Reviews the biological treatment of industrial effluents and outlines the key elements of environmental sustainability and cleanup processes
Section 1: Aerobic Treatment1. Aerobic microbes in aquatic
environments2. Aerobic treatment of effluents from food and
beverage industries3. Aerobic treatment of effluents from textile
industry4. Aerobic treatment of effluents from aquaculture industry
5. Aerobic treatment of effluents from pharmaceutical and personal
care products industry6. Aerobic treatment of effluents from
petroleum industry7. Aerobic treatment of effluents from pulp and
paper industry8. Aerobic treatment of effluents from mining
industry9. Aerobic treatment of effluents from electronic and
electrochemical industry10. Aerobic treatment of effluents from
other industries11. Aerobic treatment in cold climate countries
Section 2: Anaerobic Treatment12. Preference to Anaerobic
treatments over aerobic treatment 13. Microbiology and Biochemistry
of anaerobic treatment 14. Anaerobic Bioreactors/digesters: Design
and Development15. Process controls16. Application of Molecular
biological tools to monitor process efficiency 17. Low strength
wastewater18. High strength wastewater with specific examples 19.
Dechlorination processes 20. Anammox processes 21. Treatment of
recalcitrant waste 22. Removal toxic component of wastewater 23.
Combination with other treatments 24. By-products of anaerobic
treatments: Methane and Manure
Prof Duu-Jong Lee is currently a Life-Time Specially Appointed
Professor of National Taiwan University (NTU) and Chair Professor
and Vice President of National Taiwan University of Science and
Technology (NTUST). He obtained his Bachelor (1984) and PhD (1989)
degrees both at Chemical Engineering Department, NTU. Professor Lee
has strong research interest in the area of industrial wastewater
treatment, biomass to energy and environmental management,
especially in microscale transport/reaction process in biomass
matrix. During the past 27 years of his career, he has completed
several projects successfully and developed various processes with
full-scale applications. The research carried out till-date has
credited him with more than 1000 publications/communications. The
citations in SCOPUS on Dr Lee’s work has exceeded 14000 with h=57.
Professor Lee is the recipient of many national and international
awards and fellowships. He was also the President of the Taiwan
Institute of Chemical Engineers with 3500 members in Taiwan and
overseas. Prof Patrick C. Hallenbeck, microbiologist, obtained a
Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California Berkeley
(USA) and held post-doctoral positions at the French Nuclear Energy
Center, Grenoble (France), and the University of California, Davis
(USA) before taking up a position as professor in the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal and a Senior
Scientist at the US Air Force Academy Life Sciences Research
Center. Dr. Hallenbeck’s research interests are in microbial
physiology, applied microbiology and biotechnology, biological
energy production, anaerobic metabolism, and nitrogen fixation. Dr.
Hallenbeck is President of the Biohydrogen subdivision of the
International Hydrogen Association. He has served on the organizing
committees of numerous international conferences, was chair of
ISPP2009, and was chair of BioH2 2013. He is author of over sixty
original research publications, twenty-two reviews and book
chapters, and numerous abstracts in conference proceedings. He is
editor of two books. Prof. Hallenbeck won Outstanding Scientist
award for 2012 from the IFIBiop (www.ifibiop.org). He is currently
researching the role of metabolite sensing and signaling in the
regulation of microbial metabolism, and using metabolic engineering
to increase biofuels production. He is editorial board member in
Bioresource Technology, Journal of Bacteriology, Frontiers in
Microbiology, and Marine Biotechnology and Section Editor of
Biotechnology for Biofuels. Prof. Ngo is currently a Professor of
Environmental Engineering and serving as Deputy Director of Centre
for Technology in Water and Wastewater, Co-Director of Joint
Research Centre for Protective Infrastructure Technology and
Environmental Green Bioprocess, School of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology,
University of Technology Sydney. He has been duly elected as Fellow
of International Water Association (FIWA) and Fellow and Lead
Researcher of the International Bioprocessing Association (FIBA and
LRIBA) while serving as IBA Council Member.
Prof. Ngo is internationally well-known for his activities in the
areas of advanced biological waste treatment technologies (e.g.
membrane bioreactor, specific attached and/or suspended growth
bioreactors, anaerobic digesters, wetland and bio-sorption) and
membrane technologies. His expertise and practical experience also
covers the areas of alternative resources, management and impacts
assessment, and solid waste management. Currently, he is very
active to work on the development of specific green bioprocessing
technologies: resource recovery, water-waste- bioenergy nexus and
greenhouse gas emission control.
Prof. Ngo has been listed as Highly Cited Researcher 2019 in Cross
Field Category, Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science; Elsevier -
World Top 3 ranking researcher 2019 in Environmental Engineering;
Lead Researcher in the field of Biotechnology in Australia. He
ranks #2 in the world for number of scholarly outputs in the SciVal
topic ‘membrane fouling; bioreactors; membrane bioreactors (SciVal,
Feb 2020). He ranks #1 in Australia for number of scholarly outputs
in the SciVal topic ‘biosorption; aqueous solution; bisorption
capacity; ‘antibiotics; oxytetracycline; veterinary antibiotics’,
(SciVal, Feb 2020).
Prof. Ngo has published more than 500 SCI/ISI journal papers
(citations >20,000), 7 books and 35 book chapters, a number of
patents while receiving several highly recognized honours/awards.
He has been invited to give numerous plenary/keynotes and invited
talks, seminars and lecturers in the international conferences as
well as the universities/research institutions.
Prof. Ngo has appointed as Editor of Bioresource Technology,
Elsevier, Associate Editor of Science of the Total Environment,
Elsevier, Associate Editor of Water Process Engineering and
Associate Editor of Heliyon Journal, Elsevier. He is also an
editorial board member/guest editor of numerous international
journals such as Bioresource Technology Reports, Elsevier;
Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring and Management, Elsevier;
Journal of Energy and Environmental Sustainability, IJSEES,
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, EHIT, Journal of
Bioengineered, Taylor & Francis. Prof Veeriah Jegatheesan (Jega)
received his PhD in Water Engineering and has 20 years of
experience in water research. He has worked as a consultant at
Sydney Water Corporation and has collaborated with several other
water authorities in Australia. Currently he is attached to the
School of Engineering at RMIT University, Australia. His research
focuses on sustainable catchment management through the application
of novel treatment processes, resource recovery and mathematical
modelling. He has co-edited four books and was managing guest
editor for 15 special issues in peer reviewed journals and has
published 90 journal articles. He is the chief editor of a book
series entitled “Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for
a Sustainable Future published by Springer. He is an Associate
Editor for the Journal of Water Sustainability and an Editorial
Board Member of a number of journals. His core expertise are
Membrane system design, Aquaculture, Desalination, Forward osmosis,
Resource recovery and Water distribution maintenance management.
Professor Jegatheesan is the co-founder and the chair of an
international conference on the “Challenges in Environmental
Science and Engineering (CESE) which is held annually since 2008
around the world. Professor Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished
Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India and
Executive Director (Honorary) at the Centre for Energy and
Environmental Sustainability – India. Formerly, he was Eminent
Scientist at the Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing,
Mohali and Chief Scientist & Head of Biotechnology Division and
Centre for Biofuels at CSIR’s National Institute for
Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum. His major
research and technological development interests are industrial &
environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on
biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth & energy,
industrial enzymes, etc.
Professor Pandey is Adjunct/Visiting Professor/Scientist in
universities in France, Brazil, Canada, China, Korea, South Africa,
and Switzerland and also in several universities several in India.
He has ~1425 publications/communications, which include 16 patents,
90 books, >700 papers and book chapters, etc with h index of 105
and ~48,800 citations (Goggle scholar). He has transferred several
technologies to industries and has done industrial consultancy for
about a dozen projects for Indian/international industries.
Professor Pandey is the recipient of many national and
international awards and honours, which include Highest Cited
Researcher (Top 1% in the world), Clarivate Analytics, Web of
Science (2020, 2019 & 2018); Top scientist in Biotechnology (#1 in
India and #8 in the world), Stanford University world ranking
(2020); Fellow, World Society of Sustainable Energy
Technologies?(2020); Fellow, Indian Chemical Society (2020);
Distinguished Scientist, VDGOOD Professional Association, India
(2020); Distinguished Professor of Eminence with global impact in
the area of Biotechnology, Precious Cornerstone University, Nigeria
(2020); IconSWM Life-time Achievement Award 2019, International
Society for Solid Waste Management, KIIT, Bhubaneshwar, India
(2019); Yonsei Outstanding Scholar, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
(2019); Life-Time Achievement Award from the Biotech Research
Society, India (2018); Life-Time Achievement Award from Venus
International Research Awards (2018), Most Outstanding Researcher
Award from Career360 (2018), Life-Time Achievement Award from the
International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability
(2017); Fellow, Royal Society of Biology, UK (2016); Felow,
International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability
(2016); Academician of European Academy of Sciences and Arts,
Austria (2015); Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (2012);
Fellow, Association of Microbiologists of India (2008); Honorary
Doctorate degree from Univesite Blaise Pascal, France (2007);
Fellow, International Organization of Biotechnology and
Bioengineering (2007); Thomson Scientific India Citation Laureate
Award, USA (2006); Fellow, the Biotech Research Society, India
(2005); UNESCO Professor (2000); Raman Research Fellowship Award,
CSIR (1995); GBF, Germany and CNRS, France Fellowships (1992) and
Young Scientist Award (1989), etc.
Professor Pandey is Founder President of the Biotech Research
Society, India (www.brsi.in); Founder & International Coordinator
of International Forum on Industrial Bioprocesses, France
(www.ifibiop.org), Chairman of the International Society for
Energy, Environment & Sustainability (www.isees.in),
Editor-in-chief of Bioresource Technology
(http://ees.elsevier.com/bite/), Honorary Executive Advisor of
Journal of Energy and Environmental Sustainability (www.jees.in),
Journal of Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing
(https://www.springer.com/journal/43393), Journal of Environmental
Sciences and Engineering (http://neerijese.org/editorial-board/),
Subject Editor, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, India
(https://www.springer.com/life+sciences/journal/40011) and
Associate Editor, Biologia – Section Cellular and Molecular Biology
(https://www.springer.com/journal/11756/editors) and editorial
board member of several international and Indian journals.
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