Wastewater Engineering (ePub)

his research is focused on alternative sources of water, including but not limited to the use of brackish groundwater resources and the reuse of wastewater. He is interested in the development of mathematical tools for the design and analysis of water and environmental systems. He is a fellow of the American Water Resources Association and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association. His research has been funded by a variety of federal, state, and local agencies, and he has received awards for both research and teaching innovations.

Abhradeep Majumder is a budding researcher in the field of water and wastewater treatment through biological and advanced oxidation processes. He earned his M.Tech in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Environmental Engineering from National Institute of Technology Agartala, Agartala, India. Currently, he is Senior Research Scholar from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India. His broad field of research is wastewater treatment. His research work is dedicated to the development of photocatalytic materials for degrading emerging organic contaminants present in wastewater and using mathematical modelling to describe their degradation process. He also has experience in the biological treatment of wastewater. His scientific contribution is marked by several publications on advanced oxidation processes, emerging contaminants, biological treatment, adsorption, and others in top-ranking international journals. He has 20 publications in top-ranking international journals and is credited with more than 800 citations with a h-index of 13.

Shripad K. Nimbhorkar earned his M.Tech in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He has more than 40 years of experience in the field of industrial water and wastewater treatment. He has worked with renowned industrial wastewater treatment solution companies. He has been the Associate Vice President at Kirloskar Consultants, Bangalore, India, and Reva Enviro Systems Private Ltd., Nagpur, India, between 1988 and 1995. He was also the General Manager of Biosystems India Ltd., Ahmedabad, India. Furthermore, Mr. Nimbhorkar had also held the position of Lecturer at Maulana Azad College, Aurangabad, India, and been an Environmental Management System Auditor. His field of interest is wastewater management, wastewater reuse, and the use of renewable energy in wastewater treatment.