Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.Susana Rodríguez-Couto is a professor in biological water treatment at LUT University, Finland. She got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books.

• 1. Removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from waste water through activated sludge processes 2. Combine effect of Physico-chemical and Biological process on removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from the wastewater 3. Application of electrochemical oxidation4. Application of biosensors/biological assays for the analysis of contaminants present in pharmaceutical waste water 5. Oxidation and advanced oxidation processes 6. Removal of pharmaceutical contaminants through membrane bioreactor 7. Removal of pharmaceutical contaminants through fluidized bed reactor 8. Hybrid membrane processes 9. Advanced (nano)materials 10. Removal of emerging contaminants from pharmaceutical waste water through conventional treatment 11. Bioremediation 12. Natural treatment systems 13. Innovative technologies for emerging issues in pharmaceuticals14. Application of ultrafiltration, Nano filtration, reverse osmosis in pharmaceutical waste water treatment 15. Generation of transformation products during water treatment. 16. Novel strategies for efficiency enhancement