Ion Exchange and Solvent Extraction

Arup K. SenGupta is a P.C. Rossin Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Houston, Texas. He served as editor of the Reactive and Functional Polymers journal for a decade. His research encompasses multiple areas of separation and environmental processes including ion exchange. He has received numerous awards and holds 10 United States patents (eight awarded and two pending), mostly in the area of ion exchange science and technology. In recognition of his research inventions and their impact on both the developed and the developing world, he has been inducted as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Integrating Tunable Anion Exchange with Reverse Osmosis for Enhanced Recovery during Inland Brackish Water Desalination. Removal of Boron from Water by Ion Exchange and Hybrid Processes. Greener and Sustainable Approach for the Synthesis of Commercially Important Epoxide Building Blocks Using Polymer-Supported Mo(VI) Complexes as Catalysts. Solid-Phase Heavy-Metal Separation with Selective Ion Exchangers: Two Novel Morphologies. Separation of Concentrated Ion Mixtures in Sorption Columns with Two Liquid Phases. Sensing of Toxic Metals Using Innovative Sorption-Based Technique.