Dr. Raghava R. Kommalapati, PhD, PE, BCEE     

• Energy and Environmental Sustainability
• Air Quality and Alternate Energy (Biofuels, Wind and Nuclear energy)
• Atmospheric interactions of fog water,
• Remediation of contaminated soils and sediments using physical/chemical and biological methods (plant based and synthetic surfactants and colloidal gas aphron suspensions and effect of surfactants on the bioenhancement
• Application of polyaphrons and alumina coated surfactants for treatment of aqueous wastes
• Fate and transport of contaminants in the environment -sorption/desorption kinetics and the hysteresis,

Research Facilities:

Water and Wastewater Quality testing laboratory
Brand New Agilent 1200 series High Performance Liquid Chromatograph with UV and Florescence detectors
Spectrophotometer
Other facilities available through partnership with Cooperative Agriculture Research Center (CARC)

Significant Publications

(Out of one book, two book chapters, 22 peer reviewed journal publications and 37 conference proceedings/presentations)

• (Book)Atmospheric Aerosols: Characterization, Chemistry, Modeling and Climate, 2009, K.T. Valsaraj and R.R. Kommalapati (editors), ACS Symposium Series, Volume 1005, Division of Environmental Chemistry, American Chemical Society, Oxford University Press, ISBN13: 9780841269736 (Book). 
• S. Raja, R. Raghunathan, R.R. Kommalapati, X. Shen, J. Collett, and K.T. Valsaraj, (2009), Organic Composition of Fog Water in the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Corridor, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 43: 4214-4222.
• Z. Huque, M. R. Ali, and R.R. Kommalapati, 2009, Boiler Slag Removal using Pulse Detonation Wave, Fuel Processing Technology, Vol 90: 558-569.
• S. Raja, R. Raghunathan, X. Yu, T. Lee, J. Chen, R.R. Kommalapati, K. Murugesan, X. Shen, Y. Qingzhong, K.T. Valsaraj, J. Collett, (2008) Fog Chemistry in the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Corridor, Atmospheric Environment Vol 42 (9): 2048-2061.
• S Raja, R Ravikrishna, R.R. Kommalapati and K T Valsaraj, 2005, Monitoring of Fogwater Chemistry in the Gulf Coast Urban Industrial Corridor: Baton Rouge (Louisiana), Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol 110 (1-3): 99-120.
• R.R. Kommalapati, K.T. Valsaraj, and W. D. Constant, 2002, Soil-Water Partitioning and Desorption of Some Volatile Organic Compounds from a Louisiana Superfund Site Soil, Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, Vol 73(3): 275-290.
• R.R. Kommalapati, D. Roy, K.T. Valsaraj, and W.D. Constant, 1997, Aqueous Solubility Enhancement and Desorption of Hexachlorobenzene from Soil using a Plant-based Surfactant, Water Research, Vol 31 (9) 2161-2170.
• D. Roy, R.R. Kommalapati, S. Mandava, K.T. Valsaraj, and W.D. Constant, 1997, Soil Washing Potential of a Natural Surfactant, Environmental Science & Technology, Vol 31 (3): 670-675.