Yajna Jathan, Eit Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

• Responsible for working on Civil and Environmental engineering projects primarily associated with solid waste landfill and transfer station facilities.
• Executed engineering tasks such as earthwork volume calculations, preparation, review and compilation of technical reports, storm water management system design using HEC-RAS, and landfill grading, leachate, and.
• Involved in field work - Construction Quality Assurance (CQA)… Show more
• Involved in field work - Construction Quality Assurance (CQA) monitoring and documenting landfill cell and cap construction and use of equipment to monitor landfill emissions.
• Interacted and communicated with CEC office and field staff, clients, and contractors on a daily basis and was a part of the overall completion of landfill design, construction, and certification projects. Show less

United States

• PM2.5 Source Apportionment using the Chemical Mass Balance with Gas Constraints (CMB-GC) Model
• Processed PM2.5 speciation data for the period of 2008-2015 from the Taft site to create a final data set to be input for the model.
• Executed CMB-GC model using four different source profiles for both original and interpolated data set.
• Proposed source apportionment results from this study to be used in time series epidemiologic health models to understand the association of PM2.5… Show more PM2.5 Source Apportionment using the Chemical Mass Balance.
• Proposed source apportionment results from this study to be used in time series epidemiologic health models to understand the association of PM2.5 source contribution and speciation with respiratory diseases.
• Proposed results from this study to be used to assist policy-making organizations in environmental regulation and compliance by proposing better pollution abatement strategies to protect human health. Show less

Cincinnati Area, OH

• The objective of this Summer RET project was to develop a sampling protocol and implement a sampling plant to quantify ambient concentrations of fine particulate matter at fine spatial and temporal scales in a.
• Guided participating teachers to utilize portable instruments to gather air pollution data and helped teachers learn data analytical simulation… Show more
• Guided participating teachers to utilize portable instruments to gather air pollution data and helped teachers learn data analytical simulation modeling techniques used to understand the spatiotemporal distribution of.

Cincinnati Area, OH

• Capability and performance of two dispersion models CALINE and AERMOD was evaluated for Federal Highway Administration in collaboration with Trinity Consultants
• The comparative assessment included identifying differences among the two models in relation to methodology and data requirements

Cincinnati, OH

• Responsible for efficient production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) from food waste using an ultrasound assisted-anaerobic fermenter
• Optimized the bench-scale MFC for energy production from VFAs
• Designed and optimized the bench-scale BPC for energy production and fixation of carbon dioxide
• Evaluated the performance of hybrid bio-electrochemical system

Nagpur, India

• Set up and acclimatized the Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (ABR) with proper influent, effluent and gas collection arrangements
• Assessed the hydrolytic potential of food and vegetable waste in a lab scale ABR at NEERI
• Studied the performance of the reactor under varying hydraulic retention times and evaluated its stability
• Analyzed and compared practical estimation of biogas yields with the theoretically determined biogas yield using Busswell’s formula
• Based on the result an… Show more
• Based on the result an anaerobic digestion plant comprising of ABR was proposed and designed for installation at VNIT campus to treat 100kg/day of vegetable waste and the recovered biogas to be used as cooking gas in.

Bangalore, India

• Studied mechanisms and performance analysis involved in each unit of sewage treatment plant
• Performed Quality analysis of inlet and outlet wastewater by lab experiments like BOD analysis, COD analysis and TSS analysis.
• Compared the efficiency between trickling filter in Vrishabha valley plant and extended aeration process in Mylasandra plant

Bangalore, India

• Assisted in designing plumbing and sewer systems for Suncity Gloria apartment complex on AutoCAD platform
• Spearheaded development of key technical reports such as milestone reports, project schedule, progress reports and executive summary

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology, 3.59/4.00

Master Of Technology - Mtech, Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering, 9.35/10.00

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Civil Engineering, 8.90/10.00