Sonochemical Water and Wastewater Decontamination

Slimane Merouani Slimane Merouani is full Professor of process engineering at Department of Chemical Engineering, Salah Boubnider Constantine 3 University (Algeria). He received his Accreditation to Supervise Research (ASR) (2015) in process engineering from Constantine 3 Salah Boubnider University, his PhD (2014) and Magister (MSc) (2010) in chemical engineering from Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University (Algeria) and his state engineer diploma (2006) in chemical engineering from Constantine 1 University (Algeria). His research interests focus on innovative technologies for water and wastewater treatment, especially, sonochemistry and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). Prof. Merouani has successfully supervised to completion the work of 5 PhD and 19 MSc, and currently, 05 PhD thesis are under his supervision. To date, Prof. Merouani has over 95 peer-reviewed international publications and 17 book chapters. His publications have been cited over 2257 times (Scopus), with five having been cited more than 100 times each, and he has an author h-index of 26 (Scopus). Prof. Merouani has appeared in the 2022 list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists (the Highly Cited Researchers) published by Stanford University. Actually, Prof. Merouani is Associate Editor of the journal Scientific African, edited by Elsevier, and Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Ultrasound, Sonochemistry and Innovative Separation Technologies Applied to Chemical and Environmental Engineering" in the journal Molecules, edited by MDPI. In parallel, he supervised many research project focusing on water treatment by sonochemistry and AOPs. Oualid Hamdaoui Oualid Hamdaoui is full Professor of Chemical Engineering at King Saud University (Saudi Arabia). He is currently leading the research group "Advanced Oxidation and Separation Processes". After receiving his B.Sc. and M.Sc. both in Chemical Engineering from Annaba University (Algeria), he obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemical Engineering from University of Savoie (France) and Sc.D. in Chemical Engineering from Annaba University. He completed his Habilitation (Accreditation to Supervise Research) in Process Engineering from Annaba University. He has figured among the top two percent best scientists in the world in a database created by Stanford University, together with the publishing house Elsevier and SciTech Strategies. His main research interests are focused on sonochemistry, acoustic cavitation, advanced oxidation processes, separation processes and desalination and water treatment. He has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals, ~20 book chapter, and edited the Elsevier book "Energy Aspects of Acoustic Cavitation and Sonochemistry: Fundamentals and Engineering". His h-idex is 47 with 7498 citations (Scopus). He has held several academic appointments as coordinator of Master and Doctorate programs in Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering. He has received many awards including the Thomson Reuters Award in Engineering, Scopus Award (Elsevier) in Chemical Engineering, Francophonie Award for young researchers option Sciences and Medicine, ranked first on the list of suitable candidates to the title of full professor (technology section) of the twenty-sixth (26th) session of the National University Commission, Abdul-Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers in Engineering Sciences, Jordan and the best scientific publication award of The National Agency for the Development of University Research Maulin P. Shah Prof. Maulin P. Shah, currently Chief Scientist & Head – Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He has served as an Assistant Professor at Godhra, Gujarat University in 2001. He is a Microbial Biotechnologist with diverse research interest. A group of research scholars is working under his guidance on the areas ranging from Applied Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation, and Industrial Liquid Waste Management to solid state fermentation. His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification and Genetic Engineering of high impact of Microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. He has more than 190 research publication in highly reputed national and international journals. He directs the Research program at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar. He has guided more than 100 Post Graduate students in various disciplines of Life Science. He is an active Editorial Board Member in 94 highly reputed Journal’s in the field of Environmental & Biological Sciences. He extends his expertise in various National as well as International Reputed Journal as Editor and Editorial Board Member like Open Access Book of Cloud Publication, Journal of Environment Pollution and Human Health. He was Founder Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Environmental Bio remediation and Biodegradation (2012-2014) as well as Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012-2014) (Science and Education Publishing, USA), Editorial Board Member of American Journal of Microbiological Research, Electronic Journal of Energy and Environment, International Journal of Environment and Sustainability. He is also serving as a reviewer in various journals of national and international repute. Recently, he has been appointed as a Review Editor in "FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & FRONTIERS IN BIO ENGINEERING Journal". Recently in the year 2016, Dr. Maulin Shah has been awarded as a Yong Bio technologist Medal by Biotechnological Society of Nepal. He is Associate Editor in BMC Microbiology (Springer Nature), Advisory Board in CLEAN-Soil, Air, Water (Wiley), Editor in Current Pollution Reports (Springer Nature), Editor in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology (Springer Nature), Editor in Environmental Technology & Innovation-ELSEVIER, Editor in Current Microbiology-Springer Nature, Editor in Journal of Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment-Taylor & Francis. He is an active editorial Board Member in 160 highly reputed journals. Aissa Dehane Aissa Dehane is a doctor of Chemical engineering at Department of Chemical Engineering, Salah Boubnider Constantine 3 University (Algeria). He received his PhD in 2021 form Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University (Algeria). His research interest is sonochemistry and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers and 4 book chapters, with an h-index of 06 (scopus). Many of his publications (~20) are in the journal Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Elsevier) and the Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), which are ranked first 1 in acoustics and chemical engineering disciplines, respectively.