Recent Trends in Wastewater Treatment

1-Chemical characterization of municipal and industrial wastewater.- 2- Adsorptive remediation of wastewater.- 3-Enzymatic degradation of organic matter in wastewater.- 4-Microbial degradation of wastewater.- 5-Phytoremediation of wastewater.- 6- Advance oxidation techniques for wastewater remediation.- 7-Application of nanomaterials for the remediation of wastewater.- 8-Membrane-based remediation of wastewater.- 9- Gravity separation/sedimentation of wastewater.- 10-Sandbank filtration techniques for wastewater treatment.- 11- Constructed wetlands for the remediation of wastewater.- 12- Sterilization techniques of the wastewater. - 13-Recent advancement in nutrients removal from wastewater.- 14-Recovery and reuse of metals from wastewater.- 15-Legislation and industrial responsibilities for discharge of wastewater in the environment.

Dr. Sughosh Madhav is presently working as Dr D S Kothari postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He earned his doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The area of his doctoral research was the impact of textile effluents on soil and water quality and associated health hazards. He has published more than fifteen research papers and five book chapters in environmental geochemistry, water pollution, soil contamination, wastewater treatment and climate change. He also edited five books in various reputed publications.

 

Dr. Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor (Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India). He has obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He received his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology-IIT (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. The area of his doctoral research was the degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using multiple types of photocatalyst. He has published more than forty papers in international journals. He has edited more than twenty books in various reputed publications.

 

Dr. Vandana Mishra is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Delhi. Her research area is Environmental Biotechnology. Currently, she focuses on using microbes and enzymes for the bioremediation of effluent from textile and other industries. She has published many research papers on the toxicity of dyes and their remediation