Planshu Bhatia

1. Water Treatment Engineering
2. Resource Circulation Engineering
3. Environmental Process Engineering

1. Methane fermentation of plant biomass
2. Pretreatment method for methane fermentation
3. High-speed methane fermentation treatment of wastewater
4. Treatment of methane fermentation digestate

1. Substrate solubilization by pyrohydrolysis and steam explosion to improve methane fermentation capacity of different aquatic plants
2. Water hyacinth juice processing:
I. Research and development of high-speed methane fermentation treatment of wastewater using UASB
II. Research and development of methane fermentation using juice as a substrate under different temperature conditions
3. Effective use of UASB digestate in constructed wetlands

July 2023 Admission to Rayat Bahra Institute of Engineering and Biotechnology
June 2017 Graduated from Rayat Bahra Institute of Engineering and Biotechnology
September 2017: Enrolled in the Master's program at the Graduate Graduate School of Science and Engineering Soka University Environmental Engineering for Symbiosis Major
September 2019: Completed Master's degree Environmental Engineering for Symbiosis Major at the Graduate Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Soka University [Master's in Engineering]
Enrolled in the doctoral program at the Graduate School Graduate School of Science and Engineering Soka University, Environmental Engineering for Symbiosis Major
September 2022: Completed the doctoral program Environmental Engineering for Symbiosis Major at the Graduate Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Soka University [PhD in Engineering]

November 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Science and Engineering Soka University (until September 2024)
October 2024: Assistant Lecturer Department Department of Science and Engineering for Sustainable Innovation Faculty of Science and Engineering Soka University (present)

1. Japan Society of Waste Management
2. Japan Society on Water Environment
3. International Water Association (IWA)
4. The Japanese Society of Limnology

book
1. Pranshu Bhatia, Shinichi Akizuki, Masatoshi Kishi, Nigus Gabbiye Habtu, Solomon Addisu Legesse.
Chapter 21-Biomethane from Microalgae, 3rd Generation Biofuels, Disruptive Technologies to Enable Commercial Production, Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy,2022,463-503,

Academic Papers
1. Pranshu Bhatia, Masaaki Fujiwara, Syuhei Ban, and Tatsuki Toda.
Effect of steam explosion pre-treatment on methane generation from Ludwigia grandiflora, Biomass and Bioenergy, 2020, Vol. 142, 105771.
2. Pranshu Bhatia, Masaaki Fujiwara, Maria Cecilia D. Salangsang, Jun Qian, Xin Liu, Syuhei Ban, Mitsuyuki Myojin, Tatsuki Toda.
Effect of semi-continuous anaerobic digestion on the substrate solubilization of lignin-rich steam-exploded Ludwigia grandiflora, Applied Sciences,2021 Vol. 11(10), 4452, Special Issue: Industrial Application of Anaerobic Digestion
3. Pranshu Bhatia, Masaaki Fujiwara, and Tatsuki Toda.
Anaerobic digestion of an invasive aquatic plant Ludwigia grandiflora by thermal hydrolysis pretreatment: Correlations between methane kinetics and substrate composition, Fuel, 2024, 359: 130223
4. Pranshu Bhatia, Anas Hijazi, Shinichi Akizuki, Nigus Gabbiye Habtu, Shinjiro Sato, and Tatsuki Toda.
Effect of spontaneous sedimentation on the chemical composition of compressed water hyacinth juice as a pretreatment for anaerobic digestion: Comparison of different growing areas, Green Energy and Technology,2024, Springer