Sustainable Water Treatment and Ecosystem Protection Strategies

Hossein Hariri Asli is currently a research scholar and PhD candidate at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, USA. He has over 50 publications in international journals and has authored several books. His research activities include flood monitoring and mapping using the Internet of Things, networked sensors, and GIS in Southeast Texas. He is collaborating and sharing elevation and water stage data with federal agencies, including the Texas Department of Transportation, Houston TranStar, and the National Weather Service. Tamara Tatrishvili, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Main Specialist in the Office of Academic Process Management (Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences) at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, as well as Director of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry and Polymeric Materials at TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia; DAAD alumni; and a member of Georgian Chemical Society. Her research interests included polymer chemistry, polymeric materials, and chemistry of silicon-organic compounds. She is the executive editor of the Journal of the Georgian Chemical Society. Dr. Tatrishvili is the author of more than 190 scientific publications, 12 books, and several monographs. Ann Rose Abraham, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Thevara, Kochi, Kerala, India. She has expertise in the field of condensed matter physics, nanomagnetism, multiferroics, polymeric nanocomposites, etc. She has research experience at various reputed national institutes, including Bose Institute, Kolkata, India; SAHA Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India; UGC-DAE CSR Centre, Kolkata, India; and she has collaborated with various international laboratories. She is a recipient of a Young Researcher Award in physics and Best Paper Awards–2020, 2021. She served as Assistant Professor and Examiner at the Department of Basic Sciences, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, under APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala, India. Dr. Abraham is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. She has a good number of publications to her credit in many peer-reviewed high impact journals of international repute. She has authored many book chapters and edited more than 10 books. A. K. Haghi, PhD, is a retired professor with over 250 academic research-oriented books as well as over 1000 research papers published in various journals and conference proceedings with over 3350 citations and h-index of 30 according to the Google Scholar database. He is currently a senior material engineering consultant in UK. Professor Haghi has received several grants, consulted for several major corporations, and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. He is Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering and Polymers Research Journal. Professor Haghi has acted as an editorial board member of many international journals. He has served as a member of the Canadian Research and Development Center of Sciences & Cultures and the Research Chemistry Centre, Coimbra, Portugal. He has supervised several PhD and MSc thesis at University of Guilan (UG) and co-supervised international doctoral projects. Professor Haghi holds a BSc in urban and environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina (USA), and holds two MSc, one in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University (USA) and another one in applied mechanics, acoustics, and materials from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France). He was awarded a PhD in engineering sciences at Université de Franche-Comté (France).

PART I: OPTIMAL DESIGN OF WATER NETWORKS 1. Applications of Networked Sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) for Wastewater Treatment 2. Applications of Networked Sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) for Water Treatment 3. Modeling of Corrosion for Water System by Networked Sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) in Compliance with Geography Information System (GIS) PART II: POLLUTION CONTROL AND TREATMENT 4. Sustainable Approach for the Evacuation of Heavy Metal Pollutants by Bioremediation 5. Adoption of Green Technology for Environmental Sustainability 6. Applications of Biotechnology in Wastewater Treatment for a Green Future 7. Assessment of Bioremediation Techniques for Wastewater Management 8. Bio Filters: An Organic Approach for Wastewater Treatment 9. Bioremediation: Renewable Approach for Wastewater Treatment 10. Bioremediation: A Green Approach for Environmental Contaminants 11. Promising Technologies in Wastewater Treatment: The Current Standpoint PART III: CASE STUDIES 12. Synthesizing Monodisperse Polydiene Latexes in an Emulsifier-Free Heterogeneous Monomer Water System 13. Characterization of Fulvic Acids, Isolated from Natural Waters of Georgia 14. Biotechnology in Pharmaceutical and Polymer Industry: Environmental Burden Reduction Measures and Management of Natural Resources