Advanced Materials and Technologies for Wastewater Treatment

Prof. Sreedevi Upadhyayula started her career as a senior design engineer for refinery systems and is currently a Professor in Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Delhi, India. Her research interests include synthesis and characterization of adsorbents and catalytic materials for photocatalysis applied to waste water treatment and other pollutant mitigation, modeling of environmentally benign reactions in refineries and petrochemical industry heterogeneous catalysis, kinetics and modeling of environmentally benign reactions in refineries and petrochemical industry. Dr. Amita Chaudhary completed her doctoral degree in “Development of low-cost absorbent for capturing CO2 from post combustion systems” from Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi, INDIA. She is currently working as an assistant professor at Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India. She has She has done her UG and PG in Chemistry Honours and Organic Chemistry from C.C.S University, Meerut, India respectively. Her research interests are in wastewater treatment, waste management, and CO2 sequestration and utilization. Her research work has been published in reputed journals.

• Chapter 1 Introduction to WastewaterMamta SaiyadChapter 2 Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of WaterC R Venkateswara RaoChapter 3 Need for Advanced Materials and Technologies:The Sustainability ArgumentNeeraj Kumari, Sushma, and Firdaus ParveenChapter 4 Physical Processes in Wastewater TreatmentNing Zhang, Ankur Dwivedi, and Amita ChaudharyChapter 5 Polymers as Coagulants for Wastewater TreatmentSai Harsha Bhamidipati, Dharani Prasad Vadlamudi,and Sudheshna MokaChapter 6 Ultrasonic Wastewater TreatmentGul Afreen and Sreedevi UpadhyayulaChapter 7 Chemistry in Wastewater TreatmentSonali Sengupta and Chandan Kumar PalChapter 8 Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater TreatmentGunjan Deshmukh and Haresh ManyarChapter 9 Catalytic Ozonation Processes for Wastewater TreatmentJose A. Lara-Ramos, Fiderman Machuca-Martinez,Miguel A. Mueses, and Jennyfer Diaz-AnguloChapter 10 Biological/Biochemical Processes in Wastewater TreatmentMushtaq Ahmad Rather and Parveena BanoChapter 11 Role of Biochar in Water TreatmentBiswajit Saha and Sonali SenguptaChapter 12 Microalgae for Removing Pharmaceutical Compoundsfrom WastewaterEliana M. Jimenez-Bambague, Aura C. Ortiz-Escobar,Carlos A. Madera-Parra, and Fiderman Machuca-MartinezChapter 13 Processes for the Treatment of Industrial WastewaterNimish Shah, Ankur H. Dwivedi, and Shibu G. PillaiChapter 14 Sustainable Technologies for Wastewater TreatmentPablo OrtizChapter 15 Challenges, Innovations, and Future Prospects inTransforming Future Wastewater Treatment Plants intoResource Recovery FacilitiesKrishna Kumar Nedunuri