Arghya Ghosh

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Research Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Arghya Ghosh


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Waste Management and Disposal, Water Science and Technology
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Scopus Publications

72

Scholar Citations

6

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Scopus Publications

  • Effect of different pHs and liquid-to-solid ratios on leaching behavior of heavy metals from landfill-mined-soil-like-fractions
    Arghya Ghosh, Suresh A. Kartha
    Journal of Environmental Management, 2025
  • Assessment of pH-Dependent Leaching Characteristics of Heavy Metals from Landfill-Mined-Fine-Fractions
    Arghya Ghosh, Suresh A. Kartha
    Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 2025
  • Landfill Biomining of Legacy Waste Dumpsites in India: Process, Challenges and Future Perspective
    Arghya Ghosh, Suresh A. Kartha
    Environmental Engineering and Waste Management Recent Trends and Perspectives, 2024
  • Composition and characteristics of excavated materials from a legacy waste dumpsite: Potential of landfill biomining
    Arghya GHOSH, Suresh A. KARTHA
    Environmental Research and Technology, 2023
    Landfill biomining (LFBM) has been proposed as a viable method for the reclamation of legacy waste dumpsites as well as the subsequent recovery of valuable resources and land value spaces. Despite these advantages, the potential of LFBM faces a significant challenge due to the composition, characteristics and end-use of the excavated materials. This paper assesses the composition of the excavated waste obtained during the LFBM operation of the four legacy waste heaps at the Boragaon dumpsite in North-East India and determines the physicochemical characteristics crucial for the material and energy recovery from the key reclaimed fractions. The compositional analysis revealed that the proportion of combustible and non-combustible fractions decreases from the youngest heap HP4 to the oldest heap HP1 due to variations in the consumption habits of the local community and the inadequate recycling of recyclable materials. However, the proportion of fine fraction (FF) shows an increasing trend from HP4 to HP1, suggesting enhanced biodegradation of easily degradable waste over the years. The proximate and energy content analysis suggest that refuse-derived fuel (RDF) preparation is the most suitable valorization option for the combustible fractions since surface defilements are too high for good quality material recovery. The elevated amount of organic matter and leachable heavy metals indicate that unrestricted reuse of FF as earth-fill material can cause long-term settlements and groundwater contamination, respectively. Even though every dumpsite is different in characteristics, the findings of this case study can assist in developing new strategies for recycling excavated waste.
  • Application of multivariate statistics towards the geochemical evaluation of fluoride enrichment in groundwater at shilabati river bank, West Bengal, India
    Arghya Ghosh, Sandip Mondal
    Environmental Engineering Research, 2019
    To obtain insightful knowledge of geochemical process controlling fluoride enrichment in groundwater of the villages near Shilabati river bank, West Bengal, India, multivariate statistical techniques were applied to a subgroup of the dataset generated from major ion analysis of groundwater samples. Water quality analysis of major ion chemistry revealed elevated levels of fluoride concentration in groundwater. Factor analysis (FA) of fifteen hydrochemical parameters demonstrated that fluoride occurrence was due to the weathering and dissolution of fluoride-bearing minerals in the aquifer. A strong positive loading (> 0.75) of fluoride with pH and bicarbonate for FA indicates an alkaline dominated environment responsible for leaching of fluoride from the source material. Mineralogical analysis of soli sediment exhibits the presence of fluoride-bearing minerals in underground geology. Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) was carried out to isolate the sampling sites according to groundwater quality. With HCA the sampling sites were isolated into three clusters. The occurrence of abundant fluoride in the higher elevated area of the observed three different clusters revealed that there was more contact opportunity of recharging water with the minerals present in the aquifer during infiltration through the vadose zone.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Effect of different pHs and liquid-to-solid ratios on leaching behavior of heavy metals from landfill-mined-soil-like-fractions
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    Journal of Environmental Management 376, 124421 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 19
  • Landfill biomining of legacy waste dumpsites in India: process, challenges and future perspective
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    Environmental Engineering and Waste Management: Recent Trends and … , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Assessment of pH-Dependent Leaching Characteristics of Heavy Metals from Landfill-Mined-Fine-Fractions
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste … , 2024
    2024
  • Landfill Biomining of Legacy Waste Dumpsite: Assessing its Potential for Resource Recovery from the Excavated Waste
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    ISWA World Congress 2023 , 2023
    2023
  • Evaluation of Heavy Metals Leachability Potential of Landfill-Mined-Fine-Fractions under Various Environmental Conditions
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    ISWA World Congress 2023 , 2023
    2023
  • Composition and characteristics of excavated materials from a legacy waste dumpsite: Potential of landfill biomining
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    Environmental Research and Technology 6 (2), 108-117 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 17
  • Assessment of total content and leaching potential of heavy metals from Landfill-mined-Fine-Fractions under various re-use scenarios
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    International Conference on Solid Wastes 2023: Waste Management in Circular … , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 2
  • Geochemical Evaluation and Spatiotemporal Distribution of Fluoride in Groundwater of the Sedimentary Alluvial Plain of Bankura District, West Bengal, India
    A Ghosh, N Gogoi, SA Kartha, S Mondal
    EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU-9327 , 2023
    2023
  • Simulation of Heavy Metals Migration in Groundwater from a Non-Engineered Landfill to an Ecosensitive Wetland
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    AGU Fall Meeting 2022 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6
  • Simulation of Fluoride Migration in Groundwater of the Affected Areas of Shilabati Riverbank, West Bengal, India
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha, S Mondal
    Sustainable Water Resources Management: Proceedings of SWARM 2020, 217-227 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 1
  • ASSESSMENT OF FEASIBILITY AND VIABILITY OF LANDFILL MINING OF OPEN DUMPSITES IN INDIA
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    5TH SYMPOSIUM ON URBAN MINING AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 6
  • PHYSICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF NON-REACTIVE SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN A HETEROGENEOUS LABORATORY AQUIFER MODEL
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha, S Mondal, R Dutta
    Hydrology Journal, Indian Association of Hydrologists 42, 27-40 , 2019
    2019
  • Integration of Physical and Numerical Modeling of solute transport in a laboratory aquifer model using Visual MODFLOW
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha, S Mondal, R Dutta
    VIII International Groundwater Conference (IGWC-2019) , 2019
    2019
  • Application of multivariate statistics towards the geochemical evaluation of fluoride enrichment in groundwater at Shilabati river bank, West Bengal, India
    A Ghosh, S Mondal
    Environmental Engineering Research 24 (2), 279-288 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 15
  • Assessment of Geochemistry and Spatial Distribution of Fluoride in Groundwater of Simlapal Block of Bankura District, West Bengal
    A Ghosh, S Mondal
    India International Science Festival (IISF) - Young Scientists’ Conclave … , 2016
    2016

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Effect of different pHs and liquid-to-solid ratios on leaching behavior of heavy metals from landfill-mined-soil-like-fractions
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    Journal of Environmental Management 376, 124421 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 19
  • Composition and characteristics of excavated materials from a legacy waste dumpsite: Potential of landfill biomining
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    Environmental Research and Technology 6 (2), 108-117 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 17
  • Application of multivariate statistics towards the geochemical evaluation of fluoride enrichment in groundwater at Shilabati river bank, West Bengal, India
    A Ghosh, S Mondal
    Environmental Engineering Research 24 (2), 279-288 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 15
  • Landfill biomining of legacy waste dumpsites in India: process, challenges and future perspective
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    Environmental Engineering and Waste Management: Recent Trends and … , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Simulation of Heavy Metals Migration in Groundwater from a Non-Engineered Landfill to an Ecosensitive Wetland
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    AGU Fall Meeting 2022 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6
  • ASSESSMENT OF FEASIBILITY AND VIABILITY OF LANDFILL MINING OF OPEN DUMPSITES IN INDIA
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    5TH SYMPOSIUM ON URBAN MINING AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 6
  • Assessment of total content and leaching potential of heavy metals from Landfill-mined-Fine-Fractions under various re-use scenarios
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    International Conference on Solid Wastes 2023: Waste Management in Circular … , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 2
  • Simulation of Fluoride Migration in Groundwater of the Affected Areas of Shilabati Riverbank, West Bengal, India
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha, S Mondal
    Sustainable Water Resources Management: Proceedings of SWARM 2020, 217-227 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 1
  • Assessment of pH-Dependent Leaching Characteristics of Heavy Metals from Landfill-Mined-Fine-Fractions
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste … , 2024
    2024
  • Landfill Biomining of Legacy Waste Dumpsite: Assessing its Potential for Resource Recovery from the Excavated Waste
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    ISWA World Congress 2023 , 2023
    2023
  • Evaluation of Heavy Metals Leachability Potential of Landfill-Mined-Fine-Fractions under Various Environmental Conditions
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha
    ISWA World Congress 2023 , 2023
    2023
  • Geochemical Evaluation and Spatiotemporal Distribution of Fluoride in Groundwater of the Sedimentary Alluvial Plain of Bankura District, West Bengal, India
    A Ghosh, N Gogoi, SA Kartha, S Mondal
    EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU-9327 , 2023
    2023
  • PHYSICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF NON-REACTIVE SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN A HETEROGENEOUS LABORATORY AQUIFER MODEL
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha, S Mondal, R Dutta
    Hydrology Journal, Indian Association of Hydrologists 42, 27-40 , 2019
    2019
  • Integration of Physical and Numerical Modeling of solute transport in a laboratory aquifer model using Visual MODFLOW
    A Ghosh, SA Kartha, S Mondal, R Dutta
    VIII International Groundwater Conference (IGWC-2019) , 2019
    2019
  • Assessment of Geochemistry and Spatial Distribution of Fluoride in Groundwater of Simlapal Block of Bankura District, West Bengal
    A Ghosh, S Mondal
    India International Science Festival (IISF) - Young Scientists’ Conclave … , 2016
    2016