemosphere


 * 1) Kolar, P., J. R. Kastner, and J. Miller. 2007. Low temperature catalytic oxidation of aldehydes using wood fly ash and molecular oxygen, Applied Catalysis. B: Environmental, (76): 203-217


 * 1) Kastner, J. R., R. Gangavaram, P. Kolar, C. Xu, and A. Teja. 2008. Catalytic ozonation kinetics of propanal using wood fly ash and metal nanoparticle impregnated carbon, Environmental Science and Technology, 42 (2): 556–562


 * 1) Wang, L., P. Kolar, J. R. Kastner, and B. Herner. 2008. Biofiltration kinetics of a gaseous aldehyde mixture using a synthetic matrix, Journal of Air and Waste Management Association, 58 (3): 412-23


 * 1) Kastner, J. R., J. Miller, P. Kolar, and K. C. Das. 2009. Catalytic ozonation of ammonia using biomass char and wood fly ash, Chemosphere, 75 (6): 739-744

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