Organic Pollutants in Wastewater II

$125.00

Wastewater represents an alternative to freshwater if it can be treated successfully for re-use applications. Promising techniques involve photocatalysis, photodegradation, adsorption, bioreactors, nanocomposites, nanofiltration and membranes.

$125.00
$125.00

Organic Pollutants in Wastewater II
Methods of Analysis, Removal and Treatment
Eds. Inamuddin, Mohd Imran Ahamed, Shadi Wajih Hasan
Materials Research Foundations Volume 32
Publication Date 2018, 203 Pages
Print ISBN  9781945291708 (release date May 15th, 2018)
ePDF ISBN 9781945291715
DOI: 10.21741/9781945291715

Wastewater represents an alternative to freshwater if it can be treated successfully for re-use applications. Promising techniques involve photocatalysis, photodegradation, adsorption, bioreactors, nanocomposites, nanofiltration and membranes. The book focuses on the following topics:
Biological Wastewater Treatment Technologies. Pesticides and their Treatment in Wastewater. Adsorption Removal of Organic Pollutants using Graphene-based Nanocomposites. Reverse Osmosis for the Removal of Organic Compounds from Wastewater. Treatment of Refractory Organic Pollutants using Ionic Liquids. Biohydrogen and Bioethanol Production from Agro-Industrial Wastewater. Methods for the Treatment of Dairy Wastewater. Membrane Bioreactors for the Removal Pesticides and Hormones in Municipal Wastewater. Carbon Nanotubes and their Composites for Treating Industrial and Municipal Wastewater. Low-cost Adsorbents for the Removal of Malachite Green from Water and Wastewater.

Keywords
Wastewater Treatment, Biohydrogen Production, Bioethanol Production, Biological Wastewater, Carbon Nanotubes , Dairy Wastewater, Graphene-based Nanocomposites, Hormones in Wastewater, Malachite Green Removal, Membrane Bioreactors, Nanocomposites, Nanofiltration, Nanomembranes, Nanotubes, Organic Pollutants, Pesticides Removal, Photocatalysis, Photodegradation, Reversed Osmosis, Textile Wastewater

Table of Contents


Adsorption Removal of Organic Pollutants using Graphene-based Nanocomposites: Methodologies and Protocols
J.G. Yu


Applications of Reverse Osmosis for the Removal of Organic Compounds from Wastewater: A state-of-the-art from Process Modelling to Simulation
I.M. Mujtaba, M.A. Al-Obaidi, C. Kara-Zaïtri


Treatment of Refractory Organic Pollutants using Ionic Liquids
I.M. AlNashef, R. Sulaiman, S.S. AlSaleem


Biohydrogen and Bioethanol Production from
Agro-Industrial Wastewater

E.L.C. de Amorim, N.C. dos Santos Amorim, W.V. Macêdo, E.A. Batista


Methods for the Treatment of Dairy Wastewater
P. Stanchev, A. Mousavi, V. Vasilaki, E. Katsou1


Occurrence of Pesticides and Hormones in Municipal Wastewater and their Removal by Membrane Bioreactors
V. Naddeo, L. Borea, S.W. Hasan, V. Belgiorno


Pesticides: Positive and Negative Aspects and their Treatment in Wastewater
Qamruzzaman, A. Nasar


Wastewater Biological Treatment Technologies: An Eminent Hybrid Approach to Treat Textile Wastewater
R. Shoukat, S.J. Khan, Y. Jamal


Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWNTs) and their Composites for the Treatment of Organic Compounds in Industrial and Municipal Wastewater
Q. Zaib, F. Ahmad


Removal of Malachite Green from Water and Wastewater by Low-Cost Adsorbents
Qasimullah, A. Mohammad, P.F. Rahman, M. Khan

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About the Editors

Dr. Inamuddin is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is a permanent faculty member (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He obtained Master of Science degree in Organic Chemistry from Chaudhary Charan Singh (CCS) University, Meerut, India, in 2002. He received his Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Applied Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He has extensive research experience in multidisciplinary fields of Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Electrochemistry and, more specifically, Renewable Energy and Environment. He has worked on different research projects as project fellow and senior research fellow funded by University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India, and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India. He has received Fast Track Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science and Technology, India, to work in the area of bending actuators and artificial muscles. He has completed four major research projects sanctioned by University Grant Commission, Department of Science and Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Council of Science and Technology, India. He has published 100 research articles in international journals of repute and seventeen book chapters in knowledge-based book editions published by renowned international publishers. He has published twenty two edited books with Springer, United Kingdom, Elsevier, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. U.S.A., CRC Press Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific, Trans Tech Publications Ltd., Switzerland and Materials Research Forum LLC, U.S.A. He is the member of various editorial boards and also serves as associate editor for journals such as Environmental Chemistry Letter, Applied Water Science, Springer-Nature and editorial board member for Scientific Reports-Nature and editor, Eurasian Journal of Analytical Chemistry. He has attended as well as chaired sessions in various international and national conferences. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow, leading a research team at the Creative Research Initiative Center for Bio-Artificial Muscle, Hanyang University, South Korea, in the field of renewable energy, especially biofuel cells. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, in the field of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells and computational fluid dynamics of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. He is a life member of the Journal of the Indian Chemical Society. His research interest includes ion exchange materials, a sensor for heavy metal ions, biofuel cells, supercapacitors and bending actuators.

 

Mohd Imran Ahamed is a Research Scholar at Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He is working towards his Ph.D. thesis entitled Synthesis and characterization of inorganic-organic composite heavy metals selective cation-exchangers and their analytical applications. He has published several research and review articles in the journals and book editions of international repute. He has completed his Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, and Masters in Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) from Baba Bheem Rao Ambedkar University, Agra, India. His research work includes ion exchange chromatography, wastewater treatment, and analysis, bending actuator and electrospinning.

 

Dr. Shadi W. Hasan holds BSc, MASc, and PhD in Chemical, Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, respectively. Dr. Hasan’s field of expertise includes water purification, wastewater treatment and reuse, water desalination, and nanotechnology. Dr. Hasan has worked on several projects in water desalination using forward osmosis, reverse osmosis, and membrane distillation technologies in Abu Dhabi; particularly on process design and scale up, and modeling and simulation. He was also the principal investigator, in collaboration with MIT, on the design of hybrid wastewater treatment system. Dr. Hasan has also established research collaboration with well-known international universities and institutes such as MIT, Harvard and Yale (USA), Manchester, Oxford, Brunel London, and Bradford (UK), Concordia (Canada), UTS (Australia), Korea (Korea) and Salerno (Italy), among others. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Hasan has been recognized as an excellent designer (first to design the novel submerged membrane electro-bioreactor for municipal wastewater treatment at a pilot scale – Montreal, Canada) and has obtained a number of prestigious awards including the FQRNT. Dr. Hasan has authored and co-authored over 85 articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings; and generated significant research interest abroad in the USA and overseas. Dr. Hasan’s research has significant impacts and led to several funding opportunities both internally and externally. Dr. Hasan is an active reviewer for more than 30 scientific journals, and has supervised more than 25 MSc and PhD students, and research fellows. The “Water Purification Lab” established by Dr. Hasan at KU is well-equipped and has several analytical instruments for water quality analysis, and membrane fouling monitoring and characterization.