Metals in Water

Dr. Sushil Kumar Shukla is an academician and researcher with more than 8 years of experience in teaching and research in the field of Environmental science and engineering with a focus on wastewater treatment and management. He is presently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Transport Science and Technology, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand. He earned his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, UP, India. The area of his doctoral research is the “Treatment of anaerobically digested distillery effluent”. Dr. Shukla was awarded with the prestigious fellowship of UGC Research Fellowship for science meritorious student (UGC-RFSMS Fellowship). He has published various research papers and book chapters in the field of water and wastewater treatment, bioremediation, phytoremediation etc. Dr. Sunil Kumar is a well-rounded researcher with more than 20 years of experience in leading, supervising and undertaking research in the broader field of Environmental Engineering and Science with focus on Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. He has contributed extensively to these fields and has h-index of 30 and i10-index of 43 (Google scholar); highly impressive for a non-academic researcher from India. His contributions since inception at CSIR-NEERI in 200 include 130 refereed journal publications, 04 books and 25 book chapters, 08 Edited volumes and numerous project reports to various governmental and private, local and International academic /research bodies. The list of his collaborations is long and includes key Indian universities, such as IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai and prestigious regional institutes, such as Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Hong Baptist University as well as universities in US (Columbia, Texas A&M) and Europe (UN University and University of Uppsala). Dr. Sughosh Madhav works as a 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 Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He earned his doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The area of his doctoral research is the environmental impact of textile effluents on groundwater and soil quality. He has published various research papers and book chapters in environmental geochemistry, water pollution, and wastewater remediation. He also edited 4 books related to water resource management in Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley publications. Prof. Pradeep Kumar Mishra is a well-rounded researcher with more than 30 years of experience in leading, supervising, and undertaking research in the broader field of Environmental Engineering and Science with a focus on Wastewater Treatment (Bioremediation and Adsorption), Bio-energy, Nanomaterials, Membrane Separation Processes and Biomaterials. Prof Mishra is a full professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, and currently Vice Chancellor of Jharkhand Technical University, Jharkhand, India. He has published more than 60 research papers in reputed journals, 25 book chapters, and edited more than 15 books in various publications. He is an editor and reviewer of various journals. He also has 6 patents. He has earned various reputed awards and is a member of numerous reputed academic societies.

• A.  Sources and distribution of metals in water resources1. Geogenic origin of metals and metalloid contamination in water resources2. Air born contamination of metals in water resources3.  Metal contamination in water resources due to various anthropogenic activities like agriculture, industrial, transportation and mining4. Local and regional hotspot of some metals like Hg, Cr, Pb, Cd and U5. Global Distribution of metals in water resources like As, F and FeB. Detection of Metals6. Various biological and other indicator for metal contamination in water7. Various measurement techniques to detection of metals in water resources8. Different advancer Sensors to detect different metals in water resources9. Various indices to find out pollution and toxicity impact of metals10.Various guideline by different environmental agencies related to the metalsC. Biogeochemistry of metals and assessment of toxicity11. Metal pollution in aquatic environment and impact on flora and fauna12. Metal contamination in groundwater source and impact assessment13. Metal pollution in marine environment sources and impact assessment14. Assessment of toxicity and wildlife and human health impacts of metals15. Biogeochemical process, pH effect, oxidation reduction and complex process of metals in water resources16. Effect of climate change on metal concentrations and distributionsD. Remediation and removal measure of Metals17. Photocytalic degradation of metals from contaminated water18. Phytoremediation of metals from contaminated water19. Application of microbes to remove metals from contaminated water20. Application of low-cost adsorbents for metals remediation21. Metals removal by membrane filtration22. Advance nanotechnology for metals remediation from contaminated water23. Integrated method of metals remediation from contaminated water 24. Indigenous techniques to remove metals from contaminated water25. Various method of the recovery of metals from the waste water