Novel Approaches Towards Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery Technologies

Dr. Arvind Kumar Mungray is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering Department at National Institute of Technology Surat (SV-NIT). He completed his Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering) from I.I.T. Roorkee, Masters (Chemical Engineering) from IIT BHU Varanasi, and B. Tech. from H. B. T. I. Kanpur (UP) (INDIA). His research area is Wastewater treatment (biological), up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor, Microbial fuel cell (MFC), nanotechnology, Decentralization of wastewater, hybrid system, Waste to Energy, etc. He received the ‘Young Engineer’s award’ 2011 from Institution of Engineers India. He has completed/ongoing 7 Sponsored research projects from DST, NRB-DRDO, NIT (R & D) etc. He has received more than 1 crore rupees research grant from various funding sources. He has supervised 5 Ph.D. and currently 6 research scholars are ongoing. He has published more than 60 research papers in International publications with Google scholar h index 19, and seven Book Chapters. He has filed 3 Indian patents based on his research area. He is a Life Member in professional bodies like IIChE (Indian institute of Chemical Engineers), The Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Society of Technical Education, Indian Water Resources Society, Indian Environmental Association. He is the Fellow Membership (F.I.C.C.E.) in “International Congress of Chemistry and Environment”. He is currently a guest Editor of the journal ‘Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments’ (Elsevier), Guest Editor and Editorial Board Member of Energy NEXUS Journal (Elsevier), and Guest Editor in Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR) (Springer) Journal. He has delivered many Expert lecture on ‘Integrated planning of sustainable wastewater management’ at various reputed institutions like IIT and NITs, and state Engineering Institutes. He is the Reviewer of almost 30 SCI listed journals. He is currently focused on decentralized wastewater treatment system for waste to energy generation concept by using bio-electrochemical systems. His group is currently working on the resource recovery (Electricity, fertilizer and fresh water) from neat Human Urine. His group is developed and patented Forward Osmosis membranes, novel FO-MD reactors, which are the integral part of the water recovery from waste. Currently handing a project sponsored from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for generating resources from human urine for space mission. Dr. Alka A. Mungray is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering Department at National Institute of Technology Surat (SV-NIT). Her research area is wastewater treatment (Membrane), Forward osmosis (FO), Osmotic microbial fuel cell (OMFC), Polymer nanocomposite membranes, Desalination etc. She has two patents on her credit and three more have applied. She has completed/ongoing 5 Sponsored research projects from ISRO, DST, NRB-DRDO, NIT (R & D) etc. She has started one start up as “URISOL” with her team members. She has published more than 40 research papers in International publications with Google scholar h index 16, and two Book Chapters. She has supervised 3 Ph.D. and currently 5 research scholars are ongoing. She has delivered many Expert lecture at various reputed institutions like NITs and state Engineering Institutes. She is a Life Member in professional bodies like IIChE (Indian institute of Chemical Engineers), The Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Society of Technical Education, Indian Water Resources Society, Indian Environmental Association. She is the Fellow Membership (F.I.C.C.E.) in “International Congress of Chemistry and Environment”. She is the Reviewer of more than 15 SCI listed journals. She is currently focused on forward osmosis, osmotic microbial fuel cell, sea water desalination and preparation of different membranes. Her group is currently working on the resource recovery (Electricity, fertilizer and fresh water) from neat Human Urine. Her group is developed and patented Forward Osmosis membranes, novel FO-MD reactors, which are the integral part of the water recovery from waste. Currently handing a project sponsored from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for generating drinking water from human urine. Dr. Shriram S Sonawane is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology [VNIT], Nagpur. Dr. Sonawane's research area includes a) Polymer Nano-composites b) Nanofluids c) Nano-Separation Technology d) Process Modelling and Simulation. He has 6 patents to his credit. Dr Sonawane recognized amongst 2% scientist declared by AD scientific rankings. He has published more than 150 research papers in various Nationals and Internationals Journals of repute. He also Nominated for the prestigious “Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award”. He has edited many books and published more than 50 book chapters in various reputed publisher's books. He also served as an Expert in various reputed institutions and organizations. He has received the “Fellow Award” from the Prestigious Maharashtra Academy of Science." He is a Fellow Member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE). He is an also “Fellow Member” of the Indian water works Association. He was Guest Editor for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessment (ELSEVIER). He is the “Executive Guest Editor” of the Current Pharmaceutical Bio-Technology Journal. He is also serving in the Editorial body of “Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment." He also served in the Editorial body of “World Research Journal." He has received more than 3200 citations. He has also presented more than 150 research papers in various Nationals and Internationals conferences. He served as Ph.D. and M. Tech. Examiner to various NITs, Universities and colleges. He has been invited for an expert talk from countries like Malaysia, Thailand Singapore, and Belgium, etc. He has guided 9 Ph.D. students. Dr. Sonawane has completed various international and national projects till the date. Professor Shirish Sonawane currently workings as Professor at NIT Warangal India and head SRIC center for sponsored research and Industrial Consultancy. He has published more than 200 SCI journal and 36 book chapters and 2 books. He has filed 19 patents out of them 6 patent he been granted. Presently 2 PDF, 7 PhD and 2 M. Tech students are working and 17 Ph.Ds are awarded. Sonoprocess engineering, cavitation based Nanotechnology, Waste water treatment, process development for nanoparticle synthesis, polymer nanocomposite etc. are some of the interest fields. He received funding from MeitY, Govt. of India (2021) and DST WTI project, Govt. of India (2021), earlier he got international projects such as Indo-Tunisia Bilateral Project sponsored by DST, Govt. of India (2017), Indo-Russia DST-RFBR (2018), IMPRINT SERB project (2020), BIRAC-SRISTI- GYTI project, Govt. of India (2017), Department of Information and Technology, Government of India (2014). He is having more than 6000 citations. He is having international collaborations with Australia, Portugal, Russia, Malaysia, Tunisia etc. Dr. Sonawane had also dealt with 19 consultancy projects and 25 Research and development projects sponsored by various international and Indian government agencies and few of the projects are transferred in technology form to respective organization or industry. Dr. Shirish Sonawane has effectively combined synthesis and characterization of novel nano materials for successful application in state of the art processes such as paints, coatings, nano fluids, wastewater treatment, nanofiltration, fuel cells, and membranes. He is recipient of BOYSCAST Fellowship from DST, (2008-2009); Heritage Fellowship from Erasmus Mundus Program (European commission) in 2013; DST Young Scientists award (2007); Institution of Engineers India award (2016); Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences award (2016); (2017), BIRAC-SRISTI- GYTI award (2017), V.N.M.M award from IIT-Roorkee (2017), Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences award (2017), Institution of Engineers India (2017), Alexander Von Humboldt Connect Program Germany (2020), NASI member (2020), NAWA (2020), IIChE Award for the Year 2020: Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Award (2020). He is the editorial board member of Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Nanoscience, Advances in Nanoparticles; Journal of Foods and Raw materials; Biotechnology, Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Chief Editor of Scientific Journal of Bulletin of the SUS University Series -Food and Biotechnology. He is the reviewer of several international journals.

PART 1: BIOLOGICAL BASED TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY 1. Fundamentals of bio-electrochemical systems for wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities for resource recovery 2. Microbial fuel cell (MFC) based wastewater treatment and resource recovery 3. Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) based wastewater treatment and resource recovery 4. Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) cell-based wastewater treatment and resource recovery 5. Microbial desalination cell (MDC) based wastewater treatment and resource recovery 6. Use of bio-electrochemical system for distillery/dairy/petrochemical/tannery/ paper industry effluents and resource recovery

PART 2: MEMBRANE BASED TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY 7. Fundamentals of membranes for wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities for resource recovery 8. Hollow fiber membranes for wastewater treatment and resource recovery 9. Advances in membranes for industrial effluents for resource recovery                       10. Parameter optimization by mathematical modelling for membrane separation process

PART 3: ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESS (AOP) BASED WASTEWATER TREATMENT 11. Fundamentals of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities 12. Ultrasonication based wastewater treatment 13. Fenton/Photo-Fenton processes for wastewater treatment and disinfection 14. AOPs for Petrochemical/Textile/Tannery industry wastewater treatment

PART 4: NANOTECHNOLOGY BASED TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY 15. Fundamentals of engineered nanoparticles for wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities for resource recovery 16. Nano-biotechnology for bacterial modification for wastewater treatment and resource recovery 17. Carbon Nano tubes (CNT) based hybrid nano fluids for the wastewater treatment plants in the industry 18. Nano-particle-enhanced ionic liquids (NEIL) for the wastewater treatment

PART 5: INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY 19. Resource recovery from human urine for sustainable development 20. Integration of bio-electrochemical systems and wetlands for wastewater treatment and resource recovery 21. Ceramic/Earthen membranes-based bio-electrochemical systems for wastewater treatment and resource recovery 22. Hybrid wastewater treatment systems using hydrodynamic cavitation/ultrasound/ Fenton   Processes etc. for effective treatment of wastewater

PART 6: SCALE-UP/PILOT SCALE STUDIES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 23. Pilot scale constructed wetlands (CW) for wastewater and resource recovery 24. Pilot scale membrane reactors for Urine treatment and resource recovery 25. Pilot scale advance oxidation process for industrial effluent treatment