Name :   Dr.Pratima Meshram

Designation :   Senior Scientist

Contact Information :

• Email id :  pratima@nml.res.in
• Mobile/Phone no:  0657-2345277

Educational Qualification :   Ph.D. (Metallurgical Engineering)

Areas of Expertise :   Extractive metallurgy, Recycling and waste Management

No. of Papers Published :   33

• International :   1. Pratima Meshram, Uday Prakash, Lalit Bhagat, Abhilash, Honbo Zhao, Hullebusch Van D Eric, Processing of waste Copper converter slag using organic acids for extraction of copper, nickel and cobalt, Minerlas, 2020, 10 (3), 290 [I.F.2.380] 2. Pratima Meshram, Abhilash, Recovery and Recycling of Cerium from Primary and Secondary Resources- a Critical Review. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review,2020, 41(4), 279-310 [I.F. 1.615]. 3. Pratima Meshram, Abhilash Mishra, Abhilash, Rina Sahu, Environmental impact of spent lithium-ion batteries and green recycling perspectives by organic acids - A review. Chemosphere, 2020, 242, 125291 [I.F-5.108]. 4. Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, S. Sinha, B.D. Pandey, V. Krishna Kumari and S. Kar, Chloride leaching of lanthanum and cerium from Indian red mud and metal separation studies, Metallurgical Research and Technology, 2019,116 (2),210 [I.F.-0.641] 5. Pratima Meshram, Banshi Dhar Pandey, Abhilash, Perspective of availability and sustainable recycling prospects of metals in rechargeable batteries – A resource overview, Resource Policy, 2019, 60, 9-22. [IF =2.695] 6. Pratima Meshram, Abhilash, Banshi Dhar Pandey, Advanced review on extraction of nickel from primary and secondary sources, 2018, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, DOI: 10.1080/08827508.2018.1514300 [IF =2.117] 7. Pratima Meshram, Anirban Ghosh, Rama Murthy Yanamandra, Banshi Dhar Pandey, Abhilash, M.L. Torem, Removal of hexavalent chromium from Mine Effluents by Ion Exchange Resins-Comparative Study of Amberlite IRA 400 and IRA 900, Russian Journal of Non-Ferrous Metals. 2018, 59 (5), 533-542. [IF =0.446] 8. Pratima Meshram, Abhilash, Banshi Dhar Pandey, Tilak Raj Mankhand, Haci Deveci, Extraction of metals from spent lithium ion batteries: role of acid, reductant and process intensification in recycling, Indian Journal of Chemical Technology. 2018, 25 (4), 368-375. [IF =0.348] 9. Ata Akcil, Nazym Akhmadiyeva, Rinat Abdulvaliyev, Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, Overview on Extraction and Separation of Rare Earth Elements from Red Mud: Focus on Scandium, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, 2018, 39(3), 145-151. [IF =1.219] 10. Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, S. Sarkar, T. Venugopalan, Exploring Blast Furnace Slag As A Secondary Resource For Extraction Of Rare Earth Elements, Minerals & Metallurgical Processing Journal, 2017, 34(4), 178-182. [IF =0.692] 11. Pratima Meshram, Hemant Somani, B.D. Pandey, T.R. Mankhand, H. Deveci, Abhilash, Two stage leaching process for selective metal extraction from spent nickel metal hydride batteries, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017, vol. 157, pp. 322-332. [IF =5.715] 12. Pratima Meshram, Lalit Bhagat, Uday Prakash, B.D.Pandey, Abhilash, Organic acid leaching of base metals from copper granulated slag and evaluation of mechanism, Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 2017, vol.56 (2), pp.168-178. [IF =0.596] 13. Pratima Meshram, Abhilash, Jyotsna Kumari, and B. D. Pandey, Extraction of Vanadium and Synthesis of Vanadium Pentaoxide from Bayer’s Sludge, Russian Journal of Non-Ferrous Metals, 2016, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 338–346. [IF =0.238] 14. Pratima Meshram, Abhilash, B.D.Pandey, T.R.Mankhand, H.Deveci, “Acid baking of spent lithium ion batteries for selective recovery of major metals: A two-step process, Journal of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, 43 (2016) 117–126 [IF =4.421] 15. Pratima Meshram, Abhilash, B.D.Pandey, Tilak Raj Mankhand, Haci Deveci, “Comparision of Different Reductants in Leaching of Spent Lithium Ion Batteries, Journal of Metals 68 (10), (2016), 2613-2623. [IF =1.860] 16. Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey and T.R. Mankhand. Process optimization and kinetics for leaching of rare earth metals from the spent Ni-metal hydride batteries. Waste Management 51 (2016) 196-203. [IF =4.030] 17. S. Sinha, Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey, Metallurgical processes for the recovery and recycling of lanthanum from various resources—A review. Hydrometallurgy 160 (2016) 47-59. [IF =2.605] 18. Manish K. Sinha, Sushanta K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, L.B. Prasad, B.D.Pandey. Low temperature hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of iron oxide powders of diverse morphologies from spent pickle liquor. Powder Technology 276 (2015) 214-221.[IF=2.269] 19. Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey and T.R. Mankhand. Leaching of base metals from spent Ni-metal hydride batteries with emphasis on kinetics and characterization. Hydrometallurgy 158 (2015) 172-179. [IF =1.933] 20. Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey and T.R. Mankhand. Recovery of valuable metals from cathodic active material of spent lithium ion batteries: Leaching and kinetic aspects. Waste Management 45 (2015) 306-313. [IF =3.220] 21. Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey and T.R. Mankhand. Hydrometallurgical processing of spent lithium ion batteries (LIBs) in the presence of a reducing agent with emphasis on kinetics of leaching, Chemical Engineering Journal 281 (2015) 418-427. [IF =4.321] 22. Pratima Meshram, B.K. Purohit, M.K.Sinha, S.K.Sahu and B.D. Pandey. Demineralization of low grade coal-A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 41 (2015) 745-761. [IF =5.510] 23. Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey and T.R. Mankhand. Extraction of lithium from primary and secondary sources by pre-treatment, leaching and separation: A comprehensive review. Hydrometallurgy 150 (2014) 192-208. [IF =2.224] 24. Manish K. Sinha, Sushanta K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B.D.Pandey. Solvent extraction and separation of zinc and iron from spent pickle liquor. Hydrometallurgy 147–148 (2014) 103–111 [IF =2.224] 25. Bijoy Kumar Purohit, S. Pramanik, Pratima Meshram, S.K. Sahu, B.D. Pandey, Chemical beneficiation of Hingula coal. Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 56(3) (2014) 173-177 [Non-SCI]. 26. Swati Pramanik, S.K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey. Arsenic removal from spent liquor generated during processing of vanadium sludge. Advanced Materials Research Vol. 828 (2014) 55-63 [Non-SCI]. 27. Himanshu R. Verma, S.K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B. D. Pandey and T. R. Mankhand. Kinetics of Hydrometallurgical Extraction of Rare Earth Metals from Waste Phosphor. International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology 2(5), 2013 ISSN 2277 – 4378, pp. 251-255 [Non-SCI]. 28. Pratima Meshram, Manish K. Sinha, S.K. Sahu, Pritam Khan, B.D. Pandey, T.R. Mankhand. Solvothermal synthesis of high value copper powder from copper bleed solution of an Indian copper smelter. Powder Technology, 233.(2013) pp. 335-340. [IF =2.265] 29. Pratima Meshram, S.K. Sahu, B.D. Pandey, Vinay Kumar, T.R. Mankhand. Removal of Chromium(III) from the Waste Solution of an Indian Tannery by Amberlite IR 120 Resin. International Journal of Nonferrous Metallurgy, 1 (3). (2012) 32-41 [Non-SCI]. 30. Manish Sinha, S. K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B. D. Pandey, Vinay Kumar. Solvent Extraction and Separation of Copper and Zinc from a Pickling Solution. International Journal of Metallurgical Engineering, 1 (2). (2012) 28-34 [Non-SCI]. 31. S.K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey, Vinay Kumar, T.R. Mankhand, Removal of chromium(III) by cation exchange resin, Indion 790 for tannery waste treatment, Hydrometallurgy, 99(2009) 170-174. [IF =2.224] Book Chapters 1. B.D.Pandey, Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, An Overview of the Recent Status of Critical and Strategic Metal Production and Development in India. In Abhilash and Ata Akcil (eds.), Critical and Rare Earth Elements: Recovery from Secondary Resources. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis Group., pp. 1-36 (2019). 2. Pratima Meshram, Abhilash, B.D.Pandey, Global Outlook on the Availability of Critical Metals and Recycling Prospects from Rechargeable Batteries. In Abhilash and Ata Akcil (eds.), Critical and Rare Earth Elements: Recovery from Secondary Resources. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis Group., pp. 37-58 (2019). 3. Shivendra Sinha, Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, An Overview of Extraction Schemes for the Recovery of Erbium. In Abhilash and Ata Akcil (eds.), Critical and Rare Earth Elements: Recovery from Secondary Resources. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis Group., pp. 155-164 (2019). 4. Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, Recovery of Rare earth elements from metallurgical wastes. In. Md. Anawar Hossain, Vladimir Strezov and Abhilash (eds.), Sustainable and Economic Waste Management: Resource recovery Techniques. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis Group., pp.247-262 (2019).
• National :   Conference Proceedings 1. Pratima Meshram, Abhilash, Case studies on recovery of vanadium from non-ferrous process and production wastes, July 12-13, 2019, In: Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Nonferrous Minerals and Metals (ICNFMM-2019) Kolkata, India, Eds. B.D. Pandey, Abhilash, Manojit Ghosh and P.A. Mohammad Najar, pp.123-128. 2. Pratima Meshram, Vaibhav Mishra, Abhilash, Processing of Red mud for extraction of TiO2, July 6-7, 2018, In: Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Nonferrous Minerals and Metals (ICNFMM-2018) Ranchi, India, Eds. Abhilash and T. Sreenivas, pp.28-33. 3. Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey and T.R. Mankhand, Reductive hydrometallurgical processing of spent lithium ion batteries (LIBs) to synthesise Li / Co based value added products October 16-18, 2014, In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Hydrometallurgy (ICHM-2014) Beijing, China, pp.1118-1130. 4. Pratima Meshram, Jyotsna Kumari, Abhilash and B.D. Pandey Extraction of V2O5 from Bayer’s Sludge: An Overview November 27-29, 2014 In: Proceedings of the international Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium Symposium (IBAAS-2014) Visakhapatnam, India Binder vol. 3, pp.170-183. 5. Abhilash, Shivendra Sinha, Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey, P.K. Behra, B.K. Satpathy Red Mud: A Secondary Resource for Rare Earth Elements. November 27-29, 2014 In: Proceedings of the international Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium Symposium (IBAAS-2014) Visakhapatnam, India Binder vol. 3, pp.-148-162. 6. Gajendra Singh, M.K. Sinha, S.K.Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey and T. R. Mankhand. Solvent extraction of Europium and Yttrium from the leach liquor of spent fluorescent lamps. July 11-12, 2014, In: 18th International Conference on Non-Ferrous Minerals & Metals-2014, Hotel Radisson Blu, Nagpur, India Tech-23/1- Tech-23/6. 7. Swati Pramanik, Bijoy Kumar Purohit, Pratima Meshram, S.K. Sahu, B.D. Pandey. “Chemical Beneficiation of Physically treated Hingula coal on Laboratory scale”. In: Proceedings of the XIII international Seminar on Mineral Processing Technology (MPT-2013), 10 – 12 December, 2013, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar, pp.352-359. 8. Pratima Meshram, Manish K. Sinha, S.K. Sahu, B.D. Pandey. “Chemical Beneficiation of Low Grade Coal - A Review”. In: 16th International Conference on Non-Ferrous Metals-2012, July 13-14, 2012, Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi, pp. Tech-13/1 – Tech-13/13. 9. S. K. Sahu, Manish Sinha, Meshram, Pratima Meshram, B. D. Pandey, Vinay Kumar. “Solvent Extraction of Copper and Zinc From a Pickling Solution Using Versatic 10 Acid, Cyanex 272 and LIX 984N”. In: International Congress & Exhibition, Non-Ferrous Metals-2011, September 7-9, 2011, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, pp. 199-205. 10. Manish K. Sinha, S.K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey, Vinay Kumar. Solvent extraction and separation of copper and zinc from a pickling solution. In: 15th International Conference on Nonferrous Metals 2011, 7-8 July 2011, Kolkata, India, pp. Tech-13/1 - Tech-13/9. 11. Manish Sinha, S. K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B. D. Pandey, Vinay Kumar. Extractive separation and recovery of hydrochloric acid and iron values from spent pickle liquor. In: XI International Seminar on Mineral Processing Technology (MPT-2010), 15 - 17 December, 2010, NML, Jamshedpur, pp. 824-831. 12. S.K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey, Vinay Kumar, T.R. Mankhand, A comparative performance of two resins based on polysterene for removal of chromium(III) from tannery solution. National Seminar on Environmental Management in Metallurgical Industries (EMMI 2010), March 15-16, 2010 held at IT BHU, Varanasi, pp. 73-76. 13. S.K. Sahu, Pratima Meshram, B.D. Pandey, Vinay Kumar, T.R. Mankhand, (2008) Extraction of trivalent chromium from tannery effluent by ion exchange with indion 790 resin. In: International Seminar on Mineral Processing Technology (MPT-2008) , April 22-24, 2008, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, CSIR, Trivandrum, pp. 493-497. 14. Pratima Meshram, Vinay Kumar, B.D. Pandey, T.R. Mankhand, Removal of trivalent chromium from tannery wastewater using Amberlite IR-120 resin. In: Eleventh International Conference on Non- Ferrous Metals-2007. Eds: Raghavan, P.K.N., Prasad, R.N., Misra, C.R., Nair, M.K.B., pp: Tech-B-3/1- Tech-B-3/10.

No.of.Patents :   1. A method for recovery of copper from spent lithium ion batteries [Inventors: Pratima Meshram, Navneet Singh Randhawa, Abhilash] [Ref. No.0275NF2015 dt. 08/03/2016: CSIR/India; Status-Granted]. 2. An improved microbial process for dephosphorisation of LD slag [Inventors: Abhilash, Anirban Ghosh, Pratima Meshram, Jointly with TATA STEEL] [201631007295 dt. 02.03.16] 3. A novel pre-treatment-cum-leaching process for selective extraction and separation of La, Ce and Sc from red mud as oxides [Inventors: Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, Jointly with NALCO] [201631044861 dt 29.12.16] 4. A process for selective extraction of lanthanum, cerium and neodymium from blast furnace slag as oxalates/oxides [Inventors: Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, Jointly with TATA STEEL] [201631007470 dt. 03.03.16]

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No.of.Technologies :   1. Recovery of vanadium as Ammonium Metavanadate and V2O5 from spent sulfuric acid catalyst/contact process catalyst

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Awards and Recognitions :   1. SECOND PRIZE FOR ORAL PRESENTATION in Non Ferrous Group at 61st Annual Technical Meeting (ATM) of The Indian Institute of Metals, Mumbai, 15-16th Nov 2007. 2. PROF. SHILOWBHADRA BANERJEE AWARD for the Best In-house Project in 2010 at CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur (Project: Solvothermal synthesis of high value metal/oxide/ferrite powders from secondary resources). 3. FIRST PRIZE FOR POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD on "Recovery of light rare earth metals from waste fluorescent powder” at 18th Int Conf on Non-Ferrous Minerals & Metals-2014, Nagpur, July 11-12, 2014. 4. FIRST PRIZE IN ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD “Extraction and synthesis of vanadium pentaoxide from vanadium sludge" at 19th Int Conf on Non-Ferrous Minerals & Metals-2015, Bhubaneswar, July 10-11, 2015 5. FIRST PRIZE IN POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD "An Overview On Utilization of Spent Batteries In Metal Extraction, at National Conference in Non-ferrous Minerals & Metals-2016, Jamshedpur, July 5-6, 2016 6. MISRA Award for IIME Best Paper Published Award in the category of Electro-, Hydro- & Bio Processing (2015-16) for the paper published in Chemical Engineering Journal, V 281 (2015) pp. 418-427 (Awarded at MPT 2017, Chennai, India, Feb 1-3, 2017) 7. TAMOTIA Award for Best Paper Presented in the area of Environmental Issues related to Mineral Processing for the paper "Selective recovery of metals from spent lithium ion batteries" at MPT 2017, Chennai, India, Feb 2017) 8. BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD in International Conference on Science, Technology and Applications of Rare Earths (ICSTAR-2018), September 23-25, 2018, Tirupati, India. 9. FELLOWSHIP under Indo-Finish Mobility Program of DST-Academy of Finland at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland (Aug-Sep 2019) 10. MISRA Award for IIME Best Paper Published Award in the category of Electro-, Hydro- & Bio Processing (2017-18) for the paper published in Journal of Cleaner Production, V 157 (2017) pp. 322-332 (Awarded at MPT 2019, Hyderabad, India, Dec 16-18, 2019) 11. MISRA Award for Best Paper Presented in the area of Electro-, Hydro- & Bio Processing for the paper "Recovery of critical metals for batteries from secondary resources" at MPT 2019, Hyderabad, India, December 2019)