Integrated Environmental Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Sustainable Development

Dr. Vineet Kumar is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, at IIMT University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. His research primarily focuses on wastewater treatment and metagenomics, with a strong emphasis on developing sustainable and effective approaches to mitigate the environmental impact of refractory pollutants present in wastewater and sludge. Dr. Kumar has published articles in peer-reviewed international journals of repute, alongside book chapters and books and has been serving as a guest editor and reviewer in various journals. He has received a number of fellowships and awards in recognition of his expertise.Dr. Manish Kumar is currently working as a Project Scientist at Environmental Biotechnology and Genomic Division (EBGD), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR–NEERI), Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. Dr Kumar did his postdoctoral research from Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China and Ph.D. from School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Dr Kumar working area belongs to bioremediation, bio-valorization, bioenergy, and detoxification of natural and organic compounds, with major emphasis on waste biorefinery and circular economy. He worked for Department of Science and Technology Government of India sponsor project and Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Government of India sponsored project. He also worked for international collaborative project entitle “Indo-US Advanced Bioenergy Consortium (IUABC): Second Generation Biofuels”. In 2018 he worked as Visiting Researcher at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland, Bioenergy and Energy Planning Research Group (BPE). He has published more than 40 research and review papers in peer review journals, 5 book chapters, and also applied for one patent. He has more than 1386 Google citations with 20 h-index.

• 1. Wastewater Pollution, Toxicity Profile, and their Treatment Approaches: An overview2. Innovative Integrated Treatment Approaches for Recycling and Re-Use of Industrial and Municipal Wastewater3. Constructed Wetland-Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Wastewater Treatment and Electricity Production: Global Status, Progress, Challenges, and Future Prospects4. Integrated Microbial Desalination Cell and Microbial Electrolysis Cell for Wastewater Treatment, Bioelectricity Generation, and Biofuel Production: Success, Experience, Challenges, and Future Prospects5. Integrated Anaerobic-Aerobic Processes for Treatment of High Strength Wastewater: Consolidated Applications, New Trends, Perspectives, and Challenges6. Integrated Membrane-Microbial Fuel Cell Technologies for Re-Use and Recycling of Complex Wastewater7. Integrated Production of Polyhydroxyalkonate (Bioplastic) With Municipal Wastewater and Sludge Treatment for Sustainable Development8. Physicochemical–Biotechnological Approaches for Removal of Contaminants from Wastewater: An Integrated Valorization of Industrial Wastewater9. Integration of Advanced Oxidation Technologies and Biological Processes of Wastewater Treatment: Recent Advances, Perspectives, and Challenges10. An Innovative Anammox- Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Wastewater Treatment: Recent Advances and Future Prospects11. Integrated Biopolymer and Bioenergy Production from Organic Waste: Recent Advances and Future Outlook12. Integrated Production of Biodiesel and Industrial Wastewater Treatment by Culturing Oleaginous Microorganisms: A Sustainable Approach from Waste to Biofuel13. Integrated Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, Wastewater Treatment and Biofuel Production by Microalgae Culturing: Needs and Limitations14. Integration of Photocatalytic and Biological Processes for Treatment of Complex Effluent: Recent Developments, Trends, and Advancement15. Exploitation of Algal-Bacterial Synergism in Combined Wastewater Treatment and Biohydrogen Generation: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Prospects16. Integration of Anammox with the Aerobic Granular Sludge Process for Wastewater Treatment: Mechanisms, Limitations and Future Opportunities17. Wastewater Treatment Using Integrated Anaerobic Reactor and Constructed Wetland: An Innovative Plant Bacterial Synergistic Strategy for the Wastewaters Pollutants18. Integrated Treatment of Wastewater Using Biofilm Reactor Combined with Constructed Wetland: Current Status and Future Outlook19. Microbial Electrochemical Based Constructed Wetlands Technologies for Wastewater Treatment: Reality, Challenges, and Future Prospects20. Integrating Forward Osmosis and Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment 21. Integrated Treatment of Industrial Effluents by Chemical Coagulation and Ozonation