Water Remediation Methods and Wastewater Treatment

Dr. O.O. Ayeleru is a SEnior Research Fellow at the Centre for Nanoengineering and Advanced Material, Department of Engineering Metallurgy, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained his B.Eng. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria, and MTech. and PhD degrees from the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. His field of research is in the Advanced Materials Synthesis, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Soft-Computing Applications, Fruit and Vegetable Research, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Electrical Energy Consumption and Renewable Energy Research. He was part of the team who developed a Feasibility Study Report on Biomethane Generation from Municipal Organic Solid Waste for the City of Johannesburg in 2016 and is a co-innovator of a patented innovation (filed in South Africa). Dr Olawumi Sadare is a Research Fellow in the School of Chemical and Minerals Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at North-West University, South Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has published in some leading international peer-reviewed journals in Chemical Engineering and Applied Sciences. She has attended several national and international scientific conferences. She currently has >25 publications in scientific journals, and 6 book chapters. She was an editorial board member of the American Journal of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2021), and co-guest editor for the Special issue "Membrane Applications in Biological Remediation & Purification of biologics (Membranes (IF:4.106) (2022). It is noteworthy to mention that ‘Wumi was one of the recipients of the famous L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science, Sub-Saharan African Fellowship in 2017, and Newton International fellowship in 2022, attesting to her promising research capacity and leadership in Chemical Engineering. Professor Peter Olubambi obtained BEng (Hons), MEng and PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. He is a Professor of Materials Engineering and is presently the Director of the Centre for Nanoengineering and Advanced Materials, as well as the Head of the School of Mining, Metallurgy and Chemical Engineering at the University of Johannesburg (UJ). His research activities focus on three key and interrelated fields of advanced materials processing; Powder Metallurgy, Nanomechanics and Tribocorrosion. His research efforts centered on the utilization of innovative powder metallurgical techniques for developing nanoengineered materials for automotive, aerospace, microelectronics, mines, energy storage, chemical and allied industries as well as for biomedical applications. He is a vibrant scholar and an NRF-rated researcher (C2). Through the various funding he has attracted, he has established a hi-tech powder metallurgy research laboratory at the Tshwane University of Technology, and the laboratories for Nanoengineering and Advanced Materials Research at UJ. He is an editorial board member of two international journals, a reviewer to many high impact factor journals, and has served as an organizing committee member to many local and international conferences. Over the past 10 years, he has graduated 36 master’s students, 22 doctoral students, and mentored six postdoctoral research fellows; 16 of these young, multicultural, and multinational persons currently hold academic positions as lecturers, senior lecturers, and associate professors within the South African HEI sector and outside South Africa. Prof Olubambi is currently supervising and co-supervising 21 doctoral students, 19 master’s students and mentoring 11 postdoctoral research fellows.Sadanand Pandey is a Professor in the School of Bioengineering and Food Technology at Shoolini University. He brings over 12 years of expertise to the field of Materials Science, specialising in organic-inorganic nanocomposites with applications in water purification, nanosensors, energy, and biomedicine. He completed his PhD at the University of Allahabad and then became a UGC-Kothari fellow at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He continued his academic journey with international experiences, including a research professorship at Yeungnam University in South Korea from 2019 to 2023. He also had a stint at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2014 to 2018. Throughout his career, he received prestigious fellowships, including the DST/NRF Innovation Fellowship in South Africa, Dr Kothari's Postdoctoral Fellowship in India, and JRF and SRF fellowships from DST, India. He contributed significantly to research projects funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Korea Institute of Marine Science & Technology Promotion (KIMST) in South Korea. His primary research areas include polymer science, nanotechnology, and nanocomposites, composite materials, and surface modification. His recent work has explored hydrogels for applications in nutrient recovery, controlled drug delivery, water purification, and biomedicine. He has also delved into the development of photocatalysts with implications for nanotechnology, energy research, and environmental science. Prof. Pandey has authored more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. His scholarly contributions have garnered more than 9000 citations on Google Scholar in the past five years. Additionally, he is a guest editor for various scientific journals, including Materials Letters, Frontier in Chemistry, Biosensors, Chemosensors, Water, Materials, Molecules, and Polymers. He is an active member of scientific communities, including The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the American Chemical Society, the Indian Science Congress Association (ISC), and the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI). He has received the Young Scientist award at the Indian Science Congress in India and has been recognised among the top 2% of scientists worldwide for year (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023) in subject-wise analyses conducted by Stanford University. He has also authored more than 20 book chapters on advanced materials and technology for esteemed publishers in the USA. He has presented at numerous domestic and international conferences. Pandey has reviewed over 2000 articles while serving as a reviewer for over 300 internationally renowned scientific journals and research foundations.

• Introduction to water managementPolicy and regulation on water quality and managementPilot-scale and real-scale demonstration of water treatment technologyEducation and awareness about water reuse and management, including campaigns to promote conservationLeveraging private sector investment for climate-resilient water security for green growth in sub-Saharan AfricaRepurposing a traditional water resources management tool for the sanitation sectorEfficient and effective management of water resource recovery facilitiesIntroduction to water remediation methods and wastewater treatmentWater and wastewater treatment process to the reuse of waterShaping the utility of future: from wastewater treatment plants to water resource recovery facilitiesFrom wastewater treatment to resource recovery: environmental and economic impacts of implementationThe policy, institutional, and regulatory frameworks needed to promote a paradigm shift in the wastewater treatment sectorWastewater as a resource in a circular economyWater reuse and wastewater treatment: interconnected problems and solutionsWater and wastewater applications in developed and developing countries: extant experience and plan for the futureBioremediation processes for the treatment and reuse of water and wastewaterLife cycle assessment of wastewater treatment options for small towns and communitiesEmerging wastewater treatment and reuse innovations in agricultureAdvancements in wastewater treatment and reuse innovations for sustainable agricultureRole of government in water and wastewater managementAnalytical methods for water and wastewater pollutant detectionMesoporous ceramic membrane for treatment of wastewaterMembrane-based remediation of wastewaterHydrogels nanocomposite for water remediationThe impact of recent innovation on advanced oxidation in wastewater treatmentAdvanced oxidation processes in wastewater treatmentCase studies of water remediation method and wastewater treatment in New ZealandElectrochemical technologies for wastewater treatmentPhotocatalytic degradation of recalcitrant pollutants using high-intelligent quotient nanomaterialsRecent progress in the application of quantum dots for wastewater treatmentFabrication, characterization and potential application of Cocos nucifera endocarps nanocellulose in water treatmentAssessment of phytoremediation capabilities of selected weeds on pharmaceutical pollutants using a quantitative thin-layer chromatography-based techniqueAdvances in intelligent polymer technology for water remediationWater remediation and wastewater treatment: sustainable approaches to ameliorate present technologiesRevolutionizing wastewater treatment: breakthroughs in carbon-based nanomaterialsChallenges of water remediation, wastewater treatment, and its future direction

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