Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

Roberto Castro-Muñoz, a Food engineer and two PhD’s in Biotechnology and EUDIME Membrane Engineering, is a Research Professor at Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Sanitary Engineering, Poland . He has experience in membrane science and technology with expertise in pressure-driven membrane processes, pervaporation, gas separation, membrane distillation and the synthesis of composite membranes for selective gas and solvent separations. Roberto focuses on the application of such processes in different fields such as food processing, chemical and biochemical processes, environment and biotechnology. Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Technical Physics, was a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR as a responsible for the research related to both ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. He is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 140 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; with various patens (7 Italian, 2 European, and 1 worldwide). He is a referee of 1more than 150 international scientific journals and a Member of the Editorial Board of more than 20 of them. Basile is also an associate editor of the: Int. J. Hydrogen Energy; Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Eng.; journal Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology; and co-Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol. Alfredo Cassano, a Biologist, is senior Researcher at ITM-CNR since 2000. He has a long experience in the field of membrane science and technology with research expertise including pressure-driven membrane processes, membrane contactors and integrated membrane operations mainly applied to wastewater treatments and agro-food productions.Cassano also prepared 4 special issues on membrane science and technology for 3 international journals (Membranes, Foods and Journal of Membrane Science and Research). He is involved as scientific responsible or main investigator in different national projects with both Italian Ministry of Education, University & Research and private companies and international projects funded by EU. He has been tutoring of 28 Thesis for master and Ph.D. students at ITM-CNR.

• 1. An overview in wastewater production and management2. Featured technologies in wastewater treatment3. Adsorption assisted technologies for wastewater treatment4. Advanced oxidation processes in wastewater treatments5. Hydrodynamic cavitation in wastewater treatment6. Pressure driven membrane technologies in wastewater treatment and recovery of biomolecules 7. Cleaning up wastewater through algae and its integration with other processes8. Membrane Bioreactors and biochar for water treatment9. Advances in engineered composite materials popular for wastewater treatment10. Photocatalysis in wastewater treatment11. Ultrasound-assisted electrochemical processes for wastewater treatment12. Advanced strategies for dairy wastewater treatment: a perspective