Resource Recovery in Drinking Water Treatment

Mika Sillanpää’s research work centers on chemical treatment in environmental engineering and environmental monitoring and analysis. The recent research focus has been on the resource recovery from waste streams. Sillanpää received his M.Sc. (Eng.) and D.Sc. (Eng.) degrees from the Aalto University where he also completed an MBA degree in 2013. Since 2000, he has been a full professor/adjunct professor at the University of Oulu, the University of Eastern Finland, the LUT University, the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Johannesburg. Ali Khadir is an environmental engineer and a member of the Young Researcher and Elite Club, Islamic Azad University of Shahre Rey Branch, Tehran, Iran. He has published/prepared several articles and book chapters in reputed international publishers, including Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley. His articles have published in journals with IF > 4, including Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering and International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. He also has been the reviewer of journals and international conferences. His research interests center on emerging pollutants, dyes and pharmaceuticals in aquatic media, advanced water and wastewater remediation techniques and technology. At present, he is editing other books for Springer in the field of nanocomposites, advanced materials, and the remediation of dye – containing wastewaters. Dr. Khum Gurung is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Separation Science at LUT University, Finland. He holds a PhD in Green Chemical Technology from LUT University in 2019. He has an excellent research experiences on various R&D works related to environmental engineering. He has published several peer-reviewed articles in internationally acknowledged publishers, such as Elsevier, Springer, MDPI etc. Most of his articles have published in high ranked international journals with impact factor of more than 5 since 2015, leading to his current h-index of 7, which are cited more than 230 times. Moreover, he has been the reviewer for many international journals and conference papers actively since 2016. His research mainly focuses on state-of-the-art as well as cutting-edge solutions for water/wastewater treatment (industrial and municipal), recovery of value-added resources from wastewater, energy sustainability in wastewater treatment plants, remediation of emerging pollutants from water/wastewater etc.

1. Water reuse potential around the world
2. Coagulant recovery from water treatment residuals
3. Application of membrane techniques for water reuse
4. Utilization of biochar for resource recovery from water
5. Reuse of water treatment plant sludge for treatment of pollutants
6. Charge-based separation for coagulant recovery from water treatment plant
7. Chitosan supported composites for heavy metal recovery from waters
8. Polymeric/ceramic membranes for water reuse
9. Thermal technologies for water reuse
10. Ion exchange technology for water reuse and resource recovery
11. Biosorption application in water reuse and recovery
12. Promising nanoparticles for water reuse
13. Magnetic-based composites: advantages and role in water reuse