Dr Shouvik Saha

Dr Shouvik Saha is an Environmental Engineer and earned his Doctoral degree from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. His research interest lies at the intersection of anaerobic fermentation/digestion of organic waste, microbial electrolysis cells, waste-to-bioenergy/value-added chemicals (Hydrogen, Methane, and Biodiesel), bioremediation of persistent contaminants, and microbial ecology. He has published thirty-one SCI(E) articles in highly reputed international journals and has a commercialized patent on the anaerobic microbiome technology for waste-to-energy generation. He executed a project on the anaerobic digestion of organic wastes sponsored by Hanyang University, Seoul, and was involved in the development of a pilot anaerobic dual-reactor system for food waste-to-biogas production at Sincheon Wastewater Treatment Plant, Daegu, South Korea.

Journal Publications

1. Sumona Show, Ramisa Akhter, Indrani Paul, Payal Das, Manisha Bal, Riya Bhattacharya, Debajyoti Bose, Amita Mondal, Shouvik Saha*, Gopinath Halder. Efficacy of Exopolysaccharide in dye-laden wastewater treatment: A comprehensive review. Chemosphere (IF: 8.8), 2024. Accepted

2. Prasenjit Chakraborty, Ramesh Kumar, Sankha Chakrabortty, Shouvik Saha, Sujoy Chattaraj, Somagni Roy, Avishek Banerjee, Suraj K Tripathy, Alak Kumar Ghosh, Byong-Hun Jeon. Technological advancements in the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for effective valorization: A review of challenges and prospects. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (IF: 6.1), 2024. Accepted.

3. Xiaofang Li, Xin Zheng, Nikita Yadav, Shouvik Saha, El-Sayed Salama, Xiangkai Li, Likun Wang, Byong-Hun Jeon. Rational Management of the Plant Microbiome for the Second Green Revolution. Plant Communications (IF: 10.5), 2024, 100812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2024.100812

4. Sayantan Sarkar, Deepshikha Datta, Shouvik Saha, Bimal Das. Assessing the Efficacy of Three Bio-Based Flocculants in the Reclamation of Spent Lubricating Oil. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (IF: 2.1), 2024, 4, 1–15.

5. Shouvik Saha, Jiu-Qiang Xiong, Swapnil M Patil, Geon-Soo Ha, Jeong-Kyu Hoh, Hyun-Kyung Park, Woojin Chung, Soon Woong Chang, Moonis Ali Khan, Ho Bum Park, Byong-Hun Jeon. Dissemination of sulfonamide resistance genes in digester microbiome during anaerobic digestion of food waste leachate. Journal of Hazardous Materials (IF: 13.6), 2023, 452, 131200.

6. Shouvik Saha, Amita Mondal, Mayur B. Kurade, Yongtae Ahn, Priyabrata Banerjee, Hyun-Kyung Park, Ashok Pandey, Tae Hyun Kim, Byong-Hun Jeon. Cutting-edge technological advancements in biomass-derived hydrogen production. Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology (IF: 14.4), 2023, 22, 397-426.

7. Hoo Hugo Kim, Shouvik Saha, Jae-Hoon Hwang, Md. Aoulad Hosen, Yong-Tae Ahn, Young-Kwon Park, Moonis Ali Khan, Byong-Hun Jeon. Integrative biohydrogen- and biomethane-producing bioprocesses for comprehensive production of biohythane. Bioresource Technology (IF: 11.4), 2022, 365, 128145.

8. Gyeong-Uk Kim, Geon-Soo Ha, Mayur B. Kurade, Shouvik Saha, Moonis Ali Khan, Young-Kwon Park, Woojin Chung, Soon Woong Chang, Krishna Kumar Yadav, Byong-Hun Jeon. Integrating fermentation of Chlamydomonas mexicana by oleaginous Lipomyces starkeyi and switchable ionic liquid extraction for enhanced biodiesel production. Chemical Engineering Journal (IF: 15.1), 2022, 446 (Part 4), 137285.

9. Shouvik Saha, Mayur B. Kurade, Geon-Soo Ha, Sean S. Lee, Hyun-Seog Roh, Young-Kwon Park, Byong-Hun Jeon. Syntrophic metabolism facilitates Methanosarcina-led methanation in the anaerobic digestion of lipidic slaughterhouse waste. Bioresource Technology (IF: 11.4), 2021, 335, 125250.

10. Dongho Kang¹, Shouvik Saha¹, Mayur B. Kurade, Bikram Basak, Geon-Soo Ha, Byong-Hun Jeon, Sean S. Lee, Jung Rae Kim. Dual-stage pulse-feed operation enhanced methanation of lipidic waste during co-digestion using acclimatized consortia. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (IF: 15.9), 2021, 145, 111096.

11. Geon-Soo Ha, Shouvik Saha, Bikram Basak, Mayur B. Kurade, Gyeong-Uk Kim, Min-Kyu Ji, Yongtae Ahn, El-Sayed Salama, Soon Woong Chang, Byong-Hun Jeon. High-throughput integrated pretreatment strategies to convert high-solid loading microalgae into high-concentration biofuels. Bioresource Technology (IF: 11.4), 2021, 340, 125651.

12. Geon-Soo Ha, Shouvik Saha, Mayur B. Kurade, Hyun-Jo Ahn, Bikram Basak, Gyeong-Uk Kim, Ji-Kwang Cheon, Dae-Sung Lee, Byong-Hun Jeon. High-density biofuels production from holistic conversion of microalgal strains through energy-saving integrated approach. Chemical Engineering Journal (IF: 15.1), 2021, 421 (Part 2), 127798.

13. Swapnil M. Patil, Mayur B. Kurade, Bikram Basak, Shouvik Saha, Min Jang, Sang-Hyoun Kim, Byong-Hun Jeon. Anaerobic co-digester microbiome during food waste valorization reveals Methanosaeta mediated methanogenesis with improved carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Bioresource Technology (IF: 11.4), 2021, 332, 125123.

14. Bikram Basak, Swapnil M. Patil, Shouvik Saha, Mayur B. Kurade, Geon-Soo Ha, Sanjay P. Govindwar, Sean S. Lee, Soon Woong Chang, Woo Jin Chung, Byong-Hun Jeon. Rapid recovery of methane yield in organic overloaded-failed anaerobic digesters through bioaugmentation with acclimatized microbial consortium. Science of The Total Environment (IF: 9.8), 2021, 764, 144219.

15. Shouvik Saha, Bikram Basak, Jae-Hoon Hwang, El-Sayed Salama, Pradip K. Chatterjee, Byong-Hun Jeon. Microbial symbiosis: A network towards biomethanation. Trends in Microbiology (IF: 15.9), 2020, 28 (12), 968-984.

16. Bikram Basak, Shouvik Saha, Pradip K. Chatterjee, Amit Ganguly, Soon Woong Chang, Byong-Hun Jeon. Pretreatment of polysaccharidic wastes with cellulolytic Aspergillus fumigatus for enhanced production of biohythane in a dual-stage process. Bioresource Technology (IF: 11.4), 2020, 299, 122592.

17. Mayur B Kurade, Shouvik Saha, Jung Rae Kim, Hyun-Seog Roh, Byong-Hun Jeon. Microbial community acclimatization for enhancement in the methane productivity of anaerobic co-digestion of fats, oil, and grease. Bioresource Technology (IF: 11.4), 2020, 296, 122294.

18. Shouvik Saha, Byong-Hun Jeon, Mayur B. Kurade, Sanjay P. Govindwar, Pradip K. Chatterjee, Sang-Eun Oh, Hyun-Seog Roh, Sean S. Lee. Interspecies microbial nexus facilitated methanation of polysaccharidic wastes. Bioresource Technology (IF: 11.4), 2019, 289, 121638.

19. Shouvik Saha, Byong-Hun Jeon, Mayur B. Kurade, Pradip K. Chatterjee, Soon Woong Chang, Kesavan Markkandan, El-Sayed Salama, Sanjay P. Govindwar, Hyun-Seog Roh. Microbial acclimatization to lipidic-waste facilitates the efficacy of acidogenic fermentation. Chemical Engineering Journal (IF: 15.1), 2019, 358, 188-196.

20. Marwa M. El-Dalatony, Shouvik Saha, Sanjay P. Govindwar, Reda A.I. Abou-Shanab, Byong-Hun Jeon. Biological Conversion of Amino Acids to Higher Alcohols. Trends in Biotechnology (IF: 17.3), 2019, 37 (8), 855-869.

21. Pradip Kumar Chaterjee, Shubhaneel Neogi, Shouvik Saha, Byong‐Hun Jeon, Apurba Dey. Low pH treatment of starch industry effluent with bacteria from leaf debris for methane production. Water Environment Research (IF: 3.1), 2019, 91 (5), 377-385.

22. Subhabrata Dev, Shouvik Saha, Mayur Bharat Kurade, El-Sayed Salama, Marwa M. El-Dalatony, Geon- Soo Ha, Soon Woong Chang, Byong-Hun Jeon. Perspective on anaerobic digestion for biomethanation in cold environments. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (IF: 15.9), 2019, 103, 85-95.

23. Mayur B. Kurade, Shouvik Saha, El-Sayed Salama, Swapnil M. Patil, Sanjay P. Govindwar, Byong-Hun Jeon. Acetoclastic methanogenesis led by Methanosarcina in anaerobic co-digestion of fats, oil and grease for enhanced production of methane. Bioresource Technology (IF: 11.4), 2019, 272, 351-359.

24. El-Sayed Salama, Shouvik Saha, Mayur B. Kurade, Subhabrata Dev, Soon Woong Chang, Byong-Hun Jeon. Recent trends in anaerobic co-digestion of lipidic-waste: Fat, oil, and grease (FOG) for enhanced biomethanation. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (IF: 29.5), 2019, 70, 22-42.

25. Sung-Eun Chang¹, Shouvik Saha¹, Mayur B. Kurade, El-Sayed Salama, Soon Woong Chang, Min Jang, Byong-Hun Jeon. Improvement of acidogenic fermentation using an acclimatized microbiome. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IF: 7.2), 2018, 43 (49), 22126-22134.

26. Rahul Kumar, Shouvik Saha, Sarita Dhaka, Mayur B. Kurade, Chan Ung Kang, Seung Han Baek, Byong-Hun Jeon. Remediation of cyanide-contaminated environments through microbes and plants: a review of current knowledge and future perspectives. Geosystem Engineering (IF: 1.7), 2017, 20 (1), 28-40.

27. Shouvik Saha, Byong-Hun Jeon, Mayur B. Kurade, Shekhar B. Jadhav, Pradip K. Chatterjee, Soon Woong Chang, Sanjay Prabhu Govindwar, Sun Joon Kim. Optimization of dilute acetic acid pretreatment of mixed fruit waste for increased methane production. Journal of Cleaner Production (IF: 11.1), 2018, 190, 411-421.

28. Shouvik Saha, Mayur B. Kurade, Marwa M. El-Dalatony, Pradip K. Chatterjee, Dae Sung Lee, Byong-Hun Jeon. Improving bioavailability of fruit wastes using organic acid: An exploratory study of biomass pretreatment for fermentation. Energy Conversion and Management (IF: 10.4), 2016, 127, 256-264.

29. Preeti Singh, Shouvik Saha, Shubhaneel Neogi, Swati Ghosh, Amit Ganguly, Subhamay Haldar, Pradip Kumar Chatterjee. Dilute Acid Hydrolysis of Parthenium Hysterophorus L. for the Production of Ethanol Using Pichia Stipitis. International Journal of Energy and Power (IJEP), 2013, 2 (4), 88-93.

30. Sutanu Samanta, Shouvik Saha, Bopendra Yadav. Expression of Natural Mutant of Endoglucanase II of Trichoderma reese in Pichia Pastoris. World Journal of Science and Technology, 2013, 3 (3), 35-39.

31. Shouvik Saha, Pranab Roy, Sutanu Samanta. Actinomycetes from hospital dump soil produce highly active antibiotic. International Journal of Microbiology Research, 2012, 4 (6), 258-262.

Book Chapter

1. “Amita Mondal, Shouvik Saha, Jiu-Qiang Xiong. Chapter 2 - Biomarkers to assess the water pollution in lakes and rivers. in: Biomarkers in Environmental and Human Health Biomonitoring, (Eds.) R. Mishra, S. Madhav, R.K. Dhaka, P. Garg, Academic Press 2024, pp. 23-50.”

Patents

1. Byong-Hun Jeon, Hoo Kim, Shouvik Saha, Mayur B. Kurade, El Sayed Adel Farid Salama. Method for constructing anaerobic microbial consortium for anaerobic co-digestion of sewage sludge, fat, oil and grease. Korea Patent Registration Number KR1021385840000. (2020.07.22)

Projects (Completed/On-going)

1. “Anaerobic co-digestion-based antibiotic-resistant microorganism removal”, supported by Medicine-Engineering-Bio (MEB), Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, US$ 15,421. (2021.09.01~2022.08.31)