Wastewater Engineering: Issues, Trends, and Solutions

Wastewater Engineering: Issues, Trends, and Solutions explains current treatment scenarios of wastewater in different countries across the globe, the characteristics of wastewater, and rules and regulations associated with the treatment and disposal/reuse of wastewater. It covers the design and theory involving laying of sewerage network and different conventional and advanced treatment technologies employed to treat domestic wastewater. It overviews different types of emerging contaminants and their properties, ecological impacts, detection/quantification, treatment technologies, and circular economy.

Features:

• Gives an overview of current wastewater treatment scenarios across the world
• Provides insights into emerging contaminants sources, procedure to sample, available methods for analyses, and possible treatments
• Reviews existing rules and regulations on wastewater engineering and standards for wastewater disposal or reuse
• Includes how to use wastewater as a resource in the context of circular economy
• Describes fundamentals of wastewater conveyance and treatment

The book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in wastewater treatment, water, and environmental engineering.

《廢水工程：問題、趨勢和解決方案》解釋了全球不同國家的廢水處理情況、廢水的特性以及與廢水處理和處置/再利用相關的規則和法規。它涵蓋了下水道網絡的設計和理論，以及用於處理家庭廢水的不同傳統和先進處理技術。它概述了不同類型的新興污染物及其特性、生態影響、檢測/定量、處理技術和循環經濟。

特點：
- 概述了全球當前的廢水處理情況
- 提供了新興污染物來源、取樣程序、分析方法和可能的處理方法的見解
- 回顧了現有的廢水工程法規和廢水處置或再利用的標準
- 在循環經濟的背景下介紹了如何將廢水用作資源
- 描述了廢水輸送和處理的基本原理

本書針對廢水處理、水和環境工程的研究生和研究人員。

Ashok Kumar Gupta earned his PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. Currently, he is Professor (HAG) in the Environmental Engineering Division of the Civil Engineering Department and Ex-Head, School of Water Resources, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India. He has over 25 years of teaching, research, and professional experience in various aspects, such as water treatment, wastewater treatment and reuse, treatment of emerging and geogenic pollutants, and others. He is credited with more than 140 publications in top-ranking international journals and his publications have appeared in more than 9900 citations with a h-index of 52. He has also published a comprehensive book on titles Fluoride in Drinking Water: Status, Issues, and Solutions by CRC press. Dr. Gupta is a renowned technical consultant in the arena of environmental engineering, having more than 50 completed, ongoing R&D, or consultancy projects of national and international importance to his credit. He has also carried out 30 short-term courses/workshops on water supply systems and wastewater management and reuse and others. Dr. Gupta has been awarded a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), and a Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST) in 2018, 2020, and 2021, respectively.

Venkatesh Uddameri earned his masters and doctoral degrees in civil engineering and environmental engineering, respectively, from the University of Maine, Orono, United States of America. Currently, he is Professor and Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, United States of America. He has over 25 years of teaching, research, and professional experience in various aspects of water resources and environmental engineering. A significant part of his research is focused on alternative sources of water, including but not limited to the use of brackish groundwater resources and the reuse of wastewater. He is interested in the development of mathematical tools for the design and analysis of water and environmental systems. He is a fellow of the American Water Resources Association and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association. His research has been funded by a variety of federal, state, and local agencies, and he has received awards for both research and teaching innovations.

Abhradeep Majumder is a budding researcher in the field of water and wastewater treatment through biological and advanced oxidation processes. He earned his M.Tech in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Environmental Engineering from National Institute of Technology Agartala, Agartala, India. Currently, he is Senior Research Scholar from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India. His broad field of research is wastewater treatment. His research work is dedicated to the development of photocatalytic materials for degrading emerging organic contaminants present in wastewater and using mathematical modelling to describe their degradation process. He also has experience in the biological treatment of wastewater. His scientific contribution is marked by several publications on advanced oxidation processes, emerging contaminants, biological treatment, adsorption, and others in top-ranking international journals. He has 20 publications in top-ranking international journals and is credited with more than 800 citations with a h-index of 13.

Shripad K. Nimbhorkar earned his M.Tech in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He has more than 40 years of experience in the field of industrial water and wastewater treatment. He has worked with renowned industrial wastewater treatment solution companies. He has been the Associate Vice President at Kirloskar Consultants, Bangalore, India, and Reva Enviro Systems Private Ltd., Nagpur, India, between 1988 and 1995. He was also the General Manager of Biosystems India Ltd., Ahmedabad, India. Furthermore, Mr. Nimbhorkar had also held the position of Lecturer at Maulana Azad College, Aurangabad, India, and been an Environmental Management System Auditor. His field of interest is wastewater management, wastewater reuse, and the use of renewable energy in wastewater treatment.

Ashok Kumar Gupta在印度孟買的印度理工學院波姆貝分校獲得環境科學與工程博士學位。目前，他是印度卡拉格普爾的印度理工學院土木工程系環境工程組的教授（HAG），並曾擔任水資源學院的主任。他在水處理、廢水處理和再利用、新興和地質污染物處理等各個方面擁有超過25年的教學、研究和專業經驗。他在頂尖國際期刊上發表了超過140篇論文，其論文被引用超過9900次，h指數為52。他還出版了一本名為《飲用水中的氟化物：現狀、問題和解決方案》的綜合性書籍，由CRC出版社出版。Gupta博士是環境工程領域的知名技術顧問，擁有超過50個國家和國際重要性的已完成、進行中的研發或諮詢項目。他還開展了30個關於供水系統、廢水管理和再利用等方面的短期課程/研討會。Gupta博士分別於2018年、2020年和2021年獲得印度國家工程學院（FNAE）、印度國家科學院（FNASc）和西孟加拉科學技術學院（WAST）的院士榮譽。

Venkatesh Uddameri在美國緬因州奧羅諾的緬因大學獲得土木工程和環境工程碩士和博士學位。目前，他是美國德克薩斯州博蒙特的拉馬爾大學土木與環境工程系的教授和講座教授。他在水資源和環境工程的各個方面擁有超過25年的教學、研究和專業經驗。他的研究的一個重要部分是專注於替代水源，包括但不限於使用鹹淡地下水資源和廢水再利用。他對於水和環境系統的設計和分析的數學工具的開發感興趣。他是美國水資源協會的會士，目前擔任《美國水資源協會期刊》的主編。他的研究得到了聯邦、州和地方機構的資助，並且他因研究和教學創新而獲得了獎項。

Abhradeep Majumder是水和廢水處理領域的新興研究者。他在印度阿加爾塔拉的國立技術學院獲得土木工程專業的環境工程碩士學位。目前，他是印度卡拉格普爾的印度理工學院環境科學與工程學院的高級研究學者。他的研究領域是廢水處理。他的研究工作致力於開發用於降解廢水中新興有機污染物的光催化材料，並使用數學建模描述其降解過程。他還在廢水的生物處理方面有經驗。他在頂尖國際期刊上發表了有關先進氧化過程、新興污染物、生物處理、吸附等方面的多篇論文。他在頂尖國際期刊上發表了20篇論文，被引用超過800次，h指數為13。

Shripad K. Nimbhorkar在印度孟買的印度理工學院波姆貝分校獲得環境科學與工程碩士學位。他在工業用水和廢水領域擁有超過40年的經驗。