Advanced Oxidation Process-Based Integrated and Hybrid Technologies for Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products

Dr. Amit K. Thakur received his B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri, Dhanbad, India, M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and Ph. D (Chemical Engineering) from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He has total 12 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 25 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and participated in many conferences, workshops, and training programs. He has 1 patent granted by the government of India. He is reviewer of many journals such as, Separation science and Technology, Powder Technology, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Particuology, International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, etc. His research interest includes Advanced oxidation process, Pharmaceuticals, and personal care products (PPCPs) degradation, multi-scale modeling & optimization and Pharmaceutical Crystallization. He has published several chapters with Springer, Elsevier and Nova Science, USA, edited books. Dr. Rahul Kumar received his B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jhansi, India, M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and Ph. D (Chemical Engineering) from Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has total 12 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 20 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and participated in many conferences, workshops, and training programs. His research interest includes Environmental science, pharmaceutical degradation, multi-scale modeling & optimization and Pharmaceutical Crystallization. He has published many chapters with Springer Nature. Dr. Nadeem A Khan is currently working as an Assistant Professor inthe Department of Civil Engineering at King Khalid University, Abha,Saudi Arabia. He worked at Mewat Engineering College as an AssistantProfessor from August 1, 2012, to February 23, 2022. He has submittedhis Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He also acted asAcademic Coordinator of the Civil Engineering department from 2014to 2017. He is an editorial board member of Nature Journal - ScientificReports (IF=4.3) and a special issue editor of Springer Journal on DiscoverWater. His recent accomplishments included 15 Coursera coursecompletion certificates. LWT India and GECL awarded them the BestYoung Scientist Award (Male) for their Scientific contribution to Environmental Engineering.He has also served as an external examiner and paper setter at Integral University, Lucknow,and Dehradun Technical University since 2013. Has got his M. Tech. (Civil Engineering) in2011, and received Honors in Environmental Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University.Mr. Khan was associated with the Ministry of Environment and Forest for two years asa Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in 2009-11 and also worked with UNICEF as a ResearchAssistant (RA) on the topic ofGIS mapping andWater quality parameter estimation, includingmonitoring of the Agra Region for six months in 2012. He has professional experience at DLFLaing’sRourke India Ltd as a Construction Engineer on an SEZ project in Gurgaon from2008 to 2009. He qualified for the GATE examinations in 2010. His industry activity areaswere post-contract works, reconciliation, planning, and budgeting. His one chapter aboutSBR wastewater treatment technology was recently published in Lenin Publication. He hasattended several conferences, workshops, seminars, and research projects, and has engagedin various research endeavors. He has published 03 Books with International Publishers, 55papers in SCI, and 15 in National journals. He has also published more than 10 patents inCivil Engineering and water treatment. He is also active in social welfare activities. He is theJoint Secretary of the Environmental Awareness Society, Environsense, which organizes over25 events. Dr. Afzal Husain Khan works in the Civil and Architectural Engineering Department at Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia, and B.E. and M. Tech degrees from the Aligarh Muslim University, India. He is an academic editor of PLOS ONE, Advances in Civil Engineering (Wiley), Associate Editor in TEIEE, and Guest Editor in Elsevier/Springer/Frontiers journals. He has been involved in many funded projects under the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) in Saudi Arabia. He has 90+ peer-reviewed publications (h-index >30; >3000+ citations), 4 books (edited), 6 patents, and 5 book chapters to his credit.Dr. Ravi Shankar received his B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri, Dhanbad, India, M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He has total 09 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience. He has published more than 35 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. Presently he is supervising 07 Ph.D. students from different disciplines. His current research is related to Advanced Oxidation Process (Electrocoagulation), Microbial Fuel Cell, Heat Transfer, and Biofuel. He has published more than 10 book chapters in Springer, Elsevier and Nova Science, USA, edited books. Dr. Md. Nahid Pervez is a research fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno (Italy), where he drives research activities at the Sanitary Environmental Engineering Division (SEED). Dr. Pervez received his BSc degree in Textile Engineering (2014) at the Southeast University (Bangladesh) under the supervision of Prof Syed Fakhrul Hassan. After that, he secured Color Root (Hubei) Scholarship to pursue his MSc studies in Textile Engineering at the Wuhan Textile University (China) in 2016. Then he received his Ph.D. from the University of Salerno (Italy) in 2022. His research focuses on wastewater treatment, resource recovery, sustainable textiles, and process modelling. Dr. Pervez is the Topical Advisory Panel Member of Sustainability. He serves as Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Sustainability and Review Editor for Frontiers in Water.

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