Puspendu Bhunia

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
78 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Puspendu Bhunia is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Puspendu Bhunia has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 24 papers in Pollution and 21 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Puspendu Bhunia's work include Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (39 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (21 papers) and Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (16 papers). Puspendu Bhunia is often cited by papers focused on Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (39 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Reuse (21 papers) and Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (16 papers). Puspendu Bhunia collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and South Africa. Puspendu Bhunia's co-authors include Rajesh Roshan Dash, Akshaya Kumar Verma, Prangya Ranjan Rout, Rao Y. Surampalli, Tian C. Zhang, Sridhar Pilli, R. D. Tyagi, Rajneesh Singh, Yan Song and Makarand M. Ghangrekar and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Puspendu Bhunia

74 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A review on chemical coagulation/flocculation technologies for removal of colour from textile wastewaters

2011 1.6k citations Akshaya Kumar Verma, Rajesh Roshan Dash et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →
Ultrasonic pretreatment of sludge: A review

2010 637 citations Sridhar Pilli, Puspendu Bhunia et al. profile →
Treatment technologies for emerging contaminants in wastewater treatment plants: A review

2020 530 citations Prangya Ranjan Rout, Tian C. Zhang et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Puspendu Bhunia India	29	2.1k	1.7k	1.3k	740	570	78	4.9k
Yuexi Zhou China	35	1.5k 0.7×	823 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	391 0.7×	94	3.6k
Haiping Yuan China	47	2.4k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	684 1.2×	143	5.6k
Mohammed J.K. Bashir Malaysia	43	2.7k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	837 0.7×	1.5k 2.1×	335 0.6×	203	6.2k
Shengdao Shan China	40	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	242 0.4×	157	4.7k
César Valderrama Spain	44	2.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	771 0.6×	1.5k 2.0×	293 0.5×	144	5.8k
Biplob Kumar Pramanik Australia	46	2.1k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	1.8k 1.4×	1.7k 2.3×	257 0.5×	161	6.1k
André Bezerra dos Santos Brazil	31	1.5k 0.7×	626 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	740 1.0×	448 0.8×	152	3.9k
Qiulai He China	37	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	2.3k 1.8×	529 0.7×	825 1.4×	85	3.8k
Mohamed Hasnain Isa Malaysia	44	3.5k 1.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	1.5k 2.0×	424 0.7×	231	7.3k
Wenli Huang China	36	1.4k 0.7×	857 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	796 1.1×	619 1.1×	87	3.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bhunia, Puspendu, et al.. (2025). Shift of system performance and indicators of biofilm development in constructed wetland integrated with vermifilter treating synthetic rice mill wastewater. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 196. 106939–106939. 1 indexed citations

Bhunia, Puspendu, et al.. (2025). Ecophysiological Response of Eisenia fetida Earthworm Exposed to Varying Lignin Concentrations: Assessment of Biomass, Growth, Mortality and Reproduction. Water Air & Soil Pollution. 236(12).

Bhunia, Puspendu, et al.. (2024). Clogging in subsurface flow constructed wetlands: Mechanisms, influencing factors, measurements, modelling, and remediation. Ecological Engineering. 208. 107374–107374. 15 indexed citations

Bhunia, Puspendu, et al.. (2024). An innovative combination of constructed wetland and vermifiltration system: Treatment of synthetic rice mill effluent in relation to phenol concentration and length of the wetland. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 67. 106256–106256. 6 indexed citations

Bhunia, Puspendu, et al.. (2023). A comparative study on the inhibitory effects imposed on earthworms by brewery and rice mill wastewater. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 11(5). 110453–110453. 11 indexed citations

Bhunia, Puspendu, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen transformation dynamics in macrophyte-assisted high-rate vermifilter treating real domestic sewage. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 55. 104171–104171. 6 indexed citations

Rao, P. Venkateswara, Sridhar Pilli, Rao Y. Surampalli, et al.. (2022). Comparison of GHG emissions from open field burning and anaerobic digestion of rice straw. Environmental Technology. 47(7). 1115–1125. 8 indexed citations

Bhunia, Puspendu, et al.. (2022). Effect of Plant Roots on Clogging and Treatment Performance of Horizontal Subsurface Flow Vermifilter for Synthetic Dairy Wastewater. Journal of Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Waste. 26(3). 12 indexed citations

Kundu, Niloy, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of coal tar sludge-based activated carbon: insights into thermal rate, surface complexes and pore development. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 20(9). 9853–9864. 1 indexed citations

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Verma, Akshaya Kumar, et al.. (2021). Removal of surfactants in greywater using low-cost natural adsorbents: A review. Surfaces and Interfaces. 27. 101532–101532. 39 indexed citations

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Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar, Sridhar Pilli, Puspendu Bhunia, et al.. (2021). Dark fermentation: Production and utilization of volatile fatty acid from different wastes- A review. Chemosphere. 288(Pt 1). 132444–132444. 65 indexed citations

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Bhunia, Puspendu, et al.. (2021). Dynamics of Clogging in Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands. Journal of Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Waste. 26(1). 8 indexed citations

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Samal, Kundan, Rajesh Roshan Dash, & Puspendu Bhunia. (2018). Effect of hydraulic loading rate and pollutants degradation kinetics in two stage hybrid macrophyte assisted vermifiltration system. Biochemical Engineering Journal. 132. 47–59. 36 indexed citations

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Singh, Rajneesh, Puspendu Bhunia, & Rajesh Roshan Dash. (2018). Optimization of bioclogging in vermifilters: A statistical approach. Journal of Environmental Management. 233. 576–585. 32 indexed citations

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Rout, Prangya Ranjan, Puspendu Bhunia, & Rajesh Roshan Dash. (2016). Assessing Possible Applications of Waste Organic Solid Substances as Carbon Sources and Biofilm Substrates for Elimination of Nitrate Toxicity from Wastewater. Journal of Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Waste. 21(3). 20 indexed citations

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Verma, Akshaya Kumar, Puspendu Bhunia, & Rajesh Roshan Dash. (2014). Reclamation of Wastewater Using Composite Coagulants: a Sustainable Solution to the Textile Industries. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Verma, Akshaya Kumar, Puspendu Bhunia, Rajesh Roshan Dash, et al.. (2014). Sonolytic Decolorization of Textile Wastewater Containing a Mixture of Reactive, Acid and Disperse Dyes. CLEAN - Soil Air Water. 43(5). 767–774. 9 indexed citations

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Rout, Prangya Ranjan, Puspendu Bhunia, & Rajesh Roshan Dash. (2014). A mechanistic approach to evaluate the effectiveness of red soil as a natural adsorbent for phosphate removal from wastewater. Desalination and Water Treatment. 54(2). 358–373. 67 indexed citations

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Verma, Akshaya Kumar, Rajesh Roshan Dash, & Puspendu Bhunia. (2011). A review on chemical coagulation/flocculation technologies for removal of colour from textile wastewaters. Journal of Environmental Management. 93(1). 154–168. 1564 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bhunia, Puspendu & Makarand M. Ghangrekar. (2007). Statistical modeling and optimization of biomass granulation and COD removal in UASB reactors treating low strength wastewaters. Bioresource Technology. 99(10). 4229–4238. 32 indexed citations

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