The Future of Effluent Treatment Plants

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and scientific writer in his field for over 20 years. He received a B.Sc. degree (1999) in Microbiology from Gujarat University, Godhra (Gujarat), India. He also earned his Ph.D. degree (2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (Gujarat) India. His research interests include Biological Wastewater Treatment, Environmental Microbiology, Biodegradation, Bioremediation, & Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants from Industrial Wastewaters. He has published more than 250 research papers in national and international journals of repute on various aspects of microbial biodegradation and bioremediation of environmental pollutants. He is the editor of 200 books of international repute (Elsevier, RSC, Nova Sciences, De Gruyter, Springer, Wiley, IOP and CRC Press). Susana Rodríguez-Couto (female) got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. In March 2021 she is joining LUT School of Engineering Science at Mikkeli, Finland, as a Full Professor in biological water treatment. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books. Kavit Mehta has acquired Ph.D. (Biotechnology), CSIR-UGC NET (Life- Science), GSET (Life Science) and GATE (Biotechnology). He had More than ten years of Teaching & Research experience. Currently completed two Grass root Innovation Research Project funded by BIRAC, Government of India.

Preface

1. Applied and Innovative Approach of Wastewater Treatment

Laila Abdel moneim Farahat

2. Removal of Toxic Contaminants and Path Ahead Amidst Challenges

V. P. Sharma Sr.

3. Perspectives of biological bacteriophage-based tools for wastewater systems monitoring and sanitary control

Gislaine Fongaro

4. Metagenomic analysis of wastewater microbiome signature: Methods, challenges and their application in wastewater treatment

Divakar K

5. Biofilm formation, problems and diseases: Methods for film irradication , a nanostructured material based approach

Subhankar Paul

6. Treatment of Industrial Waste water through new approaches using Algae biomass

Touseef Hussain

7. Microbial Electrosynthesis: carbon dioxide sequestration via bioelectrochemical system

Soumya Pandit

8. Environmental challenge of the vinasses: fungi-based biological treatment systems

Verónica Leticia Colin

9. Microalgal waste water treatment technologies

Srijoni Banerjee

10. Microbiological wastewater treatment

J. Anandkumar

11. Electrochemical and Electroanalytical Techniques for Detection and Removal of special class of Pesticides

Sushma Dave

12. Photo Catalytic degradation of dyes in textile effluent: a green approach to eradicate environmental Pollution

Sushma Dave

13. Carbon Nanocomposites for Wastewater Treatment

Senthil Kumar Ponnusamy

14. Wastewater biodegradability: selection of a treatment technology

Senthil Kumar Ponnusamy

15. Bioremediation of Soils Polluted with Hexavalent Chromium using Bacteria

Anoar A. Khan Sr.

16. Renewable value-added bio-metabolites and energy recovery from waste activated sludge biorefinery

Aijuan Zhou

17. Microbial electrochemical systems for wastewater treatment

Yolanda Reyes-Vidal

18. Physico-Chemical and Biological Treatment of Textile Waste Water

Lamia Ayed

19. Nanotechnology for water processing

Sougata Ghosh

20. Microbial remediation of hexavalent chromium

Radha Rani

21. Sustainable bioremediation of radionuclide from wastewater: recent trends and bottlenecks

Muthusivaramapandian Muthuraj

22. Recent advancements and challenges in the field of nanotechnology for wastewater treatment recycle and reuse

Subhankar Paul

23. ANAMMOX technology for food industry nitrogenous wastewater treatment

Apurba Dey

24. Treatment of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in Wastewater

Doyeli Sanyal

25. Application of molecular biological tools to monitor process efficiency

Dr. Hiren Patel

26. Biological treatment of mining and metallurgical wastewater on the context of metal recovery

Denys Villa-Gomez

27. Potentials and Performance of Biological Processes for Treatment of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Wastewater

Mustafa Taher and Sama A. Al-Mutwalli

28. Treatment of textile wastewater

Sourish Bhattacharya

29. Removal of Ammonium from Aqueous Solution by using Dried Longan Peel as a Low-cost Absorbent

Khac-Uan Do

30. Microbial remediation and Detoxification of Heavy Metals by Plants and Microbes

Touseef Hussain

31. Exploring the Dynamics of Microalgal Diversity in High Rate Algal Ponds

Paramasivan Balasubramanian

32. Diverse processes for the treatment of textile wastewater

K.Sathish Kumar

33. Nanotechnology and water processing: a review

Elijah Adegoke Adebayo

34. Broad spectrum application of nanotechnology for wastewater treatment

Kavit Mehta

35. Nanotitanium photocatalytic technology in wastewater treatment

George Z. Kyzas