Recent Technologies and Challenges in Water Remediation

This book aims to be a collection of various technologies for water remediation. The rapid population growth, deforestation, urbanization, depleting surface/ groundwater resources, and global warming led to diminishing water resources worldwide. The key focus is on sensors, AI, ML, mapping, management, etc. for improving the performance, efficiency, and life of the processes. Further, it focuses on nanotechnology, treatment technologies in rural areas, and their challenges. The proposed book highlights various aspects of recent advances occurring in sensors which are novel and assist readers in gaining a new perspective in implementing designs for water treatment and conservation. Cost-effective and eco-friendly biochar for removal of hazardous materials from industrial effluents will also be explored. The proposed book contains various technologies that may play a pivotal role in the future direction of water treatment.

Professor Shobha Shukla is Professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. She obtained her doctoral degree at the State University of New York/SUNY Buffalo, USA. Subsequently, she worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Her research interests are in the field of nanophotonics devices, water-related technologies, metamaterials, and plasmonic devices. Prof. Shobha Shukla has published her research in several international journals and presented her research on international forums. She is part of national/international level committees such as OSA Fraunhofer awards, IUPAC, Dept. of Defense, WARI, to name a few. She is also on the editorial board of ‘Scientific Reports’ by Nature Publishing group and ‘Nanotechnology’ and ‘Journal of Physics-Photonics’ by IoP publishing. Professor Shukla is currently heading the water innovation center (WICTRE) at IIT Bombay. 

Professor Sumit Saxena is Professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He obtained his doctoral degree at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA. Subsequently, He worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Materials Science and Engineering Department at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) and subsequently at the Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. His research interests are in the field of energy storage, water-related technologies, metamaterials, and plasmonic devices and computational materials science. Prof. Sumit Saxena has published his research in several international journals and presented her research on international forums. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK; Institute of materials Minerals and Mining, UK; and National Environmental Science Academy, India.

Dr. Prasanna Kumar S. Mural is Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Powai, Mumbai, MH, India. His research expertise includes polymer nanocomposites, antibacterial membranes, and electrospinning. He earned his doctor of philosophy from the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Additionally, he holds an M.Tech.in Plastic Engineering from CIPET, BPUT, Odisha, and a B.E. from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore (2006). Before joining IITB, he served as Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, and did postdoctoral research at CSIR in Pretoria, South Africa. Dr. Mural has published his research in several international journals and has presented at numerous international forums.