Wastewater Treatment Plants: Processes, Assessment, Design and Operation

The book provides technical information on the operation of wastewater treatment plants and strategies to be adopted for the design of plants, assessment, processes and technologies for wastewater treatment and reuse for irrigation and industry, including protecting the environment. It discusses the crucial parts that science, technology, and innovation play in formulating, implementing, and administrating wastewater treatment policy. It highlights the challenges that must be overcome to successfully adopt the wastewater treatment infrastructure regulations and provides some answers. 

It investigates how the operation of wastewater treatment plant technology can be used in a wide variety of fields, apart from other on-the-shelf publications on the market. It also delves into the core concepts of the operation of wastewater treatment plants. It explores how these concepts can be modified to fit a variety of contexts and uses. Applications such as managing facilities, dealing with pandemics, urban wastewater treatment and reuse, farming, and other applications are included in this book. Consequently, this book's content is engaging, and it will pique the interest of a diverse audience of readers who come from a wide variety of professional backgrounds. 

This book will be helpful to industrialists, researchers, entrepreneurs, professionals, planners, policymakers, environmental engineers, and others interested in the operation of wastewater treatment system management strategies through the application of breakthroughs in the operation of wastewater treatment plants. 

 The book constitutes a database that can help companies guide the choice of a treatment technique considering operating and investment costs. Similarly, the book presents several solutions to problems encountered during the operation of treatment plants, particularly the challenges encountered at the biological and physicochemical treatment levels. The book also illustrates some design and sizing methods and methods for good practice to organize the extension of a treatment plant, if necessary, properly.

 The book also deals with options for resource recovery and wastewater governance, thus establishing a clear link between the performance of a treatment plant and obtaining treated water that could be used for irrigation, which is often the missing link in current debates on the issue of making wastewater an asset. The chapters present experiences from developed and developing countries, including case studies on design, eco-efficiency, and the circular economy applied to wastewater. The book presents advanced methods for evaluating advanced solutions with low investment and operating costs. In addition, the authors and co-authors are key international experts in the field of wastewater treatment.

Prof. Ram Narayan Yadava is the advisor for Research and International Affairs at Mansarovar Global University, India. He has served as the founding Vice Chancellor of AISECT University and has been instrumental in the establishment of Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI) under CSIR, India. His expertise spans hydrologic modeling, environmental quality, water resources, and R&D management. Prof. Yadava has led multiple research projects in remote sensing, mathematical modeling, and technology forecasting. He has published over 100 journal articles, four textbooks, and 16 edited reference books. Recognized for his contributions to hydrology and environmental sciences, he has delivered invited lectures across numerous international institutions. He is also the president of the International Association of Water, Environment, Energy, and Society, India.

Dr. Salah Souabi is a professor at the Process and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies Mohammedia, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Microbiology of water from the University of Poitiers, France, and a Ph.D. in water treatment from the University of Moulay Ismail Maknès, Morocco. He has adequate experience in water, wastewater, waste management, and environmental pollution, including executing various R&D projects. He has supervised 28 doctoral students for the award of Ph.D. degrees in water, wastewater treatment, environmental pollution, solid waste management, and operation of plants for wastewater treatment and sustainability. He has published 157 peer-reviewed articles, 30 book chapters, seven edited books, and 310 communications. Prof. Salah Souabi is also a reviewer of scientific journals and a member of the scientific committee of international conferences in addition to 9 edited books.

Dr. Abdelkader Anouzla received his Ph.D. in Science & Technology at Hassan II University—Faculty of Science and Technology Mohammedia, specializing in water treatment. Dr. Abdelkader Anouzla has published almost 100 peer-reviewed articles and seventeen books. As well as being a guest speaker at several conferences, he has also published numerous proceedings. He has experience in water and wastewater, solid waste management, environmental chemistry, pollutants in soil, study and characterization of waste, recycling, and reuse of waste to produce new materials, and air pollution.
Anouzla conducts research in the areas of water and waste treatment, wastewater treatment plant operation, leachate discharge treatment, solid waste sorting, technical landfill management, and composting of solid waste and sludge from wastewater treatment plants, the algae as a natural solution for Water-Food-Energy nexus and Microplastic pollution in the environment, digitalization in the water sector, saving water in business and irrigation, nitrogen pollution. 
 
Prof. Shalini Yadav is a professor in the Dept. of Civil Engineering and Head of the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Water and Environmental Research, Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal, India. Her research interests include solid and hazardous waste management, construction management, environmental quality, wastewater treatment, and water resources management. She has executed a variety of research/consultancy projects in environment and water science, and has got rich experience in planning, formulating, organizing, executing, and management of R&D programs. She has got to her credit guiding an appreciable number M. Tech. and Ph.D. students. She has published more than 100 journal articles and technical reports.
She is a member of the organizing and scientific committee of several conferences and reviewer in several international journals. 

Professor Vijay P. Singh is a distinguished professor, a regents professor, and the inaugural holder of the Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He received his B.Sc. and Tech., M.S., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees, all in engineering. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered professional hydrologist, a board certified water resources engineer (ASCE-AAWRE), and an honorary diplomate of European Water Resources Association. He is a member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a member of Canadian Academy of Engineering, an academician of Georgia Fazisi Academy, a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a fellow/member of 11 other international science/engineering academies. He is a distinguished member of ASCE, an honorary distinguished member of IWRA, a distinguished fellow of AGGS, and an honorary member of AWRA, and a fellow of AGU, EWRI, ASCE, IAH, ISAE, IWRS, and IASWC.