Resource Recovery in Drinking Water Treatment concentrates on techniques and methods for water purification. The book develops a new approach--resource recovery--toward drinking water, including the role of methods (adsorption, membrane, ion - exchange, biosorption, coagulation, etc.) and nanocomposites (such as biochar, sludge-based composites, chitosan, polymer, magnetic particles, etc.) in water resource recovery. It provides an in-depth overview on emerging water treatment techniques and the resource recovery of materials during the treatment process. Finally, the book aims to introduce polluted waters as new and sustainable sources rather than seeing wastewaters only a source of hazardous organic and inorganic matters.
This book is part of a three-volume set that stresses the importance of contaminated water remediation, including surface waters, municipal or industrial wastewaters, and waters as a new source of nutrients, minerals and energy.
Gurung, Khum: - Dr. Khum Gurung is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Separation Science at LUT University, Finland. He holds a PhD in Green Chemical Technology from LUT University in 2019. He has an excellent research experiences on various R&D works related to environmental engineering. He has published several peer-reviewed articles in internationally acknowledged publishers, such as Elsevier, Springer, MDPI etc. Most of his articles have published in high ranked international journals with impact factor of more than 5 since 2015, leading to his current h-index of 7, which are cited more than 230 times. Moreover, he has been the reviewer for many international journals and conference papers actively since 2016. His research mainly focuses on state-of-the-art as well as cutting-edge solutions for water/wastewater treatment (industrial and municipal), recovery of value-added resources from wastewater, energy sustainability in wastewater treatment plants, remediation of emerging pollutants from water/wastewater etc.
Khadir, Ali: - "Ali Khadir is an environmental engineer and a member of the Young Researcher and Elite Club, Islamic Azad University of Shahre Rey Branch, Tehran, Iran. He has published/prepared several articles and book chapters in reputed international publishers, including Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley. His articles have published in journals with IF > 4, including Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering and International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. He also has been the reviewer of journals and international conferences. His research interests center on emerging pollutants, dyes and pharmaceuticals in aquatic media, advanced water and wastewater remediation techniques and technology. At present, he is editing other books for Springer in the field of nanocomposites, advanced materials, and the remediation of dye - containing wastewaters."
Sillanpää, Mika: -
Mika Sillanpää's research work centers on chemical treatment in environmental engineering and environmental monitoring and analysis. The recent research focus has been on the resource recovery from waste streams.
Sillanpää received his M.Sc. (Eng.) and D.Sc. (Eng.) degrees from the Aalto University where he also completed an MBA degree in 2013. Since 2000, he has been a full professor/adjunct professor at the University of Oulu, the University of Eastern Finland, the LUT University, the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Johannesburg.
