Dr. Ghimire is Professor of CDC. He was former HOD (2009-2014) and former member secretary of TU service commission (July 2014- July 2017). He received PhD from Saga University, Japan. His research areas/interests are materials Engineering for separations, separation technology, design of functionalized biomaterials, waste water treatment etc.
Email:knghimire@gmail.com

PhD

Professional experiences

• Member, Tribhuvan University Service Commission, From June 18, 2014 to June 17, 2017.
• Head of the Department of Central Department of Chemistry, From November 2009 to January 2014.
• Chairman of Chemistry Subject Committee and Central Department Research Committee, From November 2009 to January 2014.
• Member, Faculty Board Standing Committee, IOST, From November 2009 to January 2014.
• Professor at Central Department of Chemistry, Tribhuvan University from June 2013 to date.
• Post Graduate Studies at Karlsruhe University, Germany, 1994.
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Saga University, Japan (March 2005 August to 2007).
•  Worked as a co-supervisor (from 2005 August to 2007 March) to post-doctoral, doctoral and master students at Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Saga University, Japan.
• Worked as a wastewater treatment expert on behalf of Laboratory of chemical engineering, Saga University at UNIREX Corp. Hossam Nishiku, Sapporo, Japan, from 2002 Oct to March 2003.

Dr. Ghimire has also presented his research works in several national and international conferences/seminars  as invited/guest/plenary speaker.

Selected Publications

Research papers

Kedar Nath Ghimire, Huang Kai, Katsutoshi Inoue, Keisuke Ohto, Hiroyuki Harada and Minoru Morita, Heavy metal removal from contaminated scallop waste for feed and fertilizer application, Biores. Technol., 99, 2436-2441 (2008).

Kedar Nath Ghimire, Junji Inoue, Katsutoshi Inoue, Keisuke Ohto, Hidetaka Kawakita and Hiroyuki Harada, Adsorptive separation of metal ions onto phosphorylated orange waste, Sep. Sci. Technol., 43, 362-375 (2008).

Kedar Nath Ghimire, Katsutoshi Inoue, Keisuke Ohto and Takehiro Hayashida, Adsorptive separation of metallic pollutants onto waste seaweeds,Porphyra yezoensis and Ulva japonica. Sep. Sci. Technol., 42, 2003-2018 (2007).

Patents

Adsorbents prepared from plants biomass" Japan Kokai 2003-225559, date of disclose: Aug.12, 2003

Preparation of adsorption gel from OJR and its application to the removal of hazardousmaterials" Japan Kokai 2004-267805, date of disclose: Sep.30, 2004

Method for separation, removal, concentration and recovery of heavy metals, fats and proteins from leach liquor of scallop waste", Japan Kokai 2005-058951, date of disclose:Mar.10, 2005

Method for removing heavy metals from scallop waste", Japan patent application No.2006-54267, date of application: Mar. 1, 2006.

Please find the following link for the full list of publications

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